The only regular commentaries I listen to anymore are...

1. Those included with screeners (at least a sampling during various chapters)
2. Newer movies where I'm actually interested in the production
3. Childhood favorites / guilty pleasures
4. Any one with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell
5. Futurama / Simpsons

Unless it's a movie that I really love, I only listen to commentaries if I'm forced to because I'm reviewing the disc. I got burned out on them very long ago.

That said, occasionally I'll find a real gem, such as the Camille Paglia commentary on Basic Instinct (I still can't believe this is really a thing) or the "Greatest Movie Ever Made" commentary on Showgirls. Both of those are riotously entertaining. I'm much more likely to watch Showgirls with the commentary than without (though it is a big guilty pleasure of mine regardless).

My laserdiscs I listened to every one. There are so many now it is overwhelming. When I do listen I use the dvd player with the rapid play function. Another drawback of BD, to my knowledge, no rapid play.

I used to back in the day, but as I grew older and had a family I realized I had no time for such shit. I'd play Finding Nemo with commentary and my son would yell, "Dad! I can't hear the fucking fish!" So that ended that.

I pick and choose. I'm always glad the option is there if I want to have a listen.

Generally I like listening to commentaries from older films and low budget movies as I find it's interesting to hear them explain some of the creative solutions they had to use within a very small budget.

Often I just turn the commentary on for select scenes that may give me some extra insight.

Other than that, I rarely listen to the commentary.

Occasionally I'll listen to one surrounding some favorite scenes but have only listened to a couple the entire length

Yep, I was forced to listen to a lot back in the day. After listening to boring descriptions of the action or big gaps of silence, it's fun to run across something like the Showgirls one or the weird one on Dodgeball.

I like the option to, but I really don't have the time to bother with them.

You let him get away with that? I would've had my TV privileges taken away for a YEAR if I'd said that to my parents!

I'd love to have time to listen to more. The ones that interest me most are the scholarly tracks on classics and foreign films. A good commentary track can show me why a given film is great whereas without it I would underestimate or not appreciate it that much. A classic example of this is Roger Ebert's commentary on Citizen Kane. So for someone like me who hasn't studied film it's more like a learning tool.

I love commentary tracks - especially for older films and genre films - it adds another dimension of enjoyment to movies I've seen many times. As much as I read about movies, its great to hear new facts and anecdotes. I'll miss them when we are all streaming video from our asses.

Well, I may have been exaggerating a bit, but...you get the point!

I can't believe you let him watch fish porn.

I used to listen to them all the time. The novelty is still there, but the time just isn't anymore.

So for the people who are getting all excited about the Shout/Scream factory releases, they have put a lot of effort in the extras and commentaries. Does this mean that most of you who are buying those releases don't care/have the time to look at the extras, including the commentaries? Was getting the movie in HD the most important thing?

I'm a commentary junkie (Even did a month-long challenge of listening to them), but (As a few others have said) I just don't listen to them as much as I used to. Mostly because it's a "Been there, heard it" type of thing when it comes to the making of a movie.

One thing that keeps it fresh for me are the Fan-commentaries because it's cool (For me, at least) to hear different perspectives of the actual movies (Although these can only be found on certain horror/sci-fi movies)

And I'm still waiting to recapture another commentary moment as was presented here:

^Obviously wasn't "Director-approved" before Cohen watched this

I read that the Finding Nemo commentary actually has people saying Fuck in it, which makes this even funnier

In the early days of DVD, I listened to all of them because it was something new and different. Now I only listen to them occasionally and even then as passive viewing. This is mainly because of a large unwatched dvd and bluray stack.

I really enjoy hearing comments from filmmakers, especially if they try to avoid repeating themselves from the other extras.

I transfer them to MP3 and listen during commute or workout.

I have sat and watched video commentary extras though, but so far none of the video commentaries I've seen were worth it... Just video of the participants sitting around.

Warner did a good job on video commentaries with their maximum movie mode titles, but they've only produced very few of them.

Edgar Wright is literally the best at commentaries. I can't wait for the 3+ commentaries we get for his new film.

Like several of you, I've kinda fallen off the commentary wagon. I used to not consider my viewing of a DVD or Blu-ray complete until I'd watched everything on it (minus the various language tracks, though I have played a few of those over the years). I still make a point to play commentary tracks on discs where that's the only real bonus feature, but for a lot of movies it seems that there's a whole lot of redundancy between the commentaries and the rest of the bonus content. There's a sense that I've already heard about this anecdote or that trivia by the time I get to the commentary that detracts from the novelty.

I think the main issue is that most commentary tracks are recorded for new movies, where there really just hasn't been enough passage of time for any perspective. There's no legacy to discuss because there's now only been a few months between when the movie opened in theaters and when the discs go on sale. This is one area where classic movies have a distinct advantage, and why I'm particularly keen on commentary tracks from film historians and critics like the late Roger Ebert or Rudy Behlmer (both of whom recorded fantastic commentaries for Casablanca). Those kinds of tracks are a much stronger priority for me.

I really liked the commentary tracks that Bey Logan did for HKL.