First you split season 7 in two, now you released season 6 on Blu-ray & DVD without a single fucking audio commentary!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad: What the fuck is wrong with you people? What the fuck is the fucking point of owning physical media without special features? Literally every single fucking episode of the show released until now has had at least one, usually two commentary tracks. :mad: They’re the fucking highlight of the disc, and the only fucking reason I kept getting them instead of just downloading (for free I might add) them or watching them on demand. Merry fucking Xmas you stupid fucking cunts!!!:mad::mad:
… Because as physical media, it can’t be censored, altered, locked away in exchange for further payment, or deleted in the future on the whim of the rights holders?
Ohhhhhhh, you wanted the Special Edition. That will be out soon.
No snark intended: When you buy a season like that, don’t they tell you what’s included in the product description?
Is this OP a woosh? Because I can’t think of any reason why adding commentary to any DVD should be legal. 
It’s about as necessary as phrenology.
Are you saying all commentaries on DVDs are useless?
We’ll wait right here; you go watch Dark City.
And then listen to Roger Ebert’s commentary.
That was the first time I’d watched a movie on a disk (Wow! On my new Powerbook! On an airplane!). It was a midnight flight over Canada, only ten passengers in a big jet, just me and the aurora borealis and some great speculative fiction. As Roger Ebert started delving into the roots of film noir I whispered, “Man, it’s like film school on a disk…”
Ebert also recorded commentary tracks for Citizen Kane and Casablanca, and both are really interesting. I learned a lot from his comments.
When I want to hear commentary on a film, I watch it at the theater. It is rarely* Ebert quality though.
*never
You should also check out Ed Burns commentary on The Brothers McMullen. Indie film making 101. Also good - Scott on Gladiator and Matchstick Men (well, really anything by Ridley) and Michael Mann on Collateral (great info about digital film-making).
ETA: Re the OP - silly.
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I must assume this is a whoosh, or that you’ve never listened to a writer, director, or critic’s commentary on a film or a better TV show. These very often can reveal things about the work that are very interesting. (I find actor’s commentaries to be less useful, probably because they have a less comprehensive view of the work, but even these can give interesting anecdotes.)
I agree with the OP that the commentaries and other special features are virtually the only reason to buy a physical copy. I find it annoying that some rental copies from Netflix no longer include the commentaries. (I’d be willing to rent those separately.)
I disagree, only on the basis that I’m sick to death of being milked by the disc releasers. I actually had to have a standup fight with Mrs. B. when the first release of Avatar came out… I refused to spend $26 on a bare-nekkid disk when I knew a much more loaded edition would be along for a lower price in just a few months.
LOTR seems to be the champion at this game - there must be five iterations of each movie, not counting various combination sets.
So yeah, if you’re going to buy the disc instead of the cheaper and more convenient streaming version, it should come with extras, and commentary for these kinds of shows is not optional.
I don’t know about you but whenever I buy something I tend to research it a bit. You can get ripped off buying just about anything these days. It’s become mandatory to do your homework.
But, yeah, it’s to bad they try to gouge you. But not 7 mad smileys, “stupid fucking cunts!!!” frothing at the mouth bad. I would have been more on board with this in Cafe Society.
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I must assume this is a whoosh, or that you’ve never listened to a writer, director, or critic’s commentary on a film or a better TV show. These very often can reveal things about the work that are very interesting. (I find actor’s commentaries to be less useful, probably because they have a less comprehensive view of the work, but even these can give interesting anecdotes.)QUOTE]
It’s a nightmare for me on many occasions. I worked for a place where we did captions for Snakes On a Plane commentary. This took four people and three days. We had to research and transcribe which assistant cameraman/best boy/runner that they worked with on a completely different film, having NOTHING to do with SOaP, all with Samuel S. Jackson talking over everybody. they even talked about their various pets while the movie is playing!
9 out of 10 times, this is the commentary you get. I’d love to hear Ebert do one over a classic, like Being There, or maybe the cast of Spinal Tap commenting in character, but most of the time it’s an assistant producer whom you’ve never heard of doing the commentary.
I don’t think I’ve listened the audio commentary on a DVD in ages because too many of them just seemed to be the director/producer/random cast messing around or talking about random stuff which didn’t have much to do with what was happening on-screen. Or the commentary only ran for 5-10 minutes at the start of the episode and was more of the “This took us a week to shoot instead of the usual four days because someone spilt coffee on the autocue” sort of stuff, which is mildly interesting but not viewing-experience-and-understanding-changing.
To be fair, didn’t they say they’d release the extended editions later? And if they did it for FotR, you can assume TTT is the same.
I used to care about the best disk, holding out for the 2-disc Fight Club when there was a glut of the 1-disc. But I never listen to commentary so I gave up.
A good website for DVD releases is http://www.allmovie.com/ . You can see the multiple releases if you pull down the “Releases” tab. IMDB works as well but a little more confusing. It tells me we had to wait about 3 months for each LotR extended film, so they must’ve announced when the first one came out.
If it’s been standard for all the previous seasons to have a commentary on every single episode, I can’t blame the OP for assuming season 6 would be the same.
My favorite commentary tracks are for the Simpsons. It’s pretty cool learning the history behind these shows that have been such a big part of my life. Hearing about what it was like making them, how various jokes came about, how the different elements of the show come together to make such a great series. So much fun.
They did that on one of the special editions of the movie … and continually ripped on Rob Reiner for getting their story wrong.
I never paid much attn to the Commentary of a DVD until I watched/listened to “A Triumph of the Will”. (yes, the classic Nazi propaganda film - I love all things WW2). It opened up a whole new world for me and now I always check the Commentary if available.