Do you listen to commentary tracks . . .

Depends on the movie -- the one on the Hotal Rwanda DVD was good because it had the actual guy discussing the differences between the movie and the real experience.
 
As for me, I've listened to every commentary on every DVD I've ever owned, but not usually on the ones I rent. I don't watch the movie/TV show while I listen though, I just use them in the background while I'm doing something else, like other people use music I guess . . .
 
Here's a couple memorable ones. Goonies: They had some videoed parts so you could see how Sean Astin got fat and how Chunk got thin.
Sum of All Fears: The Tom Clancy track with him pointing out all of the film's technical inaccuracies.
 
Quite often.

It depends on who's doing the said commentary. Some directors are really interesting, explaining all sorts of things while telling very funny anecdotes about the actors or locations while others are dreadful bores.

Sometimes it's the actors with or without the director. View Askew's commentaries are a legendary type of these. You can hear Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Ben Affleck, Ethan Ambry, Jason Lee and others, sometimes under the influence, comment, b*tch and joke about such classics as Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy or Dogma. Usually, actors in comedy do pretty good commentaries. They're worth a watch. But sometimes you expect a lot and it turns out to be horrible. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn do the commentary thing for Wedding Crashers. I tought to myself, ouh! this should be great! It sucks. They were tedious. Somehow, funny on screen didn't translate to the extra audio track at all.
 
Only on movies I absolutely love. So pretty much, I've only listened to about a half dozen of them.
 
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