[Scott Weinberg]

You get five each. FIVE! And please feel free to mention ones that have already been brought up. I'm trying to get a feel for which yak-tracks are the most admired overall.

My faves:

Roger Ebert on Dark City
Terry Gilliam on Brazil
Jackson, Walsh & Boyens on The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Carpenter & Russell on The Thing
--A Cheat: Any of the commentary tracks from The Simpsons or Futurama! They're entertaining and periodically quite fascinating; they're a great balance between casual, technical...and silly.

There are several others I love, but I've limited myself to five. Damn stingy me!

[Cameron Yee]

I can't say I've listened to a lot of them and it seems I'm in the minority to do so among my circle of friends. A couple of times I got a surprised "You do that?" when I say I watched a movie with the audio commentary turned on.
[*]Joss Whedon on Becoming 1 and 2 of Buffy Season 2 - Whedon is a funny, funny man
[*]Martha Coolidge on Rambling Rose - I have not listened to this in a while and it was one of the first commmentaries I ever heard, so it might not be as great as I remember
[*]Roger Ebert on Citizen Kane - helped me understand why it gets so many accolades
[*]Mel Gibson on Braveheart - he doesn't say a lot but I found his information about film speed manipulation and frame removal very interesting
[*]Guillermo del Toro on Blade 2 - del Toro has the same sense of humor as Whedon and takes every opportunity to make fun of his own film. Very fun to listen to.

[ErikG]

Crowe and Heckerling - Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Carpenter and Russell - The Thing
Carpenter and Hill - Halloween
Weitz Bros. and Cast - American Pie

[DaveGTP]

The director commentary on the Momento LE. For those unaware, it branches at random to 3 different tracks, in which the director tells you three different things. Nothing like a commentary that purposely messes with your head just like the movie does.

[Bill J]

Black Hawk Down - Task force veterans
JFK - Oliver Stone
The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola
Dark City - Roger Ebert
Citizen Kane - Roger Ebert

[Alex Spindler]

You're going to make this difficult, huh?

The Usual Suspects - Quite fun and informative, plus it has the absolutely impressive impersonation of Gabriel Byrne by director Bryan Singer.

Tromeo and Juliet - You may laugh, but Lloyd Kauffman is a hell of a schlock filmaker and he turned in a wonderful commentary, filled with great annecdotes, a truly amazing and hilarious amount of subtext and preparation on this magnum opus, and some seriously twisted humor. When he rails against Hollywood heroes that don't have...ahem...bodily functions, I was just about dying from lack of oxygen.

Contact - All of the tracks were quite good, but the Jodie Foster track is mesmerizing. She's just amazingly well spoken and thoughtful.

Monster's Inc. - Practically any Pixar release is pure gold, and this commentary is especially good (as is the movie)

The Thing - John Carpenter and Kurt Russell just roll through this one having a great time, and I did as well.

[Casey Trowbridg]

There seems to be a lot of audio commentary discussion lately, but that's just fine by me cause I love them.

5. Roger Ebert - Citizen Kane
4. Various - Futurama
3. "Weird Al" Yankovic - UHF
2. Various - Monsters Inc.
1. Various - Ghostbusters

[Mark Shannon]

I can't seem to get into the whole Audio Commentary thing. I always watch a movie once normally for the first time. But on second and third times around, I don't think I could jsut sit and watch the same movie, listening to a couple people talking about what it means to them or how they did this part. Seems kinda boring, if you ask me.

[Jack Ferry]

"Weird Al" Yankovic - UHF

Garry Marshall - Runaway Bride and Princess Diaries. Runaway Bride was a bit of a stinker, but I liked the commentary. (And it's pretty hard to come up with a DVD where the commentary was better than the film.)

[Cameron Yee]

I can't seem to get into the whole Audio Commentary thing. I always watch a movie once normally for the first time. But on second and third times around, I don't think I could jsut sit and watch the same movie, listening to a couple people talking about what it means to them or how they did this part. Seems kinda boring, if you ask me.

There's no doubt some commentaries leave a lot to be desired, but if I really like a movie then it is just another feature that feeds the love. Do you get into the behind the scenes documentaries at all?

[ThomasC]

I haven't listened to very many commentaries, so I only have two notables so far:

- Chris Rock on Head of State
- Keira Knightley and Jack Davenport on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl