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I've seen some pretty cool Director's Commentaries on dvd's, many that really hold your interest.

Last night I decided, "I'll watch A Nightmare On Elm Street, with the commentary". I've had the movie for a month or so but never got around to watching it with commentary.

I got about half an hour into the movie and found it completely unwatchable, it was so boring, most of it was silence, with Wes Craven, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, and some director of photography or something, just sitting there watching the movie, interspersed with Wes saying something so softly and inaudible, and then the D.o.P saying "Yeah I remember that". I don't think I heard one word from John saxon apart from saying "Hi, I'm John Saxon, I played Nancy's Dad" and Heather might've said something about a see through night gown. Geeze it was boring. I mean they didn't even have Robert Englund! I have this Best of Horror dvd, which is introduced by Robert, as well as him doing a commentary for all the scenes from the different movies, and it was extremely interesting, especially when he started doing stuff in his Freddy Krueger voice. I reckon they should've had him come on the commentary. Would've livened things up

Anyway I think probablly one of the greatest dvd commentaries I've seen has got to be on the Clerks: Uncensored dvd. As a matter of fact i think any commentary track by Kevin Smith is amazing. He actually tells stories, and funny things that happened while making the movies, not how much a certain set peice was, or what angle lens they used on a shot.

Also Robert Rodriguez's commentaries on his El Mariachi trilogy were pretty interesting, telling all his little secrets about the easiest ways to do particular parts of the movie and what not.

Another great commentary was on the Smashing Pumpkins Greatest hits dvd. With Billy, James and Jimmy (Can't remember if D'arcy was there or not) but just talking about the ideas behind all the film clips and how they were done (All in all that's just one hell of an excellent cd)

Anyway what's the best or worst Commentary you've seen

Hmm...I think the only one I've listened to was on Napoleon Dynamite. It actually made the film funnier for me because the film makers kept saying that everything came from real life events. Like when Pedro makes the cake to ask the girl out, the director says that, in the town where he came from, guys always had to do something creative like that when asking a girl out.