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dvd "I am quickly becoming bored with the uninspired practice of slathering multiple commentary tracks onto the same DVD. There are very few pictures where this is necessary or desired. Your average flick that comes with two, three, or even four commentary tracks? Hell, more often than not only a third of any one of those tracks is worth listening to. So, find a sound editor, edit out all the useless blather and make a single track already! Better still, find a good sound editor who can take the interesting stuff and actually create something from it. Some of the very best commentaries are those that combine and contrast different speakers, creating a whole more intriguing than the sum of the individual parts." -- an anonymous writer at something called Spookshow with an exhaustive list and review of dvd commentaries.

I'm obviously going to disagree with his views on the so-called academic commentary track, which can be very well researched and extraordinarily revealing. I'd much rather have that than the 'best boy' or whoever saying useful things like 'Humphrey Bogart was a great actor and very generous'. Yes, and?