I used to love commentary tracks and bonus features and what not (though I didn't necessarily need to listen to Christopher Lee being a pompous Tolkien-ite on his commentary tracks) but then I had a kid and I'm lucky to have time to watch the movie ONCE.

I do remember being excited back in the day going through the Buffy DVDs and discovering which episodes had Joss commentary. Those were almost always fun.

Christopher Lee and John Rhys Davies ruined all commentary tracks they participated in.

Some, like Tropic Thunder, are better than the movie itself (but I think RDJ makes all movie commentaries better).

I only like the Hobbit track on the Fellowship DVD, because Merry and Pippin are such fun, and they keep interrupting Sean Astin and his "serious moviemaking" blah blah. For TV, I'll look for particular people together, because they play off each other so well.

From the LOTR DVDs, we still sometimes say to each other, "Viggo, I can't swim. ... I'm even afraid to take a bath!"

I still remember the Farscape tracks where Ben Browder kept trying to get his costars to loosen up and give good commentary.

Tragically, my Farscape DVDs have no commentary. I have no idea what's up with that.

I think it was only a couple for the first season or so, and they weren't great, because, again, BB was the only one interesting, and he spent his time cajoling his fellow cast to be more so.

Just watched The Captive because of Ryan Reynolds. Different. In the end disappointing, but that was because there was so much that they didn't delve into or explore more. Too many hinted at things. I can see why most movie characters are rather one-dimensional. Make them too interesting and you end up disappointed when the movie runs out of minutes and you still haven't discovered all. I also think the movie, non-linear as it is, was hurt by not only that, but by the trailer which is clearly a to b to c narrative.

We JUST watched the trailer for that, Juliebird. I had never heard of it before. The trailer didn't appeal to me.

Just saw Snowpiercer at home, cuddled on the couch with Hec, and am so glad I didn't see it in a theater (due to low gore tolerance I had my eyes covered for so much of it that if I'd paid for a full-price movie ticket I'd have felt seriously cheated). Such a uniformly terrific cast; between this, Only Lovers Left Alive and Grand Budapest Hotel it feels like this year has been a glorious decadent embarrassment of riches -- from the biggest names down to those I had never seen before and wouldn't know from Adam out of costume, endlessly amazing performances.

As soon as the end credits rolled I ran right here to read everyone else's long-ago whitefont, and then to Rotten Tomatoes to see what the rest of the world thought. The first review I clicked on was so satisfying I almost don't need to read any others -- the reviewer called it "bonkers in the absolute best way possible" and described Swinton's character as apparently having escaped from a Wes Anderson remake of The Hunger Games, possibly the best movie review line of the entire year.

Now I want to see Wes Anderson's version of The Hunger Games.

I also adored Grand Budapest Hotel. I adored Ralph Fiennes through and through, and I loved seeing Willem Dafoe having so much fun playing the villain.