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My experience is that 95% of the commentaries are painfully craptacular (Roger Ebert should do them a lot more often as he really is good at them, even if his Citizen Kane commentary is pretty lame) so I'd rather miss a few good ones than sit through any more bad ones.
I have plenty of well-bonused DVDs that I got below my $10 limit by watching for sales at Amazon or good finds in the $8.88 bin at Wal-Mart. But I'd rather have my $8 copy of All About Eve (my all time favorite movie) with nothing else on it than a $25 version with 60 commentaries, making-of documentaries, and images of every lobby card used nationwide. Plus, the vast majority of the time the "extras" are just there to justify tacking on $5-$10 to the MSRP (like the pointless second disc in all the Disney Ghibli editions).
Yeah, I hardly ever watch any of the hundreds of DVDs I own, and yet I like knowing they're available. My two rules of DVD buying: Under $10 and original aspect ratio (or reasonable approximation). Also I'll tend to walk away if it doesn't have English-language subtitles but that isn't necessarily a back-breaker.
My 1999 (or whatever year it is) Princess Bride DVD is plenty good for me. I don't think the second discs of any of the many 2-disc Pixar sets Lani always buys have ever seen the inside of a DVD player. And seriously, if you love the movie, track down the book. Preferably track down an early edition where some of the text is in red ink (I don't know if any new editions in the last decade have restored that).
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