There have been a few instances in recent years of directors releasing an audio commentary track for their movie WHILE THE MOVIE WAS IN THEATERS. If I recall correctly, the first person I heard about wanting to do this was Kevin Smith (although I can’t remember if he actually did it or not).
The idea is you download a commentary mp3 file, put it on your music player, go into the theater and watch the movie with your own personal commentary running in your ear buds. Apparently they’re doing with for the upcoming Brothers Bloom movie.
Now, this is a cool idea… but the major drawback I can see if that I don’t want to sit beside a guy listening to an audio track who laughs out of nowhere at something the director says, or who has it loud enough that it’s disturbing my viewing of the moive. Maybe those wouldn’t be a problem.
Have you ever sat beside something doing this? Was it irritating or was it no problem at all?
