Seems like people want different things. not everyone can be happy.

It's pretty easy to make almost everybody happy, because almost nobody wants to see the extras anyway, and certainly not before the movie.

You, who have watched the movie before, want to watch it again and relive the thrills (even if you know the plot), not watch a 10 minute featurette about the movie. If you can still be bothered, you'll stay after the credits. If you cannot be bothered, the featurette wasn't that interesting anyway.

Think about it this way: would you have the excited conversation of "wasn't it cool when so-and-so chopped whathisname's head with the sword!?!?" before or after actually watching the scene as intended?

>Think about it this way: would you have the excited conversation of "wasn't it cool when so-and-so chopped whathisname's head with the sword!?!?" before or after actually watching the scene as intended?

It really depends on if I have seen the movie, and how recently. If it is going to contextualize the scene for me, then before, so I can think about what they said.

Back when DVD was king, I liked directors commentary where they talked throughout the entire move.

Did you usually watch DVDs with running commentary alone or with other watchers? And when you got the DVD, did you watch the movie first as intended and later with commentary, or did you jump to the commentary straight away?

I agree, or else you're going to see the film again in person for the experience of being in a theater with a whole bunch of other people and seeing it on a very big screen. I don't think the draw for me to see a film again in the theater is the fact that there will be an intro discussion on it. That just seems like pure marketing to give a value-add to the experience, but I doubt most people going are there for that.