A major portion of movies are visuals so watching it while playing a game makes it difficult to catch those parts. Also if I have to tune it out so I can concentrate in-game I will be lost when I tune back in. With a commentary video I don’t have to do so because either I don’t care as much, they’ll repeat important information, or context clues are easier to piece together. I also don’t watch too many movies. I’m mostly talking about just extra long videos not talking about movies.I do watch a lot of gaming retrospectives, though.

For me personally, that never really worked. Whenever I was watching a movie at home, I was always multitasking with a game or something else: doing just one thing felt somehow wasteful when I could be doing two things.

But unfortunately I also felt like I wasn’t really enjoying movies like that. So, I got an unlimited movie pass for my local movie theater. I now see three, four movies per week and actually enjoy them FAR more than when I was doing the multitasking.

I also now see pretty much every movie the week it releases, which also effectively makes me bulletproof in terms of spoilers.