As I'm watching/hearing the audio commentary of G.I. Joe, where Sommers in a few occasions during the commentary says he hope he doesn't spoil anything by telling things that gonna be explained later in the movie, I just wonder if anybody here actually listen to commentarytracks or watch the extras/featurettes before the main movie?
I always watch the movie before I see any extras or listening to commentary tracks. Just once I showed some extras to my friend (Hollow Man) before he watch the movie, and the scene was where Bacon's character was on the elevator in the end of the movie. My friend said: Does he die? and I just turned it off and played the movie

Featurettes are often spoilerific, so I stay far away from them. I won't even watch the trailer, of it is on the DVD, for the same reason.

I like the option for "I only have VHS" on a DVD forum

I've tried, really I have, but with very few exceptions, commentary tracks are terrible. People who cannot improvise, who are not terribly interesting unless they are portraying a character while delivering lines written by others (or are the writers of those lines, which need to be edited and revised in order for them to sing) do not come across as insightful when vamping over the dialog. Occasionally a gem appears, but it's often chipped and covered in mud.

The features can be fun.

But I buy the DVDs and Blu-rays for the film, the TV show, the documentary... the program. The rest is mere window dressing.

And there is no choice given in the poll for "if I bother with the features and/or commentaries, I wait until after I've seen the feature at least once."

Quoting ya_shin:

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Featurettes are often spoilerific, so I stay far away from them. I won't even watch the trailer, of it is on the DVD, for the same reason.

This. And I wish more BDs/DVDs would put that movie's trailer on the disc because it's quite fun to watch the movie and then immediately afterward watch the trailer to see how they cut it together (often times a tad deceptively).

I'll watch the Trailer first, but I have no interest in watching any other features before actually seeing the film.

I only watch the extras after the main movie. As mentioned before I don't want to see any spoiler. I think the extras are much more interesting after the main movie.

Quoting Katatonia:

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I'll watch the Trailer first, but I have no interest in watching any other features before actually seeing the film.

This is how I do it too

I've been trying to watch some of the extras in the last year or so, but I always do so after watching the feature.  Like others have said, the only things I'll watch before the feature are trailers.

EDIT: Actually, I thought of one instance in which I watched an extra first.  I watched the documentary that came as a bonus featurette with a box set of films, but haven't watched the actual films yet.

I keep wanting to try to watch/listen to a commentary, but so far I've only managed to do it with a few Looney Tunes shorts.