Throughout the story music plays over the top of people talking making it difficult to hear them clearly. At times a bass line is thumping over the talking. Other times the talking in one scene is much louder or quieter than the previous. It really suffers from poor editing more than from the content. I think all of the background music should be stripped from the video or at least removed from segments where people are talking. It is especially grating when someone is talking with a noisy background and the music is playing over the top.
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Would have deserved much more..
tszula27 July 2018
It is confusing. Difficult to follow who is who.
The models are not really secribed or compared.
No games are shown as examples or music or demos showed.
It could have be much more interesting and nostalgic. Difficult to watch this long.
But all in all thank you for making it as it shows so much infos we could not knwo before. And also for paying respect to these beautiful creations.
It could have be much more interesting and nostalgic. Difficult to watch this long.
But all in all thank you for making it as it shows so much infos we could not knwo before. And also for paying respect to these beautiful creations.
Great stories. Bad film making.
rikki-107 July 2018
The film maker appears at the start introducing and narrating but he is not skilled in front of camera and it starts off on the wrong foot. Then we get choppy cuts on interviews, accidental shaky cam on constantly annoying slider shots and strange zooms on static photos. A lot of recent Commodore films have been made so this is too little too late and unfortunately badly executed.
Interesting story let down by a poor documentary
toshxs-1831013 July 2018
Dry, that's probably the best explanation of what's wrong with this documentary.
While the stories are interesting and let you into another time of computers, when there was an almost hippy ethic to getting products to market, the interviews get a little boring after a while, major figures are introduced without fanfare so it's hard to keep a track on who was important and who's not. But the worst part is there is very little in the respect of showing off the hardware or the software, just a lot of talking heads.
example: "People are still programming games for the Commodore 64 and Amiga" - then show you no examples or even box art.
It suffers from the Star Trek Paradox. We must get to point A, the whole fleet is there ready to engae the big ship that's chasing us. Big ship disables the Enterprise and we never get the (hopefully) special effect laden space battle we were promised.
While the stories are interesting and let you into another time of computers, when there was an almost hippy ethic to getting products to market, the interviews get a little boring after a while, major figures are introduced without fanfare so it's hard to keep a track on who was important and who's not. But the worst part is there is very little in the respect of showing off the hardware or the software, just a lot of talking heads.
example: "People are still programming games for the Commodore 64 and Amiga" - then show you no examples or even box art.
It suffers from the Star Trek Paradox. We must get to point A, the whole fleet is there ready to engae the big ship that's chasing us. Big ship disables the Enterprise and we never get the (hopefully) special effect laden space battle we were promised.
Good, but we've been here before.
mf281229 April 2018
Hard to follow at times
ddpeter-1811214 May 2021
I really wanted to hear the stories but at times the music was so irritating it was hard to concentrate on what was being said. What was supposed to be background music just got in the way. There is also some parts that did not make sense, for example, video of what appears to be police and rescue on a highway in California. Still can't figure out why that was included.
Got about half way and the background "music" of a dissonant guitar playing almost as loudly as the person being interviewed was the last straw. I could not continue and turned it off. As another reviewer said, the "music" should be stripped out totally.
Got about half way and the background "music" of a dissonant guitar playing almost as loudly as the person being interviewed was the last straw. I could not continue and turned it off. As another reviewer said, the "music" should be stripped out totally.
Could have been interesting
bartmueller6 October 2018
Commodore and the Tramiels deserve better
broozor18 December 2022
How could you get so many great Commodore personnel and make such a dreadful hash of it. I backed the kickstarter for this and it was a real lesson for me. Could have been done better over Skype.... I remember sitting at a paid-for viewing and half way through there is footage of the whole clueless team riding around the States laughing...i'd helped them to buy expensive equipment and have a massive holiday... they were laughing at me. At some point I really hope that somebody takes the History of Commodore while there are still some key players left to tell it and not leave it to scenesters like this who understand nothing of the significance of the company. Commodore have often been written out of history due to revisionism and Apple/Microsoft success. This low grade crud only helps cement them being considered an historical triviality which couldn't be further from the actual truth.
Really enjoyable!
pekka-430 November 2023
Many of the reviewers criticise the cuts, camera, storytelling etc, etc but it worked for me, really enjoyed it. Maybe because everything told here is known for me so just enjoyed it once more in a different way.
The interviews with well know Commodore and Amiga folks are good, the ad-hoc style make them feel spontaneous and genuine.
The early years of Jack Tramiel told by his son are great, touchingly told by his son, as a holocaust survivor starting calculator business and him being a harsh businessman rather stumbling into the first home-computers and chip fabs that later explodes and his exodus from Commodore.
RJ Mical's testimonial's are awesome as well as many others here, I'm sure they told them many times but still fun to hear them.
This story been told many times and this is yet another well told story.
The interviews with well know Commodore and Amiga folks are good, the ad-hoc style make them feel spontaneous and genuine.
The early years of Jack Tramiel told by his son are great, touchingly told by his son, as a holocaust survivor starting calculator business and him being a harsh businessman rather stumbling into the first home-computers and chip fabs that later explodes and his exodus from Commodore.
RJ Mical's testimonial's are awesome as well as many others here, I'm sure they told them many times but still fun to hear them.
This story been told many times and this is yet another well told story.
Missed opportunity
gerrit95128 December 2021
poorly made boring story
ggstar3318 January 2021
Huge Disappointment
cjgonzales-6805516 November 2019
I put this on, excited to watch an in depth documentary about the Commodore computer. I was even more excited to see David Murray (The 8-Bit Guy) pop up.
Then I was tricked into watching a half hour infomercial about....... You guessed it. World War 2.
I shut it off at that point, having completely lost all interest in the rest of the movie. What a pile of crap.
Then I was tricked into watching a half hour infomercial about....... You guessed it. World War 2.
I shut it off at that point, having completely lost all interest in the rest of the movie. What a pile of crap.
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