The Commodore Story

I was so excited about this. Worth watching, but could have been so much more. Poor script and lack of narration. A lot of content included that does not add value to the Commodore story.

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.

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.

Interesting facts and insights, but told in a boring and lengthy way. I got my VIC 20 when I was 14, and should have been thrilled, but I could not stand this documentary through.

As stated, this is a good documentary, but many of the stories have already been told in "From Bedrooms To Billions - The Amiga Years". Still definitely worth a watch though.

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.

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.

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.