The Commodore Story

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.