The Commodore Story

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.