The Commodore Story

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.

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.

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.

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.