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i bought it on itunes a while back. very enjoyable doc.
Yeah, I bought the Blu-Ray....but this is great for the cheap-asses!![]()
Does the Blu-Ray have any extras, or is it the film by itself?
I bought it on iTunes. I thought it was boring, then it got pretty insulting to pinball players. I feel bad for the guy they interviewed with a shirt on that was 2 sizes too small. I heard he was a really nice guy and they made him look like a boob.
I bought it on iTunes. I thought it was boring, then it got pretty insulting to pinball players. I feel bad for the guy they interviewed with a shirt on that was 2 sizes too small. I heard he was a really nice guy and they made him look like a boob.
Also, with the "pingeek," they dedicated a bunch of time to that guy who most people had never heard of, at least pinball people I know. They would show shots of people at his talks falling asleep and twitching. If he's that uninteresting and un-important then why show him?
Or how about the guy who does his little dance and talks about how he tries to become one with the machine?
I guess all I'm saying is that I was hoping it would put pinballs best foot forward, instead it concentrated on eccentric people, people or things that don't matter and didn't represent the average pinball collector. I'm sure they did it so people could get a laugh at the freakshow, but it was boring on top of that.
I've met Sam Harvey. No one forced him to wear that shirt....no one made his house dirty and stuffed it full of pinball machines. No one told him to never get a computer. That dude is REAL!
I think they made him look like a guy who's happy and content in his own little world. We should all be so lucky to not give a shit about what people think about us.![]()
as for the other comments in the thread about the doc making fun of eccintrics/painting pinball in a negative light. meh. i'm a pretty normal dude but making a doc about me would be GD boring as all hell. the oddities make the film worth watching. and people, it's ok to laugh at ourselves....really, it is.
We put giant, heavy, coin-operated machines in our houses and obsess of every little detail about them. Even the most "normal" of us are fucking weirdos. EMBRACE IT!!!![]()
They used my version of a a quote in the print. "With pinball, there's no ending. You can't beat the machine. You can only do better."
I watched it last night and enjoyed it. I thought it was well done and entertaining. They showed as many or more "normal" people as they did oddballs. Based on the criticism I'd read beforehand I was expecting a freak show. There are oddballs in any hobby, pinball is no exception.