A dream theme for pinheads, wonder how everybody else will see this…
They showed a scene of destroying a pin on the sidewalk - it looked like a Stardust - my first pin. This movie might be too emotional for me
Quoted from branlon8:A dream theme for pinheads, wonder how everybody else will see this…
They showed a scene of destroying a pin on the sidewalk - it looked like a Stardust - my first pin. This movie might be too emotional for me
Haha right! Looks like it is hitting theaters, though!
That mustache. WTF is he hiding?
Movie trailer lost me at, "falling in love with a single mother". Ugh
Between that and the movie about air jordon's getting started? Hollywood is out of ideas. Not much material to make a movie about? I would see it but doubt the public would. I don't usually like movies when one of the characters is narrating in person scenes from the past.
Quoted from Viggin900:I don't usually like movies when one of the characters is narrating in person scenes from the past.
Um, ok, but it's Roger Sharp. Look at that moustache! Don't you want to see it? I can't look away....what's wrong with me?! Am I the only one?!
Quoted from PoMC:Movie trailer lost me at, "falling in love with a single mother". Ugh
Gotta bring it up to 2023 expectations
Quoted from PoMC:Movie trailer lost me at, "falling in love with a single mother". Ugh
Where is this in the trailer, I watched it like 4 times???
Quoted from mrm_4:Where is this in the trailer, I watched it like 4 times???
Sorry to make you do that. haha
Must've been in a synopsis I read and not the actual trailer. The narrative trying to be pushed is "a love story with a single mother" that just happens to have pinball in the background. To get the ladies to want to watch.
I appreciate the warning should I start receiving excessive unwanted attention in the coming weeks as the movie releases
I watched it last year at a local international film festival.
Very good movie that my wife also very much enjoyed.
Hope they release it on DVD.
Seen it. Great movie. Took the wife and she enjoyed it to. I was expecting a lame indy movie but was very impressed on how well it was shot with a great story.
2 Thumbs up.
Looks like wide release March 15th.
Spoiler alert: they aren’t illegal anymore. Sorry to ruin the movie.
Anyway yes I am excited to check it out too.
Well this is going to make getting Rodger's autograph a bit tougher. Anyone got any in's before he becomes a worldwide phenomenon?
Quoted from NPO:Waiting to stream it. $20 for a ticket and AMC rolling "priority priced seating" ...nah. I'm good.
Do you not have other theater chains by you? I got four different smaller chains and independent theaters near me that offer $5-7 seats
Quoted from PanzerKraken:Do you not have other theater chains by you? I got four different smaller chains and independent theaters near me that offer $5-7 seats
Not for those prices I don't.
In the pinball hobby we’ll $5k for a topper but there’s no god damn way in hell we’re paying $20 to see a movie about pinball
Quoted from acedanger:Looks okay I'll wait till it's streaming. IMO just looks amateurish. I'd way rather watch a good pinball documentary.
It wasn’t amateurish.
I was surprised how well done it was.
Good story with comedy and pinball.
Quoted from acedanger:Looks okay I'll wait till it's streaming. IMO just looks amateurish. I'd way rather watch a good pinball documentary.
Doesn’t look amateurish at all to me.
Quoted from mrm_4:In the pinball hobby we’ll $5k for a topper
I sure as fuck won't. I'll sell off my collection and sell 2x4's at Home Depot first. Did you mean the Stern Alley sign???
Quoted from EJS:Spoiler alert: they aren’t illegal anymore. Sorry to ruin the movie.
And prior to his shot in NYC, legal in almost all of the USA.
I hope it concentrates more on his work at Williams. And licensing, like for TAF. He has a rich history in the commercial end that should be showcased.
LTG : )
That they have taken one of the quaint, oft told around the fireside chat pinball anecdotes and commercialized it for profit? Seems par for the course. I mean, the entire pinball industry is just “let’s make money” juxtaposed against “let’s play pinball”. So historic significance showcased for profit is a goal to be celebrated? Who knew?
Very interested to see how they film the pivotal gameplay scene. It has to be dumbed down so the audience understands it's significance. I'm guessing a called sequence of shots by Roger, then a slow-mo of the ball leaving the flipper and moving slowly towards each target (intercut with gasping reactions).
Bublehead One could say that about any documentary right? Personally I'd rather hear the story directly from the source/actors in a professionally made doc than a 'fireside chat' aka pinball event youtube in an echo chamber hotel ballroom with crappy audio/video. This was a significant moment in pinball and deserves to be well documented.
Quoted from Nevus:The actor playing adult Roger, wasn’t he in Better Call Saul?
Yes, Dennis Boutsikaris. Was Roger’s first choice to play the older him, directors originally asked Roger to play himself, but he declined.
Quoted from EMDude:Bublehead One could say that about any documentary right? Personally I'd rather hear the story directly from the source/actors in a professionally made doc than a 'fireside chat' aka pinball event youtube in an echo chamber hotel ballroom with crappy audio/video. This was a significant moment in pinball and deserves to be well documented.
Been at many of the chats before at expo, and actually have heard the story from Rodger personally, many times. Don’t need a movie.
Quoted from Bublehead:Been at many of the chats before at expo, and actually have heard the story from Rodger personally, many times. Don’t need a movie.
The movie is so much more than that.
Check it out when it’s available… I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
Kinda disappointed they didn't use a CGI Rutger Hauer in the role of Rodger, but I'll still go see it.
Quoted from Bublehead:That they have taken one of the quaint, oft told around the fireside chat pinball anecdotes and commercialized it for profit? Seems par for the course. I mean, the entire pinball industry is just “let’s make money” juxtaposed against “let’s play pinball”. So historic significance showcased for profit is a goal to be celebrated? Who knew?
I think the world is big enough that both pinball and a movie centered around pinball can coexist.
Also, I hope you're being sarcastic suggesting that the pinball industry shouldn't "make money".
Quoted from Bublehead:I mean, the entire pinball industry is just “let’s make money”
Pretty much every industry is about making money.
I want to see it. Is this really going to hit lots of theaters or just a few around the country and go straight to Netflix?
Quoted from mostater:Also, I hope you're being sarcastic suggesting that the pinball industry shouldn't "make money".
Putting words in my mouth. Never said that, I just implied that using pinball to make money IS the real paradigm of pinball and so the movie fitting inside of that paradigm did not surprise me, no matter what artistic, historic, or social significance it might otherwise have. An executive producer somewhere bet the farm that for a little money to make a docudrama, they could make back bank selling it to the masses. Capitalism at its finest, shrouded in artistry, and wrapped with historic significance. Sounds truly American.
Quoted from insight75:I want to see it. Is this really going to hit lots of theaters or just a few around the country and go straight to Netflix?
I assume it's going to be a small run, I don't think they've actually said where it'll be showing yet though. Posts on the film's social media make it sound like digital release on the same day (March 17). The distributor that picked it up (Vertical) has done some fairly large releases, but their last movie was AMC theater exclusive... which sucks.
Quoted from Bublehead:So historic significance showcased for profit is a goal to be celebrated?
Quoted from Bublehead:Capitalism at its finest, shrouded in artistry, and wrapped with historic significance.
So no one should make a movie about anything historically significant, ever, because the mere fact that filmmaking is an inherently capitalistic enterprise undermines the subject's significance? How do you even get up in the morning?
Quoted from AlexRogan84:Is that a Sure Shot he plays at city hall?
It ought to be a Bank Shot , and from the bottom of the playfield visible in the trailer, it appears correct.
FYI this not a documentary. Not even close to being one. This is a story about Roger meeting his wife and falling in love with just a little bit of pinball sprinkled in. This is a comedy/drama.
Also, it is Bank Shot. In fact, it’s my Bank Shot . The scenes with Bank Shot were filmed at the lavish Delaware Pinball Collective.
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