Allyn, WA
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As someone who helped fund this project, I'm kind of surprised I haven't received more updates. Thanks for the link!
Ouch... it looks to have one and only redeeming feature: there are pinball machines in the movie.
Otherwise it basically looks horrific. The melodramatic look after the surprise kiss is one of several "douche chill" moments I got from watching the short trailer. I definitely won't be able to sit through this movie.
Quoted from jalpert:WTF is this shit?
It's an independent film that happens to revolve around the world of pinball.
I think a trailer should show you what the movie is about. After watching this I know two things, pinball is being played and boy meets girl. Maybe the movie is better than the trailer shows?? Gwem is right though, chick is kinda cute.
Quoted from mechslave:"douche chill" moments I got from watching the short trailer.
+1 for using "douche chill" 
Yeah this looks like something that would never be released in theaters ....I see a few runs on "Showtime Women" in the future.
Yes, that was Jeri Elsworth in the shot. She's being used as a pinball "stunt actress".
I'm most excited about the 20 min or so documentary that will be attached to the DVD of this film about my buddy Wade Krause. He's an amazing contributor to the pinball community.
Sheesh...why didn't they have me direct the film? I'd have the aliens from AFM come down and force the best Earth Pinball Player to play the Alien Pinball Player for ownership of the Earth! The alien Pinball Game is an interactive hologram...yadda, yadda, yadda
I love independent films. Given the target demographic, it's a bit odd that they would make a chick flick about pinball.
Maybe on paper they were going for the whole Jerry McGuire thing which was sports for the guys, romance for the girls.
Quoted from Skypilot:Chill gents, Independant films are low budget.Might be worth a look.And its got Pinball
Quoted from jalpert:I love independent films. Given the target demographic, it's a bit odd that they would make a chick flick about pinball.
Maybe on paper they were going for the whole Jerry McGuire thing which was sports for the guys, romance for the girls.
I love (a select few) independent films also. Unfortunately, this looks to have all the melodrama, complete with the cliche girl/boy storyline, of your typically bad hollywood chic flic. The claustrophobic cinematography and mislit scenes which always come with low budget independent films only serve to give them character if they're unique in some other way. I don't believe just adding pinball to a very ordinary story in order to make it unique works for the film or pinball.
Hopefully I'm totally wrong and the movie is amazing. 
After all, I'm sure I'll buy this and try to watch it! It's pinball after all, and we should try and support it if we can.
Toyotaboy - what you've just made us witness is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever seen. At no point in this trailers rambling, incoherent dialogue were they even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this forum is now dumber for having viewed it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Quoted from Skypilot:Chill gents, Independant films are low budget.Might be worth a look.And its got Pinball
Low budget doesn't have to = horrible. I think Robert Rodriguez made El Mariachi for $8000
anyone that says they will not watch this movie is completely full of it!!!
It has pinball, you will all be watching it.
Heck, how many times have you each watched special when lit?
Quoted from Whysnow:anyone that says they will not watch this movie is completely full of it!!!
It has pinball, you will all be watching it.
Heck, how many times have you each watched special when lit?
Special When Lit was a well made documentary. This is fictional storytelling and if all we have to go on is this trailer, it might be unwatchable. Hopefully whoever edited the trailer isn't editing the movie.
Regina, SK
Quoted from Rarehero:Special When Lit was a well made mockumentary.
Fixed that for ya...
It can't possibly be worse than "Pick-Up Summer". That may very well be the worst film I have ever sat through. If it wasn't about pinball, I probably would have turned it off at about the three minute mark.
Quoted from Frax:Fixed that for ya...
Nope, it was real. I've met Sam Harvey...he's really really real. lol
Sure, Special When Lit shows some ...."Special" people...they exist in this hobby, it's fair game to show them. The movie shows a TON about pinball, its history, its collectors, its tournament players. It's more than fair and very even - some of you guys make it seem like it's the entire focus of the film...it's not. They could have easily made an entire "brutal" movie...
Beecroft
Quoted from Mr68:Soooo I guess I'm the only one that liked the trailer? I'd say for a microscopic budget, independent film it looks decent. It will go straight to video but I'll buy it.
Kim
I thought they did a good job for a B movie. seems more of a chick flick though.
cute leading girl too. : )
Man i loath Jeri BOOOO. Best pin related film ever was TILT. I will add this to my never gonna watch. Its right up there with Avatar Titanic and Napoleon Dynamite.
The actress is cute. Got kinda an Emma Stone thing going on.
Quoted from SealClubber:Napoleon Dynamite was Awesome!
I hope she has mad skills.
ND is one of my favorites as well.
Dan
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