Documentaries are relatively cheap and easy to make compared to a feature film. They still require a huge amount of work and significant money, but its possible to come out of nowhere and make a great documentary without a huge budget or much experience. This is not one of those great documentaries. It's worth seeing because the topic is so interesting and there's no other film on the topic as far as I know, and it'soverdue, but its all over the place, and I really questions a lot of their choices. A much better film about several of the topics in this documentary could have been made. Like a lot of medicore documentaries, they touch on too many topics without really giving you any definitive history or even a consistent them. They kinda just throw it all in there. And because its a documentary and not a fictional drama, you don't notice just what a mess it is. Still worth watching, just could have been so much better if they had narrowed the focus and stayed on track instead of touching on everything under the sun, and the latest trends which may not be so relevant in a few years. I'm thinking many part of the second half will age very poorly. It certainly didn't feel remotely definitive on even one topic covered.
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For the first time ever, the story of guitar pedals and effects will be told by the people who make them and the artists that use them. Coming in 2021, The Pedal Movie, Reverb's first-ever feature-length film, will dive into the culture of pedals and tell the story of how a small industry grew from a handful of companies into the galaxy of different makers building pedals today.
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May 03, 2021 at 04:40 PM
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Another mediocre documentary on an interesting subject
Semi thuths
It start as a docimader and becomes advertisment of the individual pedal industry! Agree cool thing to make your pedal, but the "movie" forget to tell about tube pedals.. and talk only negatives from the rack "refrigerator"!!
SO one specific side of information and hide all the other sides!
Great until.....
Great movies, really informative and great look at a long history of the guitar pedals, lots of great musicians interviewed....and then it takes a dive, right into the world of gender politics. Really dissappointing! All the man bashing/womens right just sux ar$e. It was a music movie, go make a gender movie if thats what you want. Never in my 30 years of playing, and playing with hundreds of people has anyone cared about the gender of the designer/builder.