I saw it at Evo 2k5; it was awesome! Apoc’s flip was actually my most memorable scene.
One of the makers of BTM was present at evo 2k5 (I can’t remember who … director? producer?) … anyways, he made a brief speech before the film was shown. He said that they wanted to edit the film to add new/updated content such as new players - which I believe he was referring to Justin Wong (Wong wasn’t covered in BTM … or at least the one we saw at evo 2k5.). And that was the last that I heard about BTM.
I believe there’s been several threads already after evo 2k5 on the possibility of BTM going to DVD (postings by fans, not the film makers) … but they usually come to a dead end. I think someone even came up with a suggestion of having BTM on a pay bit torrent download basis … nothing resulted though.
I’d totally pay up to $40 for it IF it ever gets released on dvd.
I saw it back in like 2000 or something, at a screening out here. Great film for people who want info on the oldschool tourney scene, and as a bonus they randomly say my name once!
I think I have like…4 or so sample clips of this floating around on my hard drive somewhere. If I find them, do you think the peeps who made it would care if I upped them to Youtube?
I’m doing an MA in Design & Digital Media at Coventry University (UK), and I’m looking to do some sort of video documentary about the UK fighting game scene as a module project.
I’ve heard about the Bang the Machine film documentary about the scene of the US players, but I’ve never seen it, nor I even heard that its available. I’d be really interested to find out if anyone has a copy on DVD, and I’d be willing to buy it off them if the price is good. It will be a valuable source of research for my work.
they were going to show it at PAX 05 also but pulled out at last minute…Penny-Arcade creators were pissed because they pulled it literally right before they were going to let people get into the theater at the convention center to watch it.
I heard about it back in like 2002 and after i found out it wasn’t being released i was liek WTF!!! NOOOOOOO!!! so then i forced myself to forget about it cuz the curiosity to see it would kill me…DAM U TYRAM FOR MAKIGN THIS THREAD NOW I’M DYING TO SEE IT AGAIN LIKE BEFORE.
Man, I watched it back at Evo2K2 and it was pretty good. I would love to see it again. And the idea of updating it with more recent players is a great idea. Too bad it’s not likely gonna happen, and a release of this DVD is just wishful thinking. :sad:
I uploaded some of the Bang The Machine clips I had saved on my computer. The first clip apparently hasn’t processed through yet, but it should be up pretty soon. (Posted this in the video thread in GD too for anyone who doesn’t follow the FG section)