The correspondence I had was with the person behind this email address: robert.ismert@foosmovie.com
In all honesty I still had/have a bad taste in my mouth from the whole experience, so I can't say I watched the movie with an untainted eye. When I got the DVD >1 month later I was pretty ticked, then when I finally got it I put it in the DVD player to watch, and then 30 mins into the viewing the DVD stalled. So I took it out and it was completely scratch free, so I put the disk back in. Played another 30 mins, stalled again...went to another DVD player, same result. Went to another DVD player, same result. At this point I was pretty upset... It could have been a bad copy, and after about 7-8 times of doing this I finally finish the movie (which was somewhat lengthy).
There was a group of us that watched it, and I was the only true fooser...the rest did not really enjoy the documentary, and in all actuality I probably "liked it" the best out of the group...but I think I "liked it" only because I like all things foosball, if it was the same documentary but about Billiards or Darts I probably would have walked out. I'll probably try and watch it again one day, but as of now I would probably give the DVD a D+/C- rating and the soundtrack a B+/A- rating... I'd buy the soundtrack from him if I could stomach giving the guy any more of my money, but the thought repulses me.
As much as I like Johnny Horton, for those that are not into foosball, there probably could have been some footage dropped there (but possibly a director's cut that would include all the Johnny Horton footage you could ask for). I would have liked to see interviews of ProMaster players from the 90's all the way up to when the movie was made...if he pushed more of an inspirational ending touching more into the future of foosball that would be nice (not corny unicorns and rainbow type crap, but something positive would have been nice). It would have been cool to even follow a few rookie players over the course of a few years and see where they are today, and discuss why they love to foos or why they dropped out of the foos scene. I think there was a lot Robert left on the table, but it's easy to be an armchair critic...so I'll end it there.
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