Bonniebret
Rocker
So after much anticipation I finally finished watching "Brittown". I say finally finished because I've been watching it in chunks over the past four weekends. Not to be too snarky but I would just find myself getting bored and wanting to do something else.
The idea of the movie was good: Follow a guy who's into vintage Triumphs as he restores a 650 and get a behind the scenes glimpse of his life in the vintage bike culture in SoCal. The problem was the central character Meatball was boring, there was no story arch and no drama. He said he was going to build this bike and he did. The end. Everything fit, all the parts came on time, it started on the first kick, you know just like when we work on ours. And if you love parts where people visit machinists and get an on on-screen dissertation on valves this is for you.
I'm not saying that I need a two-hour episode of "American Chopper" but c'mon. Are you telling me that when you're building a bike with all your friends there's NO ball busting going on? Hell the stuff that goes on between my ears doing basic maintenance is more entertaining. (see "Just Balanced the Carbs") The fact is his friends seemed interesting. Actually more interesting but even they seemed at times too cool for school.
There were some great bikes and being from SoCal I enjoyed all the freeway shots through Orange County. Overall it's worth renting to see the bikes and get ideas but other than that...
Did anyone else that saw it feel the same?
The idea of the movie was good: Follow a guy who's into vintage Triumphs as he restores a 650 and get a behind the scenes glimpse of his life in the vintage bike culture in SoCal. The problem was the central character Meatball was boring, there was no story arch and no drama. He said he was going to build this bike and he did. The end. Everything fit, all the parts came on time, it started on the first kick, you know just like when we work on ours. And if you love parts where people visit machinists and get an on on-screen dissertation on valves this is for you.
I'm not saying that I need a two-hour episode of "American Chopper" but c'mon. Are you telling me that when you're building a bike with all your friends there's NO ball busting going on? Hell the stuff that goes on between my ears doing basic maintenance is more entertaining. (see "Just Balanced the Carbs") The fact is his friends seemed interesting. Actually more interesting but even they seemed at times too cool for school.
There were some great bikes and being from SoCal I enjoyed all the freeway shots through Orange County. Overall it's worth renting to see the bikes and get ideas but other than that...
Did anyone else that saw it feel the same?
