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List Price: $27.98 Our Price: $23.99 You Save: $3.99 Features • AC-3 • Dolby • Subtitled • Anamorphic In Theaters : 2007 DVD Release : 29 January, 2008 |
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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters description The stuff of gladiatorial battle is here: good versus evil, right versus wrong, nerd versus... super-nerd? At any rate, it's a more entertaining showdown than most fictional movies can muster. The King of Kong is the saga of Steve Wiebe, a Redmond, Washington dweeb who sets a new record in the video game Donkey Kong, only to see his acc ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Why didn't this get a best doc. nom? |
| I love documentaries like this. This one falls into my category of "obsessive subject matter". Trekkies, American Movie, and Confessions of a Superhero all fall into that. However this one is a little different, because there's a goal trying to be reached here. Two men compete for the highest score in Donkey Kong. One is a video gaming legend who has held the #1 spot for 20 years and the other is the contender who's a family man and plays on a machine in his garage.
The way its edited does a great job of painting Billy Mitchell as the villain and challenger Steve Wiebe as the hero. I couldn't help but get wrapped up in what is a completely absurb competition and root for the underdog Wiebe. I don't remember the last scripted movie that made me want to see the reigning champ get his title stripped away more. I thoroughly enjoyed this battle for the highest score. The rivalry between the two men builds in a very intense way, considering they barely ever appear onscreen together. One of my favorite parts of the movie is when they do have their first encounter in person. You can't fake that kind of tension. Take it from me, someone who loves a funny lighthearted documentary. You can't go wrong with this. Be sure to watch it before the scripted adaptation of this comes out next year. |
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