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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 accomplishment challenged by the grand poobahs of the gaming establishment. And if you don't know how pernickety the grand poobahs of the gaming establishment can be, well, one of the pleasures of this movie is finding out about this collection of oddballs. It seems Wiebe has toppled a score that has stood since 1982, when eminent "Gamer of the Century" Billy Mitchell set it, and Mitchell isn't too happy about being overthrown. A black-mulleted showboat, Mitchell provides the perfect counterpoint to Wiebe's mild-mannered family man, and the smaller fish around him are no less colorful. This is one of those movies you watch in delighted disbelief, marveling that such people exist--and that they gladly allowed themselves to be filmed. Director Seth Gordon does an important thing in presenting this world of eccentrics: he doesn't mock them, or provide editorial nudging; he simply lets them be. The result is an ingratiating classic. --Robert Horton |
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| Well, viewing this video it certainly seems as though Billy Mitchell is, truly, a loser. While he claims to not be God, he certainly appears to think himself a close relative.
He seems to have been riding the coattails of something he accomplished, essentially, as a child (or teen). To watch Mitchell move competing hot sauce products on the shelves of a market to make more room for his own is a good encapsulation of the person portrayed in the video. Shifting things around while no one else is looking to make himself look better. Equivalent to having his lapdog play the video while the good guy is busting his rear trying to win the record LIVE. Mitchell appears in this vid as a true coward deserving of nothing but everlasting scorn. Hopefully, he will redeem himself in a sequel. I would be ashamed to call Billy Mitchell my father, brother, or cousin three times removed. Truly a world-class jerk. (and no, I don't mean that in any kind of "world class = notable" in ANY good way) His lap dogs at Twin Galaxies and the Gollum-like sycophant that calls him on the phone every five seconds is no better - just...less. |
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