The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
by Seth Gordon
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Actor: Billy Mitchell, Steve WiebeDirector: Seth Gordon
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Dolby, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-29
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Product features:
- In this hilarious, critically acclaimed arcade showdown, a humble novice goes head-to-head against the reigning Donkey Kong champ in a confrontation that rocks the gaming world to its processors! For over 20 years, Billy Mitchell has owned the throne of the Donkey Kong world. No one could beat his top score until now. Newcomer Steve Wiebe claims to have beaten the unbeatable, but Mitchell isn't re
DVD Reviews of The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
DVD Review: A Fistful of Awesome
Summary: 4 Stars
Saw this on Netflix. It warmed my heart and made me jump for joy.DVD Review: The people you love to hate...
Summary: 4 Stars
Kings of Kong: Fistful of Quarters / B000XQ4HR8
Every moment of this documentary is pure gold, if only because you have to love and admire the amount of obliviousness (or canny sense of self-parody) that would allow the participants to aid in a documentary that so presents everyone involved as clueless, petty, childless, and/or moronic. From the scrappy underdog (who you *will* cheer for, if only because the established opposition is so much more odious), whose toddler son can be heard in the background pleading "Stop playing Donkey Kong!" so that his father will come help him in the bathroom, and whose daughter offhandedly points out that, you know, some people ruin their entire lives trying to get into the Guinness Book of World Records... to the established top dog, Billy Mitchell, whose every line positively drips with hilarious self-important haughtiness, to the self-appointed guardians of classic game scores... who are so deeply in bed with Billy Mitchell that they will do just about anything to preserve his status as top game scorer.
It is an absolute *scream* to see the wild-eyed "tape reviewer" who reviews the submission tapes rant on about potential cheaters and how he'll stake his life and honor and whatnot on their reputation... except, of course, when it comes to Billy's tapes which are judged automatically authentic immediately, despite frequent tape skips, distortions, and impurities. Indeed, Billy is so trustworthy, that he's on the committee who decides whether or not the people who send in new scores to beat his old scores can "truly" be trusted or not. Of course, he's totally fair... I have to bet that Guinness was SO thrilled when this documentary came out, because they're basically on record as saying that this slip-shod organization's word is good enough for their prestigious publishing, ha.
Fans of classic gaming will love this documentary for the fascinating discussions of how and why classic games were as impossibly hard to master as they often were - as well as the interesting programming discussions about the "kill screen" when the game code basically just... runs out. Non-gamers will love this documentary for the hilarious personalities on display - really, there's not a single person in this documentary who doesn't take the travails of Donkey Kong ("this machine is *possessed*!") far, far more seriously than the average viewer will - and the results are nothing short of hilarious.
DVD Review: unexpected surprise
Summary: 5 Stars
I had in mind that this was going to be a comedy movie all of the way through, but to my unexpected surprise the movie gave a serious tone. Although it was not what i expected the movie was really well put together. I would recommend this movie for anybody that has grown up playing video games.DVD Review: A shiner in your collection....
Summary: 5 Stars
this movie smokes! Buy it so that producers see that movies like this make money. I want more!!DVD Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is SOOOOO good and difficult to find. I highly recommend buying it and sharing it with your friends. If you don't know what it is and just stumbled upon it, BUY IT, you'll love it and think you were a genius for finding it.
Description of The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
In this hilarious, critically acclaimed arcade showdown, a humble novice goes head-to-head against the reigning Donkey Kong champ in a confrontation that rocks the gaming world to its processors! For over 20 years, Billy Mitchell has owned the throne of the Donkey Kong world. No one could beat his top score until now. Newcomer Steve Wiebe claims to have beaten the unbeatable, but Mitchell isn't ready to renquish his crown without a fight. Go behind the barrels as the two battle it out in a vicious war to earn the title of the true King of Kong.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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