Yeah, I mean that's the way I like my documentaries - obscure enough so that it's outside of my world but fascinating none the less. I mean, who do you even call to say that you're the best Donkey Kong player ever? Man, I really want to see this now!
Yeah, I mean that's the way I like my documentaries - obscure enough so that it's outside of my world but fascinating none the less. I mean, who do you even call to say that you're the best Donkey Kong player ever? Man, I really want to see this now!
Funny you ask, go see this and it's fully explained and it's pretty f'in funny too.
I posted on it in the docu thread but yeah, if it's playing in your city, go see this immediately it won't disappoint.
I saw it in Austin and they had a Donky Kong contest and the prize was a donkey kong stand-up! The contestants were picked like a raffle and dudes were paying people $20 to give up their tickets so they could get in the tourney.
Shit was hard I could never even get past the second level.
I'm very excited to see this, although Baltimore usually gets small docs months after LA and NYC, if at all. My coworker's been hyping it up to me for months, he saw it Slamdance in January. The Sundance festival apparently passed on it because that same week they were showcasing a similarly themed competing doc called "Chasing Ghosts" about the only guy to ever achieve a perfect score at Pac-Man. I'm interested in that one as well, but there's some satisfaction in the "smaller" film going on to larger success.
Word - I saw that too and Nuart is really close to me. I just hope it plays there long enough for me to find a babysitter one evening to see this. And shit, we're still trying to see "Superbad" too. Maybe it's time for a double header but I don't imagine the two films would actually end up at the same multi-plex.
I'm very excited to see this, although Baltimore usually gets small docs months after LA and NYC, if at all. My coworker's been hyping it up to me for months, he saw it Slamdance in January. The Sundance festival apparently passed on it because that same week they were showcasing a similarly themed competing doc called "Chasing Ghosts" about the only guy to ever achieve a perfect score at Pac-Man. I'm interested in that one as well, but there's some satisfaction in the "smaller" film going on to larger success.
I haven't seen that other one but I would have to think Sundance lost out on that choice... King of Kong did really well at SXSW apparently. I was pretty out of the loop this year though and didn't hear about it until recently.
BTW, I think Billy Mitchell has recorded a perfect game on pac-man. If I understood right that's passing every screen AND eating every ghost when possible (I think towards the end they stop turning blue) - !
If there is another Billy Mitchell documentary I have to see that, dude is crazy. He would seem to be the basis of the Ben Stiller character in Dodge Ball.
Don't wait for DVD, this is a film made for an audience...
I have to see this. On the Nuart website it says it closes this Thursday. Donkey Kong was my very first video game experience. They had a standup coin op machine at the grocery store next to my house back in the early to mid eighties. There used to be a constant que of 10 quarters lined up on that thing showing a line of people waiting to play. I got pretty good at it after a while. After about 3-4 levels the game looped but it was much harder. Almost to the point of laughing.
I haven't had this good a time at a documentary since...um...um...you get the point.
It doesn't matter if you have no interest in video games since the film really isn't about that...it's about all these insane characters who surround and inhabit that world.
It doesn't matter if you have no interest in video games since the film really isn't about that...it's about all these insane characters who surround and inhabit that world.
and also about competition and rivalry and obsession
It doesn't matter if you have no interest in records since the film really isn't about that...it's about all these insane characters who surround and inhabit the soul strut world.
i would like to see this donkey kong movie though, the guys do seem insane.
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The director was on KCRW's The Treatment and the film sounds pretty fascinating regardless if you're into video games or not.
i've been geeked to see this for a minute
And yes, Donkey Kong is fuckin' hard.
Donkey Kong
Funny you ask, go see this and it's fully explained and it's pretty f'in funny too.
I posted on it in the docu thread but yeah, if it's playing in your city, go see this immediately it won't disappoint.
I saw it in Austin and they had a Donky Kong contest and the prize was a donkey kong stand-up! The contestants were picked like a raffle and dudes were paying people $20 to give up their tickets so they could get in the tourney.
Shit was hard I could never even get past the second level.
Its playing in like 3 theatres in NYC.
i have seen a doco on Bill before, he runs his family's restaurant right?
Hey, that's 3x more than L.A.!
i saw that its playing at the nuart on the way to work today...
http://www.google.com/movies?hl=en&near=90049&dq=king+of+kong,+90049&tid=96c36b3fbcf8e139&sa=X&oi=showtimes&ct=theater-link&cd=1
Word - I saw that too and Nuart is really close to me. I just hope it plays there long enough for me to find a babysitter one evening to see this. And shit, we're still trying to see "Superbad" too. Maybe it's time for a double header but I don't imagine the two films would actually end up at the same multi-plex.
I haven't seen that other one but I would have to think Sundance lost out on that choice... King of Kong did really well at SXSW apparently. I was pretty out of the loop this year though and didn't hear about it until recently.
BTW, I think Billy Mitchell has recorded a perfect game on pac-man. If I understood right that's passing every screen AND eating every ghost when possible (I think towards the end they stop turning blue) -
If there is another Billy Mitchell documentary I have to see that, dude is crazy. He would seem to be the basis of the Ben Stiller character in Dodge Ball.
Don't wait for DVD, this is a film made for an audience...
Donkey Kong was my very first video game experience. They had a standup coin op machine at the grocery store next to my house back in the early to mid eighties. There used to be a constant que of 10 quarters lined up on that thing showing a line of people waiting to play. I got pretty good at it after a while. After about 3-4 levels the game looped but it was much harder. Almost to the point of laughing.
REALLY FUCKING GREAT.
I haven't had this good a time at a documentary since...um...um...you get the point.
It doesn't matter if you have no interest in video games since the film really isn't about that...it's about all these insane characters who surround and inhabit that world.
and also about competition and rivalry and obsession
co-sine
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1560691/20070529/story.jhtml
i would like to see this donkey kong movie though, the guys do seem insane.