The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (PG)

The film was a fraud in many ways. Mitchell's record had been broken by another guy in 2001. Weibe was the recognized champion for several years. Agree the whole lot of them are quite sad.

lovely film and the triviality of the pursuit has got nothing to do with anything. most of what we call games are deeply trivial. it's the way personality is revealed through these trivial pursuits that is instructive and deep.

The movie was GREAT... as far as documenting dweeby gamers VS other Dweeby Gamers Furher Documented by the Dweeby Gamers That Couldn't. Seriously tho, Donkey Kong was always a pain in the ass... if I could trade a year for every Quarter I wasted on DK... I'd be at least 1,224 years old!!!

"a low scoring portrait of human vanity"...how about a gutwrenching realistic portrait of human diversity...one that transcends generations and brings nerds, jocks, push-overs, and buttheads together.... your credibility has been flushed down the perverbial 'Bubbles' drain.

Best documentary this year. In fact - if this had been a mockumentary a la Cristopher Guest it would have been very funny. Now that it's a true story - absolutely brilliant!

I am convinced that the only reason you panned this movie was to increase the number of hits your page gets. Are you getting kickbacks from the advertising department? Kudos to you, it worked. I would have never heard of this "publication" without your ridiculous review of this movie on rottentoamtoes.com. I suggest you re watch this movie. If you happen to stick by your initial review, then well, you sir are a retard.

Stephen Garrett must really suck at Donkey Kong.

This is a film about people who are stuck in 1982 I think. Billy Mitchell has held the world record Donkey Kong score since 1982 when record keeping began and he has barely changed his hairdo since then. Perhaps that was hot in '82, but a dude in his 40s can't quite rock that hairdo. Right back to the documentary - mostly I was struck by how pathetic the people in this film are. Steve Wiebe, trying to overtake Mitchell's record, won't stop playing long enough to wipe his own kid's poo covered butt, and he's told outright by his daughter that he's ruining his life to get this record. There's Micthell, who besides a bad hairdo and a wife with a really bad boob job, won't show up in person to defend his title. There are the guys who are Mitchell's geeky goon squad, determined to prove anyone besting Mitchell is a cheat of some kind, and there's Mr Awesome who really has to be seen to be believed. This film took a while to bring me into this geek heaven because it was all so foreign to me - in this regard, the film did not do a good job introducing those of us who have not spent time in an arcade to those who virtually live there. By the time I was drawn in, it was the pathetic quality of these lives which kept me watching, and that's not necessarily a good thing. It's sort of like a bad car crash that you don't want to watch but keep looking at - the major difference is that an ambulance will take the injured to be helped and no one is coming to rescue the poor souls in this documentary.

Wow. Really impressive, broseph. One of the best movies in years, and you find it to be "a stretch." I think that quite a few would agree that whatever credentials you present as a reviewer are a stretch.

Bingo! I'm curious where you saw Chasing Ghosts because I saw it at CAX and just came out of KOK thinking the same thing. It kind of made everyone look nuts. The only sympathetic line was the man who mentioned he didn't smoke or drink so that was his vice. That's a good start...but there was more to the culture than that. It seemed in 1980-83 that it was going to go on forever so it's small wonder that it would linger on in the minds of many in the same way sports trivia lingers on for the ESPN "Classic" crowd.