The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
I am not a nerd. Repeat. I am not a nerd. (There, my affirmation at least made me feel less nerdy.)
I am not a fan of The Revenge of the Nerds franchise. However, I really felt this film was one of the forty best of the past decade, so I made up this genre to include this film. (I did almost slate this as the best sports film of the decade but I couldn’t bring myself to calling gaming a sport.)
This documentary is thrillingly hilarious. Even though you know it’s a documentary, you almost think it’s a faux documentary, because there is no way this story, or these characters, could actually be true.
This story follows two men who vie to break Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong record (set in the 1980s). Steve Wiebe is “the good guy” trying to break the record. Unemployed as a science teacher (how can a science teacher be unemployed, I don’t know), he becomes addicted to the game from his childhood. His nemesis is Billy Mitchell, a hot sauce entrepreneur (I swear you can’t make this stuff up). Both claim to own the new record, and dispute each other’s claim. The showdown to see who is champion … well, let’s just say you have to see for yourself, whether you are a nerd or not.
I am not a nerd. Repeat. I am not a nerd. (There, my affirmation at least made me feel less nerdy.)
I am not a fan of The Revenge of the Nerds franchise. However, I really felt this film was one of the forty best of the past decade, so I made up this genre to include this film. (I did almost slate this as the best sports film of the decade but I couldn’t bring myself to calling gaming a sport.)
This documentary is thrillingly hilarious. Even though you know it’s a documentary, you almost think it’s a faux documentary, because there is no way this story, or these characters, could actually be true.
This story follows two men who vie to break Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong record (set in the 1980s). Steve Wiebe is “the good guy” trying to break the record. Unemployed as a science teacher (how can a science teacher be unemployed, I don’t know), he becomes addicted to the game from his childhood. His nemesis is Billy Mitchell, a hot sauce entrepreneur (I swear you can’t make this stuff up). Both claim to own the new record, and dispute each other’s claim. The showdown to see who is champion … well, let’s just say you have to see for yourself, whether you are a nerd or not.
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