King of Kong
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a documentary of two “men” battling for bragging rights of owning the high score on the arcade game Donkey Kong. One of these guys is from Redmond Washington. I have been waiting patiently for this movie to come to town. All reviews have been exceptional. And I figure, a movie about Donkey Kong? It has to be good.
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You can read more reviews and plot descriptions here:
King of Kong - wikipedia entry
King of Kong - IMDB entry
I loveeed this movie. So funny! You can check my semi-review here: http://www.publicpress.org/entity?action=showEntity&id=8588
Ugh - still hung over from too much turkey. It’s not my review, but rather one from someone else on my site! Was a great movie, I saw it at cinema21 about 3 months ago. Very much like ‘best in show’, ’spinal tap’, etc, but real!
I saw this movie when it first came to town at Cinema 21 a few months ago. It’s awesome, and if you are remotely interested in classic arcade games, it offers really interesting insight into “that world”.