Wednesday
04Nov2009
26 - It's ON Like 'King of Kong'
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 8:09AM This is our half-year anniversary, and what better movie to review than the winner of our Last Exit to Nowhere giveaway @charlesyi! His winning selection was 'The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters'.
In addition to this being 6 months, a fan selection, and a contest winning entry, it's also our first documentary. KoK follows competetive Donky Kong players as they try to break a high score set TWENTY years before.
Have you played Donkey Kong recently? It's REALLY effing hard...
Buy 'The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters' on DVD!
tagged documentary, episode, independent, review
documentary, episode, independent, review
Reader Comments (4)
AAAAAAAAH, this MOVIE!
You know, now that you guys've made the parallel, I think I understand how it feels to be a true michael moore believer. I've been essentially taught mega-hippy-style, no-holds-barred, heavy-heanded skepticism of the man, but I guess my guard is completely down when it comes to other authors/editors/FILTHY HIJACKERS. I'm no better than the Mitchell cronies, man! I'm a sucker!
I feel like I'm in high school again, arguing over he said - she said like my life depended on it. Probably why the debate polarises into the former and higher-ground disdain. You can't get into this argument without turning into a muckraker.
Fascinating. This movie's worse than politics.
Zaxxon...going to have Zaxxon dreams now.
LOL!
Hey Zac!
Lee and I got into a REALLY tiffy "discussion" on the nature of truth in documentary. Whether you can have true objectivity in film. Just the simple act of turning a camera on and pointing it at something means that the man behind the camera has decided that one direction is more important than another, and we all know (thanks to reality TV) that editing can make the exact same footage look like any "story" the producers want.
We eventually decided that the only way to have some sense of objectivity would be to fore-warn the audience as to the perspective, and then employ NO editing. For example:
"Lee & Juan are proud to present, 6 complete hours of Sunset Blvd, from a camera facing west."
Least. Entertaining. Documentary. EVAR.
Hey LonelyPond!
For us it was all about Tempest and Galaga. I think those are still really fun arcade games.
Donkey Kong, though, not fun... Never been fun... Never WILL be fun...