The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
A few nights ago I was just about to go to sleep when I stumbled upon a film entitled “The King of Donkey Kong, A fist full of quarters”. All hopes of getting a good nights sleep were soon thrown right out the window. For the next 2 hrs I was completely glued to my TV like never before. When it was finally over it was 2AM and I my life was completely changed.
PLEASE do yourself a favor and watch this film. Here is the basic premise. The film centers on 2 rival “gamers” that in 2006 are trying to set the all-time high score in the seemingly irrelevant original Donkey Kong arcade game. You have a classic battle between Good and Evil.
The antagonist of the film- Billy Mitchell.
Arguably the worlds most famous competitive gamer. You might know him as the first man ever to get a perfect score on Pacman, or more likely you might not know him at all. I don’t know want to ruin the movie for you but think of if Lucas Wunsch fucked Lucas Wunsch and had a kid. That kid would be Billy Mitchell.
A few fun facts about Billy
-He always wears an American flag tie (he has his reasons…which you will have to watch the film to find out)
-Mitchell was voted “Dweebus Maximus Dorkus of both the 20th and 21st centuries”.
-He has a minion of loyal followers who are somehow ever dorkier than him.
The protagonist of the film is mild mannered Steve Wiebe.
A complete life failure who cries quite a bit. After you get to know him you really can’t help but route for this pathetic family man. He has honestly failed at everything he has ever done in his entire life, but he has one last chance to vindicate his existence on this planet. You guessed it the 1970’s arcade game DONKEY KONG!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, July 17 at 5:04 pm
This filmed was produced by former Husky center and current ABC analyst Ed Cunningham along with this dude Mike Thompson (who’s in the movie). Mike Thompson used to date this hot reception at my old job and via that I totally partied with him a couple of times. As I understand it he spends his days writing movies and tv shows (he wrote John Doe and that Jennifer Aniston vehicle that recently was filming in Seattle), smoking weed, and going to strip clubs. His break in Hollywood was that his writing partner (Brandon Camp) is the son of the guy who directed the Benji movies.
When this was released the production team immediately fielded calls from Ben Stiller (boo) and Jack Black inquiring about buying the rights and starring in a fictionalized version of the movie.
Thus concludes everything I know about A Fistful of Quarters and Hollywood.
Thursday, July 17 at 5:06 pm
*that first “filmed” should be “film”
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Friday, July 18 at 9:36 am
What channel is that movie playing on? I assume you didn’t rent it at blockbuster.
I can’t say I am excited about a Ben Stiller and Jack Black version. Do they even need to shoot the film, or can they just somehow make a collage of all the other shitty comedys have made about some obscure competitive event?
Friday, July 18 at 9:38 am
I saw it on G4 (the videogame channel).
Tuesday, July 29 at 9:40 pm
I recently got this on netflix and I could not believe how much Steve’s wife hated him. Great movie. I’m glad someone else has seen it.
Monday, August 4 at 4:44 pm
wait, so Flawson nonchalantly netflixed this movie?
Tuesday, August 5 at 9:37 am
I had heard 2 people from completely different social circles who both told me that it was awesome. I figured I had to check it out.