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I just watched King of Kong on Netflix
Vigo:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 07, 2011, 09:41:58 am ---Ah god... not this ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- again.
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Yep. It's just like you PMS, PinballJim. It's around more often than not. ;D
BadMouth:
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1303
The highlights:
•A core theme is that Billy Mitchell is an ---uvula---, one who doesn’t even deign to spend time in the same location as Steve Wiebe and won’t even come in to eat lunch at the same table as him. In fact, Billy came in and paid for lunch.
•Billy denies Steve the satisfaction of playing one-on-one on Donkey Kong. They’d played Donkey Kong one-on-one a year before the documentary was filmed at a previous championship.
•It seems like Steve Wiebe finally gets a chance to top Billy and that same day, a videotape arrives and Billy tops Wiebe. Steve Wiebe already had the top spot in Donkey Kong, having achieved the record before the documentary started.
•The videotape that Billy sends in has a suspicious glitch. The videotape was a copy and the original was sent in with no glitch.
•Two representatives of Twin Galaxies arcade forced their way into Steve’s garage and looted the machine. Two members of the same social scene as Twin Galaxies and Steve were let into his garage by his grandmother, and asked Steve for permission to photograph the circuit board.
•A number of insiders constantly appraised Billy on what was going on at the competition and took suggestions from him. Multiple times, the conversations being shown from both sides are not the same conversation.
Ginsu Victim:
Don't forget that the videotape was a bounty. Anyone who could beat the score would win $10,000 from Billy. It was not a submission, but Walter entered it as one. Less than 48 hours later, Rob took the score down because it did not meet the criteria of an official submission.
opt2not:
--- Quote from: Malenko on January 07, 2011, 08:31:24 am ---guess Im the only one who watched and liked Tilt:The battle to save pinball. And Im not even a pinhead
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I jus watched Tilt last week for the first time. Excellent documentary. I always enjoyed pinball, I wouldn't say I'm a pinhead in any regard, but that movie made me want to get a pin for my collection.
Lots of great information for those who aren't versed in the pinball scene...I was especially impressed by some of the info they showed about the rise of pin-popularity after the arcade crash.
I highly recommend watching it!
TOK:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on January 07, 2011, 12:40:29 am ---Chasing Ghosts was good.
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Totally disagree. Made people in the hobby look bad to the point of real embarrassment. Thank God it went nowhere.
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