My wife and I just finished watching The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
For those who haven't seen or even heard of it, it's a damn entertaining documentary from last year that follows a mild-mannered junior high teacher from Washington as he goes up against the competitive video game "establishment" to challenge the self-proclaimed Greatest Donkey Kong Player in the World.
Trust me when I say that you need to see the surreal alternate universe these gamers inhabit to believe it.
The high score isn't the only place you'll find a shitload of zeroes.
And the fact that the movie's antagonist is a laughably pompous bar owner from Broward County, Florida (of course) who looks like a cross between a used car salesman and one of the guys from the Rossington-Collins Band -- and spouts lines like "No matter what I say, it draws controversy; it's sort of like the abortion issue," with a straight face -- well that's the icing on the cake.
Bottom line: It's a great movie.
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