21 Days

“The King of Kong”. This is the movie that Borky raved about last week. He loved that movie so much that he insisted that I run out and buy the movie. This movie is a documentary about the World Record Holder for high score for the arcade video game “Donkey Kong”. It appears there is a cult or fraternity of competitive video gaming people. In totally stereotyping these people, I would classify them as nerds with next to no social skills, all of whom have never kissed a girl before. The leader of these nerds is a guy named Billy Mitchell. He was the reigning holder of the high score of a number of video games, “Donkey Kong” being the crown jewel of his accomplishments. Steve Weibe emerges as a seeming normal guy, who used to play “Donkey Kong” in his frat in college to take a shot at the title. While Steve was unemployed he took the game up again and was prepared to take a shot at the high score. The movie then follows Steve’s journey to become the world’s greatest “Donkey Kong” player. But there is also the ugly side of competitive video gaming, where by this cult of video games nerds attempt to disprove his scores and attempts at the high score as well as osrtosize Steve from there nerdy community. In the end it is a sad view in the pathetic worlds of these socially inept video game losers. My favorite quote from the movie was “Some people are addicted to drugs or alcohol. I am addicted to video games.” The movie is entertaining, but not worth buying as Borky claimed. I will give it a 6.