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Title: King of Kong
Post by: Andy on September 19, 2007, 04:38:58 AM
Tom mentioned it on the show tonight, but this is a pretty entertaining movie.  The "bad guy" in the movie is a real creap.
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: bruce on September 19, 2007, 09:50:21 AM
all his pals are even creepier. Loved the film
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: Laurie on September 19, 2007, 09:51:11 AM
all his cronies are even creepier. Loved the film

Fixed!
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: Denim Gremlin on September 19, 2007, 02:09:17 PM
I didn't remember until this morning but the worst guy in the film has to be Mr. Awesome. Oh brother...
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: Laurie on September 19, 2007, 02:17:59 PM
I didn't remember until this morning but the most awesome guy in the film has to be Mr. Awesome. Oh brother...

Fixed!

Srsly, that fella was INTENSE.
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: PatrickChew on September 19, 2007, 02:52:00 PM
Ugh, Mr. Awesome is in that? I saw him on a segment of that Disinformation tv show and he is srsly creepy.

(http://www.royawesome.com/db4/00340/royawesome.com/_uimages/AweCovr.jpg)
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: bruce on September 19, 2007, 04:04:42 PM
all his cronies are even creepier. Loved the film

Fixed!

Yeah I meant Cronies when I first posted thanks. Christ those guys looked like a upcoming cast of To Catch A Predator. Especially the one with all the video game tapes.
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: Laurie on September 19, 2007, 04:18:44 PM
You know, the best part of that movie is I can definitely see most of those guys feeling right at home in Newbridge. Can't you see Mr. Awesome on the Jock Squad? And KernCo bought Billy's hot sauce company! And Billy's creepy little sidekick is living in a yurt behind the Lady Foot Locker, right next to Bryce's. Oh man, and that nutty Ref guy -- he's hooked on Blue and teamed up with Barry Dworkin to write the songs that make the whole world sing.
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: Denim Gremlin on September 19, 2007, 04:28:08 PM
You know, the best part of that movie is I can definitely see most of those guys feeling right at home in Newbridge. Can't you see Mr. Awesome on the Jock Squad? And KernCo bought Billy's hot sauce company! And Billy's creepy little sidekick is living in a yurt behind the Lady Foot Locker, right next to Bryce's. Oh man, and that nutty Ref guy -- he's hooked on Blue and teamed up with Barry Dworkin to write the songs that make the whole world sing.

Hammerhead's lobbying to get more plastic into Billy's hot sauce
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: bruce on September 19, 2007, 04:32:39 PM
(http://www.royawesome.com/db4/00340/royawesome.com/_uimages/AweCovr.jpg)

Yes you to can hire a stripper to pose in photos
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: buffcoat on September 19, 2007, 11:02:58 PM
Shildt is just too easy, isn't it?  Like this one:

BV:  Butt-head, you're being too hard on Ozzy.

BH:  I'm being WHAT Ozzy?
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: Josh on September 20, 2007, 12:05:02 AM
Quote from: Hollywood Jesus (http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/movieDetail.cfm/i/BBE80B70-B7A9-E747-B934BCFAE1477639)
What makes you feel valuable in life? What is it in life that gives you worth? For the two guys in this film, it was a score on a video game; and if there’s one thing that The King of Kong illustrates, it’s just how fleeting such a thing can be and how tenuous one’s worth is. My heart truly ached for these two men because they were searching for what we all search for in life: meaning, purpose and worth. There’s only one place where we can find those things, and have them last eternally: in the arms of Jesus Christ. He’s the one who imparts to us purpose; he can give our life meaning, and because he loves us so much, he’s the one who can truly make us feel worthwhile. Best of all, nothing will change that, no one can usurp that. It’s purpose and meaning and worth for your life that will never fade, change, or disappear, no matter what your best score may be.
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: A.M. Thomas on September 20, 2007, 10:13:04 PM
I'm probably going to see it this weekend and I'm looking forward to it after Tom's words.
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: samir on July 08, 2008, 11:20:30 AM
I ate at Billy Mitchell's restaurant in South Florida over the weekend. It was ok - standard kind of wings and beer place. But this is what it looks like from outside. The least impressive facade ever. No windows! And that is the front door. The MAIN ENTRANCE. Jeez.

The picture is kind of giant and would mess up the board, so just click the link.
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/3959/487901r10051001te5.jpg

Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: Josh on July 08, 2008, 11:46:09 AM
I ate at Billy Mitchell's restaurant in South Florida over the weekend. It was ok - standard kind of wings and beer place. But this is what it looks like from outside. The least impressive facade ever. No windows! And that is the front door. The MAIN ENTRANCE. Jeez.

The picture is kind of giant and would mess up the board, so just click the link.
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/3959/487901r10051001te5.jpg



and you didn't call?  :-\
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: Bryan on July 08, 2008, 11:49:14 AM
The place looks like a strip club.
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on July 08, 2008, 11:50:55 AM
The place looks like a strip club.

beat me to it.
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: samir on July 08, 2008, 11:59:46 AM
and you didn't call?  :-\

it was a whirlwind, bachelor party visit!
next time i'm down in the 954, or the 305, you and mrs. cocker will certainly be aware.
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on July 08, 2008, 01:55:25 PM
Ugh, Mr. Awesome is in that? I saw him on a segment of that Disinformation tv show and he is srsly totally tubular.

(http://www.royawesome.com/db4/00340/royawesome.com/_uimages/AweCovr.jpg)

So is he parked beside a baseball diamond, a soccer field, or a cemetary?
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: Stupornaut on July 08, 2008, 04:11:00 PM
I ate at Billy Mitchell's restaurant in South Florida over the weekend. It was ok - standard kind of wings and beer place. But this is what it looks like from outside. The least impressive facade ever. No windows! And that is the front door. The MAIN ENTRANCE. Jeez.

The picture is kind of giant and would mess up the board, so just click the link.
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/3959/487901r10051001te5.jpg



"Additional Parking in Rear for Animal Hospital"

Good times!
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: Turf Out on July 09, 2008, 01:08:48 PM
http://www.zazzle.com/brian_kuh_s_kill_screen_shirt-235611055150053799?ZCMP=ProductPageRecs (http://www.zazzle.com/brian_kuh_s_kill_screen_shirt-235611055150053799?ZCMP=ProductPageRecs)
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on July 09, 2008, 01:15:40 PM
Ha!  that's awesome. There's a profile of Billy Mitchell in the latest Harper's, of all places.  It seems to suggest that either his relationship to the camera, or the filmmakers, or his own self-manufactured mythos, made him seem more villainous in the film than he really is.  It didn't suggest that he's actually above manipulating things to his advantage, but the author of the piece did not believe he cheated on the Donkey Kong video tape.
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: Dan B on August 17, 2008, 11:26:59 PM
(http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/9348/iam8bit0810du0.jpg)
Title: Re: King of Kong
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on August 18, 2008, 08:29:25 PM
That movie is wonderful.  That movie and the novel Lucky Wander Boy are only beginning to chronicle the perfect moment in time that was the era of Classic. Video. Games.