Looking forward to seeing this - a documentary following mostly the Twin Galaxies crowd as they try & break the Donkey Kong world record. It's been getting huge love at the various film festivals it's been shown at so far. Don't think there's a UK release date so far, but fingers crossed for a DVD release soon.
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Thanks for pointing this out to me, never heard of it before and sounds like a great doc/film.
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apparently new line are making a feature film based on the documentary:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32888
Should be the 2nd best film based on video games since The Wizard.Comment
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This sounds cool and i desperatly want to see it. Hopefully it will make it over here in some form or another.Comment
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Just watched this, amazing film, well worth checking out.Comment
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Nice, i'll check that out
There was a movie in development called 'bang the machine' that I remember reading about a few years ago but lost track of..does anyone know anything about it?Comment
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Thanks for the heads up, will check it outOriginally posted by rumbletum View Post
In regards to Bang the Machine IMDB had this to say about it...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312423/
Sounds interesting but it seems impossible to get hold of as there wasn't a DVD release and there are only a few screenings a year, the closest you can get to seeing any of it is this trailer on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7cLvPmxtVMComment
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I watched this last night - it was utterly, utterly superb - even sceptical Mrs Yoshi was willing Steve Weibe on to do it.Originally posted by Geoff D View Post
I quoted Geoff because it's not *really* about what he says there.
Basically, you've got the twin galaxies mob who "administer" the world records and one of the upper members of that staff is Billy Mitchell who has held the Donkey Kong world record since about 1982 or something daft - Along comes Steve Weibe who we're told has never really been able to succeed at anything despite being very good at a lot of stuff.
This guy has a DK cab in his garage and goes insane learning how to beat the bitch and make it to the "kill screen" (you get to see the kill screen and everything
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I don't want to spoil it for anyone but if you come to this forum you really must watch this documentary. It's not even because it's about videogames and there's relevance - it's one of those films where the characters in it are so utterly, utterly perfect you're compelled to see what happens and just you wait till you see how twin galaxies go about their business
Billy Mitchell - I always thought he'd be a pretty cool guy but what an utter ****ing prick that boy is - He's got older but his maturity levels are stuck back at the time when he beat that score.
I've just been checking out twin galaxies and it's insane how much that site has expanded - They've got world records for Kickstart 2 on the spectrum for ****s sake
Everybody must watch this film - I can't stress it enough.Comment
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Was just about to ask that myself as the little boy is screaming and i couldn't hear, or reach the remote to rewind.
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Really really good, just finished it.
Not sure what you mean by your last post Yoshi as
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Yoshi means this http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.as...&gi=3852&vi=22Originally posted by Nicholas Pavey View Post
I agree with everything you said. Bunch of arses.Comment
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Oh. V annoying. Guess i didn't Google hard enough.
Did that manual turn up mate?Comment
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