Billy Mitchell is the all-time champion of Donkey Kong, the game where you jump over barrels that a giant monkey is throwing at you. He has a Steve Perry haircut and is always wearing a tie with either the Statue of Liberty, the American Flag, or something equally patriotic.
"What initials do I use? Look at me. " he says to the interviewer, stroking his Statue of Liberty tie. "If you don't know what initials I use then you're not looking hard enough."
"T.I.E?"
Steve Wiebe is a science teacher with a wife and kids who wants to break Billy Mitchell's record. Even if it means ignoring his son's request to wipe his butt. His son's butt, not his own butt. When Wiebe does break the record, league officials go to his house, and inspect his machine. They discredit his record because after part of his machine went bad, Mitchell's rival, a guy named Mr. Awesome (trust me, he earns the name) sent him a replacement part that could make the game easier somehow.
This is really just the beginning. There is more scandal, heartbreak and golden quotes from Billy Mitchell.
"No matter what I say it draws controversy. It's sort of like the abortion issue."
Did I mention Mr. Awesome? Steve Wiebe is really the only normal guy in the movie, everyone else seems crazy or at least stuck in their glory days in the 80's when people cared who had the world's best score in "Centipede". Actually I don't think anyone really cared back then either.
8.5/10
25th Hour dir. Spike Lee (2003)
Busted New York drug dealer has one last night to hang out with friends and think about his life before going to jail for seven years.
Edward Norton plays said drug dealer Monty, Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Rosario Dawson play said friends, and Brian (Dr. Guggenhiem) Cox plays unsaid dad. All-Star cast, great direction by Spike Lee and a great script based on a book that imdb says David Benioff wrote. Great.
9/10
Sunshine dir. Danny Boyle (2007)
Fifty years from now the sun is dying and some astronauts think maybe if they put a bomb inside of it then life can go on.
I saw this earlier this year and I just wanted to make sure it got added to my count. I'm usually not too big on science fiction and space movies and shit, but this movie is really good. If you haven't seen it, don't watch the trailer because it gives too much away. Still pretty suspenseful and cool effects and cinematography.
8/10
Ten/One Fifty (movie count)
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