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The King of Kong (2007)
A great documentary about life and video games
Didn't really know what to expect when I sat down with this but I always loved games so I thought what the hell.
Most people are familiar with the game Donkey Kong, the arcade game from the 80's, and this documentary follow a world champion, he is a big hero in this bizarre little group of people, and a newcomer who try to beat him. Does it sound boring? It isn't! Some of the characters in this documentary you couldn't make up, that said, the makers of this docu does a great job editing and putting people in the standard bad guy/ good guy roles, and it works great. In between when I wasn't laughing hysterically, it was a touching/interesting/confusing journey through human behavior.
This isn't just a documentary about a classic video game, it is so much more and I would recommend everyone to watch this!
Five Across the Eyes (2006)
Painful
The word in the summary sums it up d'oh ;) Five girls get lost trying to find their way home, when they stop at a store to get directions they hit a parked car breaking one headlight on it, they flea the scene in fair of getting in trouble but suddenly they see one headlight coming up behind them (ooooh).
From there out everything is screaming, crying and violence when they try to get away from this crazy person who lost it because of a headlight ;), well the screaming and crying pretty much stays through the entire movie (very annoying) The movie is shot, with a cheap camera trying to make it seem "real" or "shocking" I guess, it's just embarrassing and useless though. In lack of anything better to compare it with, "Blair witch style".
The screaming and crying for pretty much the entire movie with crappy sound was over the top annoying, you literally get a headache :)
I'm sorry but this was not scary, only an annoying painful piece of crap movie.