I do currently and have watched a lot of pro wrestling and MMA and the object to get people to buy tickets to see these fights is to sell the fight to the fans watching, well I couldn't help but think about that analogy while watching this movie because by the time they got to right before the Guiness challenge, I was so amped up to watch Steve and Billy go head to head in Donkey Kong, I was salivating like a Seafood feast was in front of me or while watching the opening scene of shitty flick, "We Own the Night." The way this movie was paced, it built up both men perfectly, and placed Billy as the successful pioneer in video games, and apparent restaurantier and hot sauce creator and showed Steve as a guy who can never really accomplish anything, despite being a nice, maybe too nice of a guy.
We learn all and more than we ever wanted to know about Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard and it's members and judges, as well as about the yearly Funspot game Expo, haha, using that term loosely. I mock, but what gives this movie so much drama is the fact that all of these people invovled take this situation with the utmost importance, I mean you have some of Mitchell's lackeys invading Steve's home to inspect his cabinet, the whole subplot with Mr. Awesome, the slug Brian Kuh reporting to Mitchell every 5 minutes with updated scores, the whole thing at points felt like we were watching the Mafia. I started wondering eventually with so many things stacked against Steve, why he bothered to appease these cretins and keep showing up to these events to try and beat Mitchell's score. But, as many people say, he's a stand up guy, and it was more in the end about proving something to himself, a common theme most anyone in life can identify with.
This was a highly enjoyable film, probably my favorite of the first round with Brothers Bloom a close second. The whole theme of this film boils down to Mitchell proving himself a heel and villain worthy of the best I've seen by doing so little. For such a trivial (to some) topic such as Arcade games, the scene where Billy finally shows up in the arcade for a moment is full of tension and intensity for how it will play out. And the film ends on a high note with Steve finally conquering his long destined enemy: himself by taking that high score and owning it.
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