Guys and stars of the movie that are in this forum,
I was deployed to Baghdad Intl Airport and watched this movie EVERY DAY and maybe twice in one day! Many of my buddies thought I was insane but I showed them it and they loved it.
You might ask your self how did I watch this movie overseas. Well I had downloaded it because no theaters had it in my area and I was leaving for war and wanted to see it.
I got the DVD in the mail from Amazon on tuesday and also the soundtrack. I love the special features and the extras in the film that were not in the screener.
Glad you're such a big fan of the movie Steven, and the 'stars', many of which (as you note) are on these forums !
I love the Movie and it made me start playing DK on MAME and collecting alot of others and practicing them for fun. I hope to set a TGTS WR on Donkey Kong when I go on leave to MA and visit Funspot.
Numerous people have commented about how the movie has gotten them into the classic arcade gaming hobby (for the first time, or back into it again). This fact is seemingly lost on the 'bashers' of the film. Look, I get it - the film is inaccurate and biased in a number of (to me) small ways, and just because some good has come out of it, that doesn't necessarily make up for what is perceived by many as 'wrong' in the film. But the (again, to me) over-the-top reactions from a number of TG proponents serves to mainly make them look like they're 'covering up' more than defending. Hey, I'm not saying they're covering up, I'm just commenting on what the 'everyday guy' comes away with as a reaction when he reads the pro-TG stuff.
Here's the deal (and, I've observed this for
years with various TG guys) - if admissions of needing to do better would
ever be noted along with the defending of TG by some of the
KoK bashers, a lot of people would take what they say more seriously. But, as has been the case on numerous issues where TG has had to do a turnabout (like putting back up the
Star Wars and
Spy Hunter scores that were improperly removed), there's basically never any admission of error, or apology. Hey, I'm not even asking that they eat crow. But, a little bit of humility wouldn't hurt, and would go a long way toward observers taking their points more seriously, and respecting them more.
One way I think you guys (meaning, this forum's readers) know you can trust me is that I admit to my failings or errors (as in the scoring logic error I made in the first
CAGDC Tourney, and also, being behind with updates on the website... on numerous occasions), and I do so of my own volition. Right here on these forums, I own up to my shortcomings, and it gets old when TG and Funspot seemingly never (or rarely) do. That's my point,
not that you can't trust TG or Funspot (tho I think one would tend to trust them a lot more
if some apologies were ever shown or given...).
OK, enough soapboxing. Well, maybe not, since the next post may call for some again... Let's press on...
I swear if I hear one more time how Steve's daughter came up with that line about video games destroy peoples lives one more time I'm gonna upchuck my lunch and dinner at the same time. That kid was spoon-fed that line...it's painfully obvious as it is a blatant ripoff of something Bill said and has appear on his many commissioned posters for years now. What a crock, making everyone believe the kid came up with that on her own. They should be ashamed of themselves...especially the parents for including her in on the sham. Birds of a feather, I guess.
OK, I have to reprimand you on this, Rob. Not only are you saying that (in contradiction to what Ed and Seth have publicly stated) the line is fake, and therefore Jillian (the daughter) is 'in on it', per se, but that (of course) Steve and / or his wife are too. You're libeling the entire group, and furthermore, 'picking on' a little girl ! Don't repeat this type of unfounded accusation again. As I believe I've posted elsewhere on these forums, I went to the source, and Steve stated to me that it was not a false / rehearsed line, and he noted how precocious Jillian was, even at that young (just finished 3rd grade, I believe) age. He noted her reading on a much higher (middle school, I think) than her own grade level, and that she is extremely bright, and gets the grades to prove it. Now, is all of this proof that the line is real ? Of course not. But, it's more 'proof' that it's real than you have that it's fake.
Also, if you had the DVD, which you don't because you don't want to support the movie profiteers, you could replay it, and note something that I somehow missed in my three viewings that I had before getting the DVD. Jillian mispronounces Guinness (she uses a J sound, and not a hard G), and Steve pseudo-corrects her, right before her 'ruin their lives' comment. Now, I doubt if they fed her the lines that they would have had the forethot to think that a elementary school kid would look at 'Guinness', and maybe pronounce it like 'Juinness', and therefore have her mispronounce it ! To me, that's good indication of the veracitude of her comments in and of itself.
Finally, I've asked abut 3 people to view the sequence in question, and without 'leading the witness'. I merely said to 'look and listen to this clip, and tell me what you think'. None commented initially about it being 'off' in any way, and when I then explained what some were saying about her being fed those lines, none agreed. Again, it's not proof, but... you don't have kids, Rob, and if you don't deal with them, you especially can't judge what's 'real' or not. OK, I don't have kids either, but I dealt with my niece and nephews extensively, and (more importantly), I taught classrooms full of kids ages 7 - 17 for 5 years at two local schools in the 80's. I know kids, and yes, Art Linkletter, they do say the darndest things (I'll never forget the clip of the kid, who was probably around 8 or 9, that completed
the sentence Art gave - "People in glass houses shouldn't" ...
"fool around" the kid said !! And, this was in the 1960's !!).
OK, that's it for now. Comments from parents of kids who remember what kind of things they said even at a young age are welcome... In other words, based on
your kids, is what Jillian says within the realm of believability, based on your experience with your children ?
