Documentaries that follow an ordinary guy doing something that turns out to be extraordinary (within a given area of excellence, anyway) always fascinate me – not only because of the great human story they tell, but because, like, how do you know that THIS is gonna be the guy who does the thing? I always wonder how many documentaries get planned or footage gets shot that never actually amount to anything because the guy didn’t end up doing the thing. Anyway.
In this case, “the thing” is beat the high score on Donkey Kong, which was set by Billy Mitchell in the ’80s, and “the guy” is Steve Wiebe (“wee-bee”, not “weeb”, as he has to correct people multiple times), a regular dude who decided to spend some unemployment downtime by getting freaking awesome at an old console of Donkey Kong he got.
