The movie Pixels and Billy Mitchel

I listened to an episode of "We Hate Movies", a podcast about bad movies last night. The episode was on the movie Pixels from 2015. Peter Dinklage plays a Billy Mitchell stand in, who always bested Adam Sandler's character when they were kids. It's revealed the reason he was so good was because he cheated. This is just a big coincidence, but I find it funny.

I kinda enjoyed that movie. The Dinklage character was hilarious.

Enjoy what you enjoy. Nothing wrong with that.

Here we are in 2018 talking about Pixels being weirdly prescient. What a world we live in.

Well the guy who directed King of Kong was a producer on Pixels, and Steve Wiebe acts in it, so maybe it's not that big of a coincidence.

I always thought Dinklage as a pseudo Mitchell was way to spot on and clever for how not-clever the movie is.

@fishboneink: Oh I had no idea. Makes things even more interesting.

@barrock: In the Cartoon Network show "Regular Show" - there's a character whose got a massive, massive head and tiny body who cheats at video games called Garrett Bobby Ferguson.

Mitchell sued and lost.

It's worth noting that while the proof of Mitchell's cheating has only been confirmed recently, he's been suspected of being at least somewhat of a fraud for quite some time now. Pixels wasn't necessarily prescient, it may have just had the involvement of people who knew what the talk of the town was.

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