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I watched this movie on Amazon Prime.

So... I had seen some of the older Bond movies, including this one, a long long time ago. Like about 20 years ago, renting them from the Library as a kid. Most of them I hardly remembered but I wanted to finally start my journey of going back and watching all the old Bond movies again. Some a long over due re watch, others seeing for the first time.

I want to like this movie more... I really do. But this is honestly a prime example of how I feel about most of the older, Pre-Brosnan Bond movies. It's just kinda boring. I watched this movie... yet I struggle to really remember it well even a day or two later.
it's slow, meh... and the underwater fight stuff is dull and just a gratuitous way of them trying to show off their new technology at that time.
I know this movie is as a big downgrade in many ways coming off the heels of Bond fan darling, Goldfinger... and yeah well it is a downgrade, I do say that I felt similar about that movie. I know it's an unpopular opinion but I'm really meh on Goldfinger also.
From Russia With Love was a great old Bond film but I struggle to get into any of them after that much.

This one, I give 3 out of 5 stars cause it's... just OK.
I don't dislike or hate it, but I don't really feel any desire to go back and watch this one again. Unlike the Brosnan Bond movies I watched over and over on VHS when I was younger, I can still pop those in any time and love them. Thunderball for me is more just... a kind a soft rumbleball.

Mistake Status: No plans to do the Bond movies except the Brosnan era. At least for the foreseeable future.

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I watched this movie on Disney +.

There's an interesting phenomenon that happens a lot. Twin movies of similar concept or idea coming out around the same time. Sometimes independently of each other with just coincidence. Like Deep Impact with Armageddon, or Volcano and Dante's Peak.
Other times, it's two different studios trying to compete with each other and one up each other with a similar story... as has been largely the case with DreamWorks for most of their early years, and even now still some. Antz and Bugslife, Toystory and Small Soldiers, Finding Nemo and Shark Tale.
In most of those cases, either both movies are fairly good, or Disney runs away with it.

This is not one of those cases.
Disney's The Wild... is a bizarre case of Disney not only being late to the party, but falling flat on their face with DreamWorks destroying them. The Wild is Disney's answer to Madagascar by DreamWorks. Very similar set up. A group of animals from the New York Zoo get out, catch a boat across the ocean, and wind up in the wild with other animals and tying to survive. Both have a lion in the lead, both have a giraffe that's part of a love story, and lots of other parallels as well. With even the chameleons the come across sort of being like the penguins in Madagascar.

But while Madagascar was a runaway success for DreamWorks spawning 2 sequels, spin offs, and fondly remembered even now... Almost nobody even remembers The Wild even exists. It came and went, almost a full year after Madagascar, was panned and ignored... and was a flash in the pan that left just as quickly as it came. I was only vaguely aware of it as I remember being a teenager and seeing toys for it on the sign of like McDonalds or Burger King or something. And then it was gone.
Found it on Disney + recently and decided to check it out.

It's poorly written, feels like a complete rush job, the CGI is ugly even for it's time... The characters are not interesting, the acting is bad. Just all around it fails in nearly every single way.
And I swear, the director or someone must have a really big fetish of being sat on by a big woman, as gratuitous instances of that happen at least twice in this movie. Including with the love story sub plot of a squirrel in love with the giraffe girl.

Unless you're morbidly curious about Disney's failed and late attempt at competing with Madagascar from DreamWorks. Skip this one.
A year late, and bad. "Day late and a dollar short."

If you like getting sat on by big women. You might like two scenes in this though.

Mistake status: This one seems like it would be fun to comb through for mistakes. So I will probably do this one in the future.

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I watched this show on Netflix.

As much as I like war movies and especially WWII movies and shows... it's honestly surprising I never got to this show till recently. I wasn't even really all that aware of it till a few years ago when they talked about it on the SinCast. Then more recently, I listened to the Dead Eyes podcast, which got me even more intrigued to watch it.
I heard this was like a sort of companion piece to Saving Private Ryan, and largely headed by many of the same people. Heard it was just as good or better...
Maybe it was all that hype that built a false impression in my mind or such, I'm not sure. But I was left a little disappointed in it. Not that it's bad, just it wasn't this great masterpiece I was expecting it to be from all the hype. I did greatly enjoy it, and liked following these characters. Also playing the who's who of all these actors in the show that are well known and big now, but were just starting out and small back then. Like seeing a very young James McAvoy in a small role with a short lifespan... AND Michael Fassbender as well in just a small part. Long before they ever made it big.

So yeah I liked the show a lot, just it didn't live up to what I had been hyped up to it being. But this is a good companion piece to Saving Private Ryan. At some point I'll have to watch them back to back. Or even in tandem.

Also now that I've actually seen the show, I kinda wanna go back and listen to the Dead Eyes podcast again since I have better context.

Mistake Status: Watched this just before returning to the site so wasn't looking. May at some point revisit it for mistakes.

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I watched this movie on Amazon Prime.

Hell yeah. What's not to love seeing Jason Statham doing his Jason Statham thing.
Sure he pretty much plays the same character in every movie, but that's what we come to see and expect from him. So him kicking ass in a brutal action movie like this is just a treat.

In this movie, Statham plays a man named Adam Clay, who is a Beekeeper... in both the literal sense of tending to real bees... and as part of a top secret government program called Beekeepers. Only now Clay is retired and helping a nice old lady out while he tends to his bees. When things go horribly wrong after the lady gets scammed out of all her money by an online phone "tech company " it sets the Beekeeper on a path of revenge. He's retired, so it's not the job... it's personal.

yeah it's about what you'd expect, honestly. For a Statham action movie and him being his bad ass self with pretty much the same personality as all his movies. But you know what you're getting with a Statham action film. It's not high art and it doesn't need to be... or Bee... it's a kick ass action movie and a fun ride all the way.
Easy 4 of 5 stars. If this is your sort of thing.

Mistake Status: I didn't really catch any my first watch. Wasn't looking close. Not sure I'll revisit this one or not. But could down the road.

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I own this game on Steam.

Since I've been really busy these last few years with youtube projects, my IRL work, and more. I've had little time to play games like I used to. I discovered I can run idle games on my laptop when I'm doing other things to still get that sense of accomplishment from video games... like I'm still doing something. I currently hold the record on Steam for longest time played in Idle Space Raider, and I'm racking up record time in Scream Collector also.

Another I'm enjoying greatly is this one, Idle Slayer. Which combines Idle game with platformer and side scrolling shmup. Fun characters, an actual story that's some what interesting, and lots of cool mechanics to discover.
If you like idle games, check this one out. It's free on Steam.

Mistake Status: Post them as I find them.

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I watched this movie on Amazon Prime.

So... I had seen some of the older Bond movies, including this one, a long long time ago. Like about 20 years ago, renting them from the Library as a kid. Most of them I hardly remembered but I wanted to finally start my journey of going back and watching all the old Bond movies again. Some a long over due re watch, others seeing for the first time.

Okay... so here's where I potentially lose my Bond fan card.
I'm really not fond of Goldfinger all that much. It's a fine enough movie, but I personally find it kinda boring and dull. It's by no means a bad movie, but for my own tastes I feel it's overrated.

Back in the day, like 20-25 years ago, I would rent... or I guess rather "checkout" movies from the library on VHS and sometimes DVD in those early days to watch at home. I went through a lot of the old classic Bond movies as a kid, including Goldfinger. And at the time, I thought it was the slowest, most boring movie I'd ever watched, at that point in my life.
Granted I was a kid in my 10 to 15 year old range, I think, and didn't have the same tastes. Also I was used to Brosnan as Bond and loved the action packed Goldeneye, both the movie and playing the hell out of the game.
So in Goldfinger, back then I was like "where's all the action? He only kills one guy the whole movie! And just by sucking him out a plane window. Lame!"

That initial impression of this movie stuck with me for years and I never revisited it again. Until a couple months ago.
I now do have a much better appreciation for the old Bond movies and the story of movies in general. The plotting, writing and character work.
Yet where I had primacy bias on this movie for years with how I thought about it, I also heard everybody else gas this up as the greatest Bond movie ever. Where you're expected to like this one as the best one without dispute... except for From Russia with Love in some circles.
So I thought rewatching it now as an adult, I'd fall more into that camp... well I didn't. I still found it dull, slow, and boring. Not a bad movie, but not what I had hopped by the reputation it had garnered.
The villain is well written, it does establish a lot more about Bond as a character, and after giving it more thought... Goldfinger does have a pretty smart plan in the movie. I just wish it held my interest better.

This is one of those movies I wish there was half stars on Moviemistakes reviews, cause I want to give this a 3.5 stars out of 5. I don't want to go down to 3 stars so rating it a 4 on here. But my real rating is 3.5.

I fall into the camp that From Russia with Love is my favorite Connery era Bond movie, and I gave that a solid 5 stars. With it currently being my 5th favorite Bond just under the 4 Brosnan era films.

Which if you do the math on that... yes I'm saying Die Another Day I like better than Goldfinger. Bite me.

I wish I liked Goldfinger more, I really do. But now having watched it a second time as an adult, I still find it boring.
Maybe I need to give it a 3rd watch again here soon and see if I still feel the same way. But for now, this is my honest opinion.

I'm a Brosnan Bond fan through and through.

Mistake Status: I have no real plans to do the Bond movies except the Brosnan era.

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I watched this show on Amazon Prime.

I enjoyed this show. Was a good mystery at times and intrigue though at times did sort of dip down and the writing didn't go ways I had liked. This was one of the shows me and my dad watched together on our family movie nights.

The concept of parallel worlds finding each other and then the smallest of change having a butterfly effect to drastically alter the worlds form one another after 30 years and then an intelligence cold war between each side is a brilliant concept.
However I feel there was some wasted potential here with what they could have done with such a concept. Had the show continued past 2 seasons, maybe they could have explored that even more, but for what it is, it's still good.

A multiverse spy thriller following one man... well two of one man, who came up 30 years differently on each side to be a drastically different person. Played by JK Simons, he embodies the role perfectly for both sides of his character... The Counterparts to each other. One a meek, submissive, humble man just trying to get by and not very assertive. The other an alpha male bad ass fighter elite operative with brutal efficacy and quick to fight. It's the same man, played by the same actor. But from two universes where after 30 years they took very different paths in life. All changed due to one, single decision in the man's life.

I'm talking myself into liking it even more again now as it is still a really good and awesome show. Just again, some of the potential with where they could have gone with it was squandered a bit. However it's still a very high recommend by me to give it a shot on Prime.


Mistake Status: No plans to do this one. There's other shows I'd rather do first. However not to say I can't change my mind at some point in the future, especially if I decide to buy this on DVD to own a physical copy.

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I own this movie on DVD.

It's been so many years now, it's hard for me to remember for sure... but I think this is where it all started for me wanting to start collecting the DC animated movies on DVD. I still have a very good collection of these. I originally borrowed this one from a friend's brother, but now own it myself.
It was either this one or Batman under the Red Hood that got me started collecting them.
Either way, this is a really good animated Superman movie.

So yeah, since then I've been trying to get every animated super hero movie on DVD I can, and they are fun to go through for mistakes.

Superman/Doomsday is the story about... well the death of Superman to put it lightly. (this has since been remade again under that title I believe but I think this first version is better). Where the mysterious super powerful creature, known as Doomsday, emerges and has only one goal. One purpose... to destroy every living thing it sees. And only one man can stop him... a Super man. But even Superman struggles against this beast. It's not really a spoiler to say that they defeat each other in mutual combat and Superman 'dies', with a lot of this movie then picking up in the after math with what does the world, what does Metropolis do... without Superman?

It's a very good movie and I'd rate it a 4.5 star out of 5 if I could on this site.
and this was also one of the first movies I really took a deep dive into for mistakes.

Mistake Status: I've combed through this movie several times, and I may have found all I can. It's been years now since I last did that as I took a long hiatus from this site. But I may go through it once more just to see if I pick up anything else. And I gotta put more quotes and stuff on it anyways.

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I watch this on YouTube (duh)

I've been watching NC for a few years now and enjoy his content. Sure he's sort of gotten stale these last few years but it's fine. I've gone back and watched the full backlog of content and enjoy it. He's one of the few movie review channels I still watch and keep up with. In it for the long hall.
He's funny, a pretty good writer, and maybe one day I'll get to meet Doug or even work with him in some capacity on Hyper Frost Productions. Been working on getting my own show, Game Over Cafe, made (still in pre production we need a new animator), and been thinking about having Nostalgia Critic as a character. Would be fun to have him voice himself.

anyways. He's pretty good. Some people hate him for the wrong reasons but it is what it is.

Mistake Status: I catch a few here and there in episodes and put them up.

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I used to have this game on Game Cube.

Okay, sure, I know this game isn't great. But I still loved it. Played it a lot with my nephew on coop and then again when my old best friend from school came over we played it a lot also. One of my first real experiences to "hack n slash" style games. I always really liked the first Fox Fantastic 4 movie and this game I enjoyed as well. Is it a great game? no... but I say it's good and underrated. I tend to have heavy nostalgia bias for stuff like this and I don't hid it. I liked this game a lot back in the day. And I 100% complete it.

Mistake Status: It seems I have 33 mistakes for this game I already submitted... I have vague memories of doing those a few years ago while playing this but just barely. I doubt I'll be revisiting it. That said I may watch videos of the cut scenes and do those.

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I watched this on Disney +.

This is the 3rd film in the series, (even if made 2nd) but functions more as a pilot to the TV series. Here we are introduced to the idea that if Stitch is Experiment 626... well where's the other 625 experiments?
Stitch has his family now, his "ʻohana", but still feels lonely as the only one of his kind. Longing to have cousins and siblings, the other experiments are discovered in dehydrated form as balls, that if they get wet they revive and each have their own specific powers and abilities and personality. A new space threat Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, wants the experiments for himself to make an army and will stop at nothing to get them. The movie becomes a battle to track down a couple of the missing balls and keep the others safe from Hämsterviel.
with in the end, the rest of the experiments are scattered allllll over Hawaii. This of course, leads into the Lilo and Stitch TV series which is about the named duo tracking down Stitches other cousins as they pop up all over the island and give them family and purpose.
(as of writing this review, I'm only 4 episodes into the show. August 2025.)

Mistake Status: Absolutely plan to do this whole franchise at some point.

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I watched this movie on Disney +.

The direct to video follow up to the first film, this is another one of those that I point to in that the direct to video sequels were not all bad and had some real gems. Yes this one isn't quite as good as the first, but it's a wonderful little follow up. (Note that Stitch! the movie was actually made second but this takes place between the first movie and Stitch, making it so Stitch is the 3rd movie chronologically)

The story is basically they retcon a bit from the first movie that Stitch wasn't fully completed. Or at least his cells were not fully charged all the way... whatever that means, before he was set loose. And this is somehow causing him to start glitching out where he has bouts of reverting to his old programing of just pure destruction and chaos. It's once again a race to get Stitch fixed and cured before he goes fully crazy and then the aliens are trying once again to take him down after finding him being destructive once more.

It's still a fun story, good emotion but is indeed a step down from the first movie. But still really good!

Mistake Status: I do indeed plan to do this whole franchise at some point.

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I watched this movie on Disney +. (and in theaters as a kid)

Back when Disney still had heart and soul in their projects, this is one of the best. Since the live action movie was announced, I started watching the old Lilo and Stich series again and will watch all of that as it's just so good.

This movie is where it started, and it's a heart felt, funny, emotional roller-coaster of a wonderful story. About an alien, bred for destruction and chaos, finding family in the most unlikely of places. A dysfunctional family of a girl trying to raise her little sister.
Stitch works his way into their family as their "dog" to avoid being taken by the other aliens hunting him and slowly learns what it really means to be... part of a family. To have belonging and love, and to fight against one's flawed destructive nature to be a better person. And not to mention looking cute AF in the process.
Sadly I never owned the VHS or DVD of this as a kid, so I didn't get to do the repeat viewings I usually would have. But I can watch it any time I want now on Disney +. As well as it's sequels and various TV series that continue the story.

I just hope the live action remake lives at least partly up to this, I know it's out but I haven't seen it yet. And it's a shame that Disney started to go down hill sometime after this.

Mistake Status: I'd love to do this whole series at some point. Which includes this first movie, the direct to video Lilo and Stitch 2, the 3rd movie just called Stitch which is a pilot to the then following Lilo and Stitch TV series, then that is followed up and ended by Leroy and Stitch. And then there's two anime, one in Japan and one in China.

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I watched this movie on Amazon Prime.

So... I had seen some of the older Bond movies, including this one, a long long time ago. Like about 20 years ago, renting them from the Library as a kid. Most of them I hardly remembered but I wanted to finally start my journey of going back and watching all the old Bond movies again. Some a long over due re watch, others seeing for the first time.

From Russia with Love, in my opinion, is easily the best one of Connery era of Bond and most of the old classic era. Most people point to Goldfinger... and I'll get to my thoughts on that film once I review it, but for me that movie is overhyped and this one is Connery's best. A pure awesome spy thriller with a great villain and ever looming presence.
I put this as my 5th favorite Bond movie under the 4 Brosnan movies. At least so far. At the time of me writing this review, in my quest watching all the Bond movies I'm currently at Live and Let Die as my next one, going to start the Moore era.

I love the calculating, cold war era thriller this is with an amazing equal for Bond that I actually felt could beat him if Bond didn't outsmart him. Something a lot of the movies tend to fail at. It's been a few months since I actually watched it so writing this review a little after the fact I'm fuzzy on the details to do more in depth. But this is easily my favorite of the old era of Bond. And I think Connery's best.

Mistake Status: I have no plans to do the Bond movies outside of the Brosnan 4 films.

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I watched this movie on Amazon Prime.

So... I had seen some of the older Bond movies, including this one, a long long time ago. Like about 20 years ago, renting them from the Library as a kid. Most of them I hardly remembered but I wanted to finally start my journey of going back and watching all the old Bond movies again. Some a long over due re watch, others seeing for the first time.

Dr. No is where it all started. Well mostly. There was a TV adaptation of Casino Royale before this but as far as theatrical films, this was it. This movie was a great start, and really set the foundation for what Bond would become, lying the ground work for the following movies to build off the foundation and form the long running legacy still going strong 60 years later. Connery, while not my favorite Bond, firmly cemented himself as Bond from the word go. His first lines in the movie, even being his iconic "Bond... James Bond." A bold announcement of here he is.

Dr. No is a tad slow and has those first film moments where they are still trying to get a feel for the character, but did a great job with this first outing. The Bond theme, the characterization, the actor. This is where it all started.
The movie itself is all right to good. It's not amazing but it didn't have to be. Dr. No himself is an interesting villain with a cool gimmick... even if what his plan exactly is and what he's trying to do is a tad confusing at first.

Over all, while when people think of Bond this usually isn't' the first thing to come to mind, it still all started here. Good solid movie, and the birth of a real icon and movie legend.

Mistake Status: I have no real plans to do the Bond movies except the Brosnan era.

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I watched this on Disney +.

Now here's where I feel the MCU streaming shows really upped the game. After the disappointment that was Wandavision and then Falcon and the Winter Soldier. This was really awesome. Not quite to 5 star level, but I'd almost say 4.5 stars. so a 9 out of 10? not quite that amazing but close.

Well written but also confusing as hell. Tried to follow the time travel and universe hopping science but it was still a tad bit confusing. The first season was a little dull but picked up towards the end. Then season 2 was fantastic. One of the big complaints about the show is that the Loki in this show doesn't feel like the same Loki from the movies. And for the most part, sure I get that. However I also understand how they wrote it to explain his change in seeing how the other him was killed by Thanos and then the fate of his mother.
it wasn't done great, but it was still done well enough to justify his change.

anyways, this show is really good. And it left me wanting a season 3. However with how it ended, I'm not sure that would be possible, and I don't think we're likely to even see Loki again in the MCU, at least this version of him unless they make him a plot point in the coming Avengers Doomsday or Secret Wars movies... which is very possible.

Mistake Status: I will slowly go through all the live action MCU shows so getting to this at some point.

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I watched this show on Disney +.

You ever watch something and wish you could love it but just kinda enjoy it? That was this for me.
There's a lot of elements there that could have made this great and awesome. Good actors and cast, compelling characters, a good story. When it call came together, it was disappointing. I had hopped this to be a step up in MCU show quality from WandaVision but was left with just another "okay" show. and with some ham fisted political undertones thrown in.
and they did John Walker sort of dirty as US Agent. The show framed it like he was sort of the bad guy in this but in reality most of what he did was justified and just over blown by reactions. He was the best character but was undercut by agenda.
As of writing this, I have not seen Thunderbolts yet, but hope that he's done better there.

Mistake Status: Possible future project.

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I watched this movie on Netflix.

Saw this one was leaving Netflix last month so decided to finally knock it off my list of shame before it was gone. (July 2025)
This was really good! I liked it a lot. Now that I've also seen Point Break, it's interesting to see the similarities but a lot of it flipped on it's head. Affleck and Renner are great in this. (Kinda funny to see Batman and Hawkeye as brothers).

A heist movie more about the character drama, which I love and the intertwining nature of one getting secretly involved with a witness to their crimes. Twist, turns, and great moments.
Also the moment where they thieves get out of their car fully armed wearing nun masks and look over to see a cop staring at them. Then the cop turns to look away, had me dying laughing.

Good writing, good pacing, some fun gags, intriguing plot and story... and left just open ended enough to leave you wanting more. Glad I finally knocked this off my list of shame.

Mistake Status: N/A.

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I watched this movie on Netflix.

This movie is good, but I don't get the absolute love people seem to have for it. It's good, but I didn't find it amazing. It was cheesy and sappy as hell. And I kinda wish they explained what was actually going on with that cornfield more.
Good performances, good writing and intrigue... but kinda just good to OK. I sort of feel this movie is overrated.

So a man hears voices when in his corn field to build a baseball field, and after he does the ghosts of old players start appearing there to play baseball. And sends the main guy on a quest to help an author and some other characters. Interesting idea on paper... but I kinda think this one needed more time in the oven to really have that hook.

Again not a bad movie, I liked it plenty fine. I just don't understand why it seems to be so loved.

Mistake Status: No plans to do this one.

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I own this movie on DVD

This was a very well done movie. I had heard about it a lot over the years, especially listening to the old CinemaSins Podcast back when that was still active. (They do a Recatopia podcast now)
Now having watched it, it was awesome. Good mystery thriller with great acting and a stacked cast!

Also knowing in now in the future looking back on this movie at the comic book characters a lot of these actors had or would play is kinda funny now. As you got Wolverine beating the snot out of Riddler as WarMachine holds him down. WarMachine is married to Amanda Waller of Suicide Squad, and then the kid with ice powers from Agents of Shield is the son of Wolverine. All the while Mysterio is investigating everything. Lol!
Well technically Warmashine but not, as Terrence Howard played Rhodey in Iron Man 1 but the character was recast before actually becoming War Machine in Iron Man 2... but still.

Anyways, really good movie. And if the rumors are true about Denis Villeneuve being the next director of James Bond in the new Amazon productions, that at least gives me a bit more hope for the future of that franchise of he brings directing skills to that like he did here.

I do need to give this a couple more re watches, but still really good.

Mistake Status: Caught a couple blatant stupidities on my first watch. Not sure if I'd want to revisit this one to go frame by frame for mistakes though. Other movies I'd rather do first.

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