Magnum Opus: The Mind of Mystery    Compare Expired

When I popped in the first DVD I was pissed. For some reason in the rush to send out TMoM they packaged the DVDs non-sequentially in terms of which you should watch first. The first DVD I saw was AMOGing. My first impression was seeing top PUAs assert dominance and try to rip each other down. It's not flattering. Theres Matador picking a fight with Mystery to piss him off. Then Mystery is just blowing him off. Basically I didn't get it. I had no idea what was going on. It looked really petty. Until I learned more about AMOGing I didnt realize that they were demonstrating different AMOG styles. Matador was very direct and aggressive, Mystery was demonstrating alpha characteristics by blowing him off and not accepting his frame, and Lovedrop was more playful. At face value it totally blowed. I really wondered why they included it at all until I understood the concept more. Expect a lot of back and forth reviews of TMoM in relation to how much someone has studied the presented material. The in-field footage It's slow. It's almost frustrating at first glance. I expected to just watch the video and see fast paced action and be able to mimic Mystery and be a ridiculous pickup artist on demand. No. Don't expect that. It's more subtle. Listen to all of the Audio first, then the microcalibration, and finally the boot-camp seminar stuff. Once you've looked through all of that then you can check out the in-field footage. What I did was sit there and actually critique the game that is played. I know its Mystery, but critique it carefully. Like he should be doing this now and he'd totally have her but oh no he can't because that was an external interrupt and he has to…blah blah blah you get the point. No pickup is perfect and the available sets were far from perfect. You can tell the sets are really tainted (cameramen are around videotaping), Mystery is under pressure to produce on demand which honestly there is no way to do. He has to stay visible to cameras. He can't go bouncing around the bar and create and attractive aura. Pickup is a lot about your vibe and all those cameras sort of killed it. To be honest I expected more from the in-field footage. If it was done VH1 style with hidden cameras it would have been much better. Video length I was a bit frustrated by the length of video on each DVD. Each DVD has a specific focus, so each DVD is not full movie length which is what I was expecting. I was expecting a full hour and a half on each topic and it's more like 45 minutes. The stuff is dense though. What I would have appreciated is to see more playing with ideas. Like the neg is an area where I could definitely improve. I would have gained from seeing Matador critique the students' delivery in the bootcamp DVDs. Now I doubt they could have received consent to film and release that video, but the DVDs should have had more fluff tacked on to the end to show you both what to and what not to do.