Magnum Opus: The Mind of Mystery    Compare

I only saw a little of my friend's copy, but...

..a lot of the DVDs are only 25-30 minutes long, and many more are only about 45 minutes. You could have fit the whole thing on about 10 or 12 DVDs, not 21.

There was at least one "warm approach" too. Call me crazy, but I like to see A1-A2. Going for a girl who's already into you is unhelpful.

Matador's cool, though seeing him recite Mystery's old protecting-the-stripper-girlfriend story was very off-putting.

The very last set was actually quite good. So it was really only the 2 sets from the 'white party' that were good, the rest were eh.

There is no new method. It's the same old method that you can learn in VAH or Mystery book.
Mystery is going to destroy his old reputation. If he continues this way he lost the respect of all people (PUA and AFC).

I didn't like the footage myself.

And I also agree that they should teach more "inner game" and attitudes (Lovedrop's part was cool though, although not too extensive).

That said, I don't think the infield footage does reflect the skill level of VA instructors properly. Too many people have seen them in field to know this. Their game is TOP.

Been watching the keenly anticipated magnum opus! Oh dear! These are guys who are supposed to have been doing this for years, be the best of the best, and have been working on this for a long time. Why would they put this out, it's absolute dross!?

This, unfortunately, confirms my worst fears about these guys; that they are so consumed by all their routines and microcalibrating and ultimately themselves that all they can think about is one upmanship and, apparently 'ping pong' (this has to be the most ridiculous element of dialogue I have ever had the misfortune to set ears on, you will know when you get to it)!

Anyway, after watching the holy grail in field footage segment and being extremely deflated with both the quality of women and their social robot like behavior - they simply must get bored of using the same, same, same chat night after night after night - I noted one bit which would be amazing to use in field, and mystery uses it on the hottest bird. Unfortunately for him, she has a fiancee, but most likely she is of a way higher quality than most of the bar trash he normally picks up and judges his success by. How the hell does he do the trick where the straw falls out of her glass and also when she is holding it and it's moving all over the place? That is quality and to chuck that into a pickup would be dynamite, you can see just from her reaction, blinding!

I feel like I've gone backwards after this product, I need a few days to get back in the right head space.

The quality of the production is just atrocious considering the money people spent buying it. At least The Annihilation Method (which is Mystery Method) had great production values.

The worst atrocity is that most of the infield footage is tainted, where the women being picked up know there are cameras following Mystery. That being said, there are two pickups at an 'all white party' where the sets aren't tainted, the women don't know he's being filmed, and those are the two best sarges. That and the 2 min advertisement for his infield footage are worth watching. The rest of the footage is a summation of club game up to this point, incorporating the best of PU101s kino tips (don't push away/fling away if she's not interested, just drift off and lose interest), RSD (adopt the attitudes, alternate between using and not using routines, don't be reactive), and Juggler (conversational tips for comfort).

I like what Mystery did for the community but I must admit the Mind Of Mystery is bad bad bad bad. Very unorganised. Very unclear. Very unprofessionnal. Same things over, over and over. 10 minutes of interesting stuffs maximum. Infield videos very terrible.

I feel like I have seen a very bad movie.