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So let's get this out of the way: it's not a high-quality movie. So don't watch it if you're interested in skillful filmmaking. Acting not great, writing not great, etc.

What it *is* is the only available cinematic retelling of the Nutty Putty Cave tragedy. So if you're interested in that sort of thing, you probably want to watch it. It helped me get the human element in this instead of just being horrified by online diagrams of a guy stuck forever upside down in a hole.

I consider myself a mini-expert on the event after having read everything I can find on it. There are inaccuracies in this movie, important details they left out on purpose, lots of romanticizing (probably for the sake of the surviving family), a ton of sappy dream sequence filler as an artistic liberty, an inordinate focus on John's courtship with his wife, and they don't even show his death from a third-person POV and the closing off of the cave. They totally gloss over the death part and don't even show the aftermath.

In the end this feels like a B movie commissioned by his friends as a gift to his surviving family, so they can memorialize him in a touching light. And I get that, and it's very sweet.

But if you're a Nutty Putty armchair scholar, you probably wanted something with more substance and less fluff.

This is easily the lamest, least funny, least inspired episode of SNL I have ever seen in all my years of watching SNL. Tremendo paquetazo. That's an hour of my life I can never get back. The show needs new writers or a better coke dealer or something.

The Steve Martin and Martin Short episode this season was excellent, one for the ages. But generally this season has been weak because of the sea change happening with the cast and crew. I want to be sympathetic to that. (But can't they hire some guest writers or something?) But even by this season's standards, this episode was so wack it makes me angry.

Cobra Kai has some very funny moments, but too much cringe in between (when it's taking itself seriously) to even be watchable. It is the worst damn show I've seen in a long time. The writing is complete nonsense. They're writing it set in the modern day using tropes that died in the 80s-90s and would never happen today: an entire school dance bullying a shy, nice girl because she's overweight and eating at the snack table; a whole school cafeteria bullying a boy because he has a scar on his lip; four bullies beating a kid unconscious in a school bathroom and no one calling the cops to charge them with aggravated assault and battery, just "you'll learn karate now so you can beat them up worse"; a GenX-er who apparently has never heard of the internet... Are all the writers 85 years old??? Also the acting and dialogue are effing terrible.