Moviecut—The Identity Theft of Mitch Mustain

source: The Identity Theft of Mitch Mustain

Huge football fan. This is an interesting story of what happened to a big prospect . But it's not identity theft. Filmmaker took the wrong angle in my opinion. This is another straw man argument of why an athlete didn't pan out. "He's the victim of our culture." I don't like that scapegoat. He grew up, life is hard, sports are competitive. We know. What's the message: If only adderall could have saved him?... hard eye roll.

Love the man...he just happened to be very good at football which all boys start playing very young. There are no fighter pilot leagues as a young kid. I can relate to the ADHD....the HUGE flaw I saw in this was that no one helped him to get on the right medication. Adderall is a truly awful drug, in my experience, and he should have tried others. Living a life with undiagnosed ADHD is so very hard, and unless you have experienced it, you have no idea. I commend Mitch for all he accomplished and believe he should hold himself in the highest regard. Yes, people make mistakes. It is so very hard when you come to trust someone, a father, a coach, etc., and they throw you under the bus to make themselves look better or try to feel better about themselves. Life is a journey, not a destination.

I'm sure this didn't tell the whole story of the conflict between Nutt and Malzahn. Malzahn's star was on the rise and Nutt's was falling and Mustain and the Springdale 5 kind of got screwed over in the whole thing. I wish Nutt, Malzahn, and Beck Campbell would have done interviews. As for Mustain, he just seemed like he was trying to please too many people and forgot about himself.

A long story about nothing. I had no idea who Mitch was but I decided to watch anyway because it was on Amazon. This documentary starts out mediocre and just dives into nothing. The music is bad. The long, slow dialog is bad. There aren't even very many highlights that compel a non-biased viewer to believe he could throw a perfect spiral. I wish him the best, but I wish I could get the wasted time watching this back. The only thing stolen was time.

This is a great documentary that proves it's a dog eat dog world and sometimes the people you should trust are only interested in their own success.

But with way too much hypocritical virtue signalling by sports journalists.

Another great inside look at how college athletes are held to a higher standard than the highly-paid college coaches who are entrusted to lead them.

First of all, I would like to say I have watched a good number of movies, documentaries, etc. in my day and this is my first and only Review I've ever posted. I literally had to create an IMDB account in order to do so. I guess his story really resonated with me for one reason or another. Being originally from Philadelphia (Go E A G L E S) and growing up in South Florida my whole life, I was reluctant to spend an hour and a half watching a documentary about an Arkansas "hometown hero" who I only vaguely remember. That is to say I really had never heard his story just recall the name. Which is a pretty great football name. To quote one of the reporters. in the documentary. Anyway, before I decided to click "Watch Now" I had navigated away from this flick several times on Amazon Prime but I found myself (for reasons unknown) going back again and again until I finally gave it a shot. I plan on sharing this with my wife and kids as there are a lot of wonderful life lessons. Most important of all is that in this short life you have to grow up and do what you dreamed of doing and not live out the dreams of others. In all honesty, I guess it all boils down to is that I really like this guy. He has had a roller coaster of a life and went from receiving ultimate praise to unending hate for not fulfilling other people's dreams of superstardom. Through it all he seemed to remain himself. Which is probably why he didn't become NFL quarterback. That being said I wish I had some more friends like him. Short version: definitely worth waitching!