Hello, dear listeners, and action,

and action.

Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to What Went Wrong, your favorite podcast,

Full Stop, that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make them,

let alone a good one, let alone a nearly three-hour long, sprawling criminal masterpiece

in which everyone in Los Angeles is murdered by Robert De Niro. I am one of

your hosts, Lizzie Bassett, here as always with Chris Winnerbauer. And Chris, what do you have for us today?

We got a good crew. This crew is good. We'll conclude with my terrible Al Pacino impression. We are

talking about Michael Mann's Heat.

Lizzie, had you ever seen Heat before? And what were your thoughts upon watching or re-watching it for the podcast?

This is another one where I had seen bits and pieces of this, whether it was because my dad had rented it on DVD and I was allowed to see

like two scenes before I had to go to bed or it was airing heavily edited, I would have to

imagine, on, you know, TNT or something. And I had never sat down and watched the whole thing

in full. I saw the runtime. I was not excited about that. But I absolutely loved it.

I can't believe it took me this long to watch heat in full. I can't wait to watch it again.

Similar to something you said last week about Last of the Mohicans, this is a very complicated plot.

And they really don't dumb it down, which I appreciated. Now, was I confused?

Yes. Did I have to roll it back a couple times? Yes. And I'm okay with that. I like that.

I miss that about movies. But to me, the most impressive thing about this movie is that I genuinely cared about every character,

and there are so many of them that the fact that there was so much emotional impact

when someone died, even if you'd only seen them in like three scenes prior to that,

it's really impressive. I love the dynamic between De Niro and Pacino. I cannot

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