Trivia / Bad Movie Beatdown

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: The X-Men Origins: Wolverine adds a soundtrack to Logan's Unflinching Walk as Film Brain thinks the scene looks straight out of a cheesy '80s/early '90s action movie. Director Gavin Hood felt the second unit the studio forced on him was doing exactly that, so Mathew was right!
• Bury Your Art:
  • Mathew has apologized for his comments about Kate Micucci's appearance in his When in Rome review. When he finally uploaded the review up on YouTube, he completely cut these jokes out.
  • Similarly, he regrets the high number of You Are Fat jokes he made during Seagal Month, as while he thinks the obvious attempts to hide the actor’s weight are worthy of mockery, the personal attacks on Seagal went too far. The YouTube re-uploads of the Seagal Month videos remove the meanest jabs.
  • He's shown disdain towards his overly sarcastic performance during his 2013–2014 videos, going so far as to re-record his voice-overs with a more natural delivery when uploading his old videos to YouTube.
• Creator Backlash:
  • His The Fast and the Furious (2001) review, for three reasons: the material was dull, he doesn't feel he was that good, and his hair was embarrassingly long.
  • As he says in his Ultraviolet (2006) review, considers his infamous Equilibrium review to be poorly-done in retrospect, saying that he still lacked experience at the time. Averted, however, with the actual criticisms he made of the film, which he still stands by 100%, no matter how controversial they may have been.
  • He refers to his Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen review as "rectifying an old mistake," referencing the favourable text review he wrote in 2009.
  • In the comments section for his re-upload of the Cobra review he admitted feeling that he had been far too lenient on the film's political messaging, and should really have torn it a new asshole over what could be seen as applauding police brutality and ignoring due process.
  • Though he's grateful for the audience it gave him and the fellow content creators he met over the years, nowadays Mathew would thank people to not ask about his past involvement with Channel Awesome.
• Distanced from Current Events: Delayed the release of the 2012 review in light of the March 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, as well as slightly editing the review and adding a disclaimer in relation to the events.
• DVD Commentary: He was one of the first reviewers to release a Kickassia commentary. He also released commentaries for some of his past episodes.
• Magnum Opus Dissonance: While this remains Mathew's most well-known review series, he revealed after leaving Channel Awesome that Projector was much more the kind of show he wanted to do in the first place, but felt pressured into doing something more akin to the other review shows being done on the site when he joined. Tellingly, only one episode of this series was produced after his departure from Channel Awesome. ^note The Stormbreaker review was released after his departure, but produced before it.
• Real Song Theme Tune: "Ready to Roll" by Jet Black Stare. It was played epically on the piano by Todd in the Shadows for the opening of their joint review of Sunday School Musical, and again in their crossover review of Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.
• Schedule Slip: Bad Movie Beatdown episodes were produced on a reasonably regular basis until around 2015, when they started becoming far more infrequent, as Mathew focused increasingly on Projector. After his last Bad Movie Beatdown review — of Code of Honor, in November 2018 — the show remained in limbo for the next four years, with Mathew dropping hints that he may return to it someday, but ultimately all but confirming its permanent discontinuation in 2022, citing the troubles dealing with YouTube's ContentID algorithms, a frivolous lawsuit he'd had to deal with, and the fact that he simply much preferred working on Projector.
• Screwed by the Lawyers:
  • After Blip went down and Film Brain was forced to reupload his videos elsewhere, he changed the opening music "Ready to Roll" to a Mario Paint cover to avoid his videos being copyright-flagged.
  • In 2022, Mathew noted that due to YouTube's broken copyright system and an indie film studio threatening legal action against him, he made the decision to slow production on Bad Movie Beatdown in general.
• Throw It In!: In the Wrong Side of Town review, he listed off two things as "First" and "B". According to his Twitter, he left it in because it was funny.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Mathew wanted to review the film Torque, but after finding out that the creators intended for the movie to be stupid and over the top, he decided not to.
  • He initially wanted to do a Bad Movie Beatdown episode on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. But following the suicide of Zack Snyder's daughter, Mathew thought that doing such a negative review would be in bad taste.
  • He considered doing a Bad Movie Beatdown on Wedding Crashers as a controversial episode, but decided against it, assuming it was a beloved film.

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