History WebVideo / ConfusedMatthew

** Has put forward the theory that the reason most of the people who bash the ''Twilight'' franchise seem to be men, is because Vampires have always been mostly male, and depicted as utter badasses. Hence why, as he puts it, "Men ''love'' Vampires". This is the reason why the Twilight vampires, who are more akin to romance-novel love interests than creatures of the night, have gained such utter hatred from male audiences. In fairness... he might be onto something?

** Has put forward the theory that the reason most of the people who bash the ''Twilight'' franchise seem to be men, is because Vampires have always been a mostly male, and depicted as utter badasses. Hence why, as he puts it, "Men ''love'' Vampires". This is the reason why the Twilight vampires, who are more akin to romance-novel love interests than creatures of the night, have gained such utter hatred from male audiences. In fairness... he might be onto something?

** Has put forward the theory that the reason why it appears that most of the people who bash the ''Twilight'' franchise seem to be men, is because Vampires have always been a mostly male creature and depicted as utter badasses. As he puts it, "Men ''love'' Vampires". Hence the reason why the Twilight vampires, who are more akin to romance-novel love interests than creatures of the night, have gained such utter hatred from male audiences. He might be onto something.

* SmallNameBigEgo: ConfusedMatthew got considerable backlash for attacking RogerEbert as either an idiot or a liar for recommending ''MinorityReport''. And for attacking Stanley Kubrick in his review of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.

* SmallNameBigEgo: ConfusedMatthew is considered this by many for attacking RogerEbert as either an idiot or a liar for recommending ''MinorityReport''. And for attacking Stanley Kubrick in his review of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
** Generally not the case though. He doesn't show much egotism, rather he is simply very opinionated, very opposed to common viewpoints on movies, and (most importantly) VERY LOUD!!!!!!!

** In fairness, he freely admits he has ''no'' clue about anime at all. His subsequent ''Dragonball Evolution'' review he self-depreciating mocks himself for this and jokes [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous how wrong he]] was to think that a show done in an anime-style and heavily influenced by anime, actually might be ''anime'', simply by not being made in ''Japan''?!

* DidNotDotheResearch: Several times he clearly refers to AvatarTheLastAirbender as an "Anime" and makes a point that the live action adaption was a "forgery" and American garbage. Though he brings up good points of the film the original cartoon was an America production.

** Admits that ScarlettJohansson managed to do this in ''IronMan2''.

** He also defended ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact''.

*** A variation on this was in his ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' Season 7 review. "What the hell kind of Bajorans are these? Pious religious believers my ass!"

* FollowTheLeader: Another CausticCritic. While some of his reviews do go after soft or non-controversial targets, he gets his name from doing negative reviews of well-liked movies through a scene-by-scene analysis instead of reviewing the work as a whole. His negative reviews of ''TheLionKing'' and ''[[{{ptitleh3elkyxdypyw}} 2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' earned him no small amount of hate mail.

* SmallNameBigEgo: ConfusedMatthew is considered this by many for attacking RogerEbert as either an idiot or a liar for recommending ''MinorityReport''. And for attacking Stanley Kubrick in his review of ''[[{{ptitleh3elkyxdypyw}} 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.

*** Consistently referring to Padmé Amidala as "Queen Oobadooba", Count Dooku as "Count Dracula", and Darth Maul as "Darth Time-Filler".

** His written review of WallE was quite positive.

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Thinking Kirsten Dunst's singing didn't sound like her, he apologized when he found out it really was hers.

* PublicMediumIgnorance: He describes anime as a "genre."
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: When the 'Matthew is Annoyed' card comes up, especially for "IT. DOESN'T. WORK!"
** RESPECT?! MY! ASS!
** "What's the joke? THAT'S NOT FUNNY!"
*** WE! DON'T! NEED! TO! WATCH! THIS!, when something plot-irrelevant or gratuitous is going on for too long. So like, for instance, the whole ''2001'' review. He does yell a lot there, but realizes it: "I shouldn't yell at my viewers, I shouldn't yell at my viewers..."

* SoOkayItsAverage:[[invoked]] His opinion of several movies, including ''2010: The Year We Made Contact'' (which he nonetheless considerably prefers to its predecessor) and the Tom Cruise version of ''WarOfTheWorlds''--in that case he praised the film for trying an original slant on an alien invasion film, following an ordinary family and sharing their lack of knowledge about the scale of the invasion, but added that there was a reason why it hadn't done before--it didn't make for that good a story.

* BrickJoke: In his DeepSpaceNine review, early on Sisko is stabbed by a creepy Bajoran kid. Near the end of the review.

* BiasSteamroller: "Like almost all Animes ever made, the world in which [[SpiritedAway this]] is set is not very well-defined."
** Contested by Confused Matthew himself when addressed this in response to a youtube comment:
"I wouldn't say I am bias against Anime. To be bias would be to immediately dismiss anything anime because I don't like it. My feelings towards all the anime material I have seen are actually the reverse of that. I don't like it because they all contain the same sort of things I don't like about them."

** "So they fight. Fight fight. Fight fight fight. Fight fight fight fight fight"

*** A variation on this was in his ''{{Star Trek Deep Space Nine}}'' Season 7 review. "What the hell kind of Bajorans are these? Pious religious believers my ass!"

** He's been inverting it starting with his review of MoulinRouge and his new feature ''Matthews Favorites.''
* ClicheStorm:[[invoked]] One of this two main beefs with ''Titanic'' (see Very Loosely Based On A True Story for the other).

* PetTheDog: His positive reviews of ''Star Trek Nemesis'' and ''IndependenceDay''.

*** Consistently referring to Padmé Amidala as "Queen Oobadooba", Count Dooku as "Count Dracula", and Darth Maul as "Darth Time-Filler".

** In his ''IndependenceDay'' review --

** In his ''{{Minority Report}}'' review:

* PublicMediumIgnorance: He describes anime as a "genre."

He's also known to dabble in the various ''StarTrek'' franchises and for this reason he's often compared (and paired) with SFDebris, and he's borrowed one of SF Debris's catch phrases ("Too good for 'em, I say!") in a couple of reviews.

* TheFaceless: Until recently, that cartoon face was all the visual referenc

He now has [[http://www.confusedmatthew.com his own website]].

* TheFaceless: Until recently, that cartoon face was all the visual reference we got on what Matthew looks like. Then Stan started posting live action videos and told us that despite them being identical twins, they still don't look the same (most notably Stan highlights that he has put on weight.) Finally, Matthew showed his face in a recent video but has taken that back down.
* FanHater:[[invoked]] Lampshaded when he confesses he liked ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' (even though he stated it still wasn't good).
* FauxlosophicNarration: Matthew is a philosophy student and put his education to use picking apart the second and third Matrix movies to demonstrate that they fit this trope. Especially Neo's conversations with the Oracle and the Architect.
* FollowTheLeader: Another CausticCritic. While some of his reviews do go after soft or non-controversial targets, he gets his name from doing negative reviews of well-liked movies through a scene-by-scene analysis instead of reviewing the work as a whole. His negative reviews of ''TheLionKing'' and ''[[{{ptitleh3elkyxdypyw}} 2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' earned him no small amount of hate mail.
** Though he's really an aversion since most Caustic Critics hate the same movies the rest of us dislike.
* GeorgeLucasThrowback: DiscussedTrope in his ''KillBill'' review. Specifically he contrasts the original Star Wars trilogy as an example of the trope, while saying the prequel trilogy was just making a ''new'' bad 1930s science fiction movie serial with modern technology, rather than being inspired by them.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: DiscussedTrope in his review of ''KillBill''. Matthew says he ''could'' suspend his disbelief to allow this in a modern setting, but this is ruined by the protagonist using a gun at the end of the second film (especially when her sword had been talked up so much).
* OldShame: In his review of ''The Dark Knight'', he regrets his initial lukewarm reaction to the film, based largely on his distaste for Batman simply walking around and hitting people rather than his clever tactics from ''Begins''. Then he figured "All these great themes and ideas, and I'm complaining about how he beats people up?"
* PetTheDog: His positive reviews of ''Star Trek Nemesis'' and ''IndependenceDay''.
** After catching some heat for getting... upset about Stephen Spielberg in his ''MinorityReport'' review, he made a point of praising aspects of Spielberg's direction in ''TheWarOfTheWorlds''.
*** Similarly, after criticising Roger Ebert in the same review, he praised Ebert's take on ''BladeRunner''`s two different cuts (they're both good, and you should watch both and make up your own mind).
** His written review of WallE was quite positive.
** He also defended ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact''.
** After savaging ''NoCountryForOldMen'' as the new worst movie he's ever seen, he makes sure to start the final video on it by telling the Coen Brothers how much he loves their other work.
* RefugeInVulgarity: Combined with NoIndoorVoice during many of these moments.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Thinking Kirsten Dunst's singing didn't sound like her, he apologized when he found out it really was hers.
* RunningGag:
** In his ''StarWars'' prequels reviews --
*** "What the hell kind of Jedi are these? Guardians of truth and justice, ''my ass!''"
*** Consistently referring to Padmé Amidala as "Queen Oobadooba", Count Dooku as "Count Dracula", and Darth Maul as "Darth Time-Filler".
*** Referring to Palpatine by a different P-word every time he's mentioned
*** Later in his ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'' reviews, referring to Anakin as "Woodstump", Ahsoko Tano as "Sudoku Tampon", Asajj Ventress as "Ventriloquist", and so on.
** In his Matrix sequel reviews, referring to Locke as "Commander Angryfuck".
*** "What's at stake here, the running time?", whenever the movie goes into an action sequence.
** In his ''IndependenceDay'' review --
*** Referring to protagonist David Levinson as "David The Genius Cable Guy"
*** "This is 'MURIKA!" (followed by clips of the song ''America, Fuck Yeah!'')
** In his ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' review --
*** Referring to Bumblebee as "[[TheLoveBug Herbie the Love Bug]]"
** All fight scenes are generally described thus: "So they fight. Fight fight. Fight fight fight. Fight fight fight fight fight..."
** [[TheLionKing Simba]], [[StarWars Anakin]] and [[TheGoldenCompass Lyra]] are given this speech following their first scenes: "_____, our supposed hero and protagonist... IS AN ASSHOLE! I mean, he/she doesn't listen to anyone, he/she's not very nice, he/she treats everyone around him/her like shit, and he/she only cares about him/herself!"
*** Subverted in his ''Simba's Pride'' review where he uses the same lead up to comment on how a character is ''not'' an asshole but instead quite nice.
** In his ''{{Minority Report}}'' review:
*** "HEY MORON! FUCKING MORON!!!"
*** "THAT'S WHAT SOMEONE WHO WASN'T RETARDED WOULD DO!"
** In his ''TheIncredibles'' review, regarding the darker/depressing scenes of the movie, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids "Are ya having fun yet kids?"]]
* PublicMediumIgnorance: He describes anime as a "genre."
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: When the 'Matthew is Annoyed' card comes up, especially for "IT. DOESN'T. WORK!"
** RESPECT?! MY! ASS!
** "What's the joke? THAT'S NOT FUNNY!"
*** WE! DON'T! NEED! TO! WATCH! THIS!, when something plot-irrelevant or gratuitous is going on for too long. So like, for instance, the whole ''2001'' review. He does yell a lot there, but realizes it: "I shouldn't yell at my viewers, I shouldn't yell at my viewers..."
* SarcasmMode: In his review of ''2010: The Year We Made Contact'', he periodically makes comments along the lines of "I can see why this film was shunned, I mean all it has are ''(list of positive things)''. But where's the ''(negative thing from 2001: A Space Odyssey)''?!"
* SelfDeprecation: In his ''KillBill'' review he mentioned how being buried alive is a primordial fear to anyone, even if it's very unlikely to happen to him in reality "unless the [[TheLionKing Lion King]] fans catch up with me".
* ShoutOut: Near the end of his review of ''{{Knowing}}'', he summarizes the film in the style of The Colonel from ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''.
-->"Right, stop that. It's silly. Very, silly indeed. Started out as a nice little idea about a small girl's paper predicting future events and now it's just got silly."
* SmallNameBigEgo: ConfusedMatthew is considered this by many for attacking RogerEbert as either an idiot or a liar for recommending ''MinorityReport''. And for attacking Stanley Kubrick in his review of ''[[{{ptitleh3elkyxdypyw}} 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.
** Generally not the case though. He doesn't show much egotism, rather he is simply very opinionated, very opposed to common viewpoints on movies, and (most importantly) VERY LOUD!!!!!!!
* SoOkayItsAverage:[[invoked]] His opinion of several movies, including ''2010: The Year We Made Contact'' (which he nonetheless considerably prefers to its predecessor) and the Tom Cruise version of ''WarOfTheWorlds''--in that case he praised the film for trying an original slant on an alien invasion film, following an ordinary family and sharing their lack of knowledge about the scale of the invasion, but added that there was a reason why it hadn't done before--it didn't make for that good a story.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Matthew's Favourite Movies", a new segment devoted to GushingAboutShowsYouLike. He was concerned that only talking about what he disliked meant his critical position could not be fully appreciated.
** He has also begun new video series "Observe and Report", brief commentaries on strange things outside the world of cinema, and "Mini-reviews", for films which he does not consider bad or confusing but have a few things he wants to discuss. These often consist of the other films in trilogies where Matthew has made a conventional review of the remaining parts, such as ''TheMatrix''.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: A large part of his criticism of ''KillBill'' was based on the fact that an inordinately large part of the first film's running time was devoted to the backstory of Lucy Liu's character, whom he did not consider to be at all important to the film.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: He thought ''Lion King 2'' and ''2010'' were good movies, while he greatly disliked both originals.[[invoked]]
* TakeThat: Matthew's sarcastic comments on the differences between ''2001'' and ''2010'' in the latter's review.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: In his review for ''2010: The Year We Made Contact'', he says it would have been more interesting for HAL to come to grips with what he did in the first film rather than have it conveniently turn out that he had his memories wiped after his confrontation with Dave. [[invoked]]
* TropesAreNotBad[=/=]TropesAreNotGood: Has made this point repeatedly in some of his more recent reviews. For example, in his review of MoulinRouge he pointed out that his problem with the easy romance in the LionKing was not that he dislikes loves at first sight, but that (he feels) it didn't fit in or contribute to the story and he actually likes the trope too much to see it used incorrectly.
** Similarly, much of his criticism of ''2001'' was based on its interpretive nature, and he later reviewed ''PansLabyrinth'' as an example of a film which (in his view) uses an interpretive conclusion very well.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Clearly his single biggest pet peeve. Two of his three loudest angriest reviews have been about this attitude or its variations.[[invoked]]
** He's not a huge fan of things that would be covered under WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic or EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory. He generally rejects the idea that a movie has any meaning other than what is obviously presented. If the movie has to be heavily analysed to grasp some meaning, then he feels that the meaning is likely just made up.
* WhatTheHellHero: Calls Rhodey out on this in IronMan2, pointing out that even if he's worried about Tony Stark accidentally harming someone while drunk in the Iron Man suit, intentionally stealing a spare suit and starting a robot fight is most likely end with someone getting either killed or injured.
* YourSecretsSafeWithMeSuperman: He will sometimes refer to characters by the name of the actor playing them--this is usually a subtle way of indicating he either regards the character as uninteresting and can't be bothered to learn their name, or thinks the actor is just playing themselves.
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** Recently he's been inverting it starting with his review of MoulinRouge and his new feature ''Matthews Favorites.''

* ThisIsSparta: When the 'Matthew is Annoyed' card comes up, especially for "IT. DOESN'T. WORK!"
** RESPECT?! MY! ASS!
** "What's the joke? THAT'S NOT FUNNY!"
*** WE! DON'T! NEED! TO! WATCH! THIS!, when something plot-irrelevant or gratuitous is going on for too long. So like, for instance, the whole ''2001'' review. He does yell a lot there, but realizes it: "I shouldn't yell at my viewers, I shouldn't yell at my viewers..."