YMMV / Confused Matthew

• Audience-Alienating Premise: Considering the entire show is about panning movies the majority of people find good, you can expect this sort of reaction.
• Bile Fascination: This is probably why people keep watching him regardless of what they think of him; they just have to know what he's going to say next.
• Fandom Rivalry: Somewhat with YMS, mainly due to the two reviewers' nigh-polar opposite tastes and philosophies about what makes a good movie, as well as Adam's undying love of The Lion King (1994), which Matthew on the other hand (to put it lightly) had issues with. Adam has admitted on a stream made several years after Mathew’s retirement, that Matthew’s review of The Lion King was one of the main factors that contributed to Adam’s decision to start his YouTube channel. Another example of their contrasting worldviews includes their opinion of movies that fall into the category of Le Film Artistique. With Adam liking many that fall into such as a category, while Matthew on the other hand despises such movies on principles.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: Because Matthew’s main selling point as a reviewer is to look at movies he considers bad despite an otherwise positive reception (hence the "confused" part of his name, because he's confused as to why this film was well-received), this turns up a lot. Some of the biggest examples of this include his negative reviews of The Lion King (1994), The Incredibles, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and initially, almost every film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe^note Though he has since mellowed up to them and now considers Iron Man 2 to be the only genuinely bad film in the series.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In his Transformers review, he confesses to being a fan of My Little Pony, before backtracking. In real life, he would later be revealed to be, in fact, a Brony.
• I Am Not Shazam: Matthew is just his character's name. His real name is Daniel.
• Opinion Myopia: Most prominent in his earlier reviews, he did get better at locking this away lately.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Basically his take on Captain America: Civil War. He thought the first half of the movie was very strong, with good ideals and concepts and conflicts being presented, with a good mix of action and story. He then found the second half abandoned almost all of that in favor of showing more action scenes, with the ultimate conflict of the film disregarding previously established conflicts to instead be built around an entirely new dispute. He's even gone as far as saying it was Civil War that made him genuinely like the Marvel Cinematic Universe as he could finally see the scope of what had been built, but felt the film itself dropped the ball.

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