doctrainAUM
Since: Aug, 2010
12/10/2013 00:00:00
You accuse him of being pretentious, but also call him a fundamentalist and sociopath based on very little evidence. I find that a bit hypocritical.
"What's out there? What's waiting for me?"
Pannic
Since: Jul, 2009
12/10/2013 00:00:00
Sociopath? Huh? What are you deriving that from?
VeryMelon
Since: Jul, 2011
12/10/2013 00:00:00
Harsh, but I basically agree.
OnlyHereToComment
Since: Jul, 2015
09/14/2015 00:00:00
So he's like a rebelious teen who thinks he's "edgy and better" because he's a "real artitst" You know, Doug Walker admited going through that phase during his high school years, and maybe college. It seems Matty still has that mindset.
Also the sociopathic claims seem to steem from Matts almost automatic uncarring attitude towards certain protaginists in films where they have flaws (such as Lion King) or they're in deep trouble (Minority Report).
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Having sampled an hour and half of Confused Matthew's reviews, I know immediately why he's confused. He's a philosophy major who, to the misfortune of the internet, swallowed the old claptrap about Campbell's Hero Journey being the template for all good fiction.
Granted, by and large, theater and film grads can be kind of pretentious (check out Gore Vidal's story about Tennessee Williams' cold reception at Duke). But I never expected this kind of militant orthodoxy from a philosophy geek. Is he a deep cover religious nut? A low-functioning sociopath? Only Matthew knows the truth but his obvious and glaring deficiencies aren't going to stop him from insisting he, and only he, knows what good and everyone else (his betters) is the delusional one.
Because that's Confused Matthew. His fetish for the traditional, the venerable, the unimaginative is bordering on a mini Poe's Law. He hates foreign films. He thinks Carl is a poor protagonist in Up. Paradoxically, he keeps shouting advice at John Anderton which amounts to, "kill yourself," and "exit the movie." He missed the point to Simba's bratty personality, despite the fact he got his comeuppance and later matured. (This part is particularly creepy, because he thinks anti-heroes shouldn't even enjoy screentime lest they pollute the audience.) He claims "Far Beyond the Stars" was the worst episode of Star Trek — NAY, the worst forty minutes of television in general.
What else can you say. He's gained a following of other twenty-somethings who like to think of themselves as ahead of the curve. In the land of the blind, the moralizing smartass is king apparently.