Confused Matthew's "2001: A space Odyssey" review in 5 seconds

To celebrate my return from my trip to France, here's a video I put together in half an hour. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: This video is meant for satirical purposes. No offence to CM or his fanbase is intended.

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Film & Animation

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• Confused
• Matthew
• 2001
• space
• odyssey
• thatguywiththeglasses
• tribute
• second
• movies
• nostalgia
• critic
• batman
• and
• robin

[Bassbait]

You a 2001 fan? Because I completely agree. His whole review amounts to setting up only to have it fall apart. Just like Emo Phillips or the TV show Arrested Development, CM prepares for a point he's going to make, and then the preparation makes the point become ironically pointless. He claims to review a FICTION film on objective merits. He explains that "crap floating in space" is nothing happening, when he just explained what was happening. It's a comedy routine.

[RoyHavenstone2]

@Bassbait I wouldn't exactly call myself a fan of 2001, since I've never seen the film in it's entirety. CM's review of 2001 just came off to me as annoying from the perspective of a casual movie goer (ie my perspective), and so I wanted to satirise the style of his review. In short, this video was just trying to make a joke.

[FandubFTW]

*checks CM's Bio*

okay lets see

hates Space Odyssey

hates Lion King

hates Back to the Future 2

likes Independence Day

"sigh" yeah thats pretty much right

and like Galdoneyesstudios already said

its funny cause its true

[RoyHavenstone2]

@FandubFTW I think his defence for Independence Day is its visuals, and he liked the characters in it. But then again this is the same guy who, despite not liking the first twilight movie, holds it in a higher regard than the Lion King.

[GaldonEyeStudios]

Its funny because its true.

[RoyHavenstone2]

@GaldonEyeStudios Well said, my friend.

[twooffour]

@twooffour

Or rather "partially".

[twooffour]

@twooffour

Oh, and yea, the "about nothing" is obviously nonsense.

Probably a hyperbole, but still nonsense - if "nothing" plays any role in 2001, it's the big pile of nothing inbetween more relevant events and activities.

Like, you're on a travel, and effectively "nothing" happens during the travel - but you travel from one important conference to another.

That's the "nothing" 2001 is "about", to an extent.

[twooffour]

@twooffour

Then, of course, the irony is that just as you can trim down 2001 (- HAL9000) to maybe 10 minutes, you can do the same with this review and cut out all of his yelling at the empty space shots.

Except in the film's case, it's actually aesthetically appealing and atmospheric, while CM's whining and yelling is just annoying.

Someone like Plinkett could've made this worthwhile by inserting random nonsense stories from his fucked-up life, but Matthew is just obnoxious here.

[twooffour]

@twooffour

... was the intention.

Normal movies only show the relevant stuff, this one drags on its "establishing shots" for minutes, and shows its characters engage in boring routine activities.

It's like a subversion, "look, this is what really happens during a normal, boring workday/travel".

Why does he constantly yell at it as if it were some kind of failure, or plot, or "waste of time"? "Why, oh why would Kubrick do that?"

[twooffour]

Basically, he's right with this review - aside from the HAL chapter (which is basically a spin-off inside the movie), barely anything really happens in terms of actual story.

The characters are tabulae rasae, the plot is paper thin, and most of what you see really is "filler".

The way he treats the intro, as well as the finale, is somewhat unfair, but generally he's accurate.

I just find it stupid how this seems to upset him so much. Watchin 2001, it's pretty obvious that what you see...

[twooffour]

@Bassbait

Fine.

[twooffour]

@Bassbait

... of which some are "following orders", others have "tribal mentality", or think just about themselves, and again others are sociopaths, or out-of-touch idealists, and some other party (let's say Imperialists) are playing God.

And actually TELL A STORY.

Does anything of this sort happen here?

[Bassbait]

@twooffour I can't stand having 80 different comments to deal with. I just don't like the whole character count thing. I'll PM you.

[twooffour]

@Bassbait

"It's as if a concept album telling a very strong story had symbolic lyrics to tell the story, and you'd pretend like there's nothing to be told because what's being said doesn't make sense to you."

Or maybe it's like a System of a Down text - intriguing, lots of interpretations fit it, but it's a really small amount of lines with unclear meaning.