Westin Mathews

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Not quite cynical enough for the film snobs.
But still a little outta touch with the normees.

Favorite films

  • Almost Famous
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Scream

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★

  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★½

  • Transylvania 6-5000

    ½

  • Novocaine

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  • Chimpanzee

    Chimpanzee

    Well, I liked when the one monkey was nice to the other monkey.

    But I SUPER DIDN’T like when the monkeys were mean to the other monkeys.

  • Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

    Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

    If this is the Jason movie that gets bullied at recess, Then I’m the teacher grading tests who lets it stay in the portable classroom building with me, so it can quietly catalogue it’s Pokémon cards and read it’s 1968-1998 Sports Statistics Almanac instead.

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  • Transylvania 6-5000

    Transylvania 6-5000

    ½

    Found out, after watching, that DOW Chemical actually produced this film in some 1980s Yugoslavian financial scheme, which checks out because it’s absolutely toxic. Real bottom of the barrel stuff.

    Kramer, Bad. The farcical maid/butler duo, Worse. Goldblum, fine, I guess. I had to consume it in chunks to finish it.

    At least I watched it on Tubi, so it had some commercial breaks to breathe life into it every thirty minutes or so.

  • Night of the Zoopocalypse

    Night of the Zoopocalypse

    ★★★

    First let me get this out of the way. The dialogue in this movie is atrocious. Even for a children’s movie, it ascends only to the bottom rung of the ladder, and decides to make that its final Resting place… and, though I’m no expert, the animation sure feels rickety to boot.

    However, when the characters shut their mouths, and the film settles into its horror mode, the results can all range from “serviceable” to “pretty sick”. The movie knows…

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  • Hate to Love: Nickelback

    Hate to Love: Nickelback

    ★★½

    What is “a joke”?
    What is “a bit?”
    What is “irony”?

    Last night I saw a Nickelback movie in theaters.

    And… here’s a cruel joke… last night, I unintentionally stayed up very late writing the longest Leterboxd review I’ve ever written (one of the longest things I’ve written in general since college), about a self-produced Nickelback documentary, only for the actual “review” part of the entry draft to COMPLETELY DISAPPEAR  in the morning.

    It’s just a VH1 style, behind-the-music, career…

  • La La Land

    La La Land

    ★★★★★

    “Insurance approval required:
    Your insurance requires your prescriber to obtain insurance approval for your refill of PAROXETINE ER. We've reached out to your prescriber, but this process may take some time.”

    This happens sometimes. My anxiety/ocd/depression/catch-all pills, for one reason or another, are out of my reach. This time it’s because I changed insurance plans for the new year and waited a couple weeks too long to update it. I’ve been checking in and seeing the above message in the…