Vivid Divine (Alec)

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Actively seeking all of the Infinity Stones of Nerdom. Film. Writing and Literature. Guitar. TTRPGs. TCGs. Video games. Mini Painting. Kenny Omega cured my depression. Ich spreche Deutsch🇩🇪.

Mini Monday Movie🧵: In preparation of watching Marty Supreme (2025) tomorrow, I’m catching up with Good Time (2017). Thrillers live and die based on how effectively they can convey the “Thriller Trinity” of risk, tension, and consequence. Does Good Time revere the trinity? #filmsky #movie

Robert Pattinson character of Connie Nikas bathed in black light in the film Good Time (2017).

Mini Monday Movie🧵: Idiocracy (2006) is touted as the cinematic equivalent to the Oracle of Delphi. While you could link the wrestler and pornstar President Camacho to WWE Hall of Famer and Stormy Daniels “#1 Fan” President Trump, I’m more interested in analyzing its comedic merits. #filmsky #movie

President Camacho is a president in a phony America that resembles aspects of President Trump in the film Idiocracy (2006).

Monday Mini Movie🧵: Watched a throwback called the Book of Eli (2010) this weekend. A strange religious sci-fi apocalyptic tale of Denzel Washington transporting this film’s MacGuffin - AKA the Bible - to some unknown place in the west. Does this gonzo hook make it worth rewatching? #filmsky #movie

The hunting scene in the Book of Eli (2010).

Monday Mini-Movie🧵: Might as well keep the Sandler train rolling. This week is Happy Gilmore 2. I’ll bury the lead and say that this legacy sequel is better than it has any right to be. Perhaps, due to Happy Gilmore’s character is an inherent screw up and his life cannot be perfect. Hence, a sequel!

Shooter and Happy fighting over top the grave of Chubbs in Happy Gilmore 2 (2025).

Monday Mini-movie🧵: sometimes I prefer to jump into a movie blind. This week I binged a pair of Turkish comedies: The Chaos Class (1975) and The Chaos Class Failed the Class (also 1975). Like a dark horse, this is a bizarre franchise I’ve never seen mentioned in cinephile circles. #filmsky #moviesky

A scene of a principal disciplining a student in front of a teacher and the class in the film The Chaos Class Fails the Class (1975)

Monday Mini-movie🧵: I’ve jumped on the bandwagon and watched One Battle After Another (2025) this weekend. In my life, I’ve only seen a handful of PTA films, so I didn’t exactly know what I was getting into. I personally contain multitudes of conflicting opinions on this flick. #filmsky #cinephile

A character practicing their Karate in a dojo in One Battle After Another (2025).

Does anyone else just feel like they are forever rotating between different backlogs? If I had a dollar for every time my brain thinks “I need to play this game. I need to watch this obscure movie. I need to read this book.”

Monday Mini-movie🧵: Maybe Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is making me get back into French cinema. A long time prisoner of my watchlist, this week I crossed off Le Samouraï (1967) a foundational piece of the noir genre. To say this movie is cooler than cool is an understatement. #movie #filmsky

Jef Costello in a lineup in the film Le Samouraï (1967).

Monday Mini-movie🧵: I thought I found a French superhero film on Hulu this week - Smoking Causes Coughing (2022). Turns out I got a screwball anthology film. What more can you expect from Quentin Dupieux, director of Rubber (2010)? At a brisk 70 minutes, this movie is a fun flash. #movie #filmsky

The Tobacco Force  - Ammonia, Mercury, Nicotine, Menthol, and Benzene - standing with their robot companion Norbert 1200 in Smoking Causes Coughing (2022).

Monday Mini-movie🧵: I got a short one for this week. Pulling out another documentary that has been on my watchlist ever since the trailer went viral: Grand Theft Hamlet (2024). A film captured entirely within the virtual world, I am simply pumped to see GTA transform into medium of film.

Two in game avatars standing stop a blimp in Grand Theft Hamlet (2024).