Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 10hMy @reelrank.net #LastFiveWatched is really more #LastFourWatched this time, because Hotel Chevalier and The Darjeeling Limited were really intended as one "experience". #FilmSky 0111
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 11hFor some reason, I had a similar thought recently in connection to an undead apocalypse Fate RPG adventure I ran a couple of weeks ago for my D&D group. In that game system, you'd just give such a creature an aspect like "Only Visible In Mirrors". 010
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I haven't seen Digger, but this all reminds me of how I feel about Donny Darko, which I consider an "interesting failure." I don't think it quite accomplishes what it sets out to do, but what it sets out to do is really interesting, and it's worth watching for that. 000
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6857801249
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Well now the writers are just getting lazy. 020
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellKimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 17/12/2025sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣 11239181138
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Now we just need an escalating war between ReelRank and Letterboxd, until one of them eventually gets to "Last Eleven Watched".static.klipy.comNigel Tufnel: These Go To ElevenAlt: Nigel Tufnel: "These Go To Eleven" 130
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Technically not #LetterboxdFriday or #LastFourWatched, because now that @reelrank.net is displaying my ratings, I'm going with #LastFiveWatched ( #ReelRankFriday?) #FilmSky I'm up into 2007 now. 1322
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" Nickellsheeven shpielberg 🏳️🌈 @sheev.calamitousintent.com · 01/10/2026the plural of netflix is netflices 3315
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I may have to convert to Catholicism 3831
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed 301994165
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I just backed The Lord of the Rings™: The King’s Gambit on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/res...kickstarter.comThe Lord of the Rings™: The King’s GambitThe final, fateful battle in the war for Middle-earth plays out across four epic fields of battle. 000
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellNanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 28/07/2025GenX kids will know the pain of needing just the right kind of pencil to rewind. 1702361271
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yeah, Lady Kaede's death in Ran is just jaw-dropping. And it's less the fountain of blood and more the serenity in her voice: "I have accomplished everything I set out to do." 110
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think it was a double bill of these two: 100
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026To be fair, elsewhere in Ran, they did in fact shoot an actual arrow into an actor (or the piece of wood he had hidden down the back of his kimono), but he wasn't the actual star of the film. 100
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think this might literally be their reasoning. 270
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes, done as full-on Lovecraftian horror. And using the ending that was apparently discussed, but never shot, where after gouging out his own eyes, the screen goes black, and you hear him say, "Oh my God... I can still see!" 151
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I feel like this is the only possible answer. 4122
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Or, if you prefer #LastFiveWatched from @reelrank.bsky.social, here's those: 120
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Starting in on the 2007 Oscar-winners. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched 0110
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hey, wait: That whole "would've thought of something at the last minute" bit... is this Death showing his awareness of Discworld's narrative causality? As in, "Presumably I would've thought of something in the nick of time, because that's what The Narrative demands at that point." 010
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellRotating Handles @davidhdaw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I don’t think people realize that theology debates were the closest thing to tumblr fandom arguments we had for basically 2000 years. 2586
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"...gave us amazing works." What do you suppose are the chances someone like this could even, say, name their personal favorite shot in BOAN? 120
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026'Bladerunner 2049' (2017) dir: Denis Villeneuve 📽️ 952641351
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Yeah, the unfortunately-chosen jargon word "agent" implies agency that these "AI agents" don't* have. *yet? 000
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellAngry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hell yes 821722
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So, "Sub-Trump Intelligence", or "STI". 0151
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Elsewhere in the same movie a car jumps over a moving train, and this clip is still scarier. 020
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellThe Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef… 66129162820
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's the holographic history lesson the protagonist watches in the (still-functional) ruins of the computerized library. 050
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellFor the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 15/06/2026A lot of people are confused by the concept of “cat years" so here's a little guide: 0-1 years - just a little baby 1-3 years - just a little baby 4-9 years - just a little baby 10+ years - just a little baby 354124931388
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’m sorry to all the Lukes but the fact is that there is a massively funded scare campaign against guys named Luke and a lot of morally and intellectually lazy people have fallen for the daily torrent of resulting propaganda, and what are we to do? offer a vigorous principled counternarrative? Well, 322748
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 18/09/2026While we're on the subject: The thing holding me back is that Letterboxd shows my star ratings below each film, and I like including that in my Friday skeets. 120
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Mostly 2006 Oscar-winners this week. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched 0120
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that 1012581513
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"your holiness, it's called a sankey diagram" 801421144
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" Nickellbrasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Make all the captchas on your enterprise require writing personal, graphically sexual insults about KJU for an additional layer of cybersecurity. 824839
Reposted by Scott "Spooky!" NickellKatarina Hit 🐀 she/her @katarinahit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“soccer player and guitarist from Wisconsin’s capital city.” lesbian representation 04513
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I mean, you have to say Happy Days, since it's literally the show that spawned the phrase "jumped the shark". 120
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hmm, now that you mention it, so doesstatic.klipy.comWarm Things Up MacreadyAlt: Macready (Kurt Russell) in John Carpenter's The Thing. A bearded man in a parka, holding a flare, saying "Maybe we'll just warm things up a little around here." 000
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My example of this will always be John Travolta in Hairspray. To quote my own Letterboxd review: He doesn't play the character as a woman, or even as a drag queen. He plays the character as a straight man in drag, with a bit of a wink to let the audience know that "I'm just playing, I'm not gay." 1111
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I don't know if it's the same one, but I have a vague memory of some comic with a character bursting through the wall of a public restroom with the sound effect "BA-THROOM!" Which is sort of simultaneously both onomatopoeia and *not* onomatopoeia. 040
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Which is saying something in a world where Gettysburg exists. 110
Scott "Spooky!" Nickell @salvius23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ah, a fellow Legends of the Fall hater, I see. When it was over, I turned to my wife and said, "well, there's two hours of my life I'll never get back." 110