I usually close out an Art Infliction work week with an update every Sunday via posting on the A.I. Nation (Facebook) group wall. But not yesterday, as I decided that I needed to make much more definitive decisions about 302 of the 407 movies that are currently in Tier 7. Let’s begin.
First up, beginning with those 302 decisions, well you can see the entire breakdown of them via this page. But of course, that’s only the beginning, as 227 of them will be allocated to either the Movie-Ocrity/Dishonorable Mention page, The 99ers page or the 99ers (2022 And Older) page, with the day of allocation being tomorrow.
Staying on the topic of those 227 pending allocations, 192 of them will be going to the Movie-Ocrity/Dishonorable Mention page. Currently, the number of movies on that page is 1,933, but it won’t be 2,125 come tomorrow’s Nog Report, due to seven movies being pardoned for re-assessment tomorrow. And as to which seven movies will be pardoned for re-assessment tomorrow, well you can find out via the chart below:
| Movie | Why it will be pardoned |
| Corporate Animals | There is currently a moratorium on Nasim Pedrad movies, so this movie is an excuse to lift that moratorium. Plus, it has the potential to be a good evaluation before a viewing of the Saved By The Bell episode “Cream For A Day”. |
| The Perfect Game | This movie has a vibe that is similar to the golf movie “The Long Game”. |
| Blue Crush | This movie has proved that it can work well with both “Hook’d Up” and “The Tailor Of Panama”, so there is line-up versatility for the Kate Bosworth-led movie. |
| Twenty One (The number “21” is actual the title) | The aforementioned Kate Bosworth is more of a smoke show in this movie than she is in the aforementioned “Blue Crush”. |
| Buffaloed | The Bounce Back will have a lot of movies with it in an evaluation line-up. This movie could be one of them. |
| The Wood | The bond between the characters played by Omar Epps, Taye Diggs and Richard T. Jones might be strong enough to put this movie back into The Project. |
| Dune | A lot of good things were said about the sequel, so this movie getting re-assessed makes total sense. Plus, this movie boasts the presence of Oscar Isaac. |
The director Luca Gudagnino is one of the most “go big or go home” directors currently going in the movie industry, so I can’t fault the intent. However, the problem is that he has put forth two movies that I didn’t care for in “Challengers” and “Bones And All”, as well as a movie (Call Me By Your Name) that I refuse to see. Still, I feel that his swing-for-the-fences approach needs to be a part of Flickuum lore, thus I will assess his movie “Suspiria”. Fingers crossed that it passes its assessment.
For the first time in Art Infliction history, a part of a paragraph can be assessed via an external website, as it has very careful wording that could still get this website a content violation warning. So, with that being said, switch over to that external website for the remainder of this paragraph.
I think I’m just about done assessing/re-assessing all the Jennifer Love Hewitt movies that I feel/felt are/were Project-worthy. However, there is one movie of hers that I keep/kept putting off, due to a certain major component in its plot. And as to what that movie is, well it’s “Shortcut To Happiness”, and it has the major component of the aforementioned Jennifer Love Hewitt playing The Devil. And of course, with that being said, I struggled with putting that movie on my watch list, because it chronologically comes after my three favorite movies of hers in “House Arrest”, “Can’t Hardly Wait” and “Heartbreakers”. But after realizing that there is a moratorium on watching her movies as well, I’ve decided to take a flier on the 2004 movie. Plus, who knows, because it could be a pleasant surprise during its assessment. Stay tuned.
By the time that I’ll have amassed all 3,000 Flickuum movies, I’ll most likely be near 50 years of age, as I’ll be 47 years of age when the fifth (and possibly final) Avatar movie comes out theatrically. Of course, I’ve wondered about having patience in waiting for the rest of that franchise during the majority of my 40s, and there’s a possibility that those three installments could disappoint me the way that “Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania” did. Hell, the second one (Avatar: The Way Of Water) could also disappoint me, but I’ll assess it because A] It’s in existence and B] It’s the sequel to a movie that gives me less motion sickness than “Hard Core Henry”, so I guess I can also label the 2022 movie as a flier movie.
And finally, for all the pending addition to the assessment/re-assessment roster, I recently added a movie to it, but it was a movie that I considered adding around the time that I assessed “Lousy Carter”. And as to what that movie was/is, well it was/is “LaRoy, Texas”, due to it having an A24 or Neon Pictures vibe about it. However, it could be doomed on arrival, as Megan Stevenson is in the “tough act to follow” position, meaning that she appears in it after appearing in “The Bounce Back”. Granted, this movie didn’t come out after the presumed number one Flickuum movie during the same calendar year (2016) nor did it come out in 2017, but I feel that it could succumb to the post-Bounce Back pressure. Stay tuned.
Well, I’ll probably give myself yet another headache, from the standpoint of having too many possible viable options for The Project. But there could be more unexpected slumps in finding Flickuum-worthy movies, which could eliminate some of that headache. Plus, I was very shrewd yet practical in putting nearly 50% of Tier 7 on the chopping block, and I have no doubt that that unique approach will remain within me.
Until the next time.