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Today is April Fool’s Day, but it’s totally real that A] I’m doing this 152nd volume of Flickasbord on somewhat of a quick turnaround and B] I found four final pardons of Movie-Ocrity/Dishonorable Mention movies. And of course, with Point B being said, the four pardons are 40% of the newest additions to the assessment/re-assessment roster and three of those four are Sandra Bullock movies.
Let’s begin.
First up, it’s been a little while since I’ve added a movie to the Movies That Mega Tat Refuses To See page, as I haven’t devoted an entire day to finding movies that I completely want to boycott. However, I have found new entries for that page, with them being the second and third installments of “Deep Blue Sea”, because I don’t see the point in watching sequels to a movie in which Samuel L. Jackson suffers severely against a shark. Yes, I can’t bring myself to watch [for a second time] the most prolific actor in The Flickuum Project, in terms of most individual Project movies, portraying that type of character, thus making those aforementioned installments the 40th and 41st additions to that page.
Next up, I opened a can of worms when I decided to re-assess the Candace Cameron Bure movies “No One Would Tell” and “Kidz N The Wood” as patsies for the 99ers (2022 And Older) page a.k.a. Tier 13. And of course, given that decision and the fact that I’ve constantly found her to be as obnoxious as her older brother (Kirk), I decided to assess a movie of hers in which she had/has a very small role like her brother did/does in “The Best Of Times”. And as to what movie is, well it’s the other Tom Hanks-Sally Field collaboration “Punchline”. Yes, both Cameron siblings will very likely be conjoined together in the same ranking range of The Project when it’s all finally set and done. Stay tuned.
Back in volume 151 of Flickasbord, I mentioned granting a pardon to the 1999 version of “The Thomas Crown Affair”, as I want to do an apples-to-apples comparison of both that version and the 1968 version, which starred the late Steve McQueen. Of course, I also mentioned eventually adding the 1968 version to the roster in volume 151, thus already having a mental note for this entry. Yeah, I have to follow through on things that are in the embryonic stages of being spoken into existence, thus that movie has officially been added to the roster.
Before Livelygate began in 2024, the most disgraced movie via a lawsuit in recent memory was “The Blind Side”, based on the real-life Michael Oher filing a lawsuit against his adopted family, The Tuohys. Of course, I don’t know what transpired in that case after legal action was taken by him, but I no longer feel angry about that movie post-filed lawsuit, thus I will pardon it for a second re-assessment. I guess Blake Lively blindsiding people isn’t just limited to Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios.
Two bright spots emerged from “No One Would Tell”, a movie that I want permanent amnesia from seeing, as it attempted to be the made-for-TV version of “Fear”, which is one of my most hated movies of all-time. Anyways, the two bright spots that emerged from that movie were/are Justina Machado and Gregory Alan Williams, with the former both being radiant and reminding me of Nadine Velazquez, while the latter has such a commanding presence about himself in anything that he does. So, to put respect on both their names, following my wee hours re-assessment of that movie, I went ahead and added both “In The Electric Mist” and the 1989 movie “The Package”, with the former featuring her and the latter featuring him. Oh, and those two movies having “No One Would Tell” cast members isn’t the only common thread because in addition, both of them feature Tommy Lee Jones. I guess filmography investigations continue to lead to unexpected results.
Continuing with bright spots in movies, I did mention that Alix Angelis was one of the two reasons that I want to re-assess “Imaginary” a second time. And while I expect that movie to be an unexpected addition to The Project, I also feel that it doesn’t hurt to double (or triple) down on movies of hers for the roster, as I feel she’s yet another one of those actresses who leaves her fans wanting more. So, with that being said, I have added her movies “Love’s Last Resort” and the cleverly named “Sister Mary’s Angel” to the already crowded crop of Flickuum hopefuls.
During this past weekend, I went back and forth in my mind about whether to pardon the Sandra Bullock movie “The Net” or not, as I felt that it got a bum wrap via being the movie that was assessed/re-assessed after the full-on assessment of “Saved By The Bell: Wedding In Las Vegas”. However, I initially couldn’t bring myself to pardon it, as I felt that another one of her movies in “Two If By Sea” was better than it and I came away feeling a bit let down after assessing it back in late-March 2023. But the operative word here is “initially”, as her second collaboration with Denis Leary also got the bum wrap of being one of the many movies that was assessed/re-assessed after “In The Heights”, which is yet another one of those tough act to follow movies, therefore the answer of which other two movies of hers have joined “The Blind Side” on the roster.
And finally, Disney movies based on written literature/folklore trended upwards recently, as the Elijah Wood movie “The Adventures Of Huck Finn” was one of the 93 then-undocumented movies that made the roster this most recent weekend. Of course, that movie is one that I’m totally confident about making The Project, but that’s not the movie that this paragraph is about. Instead, it’s about the movie “Tall Tale”, which I need to see, so that I can try to find an overlooked aspect of that movie that may or may not be there a little over four years after I assessed it. Plus, even without the tiny re-investigation of the overlooked aspect that may or may not be there, I love the design of Babe The Blue Ox in that movie, so that alone is worthy of a re-assessment and possibly deserving of Flickuum lore.
Well, two completely pointless (Ticker, No One Would Tell) re-assessments that were both brought in as patsies for Tier 13, and a re-assessment for a movie (Into The Wild) that has a Project probability rate of 96% yet doesn’t have the top-ranked protection that “Killer High”, “Over Her Dead Body”, “See How They Run” and “Extraction” all have. Yes, the assessment/re-assessment marathons haven’t commenced yet, but they will as soon as today’s Art Infliction social media postings conclude.
Until the next time.