**Note: This entry has controversial wording in it. Discretion is advised
Given the strong likelihood that Tier 5 will very soon get 25 movies via a second varsity vs. jayvee style battle between two groups of Tier 7 40F designated movies, I decided to write this blog entry, so that Sunday can have a much more organized Nog Report. Plus, I had content ideas saved in my iPhone, prior to this entry being written.
Let’s begin.
First up, in a span of nearly eight months during the early 2000s, I amassed the hat trick of watching a movie at a certain person’s house, only to not complete any of those movies. And as to what those three movies were, well they were Kevin Costner’s third baseball movie “For Love Of The Game”, the Brendan Fraser-led movie “Bedazzled” and the vapid Ben Affleck-Gwyneth Paltrow romcom “Bounce”. And honestly, the other two movies don’t exactly scream quality Flickuum depth the way that “Parthenope” did/does. But because I didn’t complete them, I have to re-watch them for Project purposes. Okay, now I’ll have to go get some O’Doul’s for those three eventualities because there is no way that I’ll get through any of them without near-beer in my system.
Around the same time that “Bounce” came out, I saw trailers for another Gwyneth Paltrow movie, entitled “Duets”, which looked like some schlocky garbage that still gets peddled during the commercial breaks of one of those morning news variety shows, i.e. “The Today Show”. But after finding out that the ultra-cool Huey Lewis appeared in the latter movie and with a substantial role at that, I decided to add it to the roster.
For almost a year, I’ve stuck to my rule about not granting exemptions to movies that are on the Movies That Mega Tat Refuses To See page. But after finding out that I can get the DVD of “Song Of The South” for a reasonable price via Etsy, I made an exception to that rule, as all I needed was accessibility to assess it, especially since I want to see if it’s as egregious as I had initially thought. Verdict pending, as I’ll be putting in that order tomorrow.
Back in the early stages (early-March 2004) of rebuilding/reloading The Project, I was looking for a movie to replace “Scent Of A Woman” in The Project, as I found it to be very plodding at that time, especially since I was blown away by the presence of Jacqueline Obradors via my DVD viewing of “A Man Apart” on the night after I had turned 20 years old. So, with that being said, I wanted to assess her movie “Six Days, Seven Nights” as a then-second Project movie for her, only for me to hesitate about assessing it at that time. Of course, two-plus decades have passed since that time and that movie kept getting lost in the shuffle until now, as noticing it via Etsy planted a seed in my mind to add it to the roster, to which I have eventually done. Now let’s see if that movie will be her third, fourth or fifth Flickuum movie, as A] “Tortilla Soup” and “Palm Springs” are both on the roster, B] “Atlantis: The Lost Empire” is an overall guaranteed Flickuum movie, and C] A Man Apart has been enshrined for nearly two decades.
When it comes to movies from Angel Studios or a studio that is similar to them, I need to be won over via a trailer, as the movie “The Firing Squad” didn’t look all that appealing to me, and a such movie that I’ve already seen in “Sound Of Freedom” has a Project probability rate of 75% in Tier 12, but with the maximum of 96 movies having yet (64 movies are currently in that tier) to completely round out. Yes, I’ve given chances to religious movies for The Project, as I like both “The Apostle” and “The King Of Kings”, the latter of which I assessed theatrically two days ago. So, with that being said, I saw the trailer for Neal McDonough’s upcoming movie “The Last Rodeo”, which is about a man coming out of retirement to be a bull-rider for a good cause. And given that I like movies that are about someone risking it all via that line of work for a good cause, well then that type of movie falls under the category of me being won over via its trailer, thus it has been added to the roster.
In volume 158 of Flickasbord, I documented “Warhorse One” as a movie with a Project probability rate of 88% and calculated that particular metric with its then-Tier 12 record of 58-8. But now that the “Justice League: Crisis On Infinite Earths” trilogy has been exempt from that tier, its Project probability rate has slightly shrunk to 87%, as it now has a record of 55-8. Yes, I know that that has nothing to do with addition to the assessment/re-assessment roster, but I wanted to mention that since its relevant to “Sound Of Freedom”, from a general Tier 12 standpoint.
And finally, another actor with swag (Henry Golding) could be in the 10-Flickuum Movie Club, as A] The trio of “Crazy Rich Asians”, “Last Christmas” and “A Simple Favor” were all enshrined earlier this decade, B] “The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare” is awaiting fully guaranteed Flickuum status, C] “The Gentlemen” and “The Tiger’s Apprentice” are both up for re-assessment, and D] “Another Simple Favor” could be an overall guaranteed Project movie sometime this year, despite Blake Lively single-handedly causing its stock to plummet. And should the Point C and D movies all pass their assessments/re-assessments, well then that will give him seven Project movies. But wait, that’s not quite it for this paragraph because in addition, the movies “The Borneo Incident” and “Downtown Owl” have both been added to the roster, thus making his double-digit Flickuum amount all the more likely. Stay tuned.
Well, the roster keeps growing, but I’ve finally been able to clear a bit of it and doing so on my terms. And given what’s coming up for the second half of this month, I have a feeling that a lot of 40F designations will be handed out.
Until next week.