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When it comes to these Flickasbord entries that are either the fifth or tenth in an increment of 10, I usually come up with a large quantity of items for such entries. However, this one (volume 160) is modest from a quantity of items standpoint, compared to volume 150, especially since I’m most likely going to have a lot of Land Of Infusion items that will need to be spread out coherently in this weekend’s Nog Report.
Let’s begin.
First up, my history of movies that I quit without completing hasn’t been entirely uncovered, as I forgot to document “The Devil Wears Prada” as one of those movies. And of course, since all unfinished movies need to be complete by rule, that movie has been added to the roster for a full-on assessment.
Next up, there was one movie that I saw as a kid where a man tells a story to a girl about another man who lived forever and forever to the point that he never died, and that story made that girl cry. And based on that childhood memory of mine, the movie was Christmas-themed and the man who told the story was played by an actor with a southern drawly deep voice. Of course, I forgot the name of the movie until I recognized it in a discount DVD bin at a Best Buy in central eastern Texas during 2018, and recognized it via the DVD cover art and Sam Elliott’s name being on the DVD cover, thus the southern drawly deep voice. And as to what that movie was/is, well it was/is “Prancer”, which seems like a perfect movie to evaluate on a Sunday afternoon before a Sunday night viewing of “The Hangover”. So, with that being said, a movie that features a story about a man living forever and forever will vie for eternal residence in a group of movies that was first started by “Wildcats” and last extended by “Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark”.
A movie that keeps popping up both via Prime and relevant IMDB search results is a movie called “Best Seller”, which features James Woods (happy 78th birthday) and featured the late Brian Dennehy, and initially popped up because I looked up the former’s filmography in early-June 2019, as it pertained to information about “True Believer”. Of course, I made a mental note to add that movie to my roster of assessments/re-assessments, only for it to get overshadowed by other movies that were up for assessment/re-assessment and as confirmed/likely Project cornerstones, i.e. “Desperado” and “The Bounce Back”. And while many other movies have followed those two into The Project, the Woods-Dennehy collaboration kept getting overlooked. However, the operative word is “kept”, as that time back in early-June 2019 was never erased out of my mind, thus I remembered that movie, along with the fact that the expansion to 4,000 is beneficial more so to all movies released before (Best Seller was released in 1987) 2023. So, given both of those facts, the aforementioned Woods-Dennehy collaboration has finally been added to the roster.
Nearly three weeks ago, I designated “Still Waiting…” as a movie that will be vying for spots 3,748 through 3,800 of The Project, meaning that it will either be kept for The Project or cut from The Project NFL roster cutdown style. And given that all 90 movies on the Eastern Bluebird 53 2.0 page can only be re-assessed together as a group, well then that movie will be on an indefinite re-assessment moratorium. And not only will it be on an indefinite re-assessment moratorium because in addition, it’s a sequel with an unseen predecessor (Waiting…), thus that movie will be assessed, so that I can get a better idea of where the John Michael Higgins-led movie will stand come that particular (and pending) selection protocol.
And finally, the horror-themed category has been Jenna Ortega’s wheelhouse since she appeared in 2020’s “The Babysitter: Killer Queen”. And while I like the other such movies (Death Of A Unicorn, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, both of her Scream collaborations with Melissa Barrera) that she has appeared in, I like that she is going with a change-up via the coming-of-age route, as next up in her already flourishing career is “Winter, Spring, Summer Or Fall”. And of course, with that being said, I watched the preview of it via Apple before I went to assess “Warfare” theatrically and came away impressed by it from a human-interest story standpoint, thus it could be the megastar actress’ 11th Flickuum movie.
Well, progress has been very slow in getting Project movies this week, as I’ve only hit on 4 out of 17. But with both “Companion” and “Heart Eyes” coming up tonight, that 4 will turn into a 6.
Until the next time.