There are certain trifectas that are cool to mention in the same breath, such as Lamar Jackson, Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes all defeating Tom Brady in the same season, which happened during the 2019-20 NFL season, and three of the most iconic video game characters of all-time each deserving to be a part of Flickuum lore. Let’s begin.
First up, staying on the topic of iconic video game characters, I decided to pardon “Pokemon: Detective Pikachu” from the Movie-Ocrity/Dishonorable Mention page, as the motivation of Howard Clifford (Bill Nighy) is a little more specific than the motivation of Joc Goddard (Harrison Ford) in “Paranoia”, the latter of which [movie] just became evaluation 1,130. However, the former of the two movies must defeat one movie that is in either Tier 8 or Tier 9 to get into the Tier 7 selection pool sooner rather than later. Stay tuned.
Next up, I consider Shemar Moore, Keanu Reeves, Oscar Isaac, Antonio Banderas and Idris Elba as half of my top 10 favorite actors, so it’s no coincidence that all of them either have or will eventually amass at least 10 Flickuum movies apiece. However, there is another actor just as deserving to be in that same category along with them and that is the late Chadwick Boseman, who was so good that he would have easily amassed double-digit Flickuum movies. Prior to the writing of this entry, he was close with nine and six of them have already been evaluated, including “Get On Up”. Yes, his Flickuum evaluation era is drawing to a close, but A) I’m not quite ready to face that reality and B) I want to give him 10 Flickuum movies, even if that feat is posthumously. So, with Point B being said, I have decided to add “Draft Day” to the roster of assessments/re-assessments, especially since him playing an NFL-bound edge rusher is really cool.
Going to a high school that had teachers that tried to mean well yet really aired way too heavily on the side of caution is why I like movies that give the middle finger to that type of heavy-handedness, such as “Good Boys”. And of course, with that being said, there’s another movie that gives the middle finger to that type of heavy-handedness as well. And as to what that movie is, well it’s “Wyrm”, which is a very forward movie about how a high school goes about playing matchmaker for its student body. So, given that counterculture middle finger, along with that movie [Wyrm] being neck-and-neck with the aforementioned “Good Boys” and it featuring the ultra-talented Jenna Ortega in a role that completely slipped through the cracks during my assessment of it, I have decided to re-asses that movie and will do so after today’s Nog social media postings have been completed.
And finally, after reading how conjoined that “Black Panther” is with “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”, I have decided to add the latter of the two movies to the roster of assessments/re-assessments, simply because I want to get a better feel for how it could fit into the puzzle, known as The Flickuum Project. Plus, it could work well in an evaluation line-up with both “Breaking” and “Taking Lives”, as that second Black Panther installment was assessed before those two movies were assessed consecutively back in late-February 2023.
Well, my plus/minus ratio is at +43, due to what’s currently on the assessment/re-assessment roster. But that ratio is a fluctuation, as there’s no guarantee that all 90 movies in Tiers 8 and 9 will get overall guaranteed Flickuum movies. As a matter of fact, “The Legend Of Zorro” won’t be in The Project, due to how much of a disappointment that its predecessor was, thus that boding well for “Pokemon: Detective Pikachu”.
Until the next time.