Steve Kaycee has been on a tear (especially in 2023 and 2024) with writing multiple blog entries in a single week and doing so for multiple weeks.
However, he has grown tired of constantly converting fairly new blog entries into non-menu website pages, as he feels that A] Doing so doesn’t give such blog entries the proper exposure that they deserve and B] The constant impromptu pre-writes take their toll on him more and more.
But luckily, the impromptu pre-writes have (and will continue) to dwindle, as will the early non-menu website page conversions. And of course, with the latter being said, this page comes into play once again, as Steve Kaycee has a blog entry that he wrote on November 26, with it being about he solved his problem about feeling a overwhelmed by The Flickuum Project.
You can see it below.
“The Case For 3,000 Movies”
For nearly two decades, The Project that is now known as The Flickuum has underwent multiple expansions, with the most recent one going into effect during early-August of this year. And of course, with that being said, I thought that that August 2024 expansion of The Project going from 2,400 spots to 2,600 spots would give me a lot of wiggle room in eventually rounding it all out. But after adding up the amount of movies in Tiers 1 through 6 with A] The now 19 movies with 26F designations in Tier 7, B] The now 126 active assessment/re-assessment roster movies that are in Tiers 8 through 10, C] The two movies with HCC designations in Tier 7, D] The two movies in Tier 11 that are expected to get overall guaranteed Flickuum spots, E] The 48 non-active roster movies that are also in Tiers 8 through 10 and F] The 18 Tier 7 movies that could land in Tier 11 as well or get re-assessed, I realized that I might have outthought myself yet again, as all those figures total up to 2,519 movies and that doesn’t include “Dream Scenario”. Furthermore, this latest math problem also really jeopardizes my 99ers plan, as all of those Point F movies could take up nearly two ninths of the spots reserved for upcoming movies, and I honestly can’t think of a creative page name involving the number 81. So, with all of that being taken into consideration, I will have to make five decisions, all of which I’ll break down paragraph by paragraph. Let’s continue.
Alright, so first off, I have stated two separate times this year that I want the halfway point of The Flickuum Project to be a full increment of 100 instead of both an increment of 100 and half an increment of 100, which is why I chose 2,600 instead of 2,500 as the final number for that August 2024 expansion. But given that there could be viable options to the point that the number of overall guaranteed Flickuum spots could exceed the current Flickuum cap number, I decided on the for real last ever expansion, and it’s not a number that gives me little room for error. Nope, it’s instead a number that will give me greater room for error, with that number being 3,000. Yes, I know that adding 400 more spots will prolong The Project even more, but a Top 3,000 does have a nice ring to it. Now onto the second decision.
Alright, so with the non-active roster being rendered a moot point, I have decided that there is no longer any need in holding back the 48 movies with triple asterisks next to their titles in Tiers 8 through 10, thus there will be no more waiting periods for any of them. And that’s a good thing because I know that I can access a lot of those movies either immediately or almost immediately. Now onto the third decision.
Yes, I have to admit that most likely phasing out movies pre-2023 was me short-changing myself, as why should a potentially good Kevin Bacon movie, i.e. “Taking Chance”, be constantly overlooked based on its release year, especially in the then-2,600 format. But now that there is more room for error, I can go now through certain filmographies with a fine-tooth comb (figuratively speaking) to determine which pre-2023 movies are worthy of assessments/re-assessments. Now onto the fourth decision.
Alright, so I have a little over 500 pre-Dream Scenario decisions to make for The Project, but it’s going to be a tall order to complete an indefinite amount of assessments/re-assessments between now and New Year’s Day 2026. So, since I don’t want to wear myself down during these next 13-plus months, I have decided that the deadline will instead be New Year’s Day 2027 for when movies can compete against each other March Madness style. Now onto the fifth and final decision.
Prior to this entry, the three biggest losers in getting Flickuum spots to compete March Madness style were “Zootopia 2”, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2” and “Toy Story 5”, due to A] A physical media announcement not being announced for the first of those three (November 2025 theatrical release) until sometime in 2026, B] The assessment for the second of those three coming a little over three months after what would have been the cut-off date, and C] The third of those three movies being in the unique spot of a summer 2026 assessment and its physical media announcement likely coming before Christmas 2026. But now those three movies are some of the biggest winners, which means that they will all avoid constantly sweating it out on The 99ers page for an indefinite amount of time.
Well, those are the five decisions that I just made, but this entry isn’t quite done yet, as there is a bonus round of five more special movie pardons from the Movie-Ocrity/Dishonorable Mention page and each of them can be seen via the chart below:
| Movie | Why it has been pardoned |
| El Hotel | Melissa Barrera is a smoke show all throughout her brief time in this movie, and this movie could give her the distinction of having a Flickuum movie come out the same calendar year (2016) as The Bounce Back, which has Nadine Velazquez as the second-billed name behind Shemar Moore. |
| Exodus: Gods & Kings | The parting of the sea and the build-up to it are both epic to the point that this movie deserves a second re-assessment. |
| Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre | Aubrey Plaza wearing that dress to a party is the reason for this possibly permanent pardon. |
| Exit Wounds | This movie could be an unlikely jump-starter for The Project. |
| Kickboxer | Winston executing a rescue and the mere presence of Kiki The Dog both deserve a re-assessment at least. |
Yes, I’ve finally come up with a fair solution to all pre-2023 movies that are worthy of an assessment/re-assessment, all the while being able to maintain my 99ers plan. And given that I’ll be going into this with an investigation into multiple filmographies, chances are that I won’t find myself in the mind-wracking situation that I was in shortly before writing this entry. Oh yes, it is also worth noting that “Gladiator 2” has become the first successful assessment/re-assessment in the expansion to 3,000 era, thus changing the amount of Point A movies from 19 to 20.
Time to see what other pieces can fit into The Flickuum puzzle.