Nigerian American wannabe, how irritating can that be?

I often see Nigerians trying to act like Americans in their movies, The only word they use is men, you know men, please how irritating can this be ?

I've seen a movie like that. The guy kept saying he came from studying in America but he had the worst accent. He was trying to hide his natural accent and sound american...but it sounded bad

they often sound like crap.

So true.

Yeah, it annoys the sh!t out of Nigerians too. Everyone knows they are faking it, and it's extremely annoying.

One of the best "nigerian american wannabe" accent in a movie was acted by Bob manuel in "games women play". He didn't over-do it. It was just perfect. You'd know he was Nigerian, but he had tasted america.

I saw that movie but I can't quite remember how it went.

Was that the guy that studied "abroad" and when he came back he was supposed to be with one girl but decided he liked another? I think it was Rita Domonic. He ended up having this really bad temper?

do you watch African movies vexxy,

does anyone wonders why nigerian movies are sooooo... short. they spend the first 30 minutes on ads and they say watch out for part 2 at the end.

@ Terry: yes. I've watched more than I can count so now it's hard to remember which movie went with which title

@ Wesley: That's what makes them so hard to watch at times. The endless dragging on through a party scene or dinner conversation with music overlapping what they're saying. I end up fast forwarding through a lot of them only to see WATCH OUT FOR PART 2 and TO GOD BE THE GLORY.

do you understand it?

vexxy:

I saw that movie but I can't quite remember how it went.

Was that the guy that studied "abroad" and when he came back he was supposed to be with one girl but decided he liked another? I think it was Rita Domonic. He ended up having this really bad temper?

Ermm, it the one that the guy came back from abroad, and then he was to live in his former friend's house, who happens to be the one married to the wife he had back in the USA. He was in jail when his wife left, his wife thought he died, but he wasn't dead. Rita dominic was not in the movie, it was stella damascus, zack orji, bob manuuel, genevieve, and Omotola Jolade. The same movie where Genny begged omotola to date her bf. Do u remeber it now?


Well my point is that, Bob mannuel sounded like a Nigerian who has lived in The USA, and he din't Ober-act his part. The english was just normal, a lil americanized, but really perfect.

does any of you have an accent ?

Ok, @HA, I watched that one last week.  She started to get mixed feelings and her "now" husband went away for a while so she got back with her "old" husband.  Ok, I remember!

@Terry: yeah, I understand them.  By the tv I have Love Story 1 & 2, Naked Lie, and Super Love.  I've seen Love Story but not the other two.

you tight, coz i cant stand those movies

L.O.L. what makes you be able to understand them? I know the ones I have are in English so it's pretty easy to know what they're talking about.

ok

Do you watch them at all?

i really don't watch nigerian movies...not that i don't want to but my parents and no one else in my family watches it so i don't..... sometimes though i get them form my friends. sometimes.

that's how I get them. My friends are always handing me some.

I never go out of my way to buy/rent Nigerian movies that don't have what I call 100% local content (with the exception of my cousin's [name withheld] movies. I prefer the Osuofia type movies...They are funny and more importantly real. No fake accents, or whatever. Just real.

good for you

IT REALLY PISSED ME OFF CUZ I WAS WATCHIN' THE MOVIE WIT' MA AMERICAN FRIEND N SHE WAS LIKE "WAT THE HECK IS HE SAYIN' I WAS LIKE " NEVA MIND" [color=#990000][/color][font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font][i][/i]

why should it piss you off? just tell him he's speaking nigerian.
and you can translate for your friend if she badly wants to know what he's saying.

one word

ANNOYING

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Re: Nigerian American Wannabees in Nollywood Movies
« #22 on: September 22, 2005, 11:30 PM »

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why should it piss you off? just tell him he's speaking nigerian.
and you can translate for your friend if she badly wants to know what he's saying.

it pissed me off cuz he wasn't talkin' in igbo or yoruba it was English but he was tryin' 2 talk like americans he was like sayin' "oh men!" all the time dats just crazy hope u know wat i mean

OMG THAT SHIT BE GETTIN ON MA FUCKEN NERVE DAMN ACT YOURSELF WDF THEY SOUND WEIRD AS HELL TRYIN TO CHANGE OR FORCE THEIR ACCENT.RAMSEY BE DOIN THAT SHIT TOO BUT ITZ ALL GOOD HE AIN'T OVERDOING IT.

they often sound like that bcuz there tryin attract or impress a certain somebody

i taught i was the only one piss off by does nollywood people that try to act like american,
i hate it when they do that, that why i don't watch nigeria movies like that, and what up with the part 1, 2, 3 movies they been doing, doesn't make nosense.

i don't know if anybody has taked about her but STEPHINE OKERE is just soooo annoying in her movies. The way she talks or should i say tries to talk makes me want to tell her"shhhhhhhhhhh! girl, no be by force to speak funne kill your self"

Stephanie needs to be herself. A good actress but the fake accent is irritating.

girl, tell me about it!!! it's good to know that i'm not the only one who thinks so.

well uh thatz what they were told to do