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Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Sisikill: 3:38pm On Sep 12, 2008
Welcome budding critics!
This promises to be an exciting thread because we will be critiquing NAIJA MOVIES and what is more exciting than that? Hmmm, NOTHING!!! We can't promise to be nice, nice, sweet, and cuddly, and all Kumbaya, so if you hold Nollywood Movies close to you heart, this might not be the right thread for you. . . just sayin'.

With that said. . . Let the fun begin!!!! grin grin grin grin
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Sisikill: 4:21pm On Sep 12, 2008
First on the chopping block is[b] REAL LOVE[/b] or as it is fondly called in my home ANNA NOW. It stars Ramsey Noah, whom I’ll sometimes refer to as whathisface, whathisname [/i]and [i]whatevertheheckhisnameis and Stella Damasus, whom I adore and respect. Sadly, I can’t let my feelings come in the way of business. So sorry Stella, hopefully in the future, you’ll be pickier with your choice in movies.

Synopsis
Rich man’s son falls in love with Blind girl.

That’s it! If you’ve been reading the Petition thread, this shouldn’t come as a surprise to you. Many of our critics on that thread (waving Hi guys, please take a bow kiss) have pointed out that most Nollywood movies have an idea and the work around and around and around that idea, which is why in this movie, Ramsey Noah’s character spent the entire movie looking for her.

Okay let me start - they meet, he falls for her, something happened. . . can’t remember, he misplaces her and now he is has to find her coz his life has no meaning. Awww, you are thinking, right? Hey, I did too and I don’t have a problem with him finding his true love. It is how he went about it that had me reaching for a fork to pluck my eyes out.

They decided to do it as a montage, so the song is playing. . .

Oh the rich man looking for his blind love
Chorus - Blind Love, Blind Love.
He didn't think he'll ever fall in love
Chorus - Fall in Love, fall in love
He is roaming around the city looking for her
Chorus - Looking for her, Looking for her
Will ever find her and love her
Chorus - Love her, Love her


Since there is no dialogue right and he has to show us (the audience) that he is asking these people if they've seen his blind girl. . . because we are too stupid to get it, after he just finished telling his friend, his mother, his driver and his maiguard that he was going to look for her, Mr Ramsey Noah or whatever the heck his name is, decides to demonstrate by closing his eyes and using an imaginary walking stick to ask these random people if they've seen a blind girl. When they did it the first time, I laughed (it didn't enter my belle oh , I just laughed it) and thought "cute", then they did it again, I did "hmm" then again and again and again. . . I kid you not, they did it almost ten times, ten different days, then different cars and the scenes a freaking long. Sometimes all we are watching is whathisface turning the steering wheel, squinting his eyes to show how the love his catching him and why it is important for him to find this girl.

After every unsuccessful outing, he will arrive home dejectedly, drop his keys on the table, throw himself on the sofa, put his hands on his head in the "e gba mi" kind way and then reminisce about how they met. When he's done, he jumps up, smacks his fist into his palm and say "I have to find her, I just have to. I love her. I must find her" Sometimes his mama will come and say "Yes, you have to find her" I suspect she is the one singing the chorus in the songs because all she did was parrot the last line of other characters. Other times, it's his friend. . . Americana, who will came and say "Oh mehn, you gats to forgerrabout  this chick mehn, she's blind mehn, blind. There are other girls out there mehn, let's hit some nice clubs mehn and you will get any girl. . . mehn" and Mr. Man refusing to go clubbing and meeting other girls is supposed to show us how committed he is to his blind love.  kiss

He finally finds her, they get married, they have issues with. . . guess who? That's right - an old ex, who is just so crazily in love with whatshisname, she will do anything to get him back, they have many misunderstanding, I fall asleep, they make up and feed each other, I get hungry and go feed myself, they fight, I go shopping. . . bought this beautiful shoes, half price too, the cutest. She cries, he cries, She gets healed by the Bible, they cry, they laugh and they live happily ever after.

Huh. Okay then.

Below is the trailer for this movie and for those who can’t watch Youtube videos, I’ll trailer it for you

Voice over – There are many definition of love but can you give an accurate definition of real love (Ay, yi yi. Can they sound any more humdrum?

(Action Scene)

Noah uses both legs to press on the breaks of his car to avoid hitting a blind girl who was walking in the middle of the road.

(Okay, it’s either Noah was sleeping while driving that he didn’t see her from yonder or The girl substituted the ability to see  with the ability to suddenly appear in the middle of the road)

Noah jumps out of his car, eyes squinting to show his anger – What the hell is the matter with you? Are you blind (Real Subtle, Noah. Real subtle)

Next Scene

Rich daddy – I want the best for you!

Noah Squinting his eyes to show his emotions – The best for me is ANNA.

Voice over – It is love ready to sacrifice everything (Now they are defining real love. Chei! No wonder the romance section is full of heartbroken people)

Next Scene

Noah strangling someone, he wants them to disappear (shrugs I dunno)

Voice over – surmount all obstacles and accept each other the way we are. (Still defining love) He loves her but she’s handicapped Will the society ever accept their love?

Rich daddy – society will not accept your marrying a blind one (Lawd-a-mercy!)

Voice over –
Lagbaja productions presents REAL LOVE.
A movie by tamedo REAL LOVE.
Starring so, so and so REAL LOVE
An emotional tale. REAL LOVE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj3xhGaniII&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]

Jeebus!
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Raymond88(m): 4:38pm On Sep 12, 2008
*Subscribes to thread.  grin
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Sisikill: 10:25pm On Sep 12, 2008
LMAO! Don't just subscribe, join us.

Okay, I think I'm gonna have a li'l problem coz I sometimes I brainwash myself into forgetting the names of the movies but I'll try to be as descriptive as possible. . . Just bear with me when I start saying the one where he did this and did that. Of course we're gonna to have about a million and one movies where he did this and did that but that will make funner, eh? Add a little twist to it. . . Guess which Naija Movie is this and No it's not your first 100 guesses! Exciting huh?  grin

Special Request - If you'd like a movie reviewed and you can't do it yourself. . . say you don't have time because you have life, a job and loved ones who actually like spending time with you, please feel free to drop the names of the movie.

Thanks kiss
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Raymond88(m): 11:10pm On Sep 12, 2008
Sisikill:

Special Request - If you'D like a movie reviewed and you can't do it yourself. . . say you don't have time because you have life, a job and loved ones who actually like spending time with you, please feel free to drop the names of the movie.
Thanks kiss

This is Nairaland, no one on here has a life. tongue

Can you do Apama Special For us please. smiley
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Sisikill: 11:53pm On Sep 13, 2008
This next movie falls under a category I call – WHEN BAD MOVIES HAPPEN TO GOOD ACTORS.

On the surface, ENGAGEMENT NIGHT looks like a good movie, after all it’s got RMD and Stella Damasus who have a dynamic chemistry, sadly that Chemistry could not save this movie.

RMD plays Dennis and Stella Damasus plays Janet, both so in love with each other and we know this from the way Dennis tries to impress Janet by saying kissing me in Igbo. We don’t know how long they’ve been dating or when they met but they are soon celebrating their engagement.  At the party Dennis introduces Janet to his best friend and best man Rueben, from the not so subtle eye widening, stopping in mid sentence way they both do, it is obvious to everyone but Dennis that these two know each other. They manage to cover it up and go their separate ways, Janet dragging Dennis off to another section of the party and Rueben back to his hotel room (he lives in Port-Harcout).  It here Rueben gives us the first of many internal monologues that is peppered all over this movie. So he is lying on side in the bed, elbow on the bed and chin in palm. . . yes, nothing says “Deep thought in progress. Keep Out” than the old chin in the palm of your hand move.

Internal Monologue – I have to let go of the past, I cannot hurt Dennis, I cannot. Maybe she has changed, she looks more refined. She was always a good person but for the influence of her late friends.

Late friends? Are her friends dead? Nope, he means old friend but hey. . . late, old same thing, right? At least according to Naija movies.

Moving on. . . .

On the other side of town, Janet manages to get through the party, she wants to spend the night with Dennis but because Dennis never lets his subscription to Beautiful Bridal Magazine elapse, he knows it is bad luck for her to spend the night with him because when she dresses the next morning, he’s going to see her in her wedding dress. He convinces her to go spend the night at her and she agrees, he drops her outside the gate of her house (real gentleman, that one) and when he drives off, we get our second internal monologue from Janet.

Internal Monologue – Janet, you cannot pretend everything is alright you can’t leave fire on your roof and go to bed. You can still make it there to save your future.

I gotta tell ya, at this point I finally understood why I never listen to my own internal monologues. Apparently, I’ve been doing it all wrong, I didn’t know we are supposed to talk about ourselves in the 3rd person, I mean you have to admit it makes sense; it is easy to dismiss what you are saying to yourself.

Anyway, she goes sees Rueben in his Hotel Room and begs him not to tell Dennis what happened, Rueben says he doesn’t think he can do that. You see, he loves his best friend and Dennis will feel mortally hurt if Rueben doesn’t tell him what kind of woman Janet is. I guess he forgot that even though it was internal, we could still hear him talking about letting go of the past, not wanting to hurt Dennis and how she was always a good person.

She begs, he does not budge, she yells at him for daring to ruin her life, he tells her to remember how she tried blackmailing him and for some reason I’m still not sure of, She goes into a trance, he sees that and starts shaking her. . . begging her to wake up, not do this to him in his hotel room, okay he will forgive her and not say anything to Dennis and voila! She opens her eyes and thanks him. She loves Dennis she says and he says he also loves Dennis (Oh la la, a little Bromance going there), finally everything is okay and she is happy.

He escorts her out of the room; she thanks him by leaning in to give him a peck on the cheek just as Dennis is walking up the stairs to come see his best friend. They both jump apart quickly and go all “ De. . . Dennis. . . we . . . I. .  . what” forever sealing their guilt. Yep, nothing says “We just finished boinking each other behind your back! Ha! Take that you fool” than stuttering.

Like a child whose ice cream just fell in sandsand, Dennis turns to his heels ad runs out of the hotel. Janet follows him (Rueben stands there mouthing Oh my God), guess she didn’t find him because the next thing, she is at home crying on her friend Sandra’s shoulder.  She’s not sure if the wedding will take place, Sandra does her there, there duty and they pray. The next morning, the phone rings , Sandra picks it up. . . it’s Dennis. Here I’m going to introduce a new game called – CAN YOU TELL WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS DIALOGUE?

Sandra – Hello?
Dennis – Hi Sandra, is Janet there? Can I talk to her?
Sandra – Hi Dennis. Janet is here. Do you want to talk to her?
Dennis – No. Just tell her to be at the church by ten.


Yipeee! The wedding is on, everyone is happy, they take pictures and kiss and smile and whatnot. Finally they are married and they will live happily ever after. Not so, says Dennis, he has not forgiven her infidelity and decides to punish by having absolutely nothing to do with her. They have different rooms and different cooking pot, because nothing says you don’t mean jack to a man than him not allowing you to slave over the stove for him and sleeping with you.  She is devastated, she begs and begs, he says nope, mocks her and give her the cold shoulders. . . he does this crap for 2 years! Two freaking years and she remains in the marriage, like the goodwife they are brainwashing Nigerian women to be.

At this point, you are probably thinking what in the world did she do to Rueben? Well I hope you are sitting down because this is huge! See, 15 years ago when they were in secondary school Janet got Rueben expelled by lying that he raped her.  I won’t get into the detail because it’s such a time waster, they spent the better part of the movie showing old mamas and papas in school uniform acting like twits. Suffice it to say, it wasn’t really her fault, it was her “late friends” who forced her to do this. So there you have it, the secret she couldn’t just tell her husband and be done with it, the secret she went to another man’s hotel room to beg him to keep and the reason her husband found her there.

So we have a married couple who don’t have sex for 2 years and neither of them is getting it elsewhere.

We have the most stupid of all reasons for this situation

Finally we have a group of people who can never say what’s on their mind. Seriously, we are expected to believe that not once in those 2 years did Janet get a chance to tell her husband nothing happened between her and Rueben and why she was in his hotel room in the first place?

Not once in those two years did Rueben call his friend and say “Oh boy, you better snap of it. Do you think I’ll ever do that to you?”

We’re supposed to believe throughout their dating period, Dennis never introduce Janet to Rueben, that’s why he meets her only a day to their wedding and he is the BEST MAN for this wedding.

What it boiled down to is this - The storyline was all over the place, it lacked continuity, seems like most of the scenes were stand alone scenes, making no references to old scenes. The actors didn’t have a solid grip on the characters they are supposed to be playing, is Rueben a good friend or a bad one? Is Janet a manipulative liar or a victim? And Dennis. . . who the heck knows what he was supposed to be.

The Director obviously had no direction, that’s why Rueben and Janet recognized each other instantly after 15yrs while Rueben had to jug his ex girlfriend, Sandra’s memory after only 5 years, why we had the internal monologues telling us things the actors are supposed show through their acting.

The dialogue was trash, with people saying things like “You know how to gather informations” , “My mother is late” and why Rueben kept saying Janet blackmailed instead of framing him and having a father tell his daughter things she already knows, so we can know “ Sandra you know ever since your mother died, I have been a mother and father to you and you are my only child” Hellooooooo!! Stop using such silly tricks to break the fourth wall!!

The shooting was horrible . . . you know how they show random scenes to transition to the next scene, well they kept using one scene with a car stuck in traffic.

The music. . . my God, the music was godawful! If Naijas paid royalty for every time they used someone else’s music, backstreet boys will retire happily and not have to worry about money with the way this movie used their songs.

We had senseless characters coming out of the wood work. The typical mother in law who blames the girl for not giving her son a child and gets jealous that her son gives his own wife 40,000 naira to buy grocery, the token wise man – Dennis’ father, who has all the sense the other don’t and some riff-raffs in between. . . all just to prolong the movie because they knew they were running on empty.

Dennis comes to his senses when he finds himself in a situation just like Rueben and Janet, his secretary’s fiancé catches them in a somewhat compromising situation and jumps to conclusion. I swear you could see the light bulb going off in his head. . . after two years. While he is locked up in a guardroom, our long suffering heroine decides she can’t take it anymore and want to kill herself but for the intervention of her friend and mother and it is while she’s telling her mother what happened between her and Rueben in Secondary school that Dennis rushes him, he has seen the light and oh darling, he knows the truth now and he forgives her and they can get live happily ever after. A year later she is pregnant, he is happy, she is happy they are both happy which begs the question - WHAT DID THEY NEED PART 2 FOR? I can’t answer that because I never watched.
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Sisikill: 11:54pm On Sep 13, 2008
Raymond88:

This is Nairaland, no one on here has a life. tongue

Can you do Apama Special For us please. smiley


Yipee, I guess I'm not alone in the no life having dept.

One order of Apama Special coming up. cheesy
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Nobody: 12:00am On Sep 14, 2008
cheesy cheesy cheesy grin grin I thought i was the only one who dozed off while watching "the engagement night". The movie was more than stupid. If anyone can recommend a reasonably good Nigerian movie i'll appreciate.
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Sisikill: 12:17am On Sep 14, 2008
davidylan:

cheesy cheesy cheesy grin grin I thought i was the only one who dozed off while watching "the engagement night". The movie was more than stupid. If anyone can recommend a reasonably good Nigerian movie i'll appreciate.
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Reasonably good Nigerian Movie?

Thinking with the Jeopardy music playing in the background.
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Morenike3(f): 4:25am On Sep 14, 2008
davidylan:

cheesy cheesy cheesy grin grin I thought i was the only one who dozed off while watching "the engagement night". The movie was more than stupid. If anyone can recommend a reasonably good Nigerian movie i'll appreciate.
I know a whole bunch of them.
Why didn't you just ask me?
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by mooretes: 2:01pm On Sep 14, 2008
omoge, I don join sharp sharp,
was waiting for this to start and well, i cant wait to do my own thing, but would take me a while need to
read my books and then consult someother stuff before putting mine down

cheers love
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Sisikill: 5:52am On Sep 15, 2008
Movie – DANGEROUS SISTER

Category – WHEN HORRIBLE MOVIES HAPPEN TO A GREAT ACTRESS

Starring – Genieve Nnaji, Tony Umez and Dakore Egbuson

I honestly don’t know what to say about this movie or how to start. I guess I’ll take a page from Sounds of music and start from very beginning.
First the name. . . dangerous sisters, I have no idea where that came from because it had absolutly nothing to do with the movie. Genieve plays Judith who lives with her over-protective, borderline psycho father, who does everything to alienate her from the outside world.

After a disastrous birthday party, she runs away from home. She goes to her Cousin Stella’s place. Stella is a model and works for Patrick who has been trying to find a lovely, natural girl to be the face of an International company. Every time they show Patrick, this is what he is talking about, he has no other dialogue but “This is an international company and they need a natural beauty to be the face of their product”.

Of course, he picks Judith, so no need to get into that. Stella gets Jealous because she thinks she is the queen bee and the rest of the movie is about Stella trying to kill Judith.

That’s it.

What is Good? – Genevieve Nnaji, there is no denying she is a wonderful actress.

What is Bad – EVERYTHING!

Part one of the movie was GARBAGE. We had no idea what was going, it was just about her father being a brute. The first scene was him rebuking her for coming home late. Now that should have been enough to pass the message that her father is overbearing but nooo, they had to shove it down our throat with over 5 scenes lasting over 5-7 mins and the rest of the movie was Patrick talking about the International company.

Part two of the movie was SENSELESS. . . they spent the 1/3 of the movie on Judith strutting on the runway and the remaining on Stella plotting her evil ways. The movie ends when Judith’s father catches Stella trying kill Judith.

Oh my favorite part. . . how they went out of their way to make it easier for the audience to understand what is going by using songs. . . you know, just in case we don’t get it after the characters repeat themselves over and over again.

For Judith having no friends and feeling like an outsider. . . or this case, an insider since her father keeps her locked in the house, they used Dido’s song life for Rent. So every time Judith is pacing, feeling sorry for herself. . . Dido’s whiny voice sings

“I haven't ever really found a place that I call home
I never stick around quite long enough to make it
I apologize that once again I'm not in love
But it's not as if I mind
that your heart ain't exactly breaking
Awww, poor little rich girl

Judith’s father Scolding her
Are we teaching the truth in love
Telling it like it is
Are we holding pure motives
Showing that we care
Obviously, the father is not being honest. . . I think

When any of the girls is jealous, we get. . .
Hey, Jealousy, Jealousy is the root of evil
Some people are jealous of your success
Some people want to see you frown
Blah, blah, blah smile in your face
Blah, blah, blah stab you in the back.
Somebody please stab ME in the back

When the girls are strutting their stuff on the runway
She’s beautiful , she’s sexy, she takes your breath away
The way she walks, the way she talks
She makes everybody go hey
She is the African Queen.


They used these songs every time the corresponding events were happening. . . EVERY SINGLE TIME. So the movie was more like a freaking musical than anything else.

The characters were not real, they were all too much to the extreme, no middle ground.

- Judith was too good, too innocent, too trusting. . .  Give me a break!

- The father was way too over bearing. We didn’t know if he was protecting his daughter or punishing her for a crime.

- The mother was just a shrieking banshee, making noise all over the place.

- Stella was a little okay, we understood her but they ruined it by making her go to the extremes with her revenge.

- Patrick was just an A-hole. Not sure if they were trying to make a leading man out of him because they failed miserably. He cheats on his wife with his models and when she finds them in a hotel, he runs away leaving the girl to suffer the wrath of the wife. This made it very difficult for the audience to feel anything for him, even when he was being very caring to Judith after her many, many ordeal. Because of the way he went on and on about the finding the right model, the audience can’t help but wonder if his concern for her had more to do with his contract with the International Company.

Directing – When are Naija directors going to understand that when a scene lasts more than 3 mins, it becomes utterly useless. Give us the message fast, fast and move on. Don’t let us dwell on it because it is how we know the movie is senseless.

And for the love of God, someone tell them having AN IDEA is just the first step in movie making, you have to develop it. You just don’t wake up one morning, say you want to do a movie about a remote control which controls itself, start shooting by afternoon and serve the public a movie where all the characters talk about is the self controlling remote control and then half way through the movie, when you find yourself stumped about how to make sense of things, you start talking about how the owner of the remote control was abused as a child.

This is exactly what happened in this movie, when they realized Stella trying to kill Judith for knocking her off her throne, was too flimsy, so they decided to add another layer to the onions by saying Judith’s father cheated Stella’s dad. . . no groundwork was laid out for this in earlier scenes and dialogues, one could tell it was an afterthought.

Sound - I think the music guys had issues with their sound system or they were as bored as we were with movie and wanted to get it over with quickly. There were a few times when they started the songs before the dialogue was over and had to immediately turn it off. . . very distracting, I must say.


And the absolute, most mind blowing best thing – THERE IS A PART 3!!!!
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Sisikill: 5:56am On Sep 15, 2008
mooretes:

omoge, I don join sharp sharp,
was waiting for this to start and well, i can't wait to do my own thing, but would take me a while need to
read my books and then consult someother stuff before putting mine down

cheers love

Abeg, please donallah, HURRY! These movies are turning my brain to mush, I need reprieve. cheesy
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by MadMax1(f): 11:20am On Sep 19, 2008
I almost watched a Nigerian movie, to critique it. It's been years since I went Nollywooding. But the danged thing began with adverts( I think the same sickening guy does them all) and it brought back memories of the trauma of previous Nollywood movies and oh, the pain Sisikill, the pain! I'll try again, but I'll need other people around, because I know, within five minutes of pointing my eyeballs at Nollywood, I'm seriously going to want to kick somebody.
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by tRoOE(f): 10:47pm On Sep 19, 2008
[size=13pt]Good News
Naija Movies are improving, i will highly impressed when I saw[b] "Letter to a stranger"[/b]
It was quite different from the English movies we are use in seeing
The actors and actresses were excellent
You can check it on on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC_bLAdx774&feature=related
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Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by nystrom(m): 10:49pm On Sep 19, 2008
really nollywood is doing their best.
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by tRoOE(f): 10:59pm On Sep 19, 2008
[size=13pt]True that, but it just going to take some time[/size]
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by mohawkchic(f): 11:51pm On Sep 19, 2008
~I'D second "Letters to a stranger" got me intrigued even tho am yet to finish watching it . . lurving the cast too . .


~The movies to go under the hammer ar too many on my list!! My ma. buys tons of Niaja movies . . . .after she finish watching them,she mails them to me . . i keep telling her she can open her very own rent store cheesy i've got three cases of Cd pack full of Niaja movies to watch . . so i think i'll start w/ these movies as i'D forgotten half the names of the ones i've watched!! anywho first to go under the hammer is "Boys Cot" angry

Synopsis: Life as a scammer . . .Three friends who got caught up in Yahoo Yahoo,419 scam,Love traingle,test of friendship


~As if making part 1 & 2 wasnt enough,they had to stretch it & do "Return of Boys Cot" part 1 & 2 . . a continuation of "Boys Cot" Only for the obvious to happen!! The one-liners were the highlight of the movie for me,other than that,it sucks!!


~If i were to choose movies that's left me impressed,there are only a few i'D name "Widow" "Dangerous Sisters" stuck . . . am hoping for better movies to be made!!
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by mohawkchic(f): 11:57pm On Sep 19, 2008
~Are there two "Dangerous Sisters"? now am confused undecided . . the one i watched had Omotola & someone else . . i've watched the one w/ Jenny . . . or mayb i have the name wrong
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by tRoOE(f): 12:31am On Sep 20, 2008
[size=13pt]@MC
Yea the movie was nice, my eyes were glue to the screen the whole time
Whom ever did the casting did a brilliant job

@ the dangerous sisters
I watched one with genny and omo sexy, and the other version was Dakore Egbuson and Genny(but they were cousins in the movies) i never got the chance to see the past 2, after she was raped

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Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Nobody: 12:35am On Sep 20, 2008
The crappiest Naija movie I've watched this week is "Enjoyment in Hell", there was absolutely no point to that move. OMG!!! Crap crap crap!!!! It's like the movie was put together in just a week period. rubbish!
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by mohawkchic(f): 12:15pm On Sep 20, 2008
~@ tRoOE

~Am defo going to finish watching "Letters to a Stranger" this weekeend . . its a Fred Amata film,he did "Sex,Lies & Marriage" wasnt too bad . . his storylines are very Impressive tho,so different from the usual boy meet girl usual storylines & i've notice he starred in his movies too!! Didnt you just love Jenny's friend in the movie ? i want to see more of her . .


~Now another movie to stay well away from Is . . . "Forest Of Promises" Aargh angry if there was eva a time when i'D wanted to punch the actors/actress this was it!!


Synopsis: A police woman transferring convicts to a jail cell falls into an ambush,succumbs to falling in love & fighting for that love . . .


~Part 1 was a complete waste of time,i fast fwd most of it,the supposedly action packed gun firing noise didnt do it for me . . . .neither was the police woman running in her socks when the heels to her knee length high boots broke grin
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by tRoOE(f): 4:14pm On Sep 20, 2008
[size=13pt]@ MC [/b]I will try to watch [b]"Sex,Lies & Marriage" this wkend if am not busy.
Genny friend was lovely,  i heard she's been in the movie industry for years now,but she doesn't take just any script(very picky)
The lady is big and beautiful kiss, very jovial and funny, i like her accent(or maybe is just the way she speaks and pronounce things)

I saw "Mosted Wanted Bachelor", the movie was iight but what i don't understand is why the continuation of the movie has a different title to it, called “Among all women”. This movie is unreal very some reason, who blackmail the president, or walks through the president office without the security seeing him/her pass through.
Ini Edo dressing was craps, she reminds me of those ghetto slut, the girl needs an upgrade angry angry, and there was lot of  hair on her chest ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww embarassed embarassed disgusting
Monalisa acting was good/dressing, well mature lady.


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Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by mohawkchic(f): 12:19am On Sep 21, 2008
~SoOo i finished watching "Letters To A Stranger" . . .Oooh WOW!! is all i can say defo making my list of Movies to watch . . lurved it . . me think i have fallen in love w/ Yemi Blaq {Sadiq}. . that bit where he spoke pidgin while expressing his love . . my heart missed a bit . . kiss


~Oh wow @ Elvina Ibru {Tare} been in the industry for a while,here's hoping she chooses more scripts . . would really love to see her in more movies!!


~I've watched "Most Wanted Bachelor" Beats me why they keep changing the names of the other parts to the movie . .


~I like Mona Lisa & Ini but sometimes Ini's dress code is a tard slutty & i very much doubt if thats got anything to do w/ the character she's playing . .


~Another movie to go under the hammer . . . "Endless Tears " seemed promising when it started but then it slides through the long & winding road to "Tears In Marriage" the part 3 & 4 angry angry


~Synopsis: Married couple fighting the odds of life . . survival . . the lengths a man will go to hold down a job & family!


~The storyline was borderline okay but such a drag to watch . . . my hand was holding the remote through out the movie . . " fast fwd . . play . . fast fwd
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by tRoOE(f): 11:17pm On Sep 21, 2008
[size=13pt]same here, i will like to see more of Elvina
Wow Yemi Blaq is Yoruba, never knew that, handsome guy kiss.
i will love to meet him in person,just to show my appreciation.

All the 4 women did well in the movie,Uche got me cracking up throughout the movie

Must watch movie "Ekaete", i think the movie is a true life story

Wrong desire,stupid movie, what a waste of time angry angry

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Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Sisikill: 2:54am On Sep 22, 2008
NICE!!!!!!!!  grin grin grin grin

Thanks all for picking up the cross!
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by mohawkchic(f): 6:23pm On Sep 22, 2008
wink @ SisiKill


~I'll make a note of "Ekaete" tRoOE,ask my mum to get it grin defo wont be watching "Wrong Desrie" . . thanks for the heads up!!
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by tRoOE(f): 2:17am On Sep 24, 2008
[size=13pt]OMG I just saw "Love is wicked" part one,
required for the ladies cry
some men are heartless, I see why some women will rather be lesbo grin
http://premiumvideos.onlinenigeria.com/Default.asp?search=y&page=4
I felt Stephanie Okereke pains cry cry cry
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Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by mooretes: 2:51pm On Oct 02, 2008
sisikill, abeg, no vex o! im 100% for u but its been a difficult few weeks im writing up for my upgrade and need to sort that out asap but i havent in no way forgotten u and the critique.

Well, one day i saw the preview of letters to a stranger and caught in the middle, I thought, yeah cant wait to see the movie but guess what it was the worst thing ever. We just hissed when the movies began and when i say we, its me and my friends cos the movie was shown in a way ul long to see it when it started, i went like here we go again

abeg, wetin do the ibru chick? ok, she was ok but den wetin do the overacting?

caught in the middle

similar to games women play and erm, one of this african american movies, cant remember the name
anyhoo! RMD was a player who had a bet to bed a lot of girls in 30days
well, mr i can conquer all meets miss im on an assignment to bring u down
whats dat dada girls name sef? Dakore Egbuson
well na so she start to speak like osain because she was asked to put on a sexy voice

wot sort of annoying voice is that, then dey decide to give themselves name, mystery and cant remember
first off, il be mad if someone i dont know keeps ringing me, well might be nice at first if i was looking to get checky but
sounding like a broken pitch doesnt make one sound sexy, it was screeching to the ears,
this is not a good form of critique but i sure shld get something done soon

just at work now wld get it sorted ASAP
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by davidif: 5:12pm On Oct 02, 2008
i saw the real love commercial and the part were the girl is molding clay looks like a scene stolen from "Ghost". grin grin chei, Nigerians, may the almighty help us.
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by Thirdborn: 6:55pm On Oct 02, 2008
"Wallahi i must write something" na im bring me come here o'. I ahven't seen a nollypako in ages (because i no longer use night bus), i read some better people here saying they slept through a nolly nolly, HOW? can you sleep through a robbery with all that gunshot thingy, how can u sleep thru a naija film. i only sleep when i'm realxed not pissed an annoyed.

Anyway sha i must contribute, what's with the titles of these mov, sorry home videos. "chelsea and arsenal", "beyonce and rihanna", "Sharon stone, blah blah", Love this and that, I mean haba,
Re: Tough Love - The Naija Movie Critique Thread (Only Naija Movies) by mooretes: 11:32pm On Oct 02, 2008
here's one my lovely not as sound as i wanted but men, not complaining, writing up isnt easy, then i watch prison break season 4 ep1 to 6 and im terribly knackered now, soz but im getting there, soon il give u the correct thing

ok another nigerian film whose name has been changed but still showcase the same thing they did in the last flick this one is called me alone



chioma chukwuka

nonso diobi and others



in the first few scenes they show police officer akpan speaking to her boss she was talking as if she was reciting a poem

any way, chioma was on the road o and trying to get a cab

nonso comes in and asks what the matter was



a few excerpts



nonso: wots wrong

chioma: its crazy

nonse: what has he done

chioma: he was arrested by the police, bla bla conversation continuees



then

chioma: can you talk me to the station

nonso: hesitates and then goes, ive sworn that i will not step my feet in any police station till the rest of my life, dah! which kain turenchi b that now?

it makes no sense and no one cared to look at it.



From the beginning ma, the film get k leg as it was a remake of another film (well, not a remake just a change of name and also the same useless script, tell me who are they making these movies for? those who dont v iqs or?)



which kain thing be this now



the movie that was changed ehn started with nonso beating up a guy because he was romancing his cousin



or was it he saved chiomas life cant remember



more soon

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