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Re: Why Cant Nollywood Act Films With Some Seriousness. by Freshtomato(f): 11:53pm On Nov 05, 2014 |
Nollywood movies is a big joke. All they do is change clothes and cars and expose their bodies and recycle old stories over and over. No creativity, no passion just nothing its so annoying! I can't seem to keep my eyes open when a nigerian movie is on. I just zoom off almost immediately |
Re: Why Cant Nollywood Act Films With Some Seriousness. by Originalsly: 5:26am On Nov 06, 2014 |
Prof800....I had time to digest your last post! First off...I do criticize but not bash Nollywood...criticize with the hope that they would move to a higher level. Nollywood is not developing quickly not because of lack of talent or money...but lack of opportunity and finances for those with the talent...our own in da house Nairalander Vilageboy is an example of talent starving for opportunity(Une Clone...short movie). On Alaba movies ...you are very dismissive when it comes to these home videos. Do you know it is these very home videos that put Nollywood on the map globally?...and I am not referring to Nigerians in the diaspora. Do you know that the Alaba video stars Patience, Nkem, Genevieve and Omotola are wayyyy more popular than Goodluck Jonathan?...all because of Alaba home videos? ..I am sober and dead serious! What movies would interest foreigners?....movies that tell about life in Nigeria/Africa...movies that showcase African culture...and movies that have stories that have some moral in the story.Which foreigners are most interested?...Blacks...they were cut off from their culture and ancestral land....fed only what the West fed them in the media...negativiity. Alaba movies were like a window to Africa. Popular movies?...ones nicknamed village movies. ..that show the lives of ordinary people. On movies you posted...hmmm....those I MUST see....except the animation/3D ones...not a fan! On films....they need to do a better job in advertising the movies abroad....if not for you ehmmmm...trying to prove a point....I would've never known about these movies!...thanks for shining some light on me here in d dark! 1 Like |
Re: Why Cant Nollywood Act Films With Some Seriousness. by AltarBoy1: 5:58am On Nov 13, 2014 |
Freshtomato:You can say that again. They should take a look at Korean movie and see how interesting and captivating their movies are....? |
Re: Why Cant Nollywood Act Films With Some Seriousness. by AltarBoy1: 6:07am On Nov 13, 2014 |
@Prof800... You need to understand something. Nollywood is good, but the rate at which they are going, they are regressing instead of progressing. The films they are chunning out these days are only suitable to all these lover ladies/girls, on how to date, make money and the rest of them. The little ones that have good stories will not end well. Nothing fascinating about their movies these days. They need to improve realy well. Again, why will advert take about 15-20 mins in a disc plate that has 45-55mins duration, in other words, a part of film lasts only abt 30min. Also, the have resorted in giving silly names to their movies cos instead of having a part name for a movie with parts ranging frm 1-5/8, they will rather have different names after every 2 parts. How ridiculous!!! |
Re: Why Cant Nollywood Act Films With Some Seriousness. by kimco(m): 4:03am On Nov 14, 2014 |
prof800: Well done on ur post however ur pick of the bunch is jux a handfull of good movies in a sea of trashy ones. Even in the worst movie industry in the world a few gems can be brought up. For every good movie we get over 100 bad ones with recycled bull crap. Sound and picture quality for that tym was average for what it was but atleast we understood why...it was a growing industry....Not now. This excuse cannot be given to this situation at all. Nothing excuses nolly movies to come out in atleast 480p quality. Dat's dvd quality and we still haven't achieved that universally. Up till today the songs with "oh my God are they really singing this trash" music in the background, lyrics that literarily sing the plot of the movie. In this day and age. Are there no proper sound engineers who can make use of subtle tunes etc to create ambiance? Now let's not even talk of the plots atall. Because for every great movie u brought up, there is an equally or even better movie that was made in the past. I feel presentation hinders those of u pro modern nollywood to see this. Becos a gud story will always stand the test of tym. We can always tell a gud story even a hundred years from now. Only dat unlike books, the medium used myt get too old for us to appreciate the wonderful story. Watch today's "actors" with so many undeserved fanatics. Why does tonto dike still have a job? She's extremely unbelievable on set unles it's a village ragidy life role. Even then she tends to overreacts. The others aren't all that great. The ghanaian rubbish actors have also come to join (eg yvonne nelson and van vicker) am ghanaian btw. Most of the movies are the same plots....appealing to the biggest audience, ladies. So u get to see unrealistic crap of a pauper marrying a royalty with a slapstick label with "the king..." Always begining it as a title. For once I'd like olu jacobs to actually act a comdey movie without being an in your face comedy type instead of the usual aki and pawpaw, nkem owo ( who is great by the way but get annoying fast) john okafor etc. Mix it up a bit. Take risks, travel to location and shoot the movies there....we don't need over the top car explosions. We jux need brilliant stories with equally brilliant execution. I pray for an igodo remake with proper equipement and a capable director. But I know it won't happen. If u refuse to say the bad and always have a positive mindset when clearly things aren't heading the right way, then u'll sink even more. I'm glad u pulled out a few gems but these movies hardly get advertised. Instead we see movies like the king has my heart bla bla bla on tv everyday. That shud give u an idea of how the industry is. Edit: also mirror boy has the worst execution of a potentially gud movie ever. A desert rider with a plastic bottle of water for the london boy, very amateurish. Acting wasn't bad th |
Re: Why Cant Nollywood Act Films With Some Seriousness. by AltarBoy1: 7:06am On Nov 14, 2014 |
^^^^^Nice post my man. |
Re: Why Cant Nollywood Act Films With Some Seriousness. by Nobody: 1:32pm On Nov 20, 2014 |
AltarBoy1:its all about romance,action and magic..try it out,its so interesting. |
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