There was so much hype about it. I finally saw it. I thought it was excellent but is it the best ever to come out of naja? react

hm, hvnt seen it
who's in it?

i'l really like to see it. . ve heard too much bout it already
it has a website. .here's d link http://www.theamazinggracefilm.com/agf/en/crew.html

impressive!!
i didnt read d synopsis, but from what i saw, i think it's good
besides, they wouldn't just design a webiste if it was crap, or would they?

They would. Website design is less expensive than producing even a crappy movie.

Seeing black people in chains makes me angry,sad,sick. . .

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Raymand:

Seeing black people in chains makes me angry,sad,sick. . .

we must not deny the fact that it happened,however, we must learn to look beyond that and let it foster feelings of love and solidarity amongst us

Digging up the dirty aspects of history cannot foster any positive feelings. It can only make us angry. If I was making a historical movie, I would totally exclude the chains and minimize the slavery aspect.

you document history so that people will know [b]exactly [/b]what happened in the past and how it happened. in doing so we learn the mistakes of past and try to avoid them in the present. it was obvious that slavery worked better because some of us connived with the white man. sadly some are still doing it today.

even though we think we are free we are still in chains; economic slavery, mental slavery, neo--colonial imperialism.

let's get angry and say no to all forms of slavery, never again shall we collude with the white man to underdevelop our people. that's the attitude.

A movies are not the ideal way to document history. That's what textbooks are for.

The purpose of a movie is to take people through an emotional ride that makes them feel really good by the end.

@ seun

that's interesting. so the only way you know how to document history is via a textbook

if its just to make people feel good at the end i guess there will be no tragedies

if you feel anger that means you had an emotional ride

I thought there was another thread about this movie. I wanted to like it, but in short--it's an atrocious attempt to remake "Roots" in Nigeria. Much of the plot doesn't make sense, and most of the acting is terrible--Fred Amata and Nick Moran (the two leading actors) were not convincing, for the most part. I generally cut Nigerian movies a lot of slack--I don't expect Spielberg-style special effects or Stanley Kubrick-style emotion, but this was average, even for the Nollywood market.

It was a 4/10 for me.

Amazing Grace was all hype,35mm,white B-British actors and more hype.it wasn't anything spectacular.
Izu oJukwu AMBO's movie-SITANDA is quite more better in both concepts and technical term.
its far more better than Amazing even though it wqas shot digutally.

Here's another 'Amazing Grace' movie: http://imdb.com/title/tt0454776/ also about the hymn.

really ,are this two movies out?can one get it in the u.k or is it only in naija?who were the acts in them?hope im not asking too many qs.