What Kind Of Movie Do You Want Nigerians To Make?

Like i said earlier there is so much to content to write or focus on  in our movies that we don't even need special effects, the drama and eccentricities in Naija daily live is enough to make an international hit, so why do we focus on unnecessary content.

Realistic movies with genuine theatrical ablities. Good story lines without "husband snatching themes or barreness".-----No cultism with quest for wealth----with some ugly, country looking, hungry dudes in search of wealth--sucking mammy water breasts!!!!! No fake phonetics. Does not matter the language spoken.

Quality products well edited for superior audio-visuals.---DVD formats not VCD!!!!!

Definitely not horror movies or "Occultic" movies with Pete Edochie and Kanayo O. Kanayo in any of them.  Yuck!!!

Yes! And those bloody "juju" movies need to go too!


DEFINITELY MOVIES THAT HAVE JUST PART ONE!!!!------We do not want parts 2 to 100, thanks!

I want producers to make more movies on some notable Nigerian characters. The way we have the movies such as Malcom X, Nelson Mandela that promotes the ideals the characters stood for, we should also have movies such as : Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Obafemi Awolowo, Atiku Abubakar, Murtala Muhammad, Herbert Macauley, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chima Ubani, and Fela Anikulapo Kuti. These are true Nigerian heroes anyday. These movies should pry into these men's lives to discover how and why they chose their selected path in life, and it could also serve as direction to most of our youths that have completely lost focus of the future.

I thought i could go into these forms of movies but for one factor or the other, i keep procrastinating. Our movie producers can do us all a lot of good by producing more of these type of movies.

I also would like Chinua Achebe to produce "Things fall apart " and " A Man of the People" in movie format. It should win some movie awards.

Just my thoughts.

@Emeka
I saw an advert about the NAFDAC woman Dora akinyuli*, i think its called the patriot don't know how the films is though looks a bit watery from the advert

Another thing with those kind of the films especially in our Nigeria is that the teller will basically be accused of promoting his own people- telling his own side of the story, similar to what you read about people who wrote books on the biafrian war.

always wondered why they can't just copy films unto DVDs it easier to handle and its almost the same process!

you can make 113 movies within that period!!! you are wasting E go!!! 

@joshjosh

wow i feel u!
d whole sumary is that they rush in producing their movies at d expense of quality, they aint realistic at all- u kd imagine omotola wearing the same hairdo 4 ova 10yrs,same story lines- which eventually u kud predict the end from the beginin. Gosh am tired of naija movies

@TOH i am edo but i watch yoruba movies very well. Infact, some times more than english films. To correct u, total war is all about the plight of a Nigerian missionary family in liberia. I love the twist of the movie. The script writer skillfully interwive liberia and nigeria together.

@janami
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnjPAiZPZDk
i agree with what you're saying you can check out
the Trailer,this movie is da boom.

i'll admit to feeling a bit vindicated here, because the opinion i have expressed for years seems to be confirmed by this survey!

namely: most Nigerians are not so much concerned about the genres of the movies that are presented to them; they just want better quality, fullstop. better production, better acting, better writing--just something that vaguely resembles a "real" "professional" movie in general.

believe me: where Nigeria is concerned, i would argue that quality ultimately trumps genre.

if they advertise a movie that looks like a movie, with all the hallmarks of a professional, "international-standard" production, many people will go to see it just based on that, regardless of what it's about.

but if we discount that, i would say that the single factor that guides the majority of Nigerian viewers in their choice of Nigerian movies is the stars featured in them, not the genre.

think about it: for the most part, can you even tell the genre of most Nigerian movies just by looking at the cover? except for maybe the comedies (because the comedies seem to have a certain set of performers associated with them, and you can expect to see people making stupid faces or men dressed in drag on the covers). but other than the comedies, how does the average Nigerian even KNOW the genre of a movie when they look at the poster?

regardless of genre, the movies all have the same kind of cheap, montage poster with big vignettes of the stars' faces. (okay, once in a while you see some people holding guns and guess it might be an action film, but even then, you never know for sure!) and they all have ambiguous, often non sequitur titles: "Supremacy"! "Discord"! "Goodbye to New York"! "On Bebded Kneels"! {sic} "A Prize to Pay"! {sic} "Under the Sky"! how do you tell what the genre is? there's usually no blurb or plot summary written on the jacket either!

the average person looks at the poster and thinks "oh, i like Jim Iyke! i go watch this one!" "ahhhh,  Genevieve dey this one!" "Ini Edo, Kate Henshaw and Bob-Manuel! i'm buying it!"

not saying folks don't have some degree of preferences where genre is concerned, but i don't think it's really a major consideration. also, i think you are referring to preferences in terms of foreign movies. most Nigerian movies don't have clear-cut genres anyway: they start off as romantic movies, become thrillers somewhere in the middle and then by the end they are trying to enforce a Christian message (TO GOD GIVE THE GLORY!)

Seun many examples have been giving.

Respectful books by Nigerian authors should be transformed on to the big screen. Movies like "Ray" can be done for Fela and many other Nigerian musicians. There are various things that can be done if they cared. They figure that since their low quality predictable garbage is selling like hotcajkes, why step it up. Greed is their problem in the industry.

there's already been at least one sci-fi movie, Jeta Amata's Alien Attack

and yes, it was some crackhead schitt, but it was a sci-fi movie nonetheless!

yes,  i've never seen actually seen it, but i've heard so much about it: like how they used bald albinos to play the aliens!

hey, l am a great fan of naija movies and l am not ashamed of admiting it, l actually spend my hard earned money to buy them apart from being a member of two video clubs. In fact, we are the folks keeping down in business and we are happy to be part of their success stories. l wonder why typical nigerians find them boring, the films are always electrifying- there is always something to learn, laugh or even cry about them and now l cannot remember the last time l sat down to watch a foreign hollywood film apart from the sitcoms.

Please lets not be too hard on our naija movies, they are trying in their own way, I particularly love to unwind watching them, yes take it that part of the fun is picking out the mistakes within, the good news is that they are improving by the day,

as for the complaints about their themes, unfortunately, those are the familiar issues confronting us;- from the get-rich quick syndrome, to husband snatching, occult, barreness, blah blah etc. regretably, all of these are challenges before us here, the problem with our elitist breed is that you people keeping using hollywood as a yardstick for them. both are distinct and separate environments.

to tell you the truth, l personally cannot stand watching the so-called hollywood foreign movies because the issues and plots are just not in terms with my naija psyche- forgive me-but their white faces just turn me off, their westernised plot is just too plastic for my liking e.g actors will drink coffee /tea 100 times in between each sentence is boring.(mind you l can perfectly comprehend their oyinbo accent-so its not a case of one illiterate viewer who cannot understand their accent.)  

now give me my naija films any day, l love their razzmattaz, glamour, the interior decor of the houses, the actresses well-adorned even whilst cooking or sleeping, the light-headed but engaging story lines, they showcase everything about us for now-the good,  the bad and the ugly.  

Now to answer your question proper, l'D like to see glamourised modern day nigerian movie l can identify with, dealing on the present day to day issues confronting the average nigerian bordering on subject matters on love, family, money matters, religion, etc.  

@ obecha

We are not against propagating the naija lifestyle, we just want quality, quality, quality. I am Igbo but it is only the Yoruba movies that is trying to make themselves better in the aspect of quality. You might enjoy the movies but it is not worthy of an international award. If you have a good storyline, good script writing, good delivery of lines from actors llike Joke Silva (and those that cannot speak english speaking their language instead), but no camera/sound quality, then we are only back to ground zero.

I know this is not a nollywood bashing thread but I went to my cousin's house this new year and they happened to have a huge tray of nollywood movies, I could not boast of good movie with good camera/sound quality even with the likes of Ramsey Noah, Stella Damascus etc. in the movie.

We also need to have a critics organization whereby crap would be labelled as crap so that people would be beware and buy at your own risk.

@ blacklion

Can our movies compete internationally? Or is nollywood against success and progress? We are the consumers and we demand better.

I happened to watch a movie "Yellow card" a few years back. It is an African movie and I was deeply impressed. It was clear on my screen. The colour was sharp. Good delivery of lines. The song playing in the background did not overshadow the actors lines. I did not see the director's hand waving at the actors while watching the movie. I did not see the reflection of a person in the mirror when you as the viewer know that there ought to be no other person in the room but the actors. I am not a filmographer but Nollywood should please update their cameras. Nigerian directors need to make research, go back to school even ask fellow South Africans how they make their movies movies not homevideos. You would agree with me there's a difference. If we do not want to compete internationally then we should not improve.