Common Flaws in Nigerian Home Videos

yea,and also when they say 20 years ago,you will see a honda accord and the dressing does not change.Even the houses look so like 2006 houses.I could pick it to pieces

well 4 starters almost all nigerian films r predictable u'll just know what 'll happen at d end witout thinkin bou it.

then what is it wit d directors?y can't they make sure scenes r acted out professionally? take hospital scenes 4 eg, d

exams r never properly done n dressins r always soaked wit blood even if d patient has been in hospital 4 a

week they should solicit d help of real doctors 4 training n stop disgracin our practice.

arrest r also made only on cicumstantial evidences not hard evidences n their court cases potrayal i bet i can do

beta than their actors in that dept. i'll advice film producers 2constantly watch foreign movies 2 learn 1 or 2 things.

d predictability thing just takes d fun out of da whole thing.

this is one juicy topic!let me start from subtitles.i live in an english evironment ,i was once forced to show a nigerian movie to my colleagues,a yoruba movie.it was so badly subtitiled that they had to tune to a cable channel halfway 'because of the poor english.
 also,stars like baba suwe still look at the camera while acting out a part.
 how about watching part 2 of all these meaningless english[ibo] movies and seing, the story has just begun,watchout for the concluding saga
 too many adverts!,yoruba movies are worse,they have adverts in disc one,two and three.
poorly directed,fake accents,bad story lines, too predictable,bad costumiers,illitrate producers and editors,same hairstyle for ten years, some manage to use scarf or cap to cover the hairstyle they will be carrying in the next ten years, i could go on and on!ask me if i watch them,i do because they make me laugh!

VERDAMMT!

TOO MANY FLAWS 

I've got only one thing to say. . .

DOCTORS QUARTERS!!!

When Amercan slang is used; it's always old. e.g. Beautiful faces, one dollar

Only 1% of raped women go to the police e.g. Stephanie Okereke in Last Girl Standing

If there are lesbians; someone must die or be ostracised. e.g The Comforter, women affair

Something bad always happens to the virgin. e.g. Promise me forever, critical decision

Mothers tell their twentysomething daughters to marry a man, any man, no matter how much of a b*astard he is. e.g. Romantic attraction

they aint flaws, they just 'nigerian'

Everything is wrong with Nigerian movies.In fact i prefer sticking my manhood into a bee's nest than watching a Nigerian movie

its a form of 4play for 4play u know 

1) Time - Way too muh time is wasted (showing a couple grocery shopping for example and showing them paying and loading the car and the car backing out)
2) Grammatical Errors - Forget the phonee they try to speak, simple errors are not even corrected. Its funny no one could have corrected the actor/actress.
3) Budget - I think to maximize profit some producers distribute their budget over a number of movies therefore compromising quality instead of investing the money in one movie with great quality and story line. Thats the reason Ego Boyo started producing her own movies (I Think). 
4) Sound & Picture Quality - Lets not get started
5) Behind the Scenes People - I think we have a couple of very good actors but behind the scenes guys r wack from directors to camera men.
6) Previews - OMG!!! Someone described them earlier it starts with some kind of disturbing sound like that and then a man yelling. Are we not creative enough to make better previews, everybody had to stick with the wackest way of selling anything (yelling).
7) Number of movies that come out - There are so many movies out at the same time that you tend to miss the good ones admist rubbish because its like one good movie in 20 releases. So for me its really hard to pick out good movies so i don't bother watching them except someone recommends them.

We've come this far and we still have so many flaws. Although people from other parts of Africa enjoy some of them, we should have improved so much more. The sad thing is they can't criticize our movies because some of these countries don't even produce movies compared to Nigerian ones but its still sometimes embarassing.They should really stop making secondary school plays and start making MOVIES. What happened to movies like Violated and Rattle Snake. Why didn't they follow in their footsteps instead they all followed in the footsteps of movies like Blood money (going back to the beginning). I still love a number of them though

   also to add to the constand repetition of story lines there is also the absence of the aesthetic aspects of literature which thus makes the plays or drama,s very boring. It is like the film directors and writers have, all ran out of their various stocks of written materials and seem to be more interested in exploiting their consumers. How can a single play of just one a.b.c. storyline run from part one to three with numerous unnecessary scenes as well as constand repetition of scenes;not going to quote examples,with each part produced within the same period and of numerous flashbacks running within its part two and three be expected to be given the qualities of a movie plus each part sold at the same price, of which some parts last for not up to twenty minutes;posing as another great problem be sold to a matured public like that of the Nigerian and the rest of other African societies watching them. Buying them doesn.t all mean we adore them but expecting an improvement from the movie industry and to prove to the world we  could produce and enjoy our own products[not ponograhpic stuff] but ironically, the progression is moving backwards. There ougth to be some positive change, being Blacks doesn,t mean we were born with some retardness.

the one that gets me the most is the volume of sound at the beginning. they play it so loud it can make you go deaf, even when your tv volume is low! what rubbish. 
they beging the movie by announcing the marketers of the movie and where you can buy it
for ex. goes something like this:

watch 2 rats blah blah blah, marketed by no.1 ebinpejo lane, idumota lagos blah blah blah, grab your copy NOW! _{followed by the most annoying shrill noise/sound effect}

that shit cracks me up.
 

A Prophet has no honour in its own land,

yeah still gotta love that country even with all our rubbish movies.

keep the flaws coming though! 

They always use fake flowers and sometimes they even sniff the flowers like they are real.
The hospital scenes are always annoying - all it takes to diagnose an ailment is a stethoscope.
The court scenes- I just hate watching those
The sex scenes esp. if its in the living room- both parties always have their clothes on - I mean fully clothed with the belts all buckled and to make matters worse you hear the moaning.
The actors trying to sing e.g Pat Attah in 'I want my money" - the guy can't sing to save his life

@ IAH
1. They advertise by screaming and shouting; "Ori eja! Ori eja!! Ori eja!!! Suspense! Action!! Thrilling!!! Ori Eja!  Now on Fideo and FiCD. Ori eja!!! Grap your copy NOWWWW!!!



D Abeg IAH no kill me o!!!! Fideo and FiCd!!! That's a good one. My stomach is hurting from so much laughter. What of those special effect sounds they make when advertising their films?  Indescribable

Where does one begin


1) Is it the 30mins previews of other films before the main film, or

2) the shouting during the previews, or

3) the village woman coming from the farm with well-manicured nails, or

4) the 'returnee' who's accent leaves you with a permanent headache, or

5)  the problems that are allowed to linger until in the end some half-baked 'pastor' comes in and 'prays' it all away, or

6) the unbelievable wigs and head-pieces which remind you of the proverbial 'ojuju-kalabar' (and to my fellow Cross Riverians/ Akwa-Ibomites, no offence intended) or,

7) the multi-colouredness of almost all the actresses (both English and Yoruba) and in some cases, actors, that leave you wondering if you have to be light-skinned to act. Most time those 'skin of many colours' tends to hurt the eye.

I could go on and on but suffice it to say   However, afterall said and done, I AM A NOLLYWOOD MOVIE ADDICT