80% Of Nollywood Films Are Wack

Love their christian movies sha,  agbranla , apoti eri etc, love the spiritual concepts ,

mr KOJIEWA,  u are so wrong, make a good movie n people will buy it aii, see that movie games women play,
just by describing how good d movie was, and showing enthusiasm bout d movie, i indirectly publicised n advertised it ok, n sold over 500 copies of that movie to 23 of my dad co-workers.
so when people see what they want, they get it, esp nigerians. WE LIKE FINE THINGS~~~~THATS 4 SURE!!
gosh u sound wack, n its like saying oh let reknowned countries n manufacturing nations not process good food, exceptional cosmetic n perfumes and up to date gadgets because they will spend too much money n people wont buy it, try lookin out ur window n see how many nigerians are equipped wt the best n latest gadgets,n every fine thing that importers  / life in general got 2 offer.
 so plsssssssssssss HUSH!@

i have to say that i agree with most  of the posts that naija films are for the most excruciatingly painful to watch. i think the main culprit is bad script writing. I mean am not asking them to make matrix like sci-fi movies just a simple drama with descent acting a good script will do. look at Dangerous Twins by Tade Ogidan thats the best acting i'v ever seen ramsey noauh do. anyhow 'e go beta na poor man prayer'. On a lighter note u also know u are watching a nollywood film when
1. when the sound track narrates what u can see with ur eyes happening in the film
2. when hanks anuku uses an american accent its a comedy or romance, if he uses a local accent its an action movie
3. when the actor/actress reconciles the action in the film to its title in one sentence e.g 'yes this is a GREAT CONSPIRACY'
4. when pete edochie uses animal metaphors

@andrewdg

did you mean to say 100%? I really don't agree that 80% of Nigerian Home Videos are of poor quality. I think they are all hopeless, save for a handful.

You can imagine a situation whereby a music video has four times the production effort of a home video.
A case where Nigerian music videos take months to plan, shoot and produce, while home videos take a month.
Where professionally trained Directors and Editors are engaged in making Nigerian music videos while nobody edits home videos, they just use cut and paste, transitions and that God forsaken House Of Macro.
The Soundtrack for music videos are professionally re-recorded in a studio, while in home videos, it's the crappy noise they record during shooting that they render back into the video and bring out as the final movie.
While during the shoot of music video shots are taken and re-taken several times before going to the next scene, in home video production their hope is to shoot every scene on the first take. I've personally been on a set where The Geckos where shooting a music video and they shot a single scene up to 30 times because of how difficult it was. Even when the actors got it perfectly right at last, they still re-took it 5 more times so that during editing they may choose the very best.

The home video industry will not improve till financial benefit starts coming to those whose movies are exceptionally good.

That stupid Africa Magic should begin to demand some level of picture and sound quality before they feature any movie and start paying royalties.

The current state of the Nigerian movie industry is a big joke. I'm very ashamed of it. Very few of the so-called actors can even act with a degree of realism. Most of the producers are ex-electronics dealers who don't see the need to buy scripts they make up their own stories themselves and allot those rib-cracking names; "Juliet Must Die, But Why?"

It's just sickening!

There are just some people that can't take rubbish and settle for less. We can't spend money or time on bullsh!t

why do u think the nigerian movies arent shown in the prominent nigerian cinemas. 'because the quality is a drag. The posters or preview is all u need and u have watched the movie

Entertainment is 100% subjective.  One man's great movie is another man's "rubbish".
It's silly to insist that a movie is "bad" just because you don't like it.  Take it or leave it.

Hollywood films are generally more popular than Nollywood films because more money is
spent on them.  And they can afford to spend more money on their movies because they
make a lot from the box office, dvd sales, tv, etc.  Thanks to piracy, we get all these movies
for less than 10% of what they should cost.  If not for the fact that you have been spoiled
by movie piracy, you would have realised that Nigerian movies give us more value for our
money because they are cheaper than hollywood movies.  And they are cheaper precisely
because of the corners they cut.  In other words, you get what you pay for!

The higher the rewards,the higher the quality of the product.That is one of the main things that seperates Hollywood from Nollywood.

@ seun, smart guy.lol
don't get it twisted, i never said it could match,
but what about story lines, do their brains also require a certain budget to produce a smart n concise story?
even if productions are poor n shit, a good story will be read, so lets start from there.
technology aint the only thing that makes a world enjoyable n livable.
theatre arts are related dramas are acted everyday in the poorest of standards, but are still watched n appreciated never rebuffed as long as the audience follows the story, so y don't they start there?
thats my point, we can't be penny wise pound foolish.

I doubt that greatly, Nigerians can write, but movie 'producers' are not interested in true writers, they just cik the popular actors/actresses at a given time, and then concoct a 'script' involving them based on the current rave of the moment - love story, 'epic', rituals, politicians, campus issues or whatever,

these guys are for the most part not interested in making good movies, but basically want to make money. There are some well written scripts, but those are usually plagiarized and poorer versions produced multiple times afterwards if the first one sells.

By the way, its not really the job of English teachers to teach creativity, it comes from the heart. If anyone is seriously interested in writing scripts, he/she should check out the dating section of nairaland, some of those stories don't even need much scripting. They are bestsellers all on their own 

I hv read so much rubbish in my day. all these excuses to surport the messed up nigerian directors and producers?

how about the musicians in naija that spend so much in making videos?

do the movie producers need so very much money to come up with good scripting?

most of them illiterates coming up with bulsh!t and y'all say it's because of money?

they will continue to rot in quality and as the %age of illiterates in nigeria reduce, so will their audience in direct proportion.

The best screen play nigeria has ever had is wants to be a millionaire,think like a millionaire by the late Ken Saro Wiwa,more realistic and motivational rather than the gospel and fettish productions that we have today as movies in nigeria, which actually reflect the mental state of the country,any thing outside this,is just 19 runs or thieving politicians which is good if well presented.We will get there in generations to come,like i said before,people are how they think,your reasoning reflects in your every day life. You can't sow okro to reap yam.

@seun
Nigerians can't write very well? You miss am bro
How come Nigerians are winning all the awards in fiction. The Truth is that those who have at least some talent have been corrupted by the 'man must wack' mentality. Others are writing well for other developmental and short films but refuse to write for nollywood. Other write for TV.

@denex

HD cameras? bro, they 2 for 5 kobo in naija now!! the problem is not the equipment. those cameras are used to record weddings and funerals in naija now!! the problem is that those videographers who call themselves cinematographers cannot put the camera to good use. they can't friggin us edit well!!!!!

@ who talked about Adobe premiere and Final cut pro?

Final cut is still scarce but it is very available in naija. As for Adobe Premiere, I think the CD is N150 at computer village!!
see, the problem again is not the equipment or software but the users!! there are few, very few, good film editors in naija. the others are basically 'cut and paste experts' who do not have the foggiest idea about film editing and are too arrogant to learn.

Nigerians at home don't win any awards in fiction.  Only Nigerians who have been abroad for decades do.

such confusion resting on contradiction!

nigerian movies are terrible period!!!!

there are no excuse but clowns that still say they are very good!

From way back, majority Indian movie producers/writers have made music a part of their film culture. That hasn't in anyway affected the quality of their film-makingand story-telling. In fact, they're getting better at it everyday. Whoever thinks otherwise should try and get his/her facts right.
The major problem we have here is the fact that most of our so-called movie producers/directors lack the passion for what they do and are too hasty to churn out movies. This has an adverse effect on the quality of our movies.
They just want to make quick bucks, Chikena!

Nigerian Home Videos have no single shred of quality.

If not anything at all, they should edit the movies rather than simple engaging in cut and paste.
They should re-record audio in a professional studio rather than just go ahead and use the saw audio captured during principal photography. IT SOUNDS TERRIBLE!

And I hope I won't be asking too much if I also ask them to do away with "To God Be The Glory" because there's nothing glorious about those movies, and besides, we're getting tired of that same old line.