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| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Kanto: 8:41pm On Oct 03, 2008 |
To all the reasonable folks out there: There is a difference between "constructive criticism" and "destructive criticism". I have no problem with constructive criticism that identifies the problem of the fledgling nigerian movie industry and proffers solutions, afterall there is nothing perfect on the face of this earth, even Hollywood that is almost a hundred years old is not perfect, however when some enemies of progress cross the line and begin to advocate the total scrapping of nollywood, a young industry that is the private investment and initiative of some individuals and that has created thousands of jobs and given fulfillment to the life of some in a land where there are no jobs, i begin to see the dirty fingers of destructive critics, witches, wizards and lazy bigots whose only mission in life is to destroy the efforts of others. @thirdborn, sissikil and all the other witches: What laughable creatures! You guys are simply full of noise without action. What are you waiting for to produce your own "perfect movies"? Cameras are everywhere, if you can't afford the cameras get in touch with me and i will lend you some. We are all eyes and ears waiting for your "perfect movies". Stupid clowns! @Mooretes: I don't know what your standards are in determining a failed state, but kindly try to answer the following questions. What will you call a nation that cannot provide common electricity? What will you call a nation that cannot provide common pipe borne water? What will you call a nation that cannot provide hospitals? What will you call a nation that cannot provide good schools? What will you call a nation where the leaders go abroad for treatment and send their children to schools abroad? What will you call a nation that cannot provide security for her citizens? What will you call a nation that cannot provide roads? What will you call a nation with over 70% unemployment? What will you call a nation that cannot organize simple free and fair elections? What will you call a nation that is the 6th largest oil producer in the world but imports fuel? What will you call a nation where human corpses can be seen on the streets? What will you call a nation where all the leaders at every level are government robbers? The list can go on and on. Now mr mooretes, if these failings in the provision of the fundamentals basics does not make Nigeria a failed state, i wonder what else makes a failed state. Meanwhile some clowns out there have not advocated the scrapping of a failed nation like nigeria, yet they have the effrontery to advocate the scrapping of nollywood, the private business of individuals. The internet is sure full of garbage. |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Sisikill: 9:40pm On Oct 03, 2008 |
What in the world is Uncle Kanto going on about? Oh Diversionary tactics, eh? You sly man you! I gotcha!  Wake me up when you wanna discuss movie making and how Nollywood is making mockery of it, mmmmkay! Until then, it's snoresville for moi!  Wait. . . did you say something about schools? Okay, Okay, I'll give you that one. Yes, we need to provide good schools seeing as majority of the Nollywood movies out there look like they were made by illiterates! Nice Idea Kanto, really nice! Well done!. . . and some people thought you wouldn't come around to seeing things our way!  |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Sisikill: 11:47pm On Oct 03, 2008 |
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| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Kanto: 12:10am On Oct 04, 2008 |
@sisikill: The more you write, the more you make a fool of yourself. Pity for you and your band of witches and wizards. Little wonder nigeria is the shameful disgrace and failure she is. With empty good for nothing, loudmouths, lowlifes and enemies of progress like yourself, nigeria is sure to remain in the dustbin for a longtime to come! I am even doing you a favour by responding to you. I am far too superior to empty lesser mortals like yourself to be caught exchanging banters with you. Consider yourself lucky. |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Kanto: 12:21am On Oct 04, 2008 |
Now i know that all the white racists are right, Africans and nigerians in particular are simply monkeys, no more no less, that is why nigeria is no better than a glorified jungle packed with unprogressive jealous bigots! I wish the monkeys goodluck! |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Sisikill: 3:41pm On Oct 04, 2008 |
Hmmm, someone is making a fool of themselves quiet alright, let’s see shall we. . . Flashback Naija movie style with stupid sound effect. . . . trrrriiiiiiiiinnnnnn Me - Nollywood makes crappy movies. Kanto – Yeee! You are a witch and a wizard! Me - Nollywood needs to step up their movie making game. Drama Queen Kanto – Ah! It will not better for you. Me - Just because we criticize Nollywood, does not mean we hate it. Foaming in the Mouth Kanto - You are evil creature, Bastard! Me -  Kantolino - White supremacist are right! You are a monkey! A Racists, Me -  Oga Kanto - I am even doing you a favour by responding to you. I am far too superior to empty lesser mortals Me – Oh Wow! Bravo!  Superior god Kanto using his super powers to spit 100 sentences in 1 go - nigeriaissuretoremaininthedustbinforalongtimetocome!Whatwillyouallanationthatcannotprovidecommonelectricity?Whatwillyoucallanationthat cannotprovidecommonpipebornewater?Whatycallanationthatcannotprovidehospitals?Whatwillyoucallanation that cannot provide good schools?Whatwillyoucallanationwheretheleadersgoabroadfortreatmentandsendtheirchildrentoschoolsabroad?Whatwill you call a nation that cannot provide security for her citizens?Whatwillyou call a nation that cannot provide roads?What will you call a nation with over 70% unemployment?What will you call a nation that cannot organize simple free and fair elections?What will you call a nation that is the 6th largest oil producer in the world but imports fuel?What will you call a nation where human corpses can be seen on the streets?What will you call a nation where all the leaders at every level are government robbers? Me - Lawd-a-mercy!  Bobo Kanto - Empty good for nothing, loudmouths, lowlifes and enemies of progress Me -  When are we going to talk movie making?Returns to present Naija movie style with the another stupid sound effect. . . paaaraaaraaan Ah! Yes, I can see now, I am the one who is making a fool of myself, . . Totally! Rotflmao! Jeebus! Like I said, when you are ready to talk movie making. . . just holla! Mmmkay! Until then   |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by vescucci(m): 5:49pm On Oct 04, 2008 |
Sisi, answer this boy o. Me waiting for a PM too o. With a YIM to relate with o. Do quick o. Abeg o. Okay o. Bye bye o. |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by grafikdon: 8:10pm On Oct 04, 2008 |
Kanto, take am easy o. . .  @Sisikill, the big problem is most of the movie producers see the art of film making through the prism of manufacturing, hence the inclination to knock together a movie in one or two weeks and rush it to the market for a ''quickie'' ermm. . . I was referring to fast cash/profit. I was totally stunned when I gathered from a very reliable source that one of the ''gods''. . . emmm. . . I mean. . . marketers refused to work with Izu Ojukwu because according to him, Ojukwu ''takes too long'' and by ''too long'' he meant 3 months.  In my humble opinion, no serious director or producer will attempt to direct/produce more than four films in one year. I could be wrong but that's just my humble opinion. That is the reason why the likes of Ogoro, Ojukwu and Ogidan do not have dish out 365 films in one year. Spending a little extra time is no guarantee one will end up with a ''hit'' but it sure gives you a better opportunity to fix glaring errors in post production. |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Sisikill: 4:28am On Oct 05, 2008 |
vescucci: Tee hee hee. . . AIM? grafikdon: Hey, Hey. . . everybody has their own way of catching fun, don't ruin mine for me ooooooo.  grafikdon: No Way! Please, tell me you are just pulling my legs!  Three months? . . . three months is too long to shoot!!! Charlatans! Hack! Quacks! Ughh! Why I oughta. . .  In my humble opinion, no serious director or producer will attempt to direct/produce more than four films in one year. I could be wrong but that's just my humble opinion. That is the reason why the likes of Ogoro, Ojukwu and Ogidan do not have dish out 365 films in one year. Spending a little extra time is no guarantee one will end up with a ''hit'' but it sure gives you a better opportunity to fix glaring errors in post production. Absolutely, Positively Correct!! QUALITY not QUANTITY!!! |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by doyin13(m): 8:53am On Oct 05, 2008 |
So are the metal scrappers here trying to insinuate making a film beyond a two week period confers some sort of certified quality. I would think not. . . .There are numerous examples in Hollwood and especially Europe of films made within such short time frames and have proved to be of exceptional quality. Micheal Hanekes films come to mind. I think the problem with Nollywood is the blockbuster mentality. A penchant for films with the Rambo soundtrack and punchline or Celine Dion accompaniments. A good focused script will always help detract the audience from a flawed technical production. |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Sisikill: 1:29pm On Oct 05, 2008 |
Metal Scrappers? Lmao! Was going for garbage scrappers but this is good too! The insinuation here is that if they spent more time making the movie, they will see the flaws and you know. . . correct 'em. You'D have to be top of the top, good at what you do, to shoot in a week and these ones. . . well they ain't. Something has got to give, don't you think? Either perfect your skills so shooting in 1 week makes no difference to the quality of the end product or take all the time in the world with the end result being quality work. You feel? A good focused script will always help detract the audience from a flawed technical production. Love this and will also add "in the right hand". A Good focused script in the right hands will always help distract the audience from a flawed technical production. . . because there are some people out there who can turn cheesecake to dog poo in 30 secs flat!!!!!! |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by vescucci(m): 5:30pm On Oct 05, 2008 |
Lol! The poll is giving me no joy! There are too many extremely optimistic people or there are too many |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by doyin13(m): 7:55pm On Oct 05, 2008 |
vescucci: You sound like the chap who wrote the Nollywood classic Beyonce and Rihanna  |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Thirdborn: 9:04pm On Oct 05, 2008 |
Hey team, was hoping to see some more crap from the nollywood deranged kanto. Bo Sisikill, Mooretes, my peeps how una dey? |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by olawumio: 8:34am On Oct 06, 2008 |
hey guys sometime this movie keeps u alive when you go out to spend on eatries u kep your self laughing like nite of a thousand laugh. |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by doyin13(m): 10:46am On Oct 06, 2008 |
olawumio: abi na. . . .considering the poison these Mama Abodi's and Iya Oniresi sell |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by iukpe: 11:57am On Oct 08, 2008 |
We can only say the movie industry is young and experiencing "teething problems" when there is a serious effort by all involved to make good movies and eventually it doesnt turn out so good. Technology is one of the most important things today in making good movies. The equipment, the set and editing software etc, all add to the ability to produce a good movie. Even adding computer generated images. I have been in a small movie village in Mumbai, India sometime and I had the opportunity to see a movie being made. I believed if a fly went past the camera it would be part of the script. They were repeating one part over and over, there was a market place put together just for this movie a train station with two coaches with handles that allowed them to be rocked to imitate the train behaviour on the rail, flashing lights manually operated to look like the train was moving past light posts. It looked pretty easy especially when you realise that these were not real coaches nor real rails, but just fabricated for this purpose and repainted or relocated to fit any movie. Nigerian movie companies should begin to think of putting some life in movie production. acquire some acers of land in one of those villages we make our movies and begin to set up movie style villages. This takes some time but will go a long way in making our next generation movies better. After a while we will no longer need to come out to open streets to make movies where we cannot stop the public from hanging around to watch. Some things can be made just for movie purposes when you have the determination, and with this other support talents will be discovered, like stunt men, stunt drivers, special movie technicians etc. I specifically would like to develope special effects for the movie industry. For instance in a high tech communications center, all of the flashing light panels and screens are just dummies made for that purpose. People will be willing to invest in all kinds of things the movie industry might need. We cant talk of teething problems when movies starts from crappy storyline and no talent displayed by the characters. A movie with a good storyline may turn out very yukky if all characters say their parts as if read from the pages of a book they've seen for the first time. The Nigerian music industry is good today cos its backed up with a lot of technology and good talent. A bit of innovation could make a lot of difference in our movie industry. |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Sisikill: 5:03pm On Oct 10, 2008 |
Goodness! That was a well thought out post. THANK YOU!!! I hope you don't mind, I copied and pasted it on this thread. . . https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-178415.0.html |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by rodler(m): 7:09pm On Oct 11, 2008 |
Bros! I wish I could stretch ma hands out there for a handshake. Well, on their own side thats their best, they will even boast for it, for many others, :ohmm, rubbish might not make a good syllable, I will checkup my cambridge diction, I found out some xtics in Nigerian Movies like, 1. Easy to Predict the outcome of the movie or what the end will look like 2. Love 3. Native Doctor 4. Theft 5. Village wakas 6. I forgot few others, guess u know please, If you can reach out to them, they need to improve because some how we don't need to totally get rid of this guys if you do. Bros you are cutting of someone salary/wages. Let 'em try something technological or more of suspense. , In short I don tire!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8-X |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by vescucci(m): 2:26pm On Oct 18, 2008 |
You and me both |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by lucabrasi(m): 9:28pm On Oct 18, 2008 |
i have done enough of proffering solutions to the nollywood malaise on other threads so ill just quickly say that for these calling for a total scraping of the industry,the cure to cancer is chemo not killing the cancer patient and using a sledge hammer on a fly is slightly being heavy handed wont you agree, moreover for those saying if you dont like nollywood then avoid it rather than criticise,i think that is the most idiotic advice ever,in a country of 140smth million people,does it make any business sense to cater for less than 100,000 when you have the potential to reach out to say tens of millions? instead of all the so called nollywood artistes moonlighting as high class escorts to make ends meet,and fighting over dbanj and don jazzy and the males amongst them who are gigolos they should give up the dream of being directors and producers and concentrate on being good actors and actresses,please mr nnamdi,chief okonkwo and sons electronics in alaba,ij investments on okokomaiko road e.t.c pay good scriptwriters instead of giving the story to your "shop boy who only did school cert" to write!! |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by JJYOU: 9:36pm On Oct 18, 2008 |
lucabrasi:i hear you. you make good sence the people don't see what you see and know. they keep preaching to the choir |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by vescucci(m): 2:55pm On Oct 20, 2008 |
@Lubracasi. Best set of words you've put together so far, my brother! Here's to making tons of sense! Cheers! |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Thirdborn: 9:04am On Oct 22, 2008 |
@Lucabrasi Did you say 100,000. My brother more than 50 million Nigerians watch that poison o'. |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by cabali(m): 2:03am On Oct 25, 2008 |
There isnt sense i whatever kanto spews. and yeah, scrap nollywood. Bring on a movie industry instead |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by mooretes: 12:27am On Mar 12, 2010 |
I cant believe I started this discussion and never really continued on it as much as my very own sisikill did. You is the best, me love you long. Truth is for the past few months, Ive been busy with my research and boy o boy, it has taken me a loooooooong time to get to where I am today. Anyways, not going to talk about my research but erm, answering Mr Kanto would really be a waste of time. If we do not have freedom of speech and to express our opinions then I dont understand whatelse is required of us as an individual or a collective group of individuals. I expressed my utter disgust at the rate in which nollywood as an industry has decided to take us at the receiving end for fools by dishing out movies acted in 3-7days, if you mush know, we did hear that a producer working on one of the presiding Bishops of a well known church muttered his regret in how it is taking him a long time to finish the movie abt this person, long time meaning '7days' as he said it normally takes 3days to finish filming a movie. Trust me, if it is abt making a movie, im sure myself, sisikill and others who have seen how awful the films have been made would make a very good, though provoking and block buster movie. Trust me on this one, have u looked at the story lines? they mostly make no sense. Night time to them is smtimes day light, nothing stops them in shooting at nights. Have u even seen the special effects , go to youtube, check on 'gomina ojo kan', God!!!!! are we stupid? common, even a child knows better. My comments and I must add comments of others who did read between the lines have been restricted to Nigerian movies, we never commented on hollywood, neither did we refer to failed states or countries, beside, I would never say Nigeria is a failed state. Some policies might not be working right, mind you even the industrialised countries also once passed this stage, trust me this is what i personally do, as per research and we can argue on this till thy kingdom come. So yeah, back to topic, some movies back in the day are better than what they've produced in recent times if you want to speak abt hollywood, check out some low budget films that take roughly the same time to make and probably the same amount check out the one abt vampires or so that was screened sometime last year, kai!!!! i cant even shout jare, case closed Thirdborn and Sisikill and a whole lot of others i didnt mention but who did contribute immensely to this discussion, i thank u for making me keep my sanity whilst doing my research. You guys are the best, love to u all. Wish u the best in all u do xoxo |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by iice(f): 3:02am On Mar 12, 2010 |
Hehehe if only people even know the difference between movies and TV shows. . .i think we will take half a step of a step in the right direction |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Thirdborn: 7:46pm On Mar 12, 2010 |
@mooretes, You are welcome. Always glad to lend a word to the revolution. |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Thirdborn: 8:04pm On Mar 12, 2010 |
OK! I finally got it. Why didn't it occur to me before. Oh i've been so silly, actually shocked i didn't realize it. Sisikill, Luca, Vescucci, the reason why KANTO is so angry is because he is actually an Ejiro, or is it Amata huh Kanto. Cos the way you dey call us witch and what ever means you are a naija film maker. No wonder all our fake crap is filled with witchcraft and , |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by Thirdborn: 8:09pm On Mar 12, 2010 |
OK! I finally got it. Why didn't it occur to me before. Oh i've been so silly, actually shocked i didn't realize it. Sisikill, Luca, Vescucci, the reason why KANTO is so angry is because he is actually an Ejiro, or is it Amata huh Kanto. Cos the way you dey call us witch and what ever means you are a naija film maker. No wonder all our fake crap is filled with witchcraft and , |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by SisiKill1: 8:13am On Mar 13, 2010 |
Lmao!!! Gosh! What a thread this was. |
| Re: Petition To Scrap The Nigerian Movie Industry by vescucci(m): 11:26am On Mar 13, 2010 |
My freaking sentiments exactly. This thread takes me back. Now I'm just a messed up thing. I still can't believe that more people voted to keep Nollywood. What's that saying again? About common sense being not so common? |
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