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Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by SAMBHOSS(m): 12:37pm On Jan 31, 2017
oyetpel:
Doctor Strange was just there. But the best part for me was at the end, linking it to THOR.

I salute Marvel.





Crazy people.....we na HV to wait till November for Thor.....dah one wee na lead to Infinity War
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by zlatan(m): 2:34pm On Jan 31, 2017
obixcel:
irony

what's your review of the movie?
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by 100naira(m): 2:53pm On Feb 01, 2017
Dr strange
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by 2017movies: 5:05pm On Feb 01, 2017
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by cao(f): 10:53pm On Feb 01, 2017
Keeping Up with the Joneses.
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by dljbd1(m): 12:16am On Feb 02, 2017
cao:
Keeping Up with the Joneses.
Predictable...5.5/10

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Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by oyetpel(m): 8:51am On Feb 02, 2017
I am MOANA.
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by armadeo(m): 2:11pm On Feb 02, 2017
oyetpel:
I am MOANA.

Am so SHINY!!!

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Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by cao(f): 2:35pm On Feb 02, 2017
Lion.
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by oyetpel(m): 9:10pm On Feb 02, 2017
Someone really bash MOANA on Imdb..... read it below.
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by oyetpel(m): 9:10pm On Feb 02, 2017
So I watched Moana and boy, what a lazy movie it was. So full of good ideas, squandered on a passable family movie. And yes, I know it's Disney making a family movie, but it had all these ideas that would make a great story if they were taken more seriously. The premise of the movie is basically the whole world dying because of what someone did and they treat this catastrophic event as an annoyance instead of something actually serious. The protagonist is Moana, an absolutely average Disney princess type of character that wants to say no to being stuck in a life of safety and luxury. We've seen it a thousand times by now, it's nothing that stands out or even something logical in the long run since these types of sheltered characters do not know anything about the outside world and are in effect useless on their own. And I have to point this out about her which is one of the many things they didn't bother to clarify. Why is everybody fine with a girl being their leader? Do they have gender equality on this otherwise primitive island? If they do, they never showed it because any other leader we see in their history was a guy. Combined with how she doesn't drown 1 minute after going into the sea with zero experience further proves this movie is empowerment fantasy for little girls instead of a movie where talent and intelligence matter. But it's OK because the scriptwriter did his worst to plot armor her from any possible danger. Because you see, the gods chose her to be the one who restores the world, thus every time she falls in water, a magical wave takes her on the boat. When she doubts her abilities, the ghosts of her ancestors appear to motivate her. She is essentially a plot device fully controlled by the plot instead of doing what she wants and facing the repercussions of her mistakes. And if you think calling her the chosen one properly excuses all the nonsense, it doesn't because the gods make no sense. Why did they wait a thousand years to do something about a disaster that has killed most of the islands, and of all people why did they choose a little girl with no skills or experience of the outside world? They never explain it. Do you know what else they didn't explain? Why her pet pig doesn't grow up. She begins as a little girl and grows up to a teenager, but the damn thing remains a piglet throughout the whole movie. Nobody in the production team gave a damn. The problems don't even stop there. The first thing she has to do is find Maui, a demigod who has been stuck on a barren island for a thousand years and is the only person who can save the world. He is also the one who doomed it, so that makes sense. Also, for a guy who spent a millennium all alone without something to eat or do on a tiny island, he sure looked fine when she appeared. Disney went so safe and lazy on him that he is nothing but a cool guy who does cool things and has absolutely no sex drive, or psychological trauma for being left alone all this time. Accompanying them on their journey is a retarded chicken. It's the most annoying comic relief animal I have seen in my life. It's not funny, it causes more trouble than aid, and they never eat it although they never seem to have enough food. How the hell did it get on the boat in the first place? Moana didn't take it with her, it just appeared out of nowhere in the secret cave nobody had been in for centuries. Nobody in the production team gave a damn. You probably think I am being too harsh on what is supposed to be a dumb movie for kids, when I'm not since they clearly put effort in fleshing out the characters in a way that demands from the story to be better. Moana's father has a good reason for not letting her out in the sea. Maui has a good reason for why he keeps going on adventures and tries to impress the mortals. Even the villain of the movie has a reason for why she is evil. These are really good stuff, and they are ruined by the lazy script. If the movie was like that in all its aspects, I wouldn't be bothered by it. But when you set it up in a way that obviously raises the bar like that, the disappointment multiplies when you treat your good ideas like a joke. I can easily sum up all these problems as cheap resolutions. Everything is fixed way too fast despite the problems building up for countless years. The father changed his mind way too fast and lets his daughter sail in the sea, Maui changed his mind and returned to help her without even showing us how, and the goddess forgives Maui instantly, despite causing her pain and suffering for a thousand years, as well as wiping out the life of countless islands and filling the sea with monsters. Hell, even the disease that was slowly killing the islands went away in a few seconds despite spreading slowly for centuries.
He gave it 4/10 rating.

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Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by obixcel(m): 10:32pm On Feb 02, 2017
oyetpel:
So I watched Moana and boy, what a lazy movie it was. So
full of good ideas, squandered on a passable family movie.
And yes, I know it's Disney making a family movie, but it had
all these ideas that would make a great story if they were
taken more seriously. The premise of the movie is basically
the whole world dying because of what someone did and they
treat this catastrophic event as an annoyance instead of
something actually serious.
The protagonist is Moana, an absolutely average Disney
princess type of character that wants to say no to being stuck
in a life of safety and luxury. We've seen it a thousand times
by now, it's nothing that stands out or even something logical
in the long run since these types of sheltered characters do
not know anything about the outside world and are in effect
useless on their own.
And I have to point this out about her which is one of the
many things they didn't bother to clarify. Why is everybody
fine with a girl being their leader? Do they have gender
equality on this otherwise primitive island? If they do, they
never showed it because any other leader we see in their
history was a guy. Combined with how she doesn't drown 1
minute after going into the sea with zero experience further
proves this movie is empowerment fantasy for little girls
instead of a movie where talent and intelligence matter.
But it's OK because the scriptwriter did his worst to plot armor
her from any possible danger. Because you see, the gods
chose her to be the one who restores the world, thus every
time she falls in water, a magical wave takes her on the boat.
When she doubts her abilities, the ghosts of her ancestors
appear to motivate her. She is essentially a plot device fully
controlled by the plot instead of doing what she wants and
facing the repercussions of her mistakes.
And if you think calling her the chosen one properly excuses
all the nonsense, it doesn't because the gods make no sense.
Why did they wait a thousand years to do something about a
disaster that has killed most of the islands, and of all people
why did they choose a little girl with no skills or experience of
the outside world? They never explain it.
Do you know what else they didn't explain? Why her pet pig
doesn't grow up. She begins as a little girl and grows up to a
teenager, but the damn thing remains a piglet throughout the
whole movie. Nobody in the production team gave a damn.
The problems don't even stop there. The first thing she has to
do is find Maui, a demigod who has been stuck on a barren
island for a thousand years and is the only person who can
save the world. He is also the one who doomed it, so that
makes sense. Also, for a guy who spent a millennium all
alone without something to eat or do on a tiny island, he sure
looked fine when she appeared. Disney went so safe and lazy
on him that he is nothing but a cool guy who does cool
things and has absolutely no sex drive, or psychological
trauma for being left alone all this time.
Accompanying them on their journey is a retarded chicken. It's
the most annoying comic relief animal I have seen in my life.
It's not funny, it causes more trouble than aid, and they never
eat it although they never seem to have enough food. How the
hell did it get on the boat in the first place? Moana didn't take
it with her, it just appeared out of nowhere in the secret cave
nobody had been in for centuries. Nobody in the production
team gave a damn.
You probably think I am being too harsh on what is supposed
to be a dumb movie for kids, when I'm not since they clearly
put effort in fleshing out the characters in a way that demands
from the story to be better. Moana's father has a good reason
for not letting her out in the sea. Maui has a good reason for
why he keeps going on adventures and tries to impress the
mortals. Even the villain of the movie has a reason for why
she is evil. These are really good stuff, and they are ruined by
the lazy script.
If the movie was like that in all its aspects, I wouldn't be
bothered by it. But when you set it up in a way that obviously
raises the bar like that, the disappointment multiplies when
you treat your good ideas like a joke. I can easily sum up all
these problems as cheap resolutions. Everything is fixed way
too fast despite the problems building up for countless years.
The father changed his mind way too fast and lets his
daughter sail in the sea, Maui changed his mind and returned
to help her without even showing us how, and the goddess
forgives Maui instantly, despite causing her pain and suffering
for a thousand years, as well as wiping out the life of
countless islands and filling the sea with monsters. Hell, even
the disease that was slowly killing the islands went away in a
few seconds despite spreading slowly for centuries.

He gave it 4/10 rating.
choi! dis one na Article 15

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Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by KealDrogo: 8:05am On Feb 03, 2017
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Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by oyetpel(m): 8:11am On Feb 03, 2017
KealDrogo:

What about ya opinion? Will like to see your opinion on. not someone else's on imdb...
I like the movie, i really do. But some of the guy's thoughts were spot on along with some of the movie flaws he highlighted, that's why i posted his.
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by armadeo(m): 9:51am On Feb 03, 2017
Loved the huge crab scene.

Beautiful song.

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Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Bourne007(m): 10:37am On Feb 03, 2017
Lion was so emotional and touching that i kinda cried cry smiley. I've noticed you just put titles only. Please be rating your movies so we know and watch on time na cheesy



cao:
Lion.
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by eleshin(m): 12:29pm On Feb 03, 2017
Pls anybody with dl link for Hidden Figures should pls post it here. Thanks alot
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by cao(f): 3:00pm On Feb 03, 2017
Bourne007:
Lion was so emotional and touching that i kinda cried cry smiley. I've noticed you just put titles only. Please be rating your movies so we know and watch on time na cheesy



Na so I just dey hold myself for cinema. They wan kill person finish. I had to ask my housemate how she could seat through a second viewing?! Apparently, she had a proper crying session during her first viewing at the cinema. As in proper inconsolable tears.

Watch on time, ke? Me way don miss some films sef...or they've been released late over here or my local cinema is not releasing it. Let's not even talk about useless scheduling times my cinema has for rated 15 non-blockbusters - Split is showing at my cinema once a day at night (9pm-ish. Except for this coming Monday, they've given it an earlier time, 12:40). I don't really intend on watching Trainspotting 2, Hacksaw Ridge, Moonlight and a bunch of others...
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by cao(f): 3:34pm On Feb 03, 2017
oyetpel:
So I watched Moana and boy, what a lazy movie it was. So
full of good ideas, squandered on a passable family movie.
And yes, I know it's Disney making a family movie, but it had
all these ideas that would make a great story if they were
taken more seriously. The premise of the movie is basically
the whole world dying because of what someone did and they
treat this catastrophic event as an annoyance instead of
something actually serious.
The protagonist is Moana, an absolutely average Disney
princess type of character that wants to say no to being stuck
in a life of safety and luxury. We've seen it a thousand times
by now, it's nothing that stands out or even something logical
in the long run since these types of sheltered characters do
not know anything about the outside world and are in effect
useless on their own.
And I have to point this out about her which is one of the
many things they didn't bother to clarify. Why is everybody
fine with a girl being their leader? Do they have gender
equality on this otherwise primitive island? If they do, they
never showed it because any other leader we see in their
history was a guy. Combined with how she doesn't drown 1
minute after going into the sea with zero experience further
proves this movie is empowerment fantasy for little girls
instead of a movie where talent and intelligence matter.
But it's OK because the scriptwriter did his worst to plot armor
her from any possible danger. Because you see, the gods
chose her to be the one who restores the world, thus every
time she falls in water, a magical wave takes her on the boat.
When she doubts her abilities, the ghosts of her ancestors
appear to motivate her. She is essentially a plot device fully
controlled by the plot instead of doing what she wants and
facing the repercussions of her mistakes.
And if you think calling her the chosen one properly excuses
all the nonsense, it doesn't because the gods make no sense.
Why did they wait a thousand years to do something about a
disaster that has killed most of the islands, and of all people
why did they choose a little girl with no skills or experience of
the outside world? They never explain it.
Do you know what else they didn't explain? Why her pet pig
doesn't grow up. She begins as a little girl and grows up to a
teenager, but the damn thing remains a piglet throughout the
whole movie. Nobody in the production team gave a damn.
The problems don't even stop there. The first thing she has to
do is find Maui, a demigod who has been stuck on a barren
island for a thousand years and is the only person who can
save the world. He is also the one who doomed it, so that
makes sense. Also, for a guy who spent a millennium all
alone without something to eat or do on a tiny island, he sure
looked fine when she appeared. Disney went so safe and lazy
on him that he is nothing but a cool guy who does cool
things and has absolutely no sex drive, or psychological
trauma for being left alone all this time.
Accompanying them on their journey is a retarded chicken. It's
the most annoying comic relief animal I have seen in my life.
It's not funny, it causes more trouble than aid, and they never
eat it although they never seem to have enough food. How the
hell did it get on the boat in the first place? Moana didn't take
it with her, it just appeared out of nowhere in the secret cave
nobody had been in for centuries. Nobody in the production
team gave a damn.
You probably think I am being too harsh on what is supposed
to be a dumb movie for kids, when I'm not since they clearly
put effort in fleshing out the characters in a way that demands
from the story to be better. Moana's father has a good reason
for not letting her out in the sea. Maui has a good reason for
why he keeps going on adventures and tries to impress the
mortals. Even the villain of the movie has a reason for why
she is evil. These are really good stuff, and they are ruined by
the lazy script.
If the movie was like that in all its aspects, I wouldn't be
bothered by it. But when you set it up in a way that obviously
raises the bar like that, the disappointment multiplies when
you treat your good ideas like a joke. I can easily sum up all
these problems as cheap resolutions. Everything is fixed way
too fast despite the problems building up for countless years.
The father changed his mind way too fast and lets his
daughter sail in the sea, Maui changed his mind and returned
to help her without even showing us how, and the goddess
forgives Maui instantly, despite causing her pain and suffering
for a thousand years, as well as wiping out the life of
countless islands and filling the sea with monsters. Hell, even
the disease that was slowly killing the islands went away in a
few seconds despite spreading slowly for centuries.

He gave it 4/10 rating.
The guy had some valid points, but he also missed road. Why was he so concerned with the fact that nobody had a problem with her being the next chief? From the spirit flashback, it only really showed us one particular ancestor and his son. He should be asking himself why he's got the problem, the film certainly doesn't have the time. Moana's father certainly didn't allow her, she did a runner, with her mother turning up during the packing scene, giving her the silent emotional stare of understanding. I always assumed the chicken was packed by mistake during the packing scene, 'cause I highly doubt it walked into the cave and propped open the storage of that boat, got inside and then closed it...that guy's imagination needs to rest, we all know Hei Hei was as dumb as the rock it ate.

Plus, technically nobody in that village had experience with the outside world, why didn't he complain when her father survived his own sea mishap? I'm surprised he didn't complain about her effectively whooping those coconut heads...Maybe, he should avoid Disney films, since he's talking about how Maui wasn't sexually frustrated, like seriously dude it's a Disney film. I'm surprised he didn't talk about Moana's period, hey just saying...

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Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by oyetpel(m): 4:08pm On Feb 03, 2017
And the dog said, 'the problem is me, i was only running for a meal, but the cat. The cat is running for her life'.

QUEEN OF KATWE.
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by oyetpel(m): 4:15pm On Feb 03, 2017
Why is it that sloggish movies are always nominated for awards? I watched ARRIVAL a week after watching the boring Nocturnal Animals. Arrival is a terminator rip-off, and i can say that the last terminator that featured Emilia Clarke was better than this movie. The only part of this movie i find interesting is the dialogue with Abbott and Castello, but then it also got boring. And they should have really solidify her future seeing powers, so that we can know she's special, but no they want her to keep having flashbacks that will determine what will happen later. Arrival 3.5/10.
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by cao(f): 4:41pm On Feb 03, 2017
oyetpel:
Why is it that sloggish movies are always nominated for awards? I watched ARRIVAL a week after watching the boring Nocturnal Animals. Arrival is a terminator rip-off, and i can say that the last terminator that featured Emilia Clarke was better than this movie. The only part of this movie i find interesting is the dialogue with Abbott and Castello, but then it also got boring. And they should have really solidify her future seeing powers, so that we can know she's special, but no they want her to keep having flashbacks that will determine what will happen later. Arrival 3.5/10.
I honestly couldn't take you seriously after reading that. My brain just went nope and refused to compute.
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by KealDrogo: 4:45pm On Feb 03, 2017
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Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by KealDrogo: 5:07pm On Feb 03, 2017
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Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Nobody: 6:34pm On Feb 03, 2017
oyetpel:
Why is it that sloggish movies are always nominated for awards? I watched ARRIVAL a week after watching the boring Nocturnal Animals. Arrival is a terminator rip-off, and i can say that the last terminator that featured Emilia Clarke was better than this movie. The only part of this movie i find interesting is the dialogue with Abbott and Castello, but then it also got boring. And they should have really solidify her future seeing powers, so that we can know she's special, but no they want her to keep having flashbacks that will determine what will happen later. Arrival 3.5/10.
So the last Terminator was better than Arrival now abi? Slow down on that Osogbo green, bruh

Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by oyetpel(m): 6:35pm On Feb 03, 2017
cao:

I honestly couldn't take you seriously after reading that. My brain just went nope and refused to compute.
Whatever suits you lady.
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by oyetpel(m): 6:43pm On Feb 03, 2017
KealDrogo:

Egbon. Wetin come concern Terminator with Arrival na? Both of them are Sci-fi but the premise of terminator is more defined and constructed well with no any Alien déjà vu unlike Arrival.
Am talking about how Kyle Reese had to visit his future self (a kid), so that genisys will not go online in Terminator Genisys. Also in Arrival, it involves a woman having flashbacks and also seeing the future, along with a child still unborn, and the woman will be the one to save the world. Also on the romance side, Sarah Connor knew she had to copülate with Kyle Reese to give birth to John Connor. While also in Arrival Dr. Louise Banks later figured that the child she's been seeing will be as a result of her romance between her and Ian Donnelly.

But please abeg don't crucify me, na my mind i talk as i dey think about the two movies. You can make a whole lot of fun of me though.
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by oyetpel(m): 7:01pm On Feb 03, 2017
ARRIVAL 1/10... Imdb commenter .....
This movie left everybody in the cinema clueless and bored to death. So many things in the movie make ZERO sense, just a few examples: - The colonel expects the linguist to decipher some alien language that sounds like gwowodkgjdkgrowlhwkas on the spot from a dicta phone. - Most important event in humankind and all decisions are taken by some random soldiers in the camp. President of the US or any politicians are never shown and take no role whatsoever in the story. - Some "rogue" soldier (god knows how) gets his hands on explosives, avoids all controls, and expects to destroy with a few C4 charges a huge spaceship which defies the laws of physics. - The way they "decipher" the alien random scrabbling are just completely arbitrary and laughable (aka there is no explanation on how anything is deciphered) but magically after a few months they have a full vocabulary with which they can have a conversation. In real history many real human languages based on actual letters (not random stains in the air) were a completely unintelligible until the Rosetta Stone was found with a key to understand them. - The alien presence on earth is just nonsensical. They arrive, say that they have bought some "gift" to humanity because in 3000 years they will need help in return (for what?) and then they disappear in thin air without having accomplished anything. - The attack by the Chinese general (again, no government exists, it seems that soldier can just do what the heck the want) is stopped by some phone call whose contents nobody bothers to explain. - most of the movie is just going back and forth from the ship, zzzzzzzzzz - The physicist is practically useless. He just sits around without giving any scientific contribution. His only role is to represent the love interest of the linguist. He could have been a janitor for all I know. People saying that this is the best movie ever have probably never seen a movie in their life or have suffered a concussion. Proof of this is that, while we're still talking about 2001 a space odyssey after 40 years, in 3 months nobody will remember this onsensical, boring, badly written piece of garbage.

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Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by KealDrogo: 7:33pm On Feb 03, 2017
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Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by KealDrogo: 7:48pm On Feb 03, 2017
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Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by cao(f): 8:00pm On Feb 03, 2017
oyetpel:

Whatever suits you lady.
Was it not supposed to suit me?
Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Nobody: 3:04pm On Feb 04, 2017
Doctor Strange.

That's one very brilliant movie.

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