The real problem with nollywood is not lack of hollywood-type budgets.
Rather it is lousy scripts and terrible acting. Does anybody agree with me?

is greed for money

Nollywood doesn't have a 'problem' it has PROBLEMS!! tons and tons of it even it's name is a bloody problem, sad little shitheads think thy're making progress churning out millions of movies with the same storylines a day. . .

na wah 4 all of una.instead of u to encourage dem and give kudos to those trying na condemnation u dey give dem.ok what can be done to solve d problem or shld i say problems

The difference between Hollywood and Nollywood is that Hollywood has a good system for distinguishing between mediocre stories and excellent ones. So you are much less likely to stumble upon a bad Hollywood movie - it just won't get to you! We just need to encourage people to start reviewing Nollywood movies more systematically.

Hollywood is filled with mediocre. Every once in a while you get a great movie but most of the time it's garbage. The really great ones are hardly ever popular cos big production companies rather not back them up.

Hah. That is a completely different opinion. Name one good movie that is not selling well in Hollywood.

I would but what I consider to be good might not be good to you and what I consider to be horrible might be liked by many.
Like this sudden epidemic of remakes that Hollywood seems to be suffering from. Just shows lack of crqtivity and to make matters worse none of these remakes are ever better than the other yet they continue to make money

unfortunately

People like sequels because they won't be much worse than the original.
As for remakes, isn't an excellent, modernized remake of a 1920 movie better than a terrible original 2007 movie?

I said remakes, Seun not sequels. I can see how you can confuse the two though as most of the time BOTH are very unncessary

Take Oceans 11, unncessary sequel, now they're making Oceans 13, also UNNECESSARY

and no I rather watch that 1920s movie and hope that Hollywood churns out a decent ORIGINAL movie for 2007. That's why everyone's flocking to foreign directors now for different plots and directions.

Yeah. The real problem with nollywood is greed for money

Hollywood regularly produce crap, they just call them b movies and don't promote them or make them straight to dvd, I don't watch nollywood movies because the handful I've seen are filled with mediocre acting, crowds gathering to watch what's going on(bad locations),more terrible  acting, background noise, unrealistic storylines, incredibly shitty wardrobes,  and then they have the nerve to produce a sequel when it could have been just one movie(good marketing strategy though, can't knock that hustle) . So they'll never be internationally accepted, because if I'm Nigerian and I can't even bear to watch them,how I'm going to introduce them to other people.

the problem with nollywood is the same with nigeria. how will it feel to budget a one million dollar movie with time, and the next day its pirated. you guys too dey complain, nollywood is for the average man, those ones who need a laugh once a while. its not for the alhaji who have dstl or whatever.until our country improves i dont see nollywood improving beyond the budget of the average nigeian daily income. and till dis day they are pirating the movie like hell

Please, for Christ's sakes, can't Nigerians ever do anything just slightly original? And that goes for the music industry as well, "Sampling" entire songs, the whole background? come on!!! And that freaking movie 'Lion King'. really, wow! And what's with the extra, extra, extra long storylines that, after a while, just makes no sense, and then you wonder what you're supposed to take away from the movie, then comes the retarded, pointless flashback, I swear I can feel one coming on, so much so that if I haven't seen a flashback, I feel like the movie wasn't Nigerian, then they try for the twists, and it's just, no, then the actors (I won't mention names) that try to be funny, but just are not funny, then the overacting, e.t.c. e.t.c. And what's with the messed up sound? I turn up the volume for the movie, then comes the freaking ad that's inordinately loud!

The One thing that really gets to me, though, is when they just cut the movie off at the middle of a scene, and I'm like, what the ****?, then comes the "Watch out for stupid movie part 2". And does every movie have to have 2 discs? I honestly feel like if I started buying (or copying  ) movies, I'd soon run out of storage space. And I might be Nigerian, but I'm not that dim, it's pretty obvious they have the entire thing on hand, but greed capitalism, or whatever you want to call it, has pretty much pervaded every part of Nigerian society, although that's for another day.

And, unfortunately, part of the fault does rest with the viewers. I mean, come on, how on earth do you expect the industry to progress when the movie sells one original copy, then that original is copied thousands of times? And, to make it worse, the retards (although smart) copiers then insert adverts for other movies that are pretty much the entire movie into the movie? Seriously, when one person buys a copy, makes ten copies for each of their friends, and those each make ten copies, , who's going to buy the stuff? And, Hollywood has had a lot more time for this than 'Nollywood' has, so please don't expect the same quality picture as Hollywood produces.

And please don't tell me they have $1 mil. budgets, cause those movies look more like they cost a grand to make, in total. (REALLY, how on earth am I supposed to take this industry seriously when I hear the director telling the actor to "go slowly, go slowly"?, unfortunately, I don't remember the title of the movie, but I swear to God it's true.) And there was another one where you could see part of one of the stagehands in the pic. Whatever happened to post-editing? Or does no one ever watch the entire thing after they make it before they sell it?

Grab your own copy, lmao.

Dios, you got me laughing real hard


The biggest problems are laziness, impatience and greed!!!

@ Mihai

very funny but true with most of these movies! You are not helping matters too your just copying these movies and not buying! It just go round and round with the circle

@ Miky

You make a good point there too. Nollywood is for the average Nigerian man. However, it has grown to other countries and touched peoples hearts. For example, Nigerian expatriates that can not go home year after year cos of not having papers can derive some joy out of these movies too. It can quenche some of its thirst of nostalgia.

Nollywood has still a long way to go before its PROBLEMS will dissapear however I think the censor board or other bodies should come up with stricter criteria for example better sound quality and storylines unnecessary long parts where nothing is happening just to have a part two should be banned. I think that will make some major changes

Problem with Nollywood??

Me thinks the problem is the fact that they know that whatever they come up with, THEY WILL SELL!!! If peeps refuse to buy low quality movies, no one will tell them to start doing things the right way. Imagine the craze about "aki" and "pawpaw"?, that's the height of it? Casting old men in children's roles and people find that funny Can't they produce roles that a midget can fill in?

chichinma,

For example, Nigerian expatriates that can not go home year after year because of not having papers can derive some joy out of these movies too

Are there Nigerians abroad that can't go home Did somebody seize their passports or something??

i thought Ocean 11 rocked, ocean 12 sucked but i think 13 is gonna be great it has Alpacino in it.

But if Nollywood had better scripts and better reviewers, not just every dick and harry with a stupid storyline making a movie, and wats up with banning actors, you don't see anyone banning Tom Cruise, George Clooney. what else would you expect when you ban good actor and then use crappy actors for crappy storyline and you end up with crappy movies

Nigeria with 140 million people is a huge market, so whatever quality of video is packaged by nollywood, they will sell, they have customers.
99% of people in nollywood are there for the cash, thats their priority.

Moreover, the marketers (pirates included) make much more money than the actors, directors, scriptwriters who do all the work. (monkey dey work, baboon dey chop)

So the actors increease their pace by producing junk movies, even pirates are sweating/trying to catch up with the rate of movie production in nollywood.

Thats Nigeria for you.

The Problem?

Inadequate funding, low budget crap, unprofessionalism, lack of creativity, lack of originality, Poor quality input, Poor quality output, acting that can only be done by morons, and the laziness and inability of home video consumers to trash and reject mediocrity in the industry.

i think the problem are reclying of stories and also wack actors and actresses that can't even pronounce simple words of english

Whatever the problems of Nollywood, I'm sure that they'll be solved by the market process that brought us internet access through VSAT and 6 naira per minute phone calls on fixed wireless networks. The free market process.

Nollywood is taking its 'first baby steps". Encourage our local movie actor, for if we dont, who would then? With time, our great industry would be a force to be reckoned with.

Rome was not built in a day!!!

hi
just wanted to add my two cents, i have recently started watching nollywood movies[almost a year now] . i have only one original copy in a collection of 178 titles [bootleg is the order of the day]. i buy them when i travel to new york or off the internet ,  i see where you are all coming from.  Too much background noise at times drowning out what the actors are saying, cheesy dialogue [only the writers can be blamed for that!] ,  actors not being able to pronounce words correctly. Loads of unnecessary scenes [but that's how part 2&3 are born] , The list is endless  . With all its problems however,  nollywood is still something to be proud of, i am not nigerian and i am proud of your achievements,  not many countries can boast  a thriving movie industry!  Hollywood is the hallmark of movie industries worlwide but as i am writing now i cannot think of one movie that i have seen that has made me stop and take a look at how i treat members of my family,people in general, Hollywood entertains me, Nollywood entertains  but most importantly tries to impart to thier viewers little moral lessons that forces us to take a look at oursevles and try to be better human beings,  this is my opinion based on the few movies i have seen.
  sorry did not mean to be preachy!

It is unfair to make sweeping erroneous and ambiguous remarks about Nollywood in the same manner that the Western media does on Nigeria as a nation of scammers and schemers.

Nollywood is actually the mirror of Nigeria from the small girl hawking fake pure water on the street to the foolish head of state in Abuja.
Hypocrisy and Mediocrity are the order of the day in Nigeria and Nairaland is not different.
But in the chaos, there are some shining lights. Our geniuses.
But the hypocrites and crooks in power want Nollywood and Nigeria to remain stagnant, because corruption has become their culture.

We have geniuses in Nollywood and they are doing their best.
But their problem is they don't cooperate and support each other and they are trying to outsmart each other.

There are terrible experiences in trying to upgrade Nollywood.
Opportunists abuse the privileges.
The French Audio-Visual office has been spending millions on grants to Nigerian filmmakers.
But how do you explain when a Nigerian filmmaker gets a foreign grant and spends three-quarter of the money to buy an expensive car, gets a new apartment and changes his wardrobe and uses only one-quarter to make the film with mediocres who are posing and posturing as proven experts?
Another one I wanted to be my co-producer went behind my back to tell my Dutch collaborators that he would also appreciate it if they helped him to bring in second hand cars into Nigeria. They were embarrassed and disappointed that a so called Nigerian producer was more of a car dealer. Meaning that he would definitely use the grant to import cars. And then when I took him along to meet with the former minister of culture and tourism, he turned it into an Igbo appeal fund by begging the Igbo minister for assistance to travel overseas. I was speechless. I just dropped him without looking back.

The finance is not the issue, but the fact that most of them are opportunists and lack the credibility, honesty, probity and transparency of professionalism.

Nigerians are the same from Lagos to London to Paris to New York to Toronto.
Because, we have those posing and posturing that they are filmmakers and they have not done better than the B-movies being manufactured in Nigeria.
I have watched some movies made by some Nigerians in America and Europe and I was heart broken.

The good Nollywood filmmakers are well known home and abroad and the good Nigerian filmmakers abroad are also well known.
The funny thing is, these geniuses don't even brag like the ones being over-rated on Nairaland and Naijarules. And most of you Nigerians in America and Europe ranting here don't even talk about them, because most of you are ignorant of them. You are equally posing and posturing like the second-class Nollywood movie producers you are making fun of.
The same GIGO.

Ranting on online forums is not the answer.

Leadership is best by example.

Let every Nigerian everywhere prove his or her genius in every occupation and profession
and join in the nation building of a New Nigeria in the leadership of Africa among the comity of nations.

May God help us all.

Amen!

Na wa for una ooh.Nah everyday some1 dey open mout take curse Nollywood but i dont c any of u complainers doin anything to improve it.Se bi na ur homeland,instead of criticising alone,why not criticise and add ur own lil imput.If we had been doin dis all along.I blive Nollywood cud have progressed greatly.
Those of u dat think d problem is bad directing; make u carry ursef go direct if u think u can do beta.
Those of u who think u can do beta than the actors and actresses in nollywood rite now,go and act.This way,our film industry mite actually become extraordinarily gud(dats if Naija pple fit act,produce or direct de way den dey abuse)

CHARLA abeg, tell them, let them know,all this BASKET MOUTH peoples.
they can only criticise but can not add anything in the NOLLYWOOD MOVIES industry :

what can one expect when films with 2 parts and sometimes 3 are shot in less than a week

Why won't they be shot for less than a week when actors demand so much money for each day on the set?

I see nothing wrong in criticizing people. Sometimes, it brings out the best in someone. May be we exaggerate sometimes but there's nothing wrong with criticism. Go to Hollywood. It's worse there. Duhh!