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DieRich5:
All of them are new and the talk of the internet, I’ve only watched number 1 and 8 few episodes and I’m not feeling it and the rest waiting to complete.

The reviews I’m seeing on No 2 and 6 will definitely be interesting anime.

1: Do You Like Big Girls?
2: Agents of the Four Seasons
3: classroom of the elite (new season)
4: Daemons of the Shadow Realm
5: the rampart of ice
6: Marriage toxic
7: Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!?
8: Witch Hat Atelier

DieRich5:
have you watched MHA anime?

I’ve watched S1 in 2016 but don’t remember much so does the series worth watching again since it won Anime of the year award and I’ve seen some videos of the S8 ending too

samistry:
I will not forgive you, Oyaskii and Baddestguyp for misleading me 😭

Kaczynski:
Yes .

Kaczynski:
Oldboy is one of the best. The last best korean film is burning 2018.

oyaskii:
‎"The Odyssey" (2026)...The long calm before the storm...
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‎Long read...pardon 🙏🏿
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‎Christopher Nolan is arguably one of the best filmmakers in modern cinema, one of the very few auteurs whose films are instantly recognizable through a common set of traits, but I fear his latest foray might prove to be his undoing.
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‎From Memento (2000) to The Prestige (2006) to TDK (2010) , you always knew what you were getting from his movies...exceptionally high technical filmmaking prowess, so much so that people were genuinely fearing that he was going to use an actual atomic bomb! 😩 in Oppie (2023). All these make for great blockbusters, and yet he has also come under criticism for focusing solely on the technical aspects of filmmaking at the neglect of other areas, particularly dialogue, handling of female characters and emotional nuance.
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‎I personally have noticed that he struggles to deliver emotional subtlety through his characters, often making them feel robotic, mechanical, and devoid of spontaneity. There is a reason why Tenet (2020), which I loved by the way, is many people’s least favourite film of his. People simply could not grasp it. The technicalities of the film overshadowed everything else, coupled with an over-convoluted plot that often felt convoluted for the bare sake of being convoluted, serving no real purpose beyond spectacle. Some people even argued that perhaps he made films this way because he wanted that elusive Oscar.
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‎The elusive Oscar finally came, and he picked "The Odyssey" as his next project and, from what we have seen so far, this appears to be the project where he has decided to relax his usual high technical standards and flex a bit stylistically. But I personally think he could not have picked a worse film to do this with.
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‎The Odyssey is perhaps one of the most important literary works from ancient Greek mythos, and if a filmmaker like Christopher Nolan is adapting it, there should be an air of seriousness and originality to it..nobody should think it is a parody. But the trailer and promotional materials released so far suggest otherwise. From the dull cinematography, to the game-like costumes, to the out-of-place dialogue for a period piece like this, everything feels oddly artificial and so so unlike Nolan.
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‎But perhaps the most obvious blunder so far is some of the casting choices, which scream unnecessary DEI. The elephant in the room is the casting of Lupita Nyong'o in the dual role of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. The argument can be made that the story is fictional and therefore subject to reinterpretation, but I still think the casting choice is wrong for reasons that are obvious enough not to require extensive explanation. And it begs the question..why do black actors continue accepting these obvious “pick-me-up” roles? What purpose does it serve? It certainly does their careers more harm than good.
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‎Misappropriation in casting used to happen far more often than many people realize, but the world has changed so much that you would never see white actors doing the reverse today. Jenny Slate had stepped down from her role on "Big Mouth", because she felt it was out of place for her, a white woman to be voicing a Black character, and it was recast to Ayo Edebiri. Lupita Nyong'o and Paapa Essiedu have only opened themselves up to vile rhetoric from racists. Elon Musk has been on Christopher Nolan’s case for the better part of a week just because of this casting discourse. Imagine such a charlatan speaking ill of the work of a famed film auteur like Nolan.
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‎Now, whether the film will perform well at the box office is not really in question. The IMAX tickets reportedly sold out months in advance, and mind you, this is largely off the strength of the Nolan brand alone. But it should still be said that no filmmaker is above making a bad film, not even him.
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‎I mean, Asghar Farhadi, one of my favourite directors, had seemingly never put a foot wrong, and yet his latest film was met with severe rebuke at Cannes last week and currently sits at an abysmal 18% on Rotten Tomatoes!. But then again, I would be a terrible gambler if I bet against Christopher Nolan. He has proven his mantle over and over again. Still, I hold far more fear for The Odyssey (2026) than excitement.
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‎Has my GOAT sacrificed his career for scraps from the woke table?
‎Only time will tell.
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‎Side note: On the subject of casting misappropriation, if they eventually make a sequel to "Michael" (2026) and cover the period where MJ transitioned to full on white, do they recast him with a white actor, or do they simply keep Jaafar Jackson and “leather him up” with makeup? 👀

Kaczynski:
slop. anything netflix = slop + south korean propaganda.

Kaczynski:
Only number one is the proper movie there others are slop. The movie was written by the director's assistant a woman which he took all the credits for.

DieRich5:
Wistoria: Wand and Sword Season 1. 8.5/10

I didn’t know it’s was really that interesting and it on my watchlist since, The hype on S2 airing now make me watch it and I love it.

If you like “black clover” than check this out.

Under20Naira:
What did you think of season 3? I loved it

oyaskii:
They forget it is a Superhero show first, and it thinks itself a "political commentary" show only. The political commentary isn't lost on anyone who has been following the show now for years, but it is been overdone, to a point that is blatantly cringe now, overshadowing every meaningful character development they have done all these years. I don't even know what they are fighting for anymore.

I had to watch 2 filler characters with dogshît powers sniff their butts in the penultimate episode of the series finale mind you!, like what is genuinely the point of this meandering?.

At this point, i have zero care for any of the characters, and i do hope they all kill each other....and no way they land a competent ending next week.... absolutely no way!

pu7pl3:
Modulo is the one where Yuji is an old man abi

DieRich5:
sentenced to be a hero 8.5/10
I finally watched it and I love it




Does anyone knows where to ordered manga and send to Nigeria? I don’t like reading books online is boring.

Achilles100:
Not my list, saw it online.

Not a bad list to get started on anime content.

Bimmarlykay:
How market?

Richie0974:
Where please.