₦airaland Forum

KoiceReloaded:
The usual, really. Someone started trouble, but when it gets too much for her, she ran to the mods, then brags about it later.

Seun:
I liked it a lot too. Anti-feminists may not like it because the key characters in the story are women. Sophie Turner haters may not like it. Nerds who have read all the Dark Phoenix comics may also be disappointed. But for everyone else, I think it’s a solid, entertaining movie. I would rate it 7/10 easily.

DannyKoice:
X-Men: Dark Phoenix.

I’m flummoxed that with the incipient Disney buyout and this being the finale to Fox’s X-Men, they didn’t put this movie into the hands of someone with more experience. It’s limpidly obvious Kinberg hasn’t directed a movie of this scale and magnitude before.

Overall, I’m not sure what else to verbally express about this except that it’s genuinely hallow and unavailingly futile. The script is awful, and while the cast endeavored their best, they couldn't save this one.

5/10

crowley:
all these DC & MARVEL fanboys shouting upandown Marvel all the way .Buh DC Doom Patrol sha!! very salvage..

Abeg Who Remember the name of that film wer them they curve bullet. you guyz remember na?

ibkayee:
X Men: Dark Phoenix

Neither groundbreaking nor terrible, left the cinema satisfied.

Don’t think it’s as terrible as it’s being portrayed online (23% at Rotten Tomatoes for example? Lool gaddamn), it’s a watchable movie.

Some great action scenes, passable storyline with a few cliche parts, basic dialogue. LOVED the main theme song.

Urm, absolutely NO character development for the villains, they were just there…and did bad guy stuff, bleh.

Overall I'd rate it about 6.4

@Beorn dearie

alexistaiwo:
Should I believe you?

Octopusssy:
Guy, she needs deliverance. No jokes. An unquenchable thirst for the morbid shows there's something wrong somewhere.

alexistaiwo:
Sorry to bother you but @ bolded Mr Beorn, I am very much interested in knowing how you knew that your so-called female coworker friend usually laugh whenever she is watching movies during the midnight.

Is sleeping on the same bed with her overnight part of your job specifications?

Octopusssy:
Why on earth will you binge on horror movies?? Your subconscious will definitely regurgitate what you have stuffed with. In my case, I rarely have bad dreams when I watch horror films, but there are a few exceptions. Annabelle was worse than Hereditary, scared me more but did not cause me nightmares. Hereditary did. That film is just plain nasty.

JeromeBlack:
The movie is great. You have to account for the fact that it was made far back when horror movies where far and few in between.

Books usually come out better than the movies

losprince:
The shining

6/10

So I was reading the book, I was at the last chapters when I came to the thread and happened upon the horror movies discussion which piqued my interest in seeing a horror flick; being aware that the book had an adaptation I decided to see it. I read some positive reviews about the movie and even discovered it was dubbed one of the best horror movies but boy I was in for some disappointment. The movie does not come close to the book and the book wasn't all that great but it was miles better than the movie.
I found the movie to be decent and a let down at the same time, the only part I really enjoyed (SPOILERS AHEAD) was when the kid lured the monster into the hedge maze, ran to a certain distance, retraced his steps and got rid of his tracks to where he hid thereby getting rid of the monster by trapping it in the maze.

They should have stayed faithful to the book.

ibkayee:
Lmao I had a feeling I had the wrong movie when I wrote that actually, I was just waiting for you to either say ‘OK’ or tell me it’s the wrong one

My mind has been all over the place lately

error4040:
doesn't he look Arab to you?
Hombowy never looks like an Arab in any form.

ibkayee:
I completely forgot about Godzilla, sorry Beorn
Will probably see it this week

losprince:
Check out their looks man, in the movie. They could have cast pure Asian and Arabic acts for the roles (although taking a good look at the actor one can see that he does look Arabic), that would have been better. o.pussy was somehow right, Hollywood are guilty of taking a prominent characters of a certain race and changing them into something western. See what they did with gods of Egypt.

mekaprime:
Honestly, I've been shocked ever since i confirmed the ratings for myself, still can't shake it off.

Octopusssy:
First appearance matters. When I look at the dude who played Freddie Mercury, he looks every bit middle-eastern. Same with Mowgli. I can't mistake Mowgli for a white kid. I look at this fellow and he looks Caucasian. C'mon, you have seen the original source material. Did Aladdin look remotely European? I should be able to identify a character's race, especially when it based on an Arabian character.

Either that or whoever took the promotional photo did a piss poor job.

pryme:
For the fact that they use (I got 5 on It by the Luniz) as a suspense theme in a high tension scene literally turned it to a comedy for me.

Imagine using one of Migos songs as theme music in The Conjuring.
This people made Hans Zimmer to look like a demi-God.

losprince:
I don't know why they keep pulling such annoying stunts... Bunch of cunts

Octopusssy:
Hollywood has Europeanised a middle eastern character. Aladdin is an Arab man, not European. The Princess also looks Spanish/Mexican instead of Arab/Asian.

Smh.

oyaskii:
Dark Phoenix actually worse than X-men Last Stand.

JeromeBlack:
Wow, I left this thread 11 days ago. Since then, the thread has gained only 20 pages. That is less than 2 pages per day.



Before, we could enter 5 pages in one day....

Where are my home boys koicereloaded and alexistaiwo aka kazeem?

Abeg, I have an idea for a new thread!

mekaprime:
Abeg, Tom Cruise doesn't deserve any Oscar win jare, the dude is just stereotyped to the action genre. If it's those who deserves or ought to have won an Oscar, then it should be the likes of Edward Norton, Joaquin Phoenix, Jonny Depp, Brad Pitt ,Robert Downey Jr. And If care is not taken, i fear winning an Oscar might elude some of them, the same way it eluded the likes of Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson(For his performance in Schindler's List).