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Vexatious:
The Secrets of The Sands.

the local channel used to air this brazilian telenovela back in the day, every sunday.

the story centers around ruth and her evil twin, rachel, competing for a rich rancher, marcos....or something like that.

PAYCHECK (2003)....6/10

nice concept, poor execution.

TIMECRIMES (2007)....8/10

this film started simple enough and then turned to a clusterfuck of mind fucking paradox.

i enjoyed every puzzling minute.

mekaprime:
lolz, i slept good aight. Thinking of you.... Damn! that's some nasty shit right there, i ain't a fa.gman. I actually sent the message yesterday but it hung cause i had no network, switched my data this morning & the whole thing refreshed itself & sent.

i didn't mean it that way at all , it's the farthest thing on my mind lol.

the way "you couldn't sleep thinking about me" is used infer that what i said last night pissed you off very much, thus giving you a sleepless night.

but trust a closet gay to quote an innocuous sentence out of context and turn it into something else.

well done bro.

mekaprime:
Relax bro. Take a deep breath in, & exhale slowly through the mouth. It all has to do with movies & actors, it's nothing serious, it's not a doctorate project nor defense that i should start perusing the whole world wide web, seeking for which is a fact & which is made up.

Whether or not Adkins becomes Batman adds nothing new to my life, so why should i be bothered. Life is too short, try not to let things like this get you rankled. if you must be rankled about anything or anyone, let it be by our clueless GCFR & our useless politicians who are hell-bent on draining the public coffers as though it were their family inheritance.

A fine morning to you & have a splendid day.

i've already forgotten about it. in view of the fact that you brought it up again this morning only goes to show that you couldn't sleep last night thinking about me.

take a chill pill bro, life's too short.

top of the morning to ya.

mekaprime:
Hope you have an inkling of what word on the street means? It means rumor. A rumor is a story that is passed from person to person but has not been proven to be true.
I picked up the story somewhere online. And in my write up, i clearly stated, if this were true...So, i never owned it, i was barely reporting it, thus, it ain't my fallacy.
Let's just agree to disagree & forget this Adkins argument.

you knew it to be unproven and yet it didn't prevent you from parroting it here, when the truth is a mere clicks of your keyboards away.

dude let's be honest with ourselves please.

you chose to parrot the "rumour" instead of the facts because it suited your narrative much more.

the end.

mekaprime:
Yeah you're right, i sure did mix things up. Gracias for the clarification. The two you claimed not to have seen, are also indie & not B Movies. But B movies doesn't always mean a compromise in storyline, the compromise is basically from the visual effects or cast as a result of it's low budget.

when you shoot above your budget, the storyline will take a hit, it's inevitable. when the production value is low, everything looks and feel cheap, as opposed to a medium to high budget film.

mekaprime:
Lolz... What i was trying to tell his fans was that Adkins becoming Batman was just wishful thinking, cause it ain't happening. The fact is, he doesn't have what they want, so, they don't want him & they never will.
The word on the street was that they wanted an older Batman that's why they choose Affleck over him despite him auditioning for the role, aren't they basically in the same age grade, what's mere 3-4 years age difference. If that is true, then that was WB politely telling him " we don't need you".

Abeg that apart. Have you caught up to speed with the Vikings yet?

fallacy 101....haba bros.

read this and see why affleck was handed the role without so much as an audition.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-warner-bros-picked-ben-affleck-to-play-batman-2013-8

seankafor:
mehn, oyibo dey take time act movie oo

Make I hear say na naija movie.. highest one week part 1 and 2 don set

as in ehn.

making a good movie takes a lot of time and patience. there are entirely many varying factors between projects, logistics, crew, capital, etc.

typically the longer you spend on pre-production, ironing out the details, shooting tests and getting everyone on the same page, the smoother things will go.

nollywood filmmakers have a long way to go.

the wait begins.... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERaxldmXUAA9vpf.jpg

biGDhAp:
I was actually going to suggest he should get the main act for deadpool.. that would suit him compared to being batman.


the only thing that might work in him playing deadpool's main act is that he's not funny

nope. he's not suited for the role at all. you gotta be naturally funny to play deadpool.

imho he's more suited to play batman or deathstroke.

Nickshrapnel:
You don’t need to come at people who don’t agree with your view, what I know for certainty is that for every 1 person that want Adkins as Batman, you’d find 3 that will oppose

whatever bro.

abduleez1:
Actors who were top of that list was the likes of Armie Hammer.

lies from the pit of hell. i've seen the shortlist.

someone posted it on reddit last year.

on top of that list was nicholas hoult. he was the favourite, but somehow WB picked robert pattinson over him.

abduleez1:
Hell no. Hardcore DC fans don't even want Adkins as Batman. The fans who even like Adkins as Batman are very minute, a very tiny fragment of the fandom.

Before Pattinson was even cast, in which fans were doing there own fancasting of Batman Adkins was never in the top 5 actors wanted for that role.

Actors who were top of that list was the likes of Armie Hammer.

bro you need to get out there. do you even have internet on your phone?

go to youtube comment sections of any adkin's video, the majority of the commenters want adkins to play batman.

reddit, comicvine, gamespot, etc...the majority of their users want adkins to play batman.

it's only on nairaland that people that has never even attended one single comic convention are trying to manufacture their own narrative out of thin air.

a petition to force WB to make adkins batman was started by a group of dedicated fans and even though it got the necessary votes, WB stuck to their choice of a younger batman.

dude please do your self a favour and visit the internet.

my guess is that you're not a gamer and have never played the arkham video game series, else you wouldn't be saying this rubbish.

DEAD END (2003)....7/10

SPOILERS ALERT!!!

it has it's funny moments but mostly, it's creepy asf.

you were right mekaprime, it's a mind fvck.

you will hit a dead end trying to make sense of it literally, so the best way to make sense of the whole thing is to take it as an allegory.

imho all that transpired in the movie is a symbolism for death.

this is my theory; the father dozed off and crashed his car into another car. the woman in white and her baby were the occupants of the car frank crashed into. everyone died instantly except marion (frank's daughter) and her foetus.

the never ending road symbolizes their souls in a state of limbo after they had died in the car accident.

the black hearse symbolizes the grim reaper collecting the souls from their deceased bodies.

marion survived because the grim reaper spared her life.

am still not entirely sure why the doctor and the never ending road share the name "marcott", but the best explanation i could muster up is marion must have overheard the name in her state of comma and somehow attached it to the road.

the mid credit scene got me stumped tho. it revealed that everything that transpired in the film weren't only allegorical, but really did happen too.

yep, a mind fvck of epic proportions.

SweetCunt97:
Ben Affleck has jaw dimple, Pattison also gorrit. Mayb that's a yardstick for being casted as a Batman. Adkins doesn't have the dimple and he's quite old for d franchise.

jaw dimple kwa hian.

christian bale nkor?? i don't recall him having a dimpled jaw or maybe it's my memory playing tricks on me.

mekaprime:
Bro seriously, i don't really get it, is it a must he becomes the caped crusader? It's quite obvious they don't want him. He doesn't really have what they want, if he does, trust me, no be una way be him fans go tell them. So why are you his fans really clamouring for this. You folks are only forcing him to do desperate things, the self video depicting him as the caped crusader being one of them. No offense to you & all his fans, but seriously, you folks need to wake up & smell the coffee, the eagle ain't landing the nest anytime soon.

it doesn't have to be batman. any main role in a blockbuster will do wonders for his career. might even elevate him from b- list to a list.

mekaprime:
When I hear B grade movies, the first thing that basically comes to my mind are low budget movies with a good stories not necessarily top notch. The way you made it sound with Bale gave off the wrong impression to me to mean a movie with basically a poor script.
Well basically, Indiana movies falls within this category.
Hichki(India)
Upgrade
Belko experiment
The Descent
Searching

SEARCHING and UPGRADE and THE DESCENT are indie, not b movies

haven't seen BELKO EXPERIMENT and HICHKI so i reserve my opinions.

you're confusing b films with their indie counterpart. they are not the same. google their differences, will you?

netflix is currently littered with b movies.

mekaprime:
First audition kwa, and it wasn't official as you claimed. As for the official bit, aren't job interviews similar to movie auditions in a way. Is there any thing like official interview & unofficial. How is the unofficial audition conducted? Since Affleck was what they had in mind, then they never wanted him in the first place.
That aside, but you do agree that the second one was nothing but sheer desperation on his part.

bro ambition is not desperation. he wanted more and so put himself out there, and even though he failed, fans appreciated the effort. proud of the guy.

mekaprime:
You keep hinting hard on this script issue
I've been to auditions before were all it took a guy to land a role was just 3 minutes of the display of his emotions, a script wasn't even involved, but from his performance, i was so sure the guy would ace his acting job. Adkins doesn't know how to express himself fullstop.

ignored this before but thought i owed it to you and myself to address it.

the primary reason for movie auditions is to find the most suitable person that will cinematically emote a written character.

however, when it comes down to the brasstracks, acing your audition is meaningless if the script you're given doesn't emote very well. a shitty script will ultimately make a seasoned and talented actor to appear uninspired and talentless.

for instance jared leto, an oscar winner btw, gave the shittiest performance in the history of joker because the role he was given was poorly scripted. he tried all he could to pimp_ up the character, but the more he tried, the more he sucked.

it's easy to blame him and call him a bad actor but what people fail to realize is the fact that it wasn't his fault that he tanked the role. it was the writer's fault.

an actor is only as good as a script.

mekaprime:
So of all the 64 movies Adkins has stared in so far, none had funny lines.. o di kwa mma.

that's not the point, is it?

you said jason is flexible because he occasionally say something funny in his roles, which i corrected by telling you he only drop funny lines because they were in his script, not because he off scripts them.

allowing hard men to drop funny lines in high budget movies is plain fan service. these are done to infuse comic relief into a grim characterization, thereby endearing the characters to the cinema going viewers.

b movies don't have to worry about such things since it's direct to dvds anyways, so everything is kept simple and straight to the point. no fan service required, so therefore so funny lines.

mekaprime:
From what you said, Adkins performance is bad cause of the scripts he gets. So how is that of all his years of acting he has always gotten bad scripts all this while. Dude has been on 64movies so far, so from what you've said it's safe to infer that all 64 movies he's been in, all had mediocre scripts & that's has been a cog in the wheel of his acting prowess.
So if he doesn't star in Batman, his diamond wouldn't shine?.. ok na, let him keep waiting

bro i never said adkins performances were bad. mediocre script doesn't necessarily translate to bad movie.

b movies are made primarily for profit and as such they keep the plot lines, characters and dialogue simple on purpose.

you may not know this but most b movies are direct to dvds. very few b movies get theatrical release.

adkins has made a name for himself playing a hard man in b flicks, and has garnered a cult following in russia since successfully portraying a russian prisoner, boyka, in the UNDISPUTED film series.

he's good at what he does and deserves a shot at the big leagues.

mekaprime:
So 'b' Flicks lack well grounded scripts( remember you yourself generalized it that way)?... interesting.. I could give 5 "b" flicks with well grounded scripts

list them then

mekaprime:
Hahahaha.. I now understand the whole thing & trust me, this is even more funny, so no one actually called him, it was basically a self record of himself as the cape crusader, LMFAO. And to think that he did it with hopes of replacing Ben Affleck after he head he quit. Which self-confident individual does that, doesn't that show the height of his desperation.

we're talking about the first audition, not the one he did after ben affleck stepped down.

he auditioned but WB was always going to pick affleck over him and other interested parties. affleck didn't even audition, they just offered him the job on a silver platter.

mekaprime:
And by some years back, who said I was talking about Bale's timeline..... that's was a joke like meant to denote the word NEVER.

bro you need to get out more. hardcore gamers and DC fans want adkins to play batman so bad that it hurts.

Nickshrapnel:
You said WB had already contracted Affleck before Scott’s audition which contradicts the screenshot I posted

read this and maybe you'll understand why ben affleck was WB primary choice.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-warner-bros-picked-ben-affleck-to-play-batman-2013-8

Nickshrapnel:
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this is how people fail exams. they don't read properly.

i know he auditioned, i posted his audition video this morning ffs.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynbnSykhV8I


i said he didn't audition OFFICIALLY.

meaning he didn't audition in the traditional sense (face to face audition) like mekaprime implied.

mekaprime:
You're still mixing things up here, by Funny lines, i wasn't referring to Batman, everybody knows the caped crusader doesn't joke a bit.
By flexibility, in relation to the two actors, I wasn't referring to flexibility as regards genre, i mean striking a balance between seriousness & humor.

bro only the best of of best can afford to freestyle/go off script and not mess up a dialogue chain, but mostly, actors stick to the script.

if the script an actor is given has funny lines, of course they will say them. that's the way it is. i cannot stress this enough--- an actor is only as good as a script.

jason has funny lines because the script has funny lines. it doesn't make him flexible, it endears his character to the audience tho.

give adkins similar script and he will have funny lines too.

mekaprime:
Adkins has the Batman kinda physique, his fighting skills are very good, but the honest truth is that Adkins can't act sh.it. Acting goes beyond reading or reciting some script. Well, before you come up with the "Adkins has a brooding personality" , being Batman goes beyond having just a brooding personality.
A good act requires character building( at this point, the actors original personality, ceases to exist, what exists is the character which he has given life to), amazing empathetic cognitive orientation, lively dialogue etc.

bro you can't make orange juice from a lemon. you can only make lemonade from a lemon.

basically, you play the hand you're dealt. give an actor a cheesy script with cheesy dialogue and they will act accordingly, give them a meaningful script with meaningful script, ditto. an actor is only as good as a screenplay. all this epistle about "empathetic cognitive orientation...." doesn't apply to a b movie script with basic plot lines, cheesy dialogue and martial art as a principal.

also. not everyone must become a method actor to be classified as a great actor bro.

basing adkins acting prowess on mediocre scripts of b movies is hilarious asf. it's like saying a cow cannot run fast because it's fat, but we all know the average cow can run faster than a human.

don't you think it's wiser to let adkins prove himself in the big leagues first before judging him?

don't make me laugh abeg

mekaprime:
Why is Bale considered the best Batman ever? Well with Bale, he becomes the character in toto, from his facial expressions, his gestures, his dialogues, his body movement, you literally feel what he feels. You feel the darkness within him, his pains, his anguish, beneath his smile, you see the sadness & regrets, the responsibility.

what the hell is this lol.

bro lemme tell you something, if you put Christian bale in a "b" flick, he will give a sort of performance that will make you question his talent. why?

one answer - SCRIPT.

a script/screenplay plays a huge part on how an actor will perform. a well grounded script encourages a grounded performance, and this is where a talented actor really shines.

adkins is a diamond in the rough. give him a grounded script and a role like batman, and any talented director will extract a monumental performance from him.

mekaprime:
Before Affleck was cast for Batman vs Superman, Adkins was called in for an audition for the role of the caped crusader, guess what? It ended there & he wasn't chosen. So why wasn't he chosen? Another opportunity comes yet again, yet he wasn't called for an audition talk more of been chosen. So again, why wasn't he chosen this time?. I'll be glad if you can give me a different answer.

huge lie bro. where the hell did you hear that

he never officially auditioned for the role, besides, WB has already contracted ben affleck as their batman

after the dismal box office performance of both BvS and JL, WB announced that it's looking for a younger batman for the future. adkins is 43 years so this effectively eliminated him from auditioning for the role. very unfortunate because he was one of fan favorites to land the role prior to the WB's announcement.

this is what actually happened not your fallacious version.

mekaprime:
If Adkins were to be Batman, he'd have been, some years back and not now. Now that every studio, every director is itching to get their hands on the Oscars & you're seriously suggesting they cast Adkins, That's quite laughable. And with the amount of success DC currently has, they'll want to stay on top, thus, they'd always go for best of the best and nothing more.

mehn am really surprised at you! you talk like an amateur. aren't you supposed to be the movie man

@the bolded, christian bale happened. christopher nolan wanted a method actor and personally auditioned bale himself. he wanted to create his own idea of batman and gotham city, and felt that an immersive actor like bale will suit these ideas.

@the second bolded, go for the best of the best you said, and yet DC plucked an unproven b list pretty face and gave her her own movie.

(spoiler alert...the movie bombed.)

bro...

SalomonKane:
well you have a point. Don't forget Batman has dual personality. He's a playboy and a vigilante. While I feel Adkins can match Batman's martial art skill, I honestly don't think he can come close to Bruce Wayne's playboy theatrics.

I really believe it'll be hard to find a human being on this earth who can readily combine both role into one, effortlessly.

adkins will play bruce wayne very well, playing bruce wayne is the easy part of being batman.

anyone can be bruce wayne, just be suave and arrogant, and you're good to go.

being the cape crusader is the hard part, and am of the opinion that adkins will take the role to the next level.

mekaprime:
As regards the bolded, that's not the point. The comparison between both actors are as regards the flexibility with which they act.

Thanks for pointing out that Statham acts as a hardman with funny lines, that's called flexibility, irrespective of him playing the role of a hard man, he knows when to induce comic relief with his funny lines. while Adkins is all damn serious all the time.

Adkins can be the stunt man that plays Batman, am sure ok with that. But as for Bruce Wayne, am sorry sire, he can never be Bruce Wayne.

jason is not flexible bro. flexibility is when you have range to delve into other genre that are not your niche and do them very well. jason is not that guy. he only ever plays a villain or anti hero, the sort of role someone like adkins will thrive in too.

they are the same kind of actors, the only difference is jason has access to better scripts that brings out his best attributes, while adkins only have access to cheesy scripts synonymous with b flicks.

just waka go online and you'll see numerous articles by movie nerds wondering why adkins hasn't played batman yet. he's perfect for that role, it's his forte.

just watch this video. the montage starts at 04:09....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynbnSykhV8I

if you still think he can't play batman after watching this, then you're just keen on being a hater.

rumour has it that if ben affleck had turned down the batman role in SUPERMAN VS BATMAN, WB would have offered adkins the role.

i remember when people used to say henry cavill can't act (just because he was a b-lister), now his haters have all gone mute.

JeromeBlack:
Can Statham do romance movies? He can only act as a hardman with funny lines.

Batman movies are action movies with a lot of brooding from batman himself. That is Adkins forte

exactly!

jason statham only ever plays a hard man with the occasionally funny lies.

he knows his strong points and acts accordingly.

kendrick93:
Batman needs fresh ideas...
Batman is a skilled martial fighter but I don't think any of the movies has done enough justice to that.... The closest we got was Ben affleck version which was why most fans insist he was the perfect batman realistically....
Nolan trilogy while great was terrible in fight choreography...
Adkins would have been a very good candidate for this role

thank you! adkins is well suited to play batman.

mekaprime:
My guy forget that thing, asides martial arts movies, your guy would suck horribly in any other genre. Just imagine Adkins in a Comedy, Drama or Romance movie, even as a voice actor, he'd suck horribly. Just imagine these scenarios and tell yourself the gospel truth.
And you can't really compare him to statham. Adkins is very rigid with his act, he carries out all his act with so much seriousness & tension. Statham on the other hand is always very flexible with his act.

niche actors like adkins rarely deviate from martial art, they stick to what they know.

he can play a villain or an anti hero. he's well suited for such roles.

the perfect batman that never was.

such is life.

https://heroichollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Ben-Affleck-Scott-Adkins-Batman-DCEU.jpg

blackjack21:
Lol! It's like people telling Messi to go to another club before they can yield to him.

I think, foremostly, he's a martial artist before anything, he probably didn't even went to acting school.

All his movies I've seen were about combat.
He sticks to what he know best. And he's demn good at it, nobody can deny that.

Almost all of the best martial artist are poor actor.

neither did jason statham but look at where he is today.

adkins deserves to be in a blockbuster playing the main character.

kendrick93:
I still can't understand why he's not been giving a chance in the big league's...
His acting might not be top notch, but there are worse actors who get high profile jobs...
He's got martial art skills too which is a plus..

exactly.

i know for a fact that adkins is a better actor than jason statham and yet statham is an a-lister while he is languishing in the b-list.

some people are luckier than others i guess.