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Born2Freak:
Why did you answer? Lol you should have left the joker in her ignorance.

Simple google would tell the difference between bones and mr bones.

Don't be unkind.

Born2Freak:
Speak for yourself. I pay my taxes. The problem is that the taxes are stolen rather than used for public amenities.

A topic for another day.

Born2Freak:
There is no hope. Nollywood is not trying abeg. Even with a hostile environment, one can still do great things.

When I was young, i remember the quality of the plot and script of Things Fall Apart. Granted, it had a source material from the book but then..


Or just look at indie movies in America. With little budgets, they create cheap movies that mostly focus on the dramatic plot.

Where are the Nigerian short movies on youtube? If we can copy short comedy videos (cough* brother shaggy) why can't we also do short movies in youtube that wont even cost much?

The only thing Nollywood has is good actors. I am yet to see a good plot in Nigerian films. Even our romantic films lack good storylines. It is either predictable or copied from a Hollywood film.


I know part of the problem is from.the Nigerin government and nigerian environment but still...

Deep pockets bro.
When you say short youtube videos, how much is not much?

No matter how cheap or short the movie is, how many people have the leverage?

Standard of living is downhill, how many can afford to buy rights from hungry publishers who are even too myopic to consider shared revenue from film adaptations of their books?

Imagine making short films out of classics like:

Eze goes to school
The drummer boy

How about the Pacesetters series?
Try buying the rights from McMillian books

A good film and production has to create some buzz from the get-go, unfortunately, how many can afford quality.

We have a gold mine waiting to be tapped.

Maybe some foreign studio would soon see these potentials and begin importing creative hands.

That would be the beginning.....

Born2Freak:
We are on the same page.

My original comment was saying that the government should invest in Nollywood by investing in the arts. How many film schools do we have?

Even the loans you mention- there are government grants and loans for manufacturing companies but none for movie companies.

If we invest in video technology, arts and film schools, tax breaks for movie productions etc, Nollywood would be great

Yes, enabling environment by the government.

But money, the real money, should come from the private sector.

We blame government too much in these parts yet we all do our best to dodge taxes.

It's easy to dismiss Nollywood for their lack of creativity or imagination.

As someone who has been there and done that, please clap for those guys.

Nollywood is not a place, neither is it a gentlemen's club.

It's an aggregate of Nigerians trying to make a living from the movies using their meager personal resources.

Kindly cut them some slack if they are yet to produce an INCEPTION-like kinda flick.

"the spirit is willing, it is the flesh that is weak"

I have seen badass scripts in my time, but the fear of failure would not let many a director/producer to take the leap.

Many have come to ruins because of one bad picture that could not sell "10,000 copies".

Respect those entrepreneurs, please.

How many of you would invest in a good movie? Put your money where your mouth is

The banks would not fund it. The government looks the other way.

Venture Capital is a no go area because "no businessman wants to risk their money on a movie whose return is based solely on audience acceptance"

So where do you want these producers to go to for funding?

Is it DSTV that buys movies off producers at an average of N1.5m.

What quality production costs less than that? How would the producer make a profit?

Or Iroko TV? Dem even dey try small.

This environment is just a joke! It's enough to suck all the creativity out of Quentin Tarantino!!!

Let's leave armchair philosophy abeg.

Oro po ni nu iwe kobo (youruba proverb)

Nollywood, I hail!!!

mjbolt hahn mekaprime2 born2freak

kendrick9:
My Wife & I(2017)-8/10
Quite enjoyed this..
Helped by the two leads Ramsey and Omoni Oboli... The chemistry between them two was just perfect
This is definitely one of the best nollywood movies I've seen in recent times..

But I've noticed nollywood child actors are mostly terrible... Jeez
Compared to Hollywood where you will see a kid of 4 years who is very smart...
Nollywood really needs to do something about to this....
Surely there are smart kids in Nigeria too
From their facial expressions to their speaking.... Terrible

Hollywood has a system and infrastructure.

The Nollywood kid is most likely the director's child or a producer's nephew.

Hollywood teaches, Nollywood uses.

Hollywood has a pipeline, while Nollywood just kidnaps a good looking kid from their cradle.

End.

mekaprime2:
It had ritual narrative? i thought we had gone past that in the industry. That's like going back to the Stone ages. It's been donkey years i saw the first movie, I'd probably see it before this new one.

What else if not RITUAL?

How do you expect a sequel to Living In Bondage to be? Romance? Kung-fu?

Did you ever REALLY watch the original?

cc: Oyaskii

I have silently observed the goings-on in this thread the past few days and can only submit that;

"God should grant us all the wisdom to understand what is beyond us, and make our peace with it."

It's not by throwing tantrums however we perceive the injustice.

Life is not fair, and all fingers are not equal.

Now take solace in "Making a difference in your own areas of influence."

You are all Lords in your own personal space.

SHALOM.

Acmepreneur:
Oya now, let's choose wedding date. What about next weekend?

You are joking, right?

Acmepreneur:
This my guy is not serious at all.

I used to tell myself change is the only permanent thing in life bla bla bla. And I really believe that once you take the right steps, you can be anything you want to be. This made me to be very soft with people.

When I started dating my Boyfriend, I really was not choosy or judgy. I accepted him without a second thought. I'm not the type of lady that actually do all those lady stuff, I'm a very serious person and I don't play games at all.
My BF is very cool, like not bad looking, normal behaviour etc and I like him a lot.

I'm a very ambitious person, with an extremely big dreams, my boyfriend is also hard working, but I'm not seeing any future at all with his career/prospects/life. When I say I'm with big dreams, it's means I'm working on discovering (new innovations), planning big business that would compete with top brands etc. I'm that big in dreams.

My children is also very important to me, I don't plan for their sufferings at all.
I'm an introvert, I find solace in my aspirations, dreams. I have books I work out those formulas (I mean how I would execute my business plans), I research a lot, think a lot etc

Our fight now

Since day 1, I do tell him to do this and that. I really hate company works, so I would tell him to have savings, and be building something sideways where he works. Also, I wanted him to do Masters, since he said he would love to travel out, he's always saying he hates Nigeria bla bla bla. His dad also wanted him to do Masters, but he's in the crew of Masters is a waste of time, and he can't do Masters in Nigeria bla bla bla

Baby try this business, he would say he doesn't have money, he needs 2 million to start a business etc.

Meanwhile, he doesn't have money to travel out of the country to do Masters, nor 2m to start any business. So I would tell him to manage what he has first, and that would propelled him later, but he likes to talk like illiterates that Masters is meaningless.

Meanwhile, while that is true, those things are just like investment, you don't know when you will see an opportunity to use your Masters certificate, and since he studied computer science, I told him that it can even help him get a job outside Nigeria when he leaves, that it can be useful there. I understand the situation of the country, but not having masters doesn't mean you will get a job as well, so why don't you just have it.

My bf would shut me off, and also his dad, the dad even asked him to take job at the federal university where he works, but my bf said he can't work in that place, this is a federal government job o, he would say the salary is too small and people there already knows him, because his dad is in a big office in the university.

So it won't seem like I'm disturbing him, I went quiet, but might chip it in in discussions, but I don't fight him on those things. He works in a small company, and he rose to the position of a Manager, he spent all his time in office, the little time to waste with his friends. It's a good thing but I'm not comfortable with that, the pay is about 90k, which is not enough for his expenses, also he's the first born.

Fast forward to last year, his dad died, it looks like a film trick to him, he now have to take care of his siblings and mum (mum is nurse, but retired long time ago, her pay is little because it wasn't normal retirement). Everything I was telling him finally came to pass.

He rented an apartment with His friends, he later hated it, and said he wants his own, he went to rent an apartment of 600k (he gathered it from different places and he borrowed), which I really hate and we fought on that as well. Because he could have used the money to secure his life in a better way, since his complain when I told him to start a business is that he doesn't have money bla bla bla

He will not apply for better jobs as well
He's practically doing nothing to grow, and would say he hates Nigeria and he would like to leave, but he can't even apply for scholarships or even google schools.

So this 2020, Jan 1, I started fighting him, that I'm not going to continue with him like that, that he should go apply for MSC, start a business or just do something. He now started saying that he has responsibilities which are his siblings, I told him this is the nonsense, he would do till the year ends, we will fight and later resolve it.

He won't even talk about it, or get reminded, he makes me feel Hus boss is using him. I have told him several times how he would be used and dumped, in fact, he makes me say negatives sometimes, and that's because I have seen people that get dumped while working with companies and they fall back to grass, my mum won't even accept him because he works in a company, small company, not cocacola or big companies. My mum hates company works like shits because we've heard and seen people falling to zero due to company jobs.

The problem
1. He says I'm disturbing his life, and not allowing him to rest

2. I'm not happy with him living that way, with no future, no investment, hes not building himself while working, hes not doing courses, not learning any skills, and I think its too risky.
His current salary is not enough for him, not to talk of me collecting part of it. But he gives me money though, has not been more than 1k, 2k and data subscription which I really appreciate.

3. I can't introduce him to my family because I want him respected. Truth is I don't know what he would say to impress my parents because I'm not even impressed with him. And I want him to be superloved and respected. I believe in first impression would last very long. He has introduced me to his family and all friends

4. He never ask me about my own life, aspirations, advice me etc, I'm always the one to do that. Yesterday he had the gut to tell me I'm not caring because of just two days of not showing care

5. Corona has turned his company outside down and he's highly affected. Just like all what I was telling him finally happened, and he has nothing to fall back at. He has a car,

6. I can't marry him or anyone this way, and I'm getting old, though and I want marriage next year. He said he wants too, but I can't marry him like this. And I don't want to get to late twenties, and he breaks up and I start looking for husband, people would be thinking maybe I have a problem that is why I'm yet to marry, they won't know that its him that caused my delay. Plus I have a very high esteem, so I would hate to be desperate for marriage with a man or be the one to be wanting marriage so much in a relationship

7. Right now, we have temporarily break up, so I'm asking if I should break up or make up? Because he was saying rubbish last night

Note: I'm not a fan of dating and rubbish, I love him very much and I don't want to leave him at all. I don't think there's any man I can date as I do not like dishonesty at all and 95% of men are dishonest. My BF is very honest and good I'm every other aspect

Will you marry me?

Every man needs a woman who will push him out of his comfort zone.

Your boyfriend is in a deep slumber. He is waiting for a miracle or some luck, which does not happen everyday.
Maybe your breakup will wake him up!
May God help him.

How about my offer?

Captain fantastic - 8/10

Quite thought-provoking.

Being book-smart cannot paper over the importance of social skills.

We cannot raise children in isolation.
That is the bedrock of extremism and intolerance.

But give it to that father, HE REALLY RAISED CHILDREN.
Not the wimpy kind of kids I see around me nowadays.

Liposure:
eh! I remember dis film .had the creme de la creme of hollywood in it. Worth Rewatching

That scene where Bradley cooper was making impromptu love to his wife, while my crush, his girlfriend, Scarlet Johanson was hiding in the closet had me both laughing and horrified at the same time.

Awkward!!!!!

Jennifer Aniston is still my babe any day. Brad Pitt left her for that "Maleficent"

Drew Barrymore, wife material, 100 yards
The kind you take home after dating Scarlet Johanson for 7 years

He's Not Just That Into You - 10/10

I'm a sucker for a good romance story any day.

It reminds me of the nervous, liver-less teenage years.

If I knew then, what I know now.................

oyaskii:
-The Conjuring franchise
-The Ring
-The Witch
-The Exorsim of Emily Rose
-IT
-The Autopsy of Jane doe
-The Exocirst
-The omen
-Paranormal activity
- The Amityville Horror
-Insidious franchise
-Evil Dead
-Stir of Echoes
-HellRaiser
-The others
-Drag me to hell
-1408
-Oculus
-The Mist
-The Blair Witch Project

Mama is one Horror movie I really connected with.
A tear-jerker.

piamily:
Okay. There’s thing guy I met one time last year. So he came up bold and said he was interested in a relationship. He didn’t even waste time. I was impressed . Normally I was supposed to dish out my “naija shakara girls style” you know, but I didn’t . After some days I agreed to date him.

I found out he’s easy going so I decided to give in and be mutual with the love and attraction etc. as soon as I got interested, he withdrew.

I noticed it . I don’t understand why a man will do this. Was he not interested? And does he expect the woman to hate him.

I see some men complain about ladies being hard to get and now a lady didn’t play that much hard yet the man withdrew a bit. Still don’t get men sometimes sha

The "Thrill" is in the "Chase"........

....... for immature boys still trying to prove their social skills.

Sorry, just add that to your catalog of experiences.

oyaskii:
That's how i ended up with about almost 2TB of Unwatched files (Movies, Series and Docu), days of sleepless night, and most of my income in dem Internet providers acc .. There's always this thrill of downloading something new, some you might not even have need for lol...Just find time to see at least about 50% of what you currently have and hold of downloading new stuff for the meantime...


There's actually a real life disorder when one buys stuff and fills the entire house and still continues to buy (mostly non essential things) saw it on this program called "Taboo" on National Geographic sometime ago...your case will turn to a "digitalized" version of this disorder if you don't slow down

A movie/download Shopaholic is the word.

hulk618:
her niece is in her 30s get your facts right
Do you know her siblings ages?
Agent Carter 70 years old brother can have a 30 years old daughter.

This is why we need high level thinkers, the world is suffering

You are just all over the place with your explanation.

see mjbolt for some pointers.

slight dig from me

MJBOLT:

are you sure you even watched that movie because it was revealed that agent carter is the great aunt of agent 13(sharon).na wa o

Slight dig there. One point for you.

Where was it revealed? All I heard is Aunt.

hulk618:
I can see the high level thinking behind this post.

How is she too young? Do you know the ages of her(Steve girlfriend) siblings?

Oga Marvel,

Agent carter died at 95+

Her niece looks 20-ish.

Plot hole the size of Alimosho

Captain America Civil War - 10/10

Wakanda fights are these Best in the whole MCU hands down.

Wanda v Vision? I suspect she is farrrrrr stronger than him.

Stan Lee is a clown

Peter Parker is a confirmed clown.

Uncle Steve Rogers, dem take that family swear for you?
He dated Aunty, and now he is kissing the Niece.

Question: That lady is awfully young to be a niece to Agent Carter. Anyone care to explain? Hulk616 hulk617 hulk618, etc

submission: Captain America is too idealistic to function in a normal world.

An excellent watch.

On to the next!

CsRockefeller:
Fury
7/10

I am begining to think that being an American comes with a default of Bravery.

The Americans have sacrificed a lot for world peace.

Propaganda

hulk616:
if you are a fan of good movies, then you are an unregistered Marvel fan. Because always create good movies

Yes.

An unregistered DC fan too

Omoluabi16:
lool. Them no dey do agbaya for that kind thing. Surprised you rated it so high. Marvel fans don't really rate it.

I am a fan of good movies, Marvel or not.

Avengers - Age of Ultron - 9/10

Electric!!!!
That Stan Lee cameo was hilarious mehn

But this Hulk mumu sha.
See as he ran away from better babe Romanoff.
I am really rooting for the Banner/Black widow romance.

Hulk616, what are the names of the twins?
And what is the name of the "I AM" created by Tony Stark?

That agbaya Thanos say him dey come do am himself

I'm scared for planet earth........

nani667:
Latest addition ➕

Downloaded this for laughs... It is one of those “terrible releases I just have to see for myself” ... Still waiting for Cats

a waste.....

Captain America - The Winter Soldier - 8/10

Tired plotline but badass intrigues.

Loved the attack on Nick fury. That's some high level adrenaline action.

Got to feel sorry for Captain Rogers and his love (Agent Carter) that never was.
Imagine waking up from bed 70 years too late.

That Bucky Barnes story was a bit of a tear jerker.
Such a patriot does not deserve what he has been dealt.

I'm in love with Agent Romanov aka Natasha. phew!
Someone get me her number. Hulk616?

Age of Ultron is next.

DrDax:
Thor The Dark World - 8/10

Odin:
"Is this to be my legacy? A son who wants the throne too much, and one who would not take it."

Loki is just too much trouble for all he is worth.

Jane Forster can slap sha

Can someone expatiate on the importance of THE COLLECTOR.
Why give him the AETHER to keep because they do not want more than one infinity stone in one place?
Big plot hole there. Hulk616, dig yourself out of this one

So Thor rejected the throne that he wanted all his life because of Jane? All hail pvssy power!

okay!

Mind how you speak about my brother

Well he killed 80 people in 2 days

He's adopted... lol

hulk616:
yes, only infinity stone was with the collector. So there was no plot hole. You need to know that high level thinkers that made marvel movies don't create plot hole.

He didn't reject the throne, Odin was still alive.

Go and watch it again bro

Thor The Dark World - 8/10

Odin:
"Is this to be my legacy? A son who wants the throne too much, and one who would not take it."

Loki is just too much trouble for all he is worth.

Jane Forster can slap sha

Can someone expatiate on the importance of THE COLLECTOR.
Why give him the AETHER to keep because they do not want more than one infinity stone in one place?
Big plot hole there. Hulk616, dig yourself out of this one

So Thor rejected the throne that he wanted all his life because of Jane? All hail pvssy power!

okay!

hulk616:
fake news

Quoting Thor, he said

"wait right here, I am coming back for you"

If that's not a marriage proposal, then I wonder what is....

Ishilove:
That's the power of love.

Very poor lover indeed.

Imagine telling your babe who has been waiting for you for at least a year that,
"you know what dear, I came to Nigeria briefly last month but I was too busy to call or visit you. In fact, I passed your street on my way to the govt house"

very dumb Thor

hulk616:
which heart breaker? They were never dating

say what?

After promising her marriage