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IngeniousLeez:
I thought Shazam 2 vs Avatar 2 was smart programming. It's Avatar vs Aquaman 2 that was the scary comparison.

Shazam plays to a different audience and is a counter programming for Avatar. It's also a family and Christmas movie in the first place. So it'd easily hold its ground.

IngeniousLeez:
You peeps are also forgetting this same Shazam had already gone toe to toe with Endgame and Captain Marvel in the box office in 2019. Its box office was kneecapped but it still made 4x it's budget. Especially being a relatively unknown superhero with no previous cameo whatsoever.

That Xmas date would have bettered its chances at the BO imo.

Baddestguyp:
About to rewatch Knight and Day...someone here recommended it...
Can't remember anything about it so I'm rewatching

No Mercy was recommended by someone here.
A Korean movie...
But there seem to be 2 different movies by that title...
A 2010 own and a 2019 own


Can the person clarify, I can't find the post. Which one?

WHITELIGHTER:
pls link to 13 Assassins

pu7pl3:
why do people on Nairaland always
pick a hill and decide to die on it despite glaring facts and evidences of how wrong their hill of choice is

Even on Twitter people always find a middle ground or concede to a new school of thought after evidences have been brought forward on how wrong you were previously.

Na wa o

abduleez1:
While you may be right in some ways, I don't think Japan Cultural influence is gone. It seems to have waned a bit in terms of live action but it's still solid and well respected.

True, we're in Korean's pop culture reign. But more of it has to do with Korean content gaining more audience and spreading globally. And it is yet to reach its peak unlike other regions below that had reached their peak popularity.

It's an interesting topic/argument you brought tho.
Makes me reminisce on the days when South American (Mexican) soaps held sway. Indian too at some point as well as Chinese/Hong Kong movie industry. Bollywood seem to adapt and keep a sizeable audience with Zee World content.
Each region has its time of dominion but lack of adaptation to current zeitgeist may affect an industry.

abduleez1:
Great list but how come Old Boy no dey this list?

IbrahimMav:
This one typed skrep and ended up saying nothing....lol.
And who said I was disputing the history and influence of Japanese cinema
The crux of the matter is the fact that its glory days are over.
Korea cinema has more influence now.

Stop quoting me if you have nothing meaningful to contribute.

RayMcBlue:
GOATED titles.

NaijaMemes:
Why? You must be a gen z to make this blasphemous post.


Hollywood churns out more movies than Korea. Secondly, there is a reason why Hollywood is the most popular movie producer in the world.

The matrix, predestination, Avatar, Inception and Avengers alone should tell you that Hollywood no get mate

NaijaMemes:
That is a blasphemous statement.

Some of the best horror movies are japanese.

The best animated movies are japanese.

Japanese film industry has a deeper history than Korean.

You are hereby banned from watching movies for 2 days.

Go and sin no more.

Baddestguyp:
I understand why you feel that way...
I also felt that way when I watched tons of Korean movies...

But then I remembered that the ones you find are mostly their top movies ...
Korea also has thousands of wack movies that you will probably never hear about or find or find subtitles

So in terms of who makes better movies, I'll say that they're about equal

WriterNig:
Another Episode release of The Rings Of Power. Still not trending on Twitter.

People have moved on...

DontBullshitMe:
I don't disagree, Infact whenever a Targaryen woman copulate outside the Targaryen-Velaryon family duo, their gene does not always survive.

But casting Aemma to look 100% a Targaryen is the error. They should have either kept up with it or not do it at all. Immediately I saw it in the first episode, I was shocked. Terrible idea.

Ishilove:
Pete is the asshole, hence the title of the movie. His friends are also assholes, though, but he is the bigger asshole.

Ishilove:
All My Friends Hate Me-

Most people will find it slow, but it is perfectly relatable. Twenty friends cannot play together for twenty years. People will change, and often times not for the better. What I love most about the movie is there is a dark presence hanging around the whole atmosphere that you can sense, but can't actually see. We are watching events unfold entirely from the main character's perspective, which is very relatable because every individual first of all sees life through their own perspective before anybody else's.

The movie will keep you on the edge of your seat. Brilliant movie

Baddestguyp:
Imagine bragging about Benzema winning Ballon d'or when his competition are Mikel Obi, Zaha and Jack Grealish

Arcane fans are fun to troll sha...
Demon Slayer fans always hide under box office grossing

babyfaceafrica:
Thor: love and thunder wasn’t as bad as people made it out to be. I’ll give it a strong 3.5/10

ShaqFu:
Hey, I'm wondering if it's just me but have you notice Google Users no longer rate movies when you run a movie search on Google?.

ShaqFu:
This has slasher horror written all over it. Judging from what we've seen from slasher horror movies, that is from Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Mike Meyers etc, I'll hold my breath and hope it's not a waste of data.

abduleez1:
B- is a good score for horror movies, B- for an A24 horror is some premium fvvking good rating.


The way people have been hyping up this movie as well as Mia Goth's performance as Oscar Best Actress worthy. Hmm, something's cooking...

IbrahimMav:
I assume you're playing the devil's advocate, so i'll bite.

The jetfighters, the countries, and top gun school are real, yes.
However, being based on real life doesn't in any way undermine a fictitious element.
Fiction by definition is something possible but not true.
Where as fantasy = fiction, fiction ≠ fantasy.
Many fictions are based on real life but their plots are fictitious, and this is where it matters.

Can you draw historical parallels to the plot lines of the Top Gun movies?
If you can, I'll humbly submit an apology for my grave error,
But if you can't, then I see no reason why you would even attempt this question.