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MrMacinterchi1:
Lol.. but u managed to score 4 nah. 4-40 lol.

You are wicked o. So I should have scored 0.5

Went to watch Man utd vs Barca UCL final 2009 when I knew we had test the next day. Man utd lost 0:2, I couldn't read that night. Wrote the test the next day and knew before the result was out that I failed woefully. Result came and I suffered my own loss, it was 4/40.

Smallville10:
u have been marked for greatness

I knew that this prophet cannot be fake

Nickname: Smallville1

I finished season 1 & 2 of Arrow but couldn't finish season 1 of Flash. Got to say Flash sucks more.

genearts:
It's very funny, the fight scenes were great too. It's not that bad.

I agree with kkash. Deadpool was rubbish

franciskaine:
don't mind them. The funny part is that some of them are still unemployed looking for job, when actually the corrupt politicians who mortgaged their future is their lord which no one must criticise.

And also their lord has no idea who they are

No matter the amount she steals, some people here will still defend her even though one kobo will not enter their pockets. All because of sentiment

Why not do a Deadpool vs Deathstroke contest

The portrait looks Finer

emorse:
lololol!!!!my man, I swear you don mad because ba you cause sm wey everybody around me fey look me like say I don kolo.

BTW, you din try okra and milk before? Or ewedu and milk, Yam and milk etc. I still fey laugh like fool. lol

I go try them when this MoU begin bear fruit. I de sure say that Ewedu own go make sense

Adeyinka12:
That is how they will continue MILK you.

I shall not be MILKed IJN

Forwetinnah:
Pray the paper signed doesn't end up in the archives(according to bubu)

Help me pray o

If this is true, then I give kudos to the minister of agriculture.

Everything I take now must have milk in it

Garri, Groundnut and MILK

Pap and MILK

Kunu and MILK

Beans and MILK

Rice, Stew and MILK

Fufu, Egusi and MILK

Played all and played the last one with the poles blazing with fire

Played all and played the last one with the poles blazing with fire

6. STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997)


Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers presents the future as a place where nationalities are no longer recognized, men and women are equal in the job force and are so nonchalant about gender they can share the same bathrooms, showers, and changing rooms without a wandering gaze. What a utopia! This society should be protected at all costs! And protected it is, by the youth brigade who must enlist into the military in order to earn citizenship. Ah, so there’s a catch.

Verhoeven, ever the sneaky satirist, made a Hollywood career out of subverting the action genre by giving the people what they wanted—blood, guts, and nudity—while also making fun of the society that craves to see so much of that primal excess. And Starship Troopers is his satirical masterpiece. He follows a band of attractive but banal soldiers as they shoot off into space to fight giant bugs. And he fills the screen with propaganda videos made by Earth about why this space bug species must be exterminated. Eventually—amidst the bug splats, the brain sucks, and the workplace nudity—we see that Troopers is really an anti-Fascist film. And that the citizens of Earth, who must fight in order to become citizens, are blindly following the creed that “war solves everything.” At the bottom of each propaganda video, the viewer sees a question prompt: “Would you like to know more?” But how many of its citizens can actually read and comprehend that message? It’s revealed that the bodily and nation-free utopia is devoid of any type of education that isn’t warfare. For finding a constant threat and feeding fear can prevent free thought. - Brian Formo

5. FACE/OFF (1997)


It’s easy to say that John Woo’s American films revealed an inability to translate his vaulted, bombastic style to a more believable timbre for American audiences. Hard Boiled, which appears on this very list, and The Killer are many things but above all else, they are fucking crazy. There’s an identical strain of lunacy in Broken Arrow and, more importantly, Face/Off, which saw John Travolta’s obsessive FBI agent Sean Archer and Nicholas Cage’s notorious Castor Troy, the man who killer Archer’s young son, switching faces. If one attempts to drag logic, kicking and screaming, into an appreciation of Face/Off, the game was lost before it even began, but logic and reason often have no place in action films.

For all its inexplicable narrative decisions, Face/Off is an exhilarating work of action chutzpah, one that dips deep into the thematic consideration of what, if anything, separates the criminals from the people who chase them. At well over two hours, Face/Off boasts entropic pacing, wildly theatrical, over-the-top performances, and set-pieces that will blow your wig off. Some may say that the film is too silly, too raucous to be enjoyed, and there’s an argument to be made that they are completely right. For a seasoned fan of the genre like myself, however, Face/Off is all nonsensical decadence. – Chris Cabin

4. BLADE (1998)


Blade certainly isn’t the best vampire movie to come out of the 90s, but it is one of the most kick ass. An action-packed comic book adaptation ahead of its time, Blade recruits genre icon Wesley Snipes as the titular hybrid mercenary on a mission to rid the world of an evil vampire scourge. From a screenplay by David S. Goyer, who would later help establish “gritty and grounded” as the order of business for the DC universe with The Dark Knight Trilogy and Man of Steel, Blade integrates vampire culture believably into the underworld of contemporary society with a goth raver bent that makes them seem like a bunch of blood-thirsty tools. Basically, you really just can’t wait for Blade to kick the shit out of them all. 

And Snipes does so with aplomb in a tremendously athletic performance, as he slices, shoots and stakes his way through his immortal foes with impeccable physical command. He’s backed by the weaponry of his vampire-slaying ally Whistler, played by a delightfully gruff and grumbly Kris Kristofferson, and the two have a no-nonsense, taking-care-of-business friendship that helps keeps the movie entertaining even when no fists are flying and the dialogue becomes laughable. Cheesy lines and all, Snipes carries the movie on his very muscular back with a self-seriousness that works for the character, if not the film at large, and consistently fantastic fight scenes. – Haleigh Foutch


3. THE MASK OF ZORRO (1998)


First, I’ll admit you have to set aside the fact that Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta Jones are playing people of Spanish descent. If you can overlook that slightly uncomfortable fact, The Mask of Zorro is one hell of a swashbuckling action adventure that should have spawned a new era for the masked hero rather than just one disappointing sequel. It’s also the film that should have cemented Antonio Banderas as an action star, although he kind of blew that with films like The 13th Warrior, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

But back in 1998, Banderas was very much a credible action hero, and he carries the role of Zorro with aplomb. Director Martin Campbell crafted a delightful throwback to the old serials while keeping the proceedings fresh enough to appeal to modern audiences. The movie is fast, fun, exhilarating, and charmingly old-fashioned in its heroics. It’s kind of a shame that Zorro is being rebooted as a futuristic, post-apocalyptic tale when Mask of Zorro shows there’s so much fertile ground to cover in his native setting. – Matt Goldberg