oyaskii: Bro, you are losing sleep unnecessarily tbh, cuz you should know the only reason they are making a successful franchise which is right up there in pop culture history, again from scratch is to cater to "modern audiences".
Personally, i am not so vested in this series, as my expectations are on the ground plus i have already had my fill from the books and the wonderful adaptation movies, that i continue to see every now and then.
So they could actually cast a Fulani herdsman as Harry Potter and i wouldn't even flinch, and if you aren't caught up to Hollywood's hypocrisy by now, then i don't even know what to say.
I'm way too vested in Harry Potter broooooooo and it actually pains me
abduleez1: Road to a billion dollars.......like I predicted.
First we mine then we craft
Illusioneffect: They've sucked the life out of book adaptations, video games adaptations will be more successful than book adaptations since they're already a trillion dollar industry.I'm totally sure there'll be a Minecraft movie and a God of War movie coming soon
Illusioneffect: Maybe but Chris Pratt name doesn't bring money nor the actors themselves - it's the franchise. I can almost guarantee a billion esp if the movie is actually good. It's a Jurassic movie - nostalgia bait plus children here lovers dinosaurs so children equals family equals money. That's the reason the Minecraft movie will hit 900m minimum
predicted this even in Jan 2024 when everyone was suspicious of its succcess
A useless directionless "snuff film" mimic. It's disgusting. Hinges on Sadomasochism, séxual violence, depravity and necrophilia. It's main promotion is the gore and shock value and the themes of the subgenre to keep your attention. Just so many weird sexuàl shït put together with shitty acting and dialogue.
It's a silly film that pretends to be auteuristic in nature. Pretty boring except for the scenes filmed to drive interest and disgust at the same time.
I can pretty see how the film could mess up a lady (the Reddit story of the girl who was messed up by this film) as it essentially degrades women. But I still don't see how this one can affect my mental health in any way. Still, it's a depraved movie I don't recommend to anyone as everyone's mental fortitude is quite different.
Up next..... EraserHead
Cc IllusionEffect
Thank the heavens I said it was a gory freak show not a good film - none of them are by the way - the only movie on the list that is not entirely gory is Eraserhead!!!
So I have 24 hours on my hands and I want to do a marathon of the worst movies ever made! Please help provide a list I can finish in 24 hours. Movies like The Amazing Bulk The Room Fateful Findings Birdemic Shock and Terror Please I want the absolute worst of the worst. Thank you
abduleez1: Lmfao, you think say I get time to dey crack my brain to remember the scariest horror films I've ever watched when shït don't even scare me any more. I just name dropped the ones I easily remembered. Those ain't even scary in my books and just trying to tease purple.
If you wan prove to me say you be gangster for horror: try watching an elite horror movie, then just after finishing, you head out to your compound's backyard and say you wan go piss. Out in the middle of the night especially around 3am. Spend 2 minutes there without breaking down after your imagination and brain begins playing tricks with you....out there alone while everyone else was asleep— then I might just believe your mental fortitude.
I regularly did this back then when horror became one of my favourite genre. To test my limits....so if you think all this one go faze me...you never jam Agbako.
You sitting in the comfort and safety of your room and windows watching horror films at the déad of night ain't shït.
Besides, your films are ALL ON MY WATCHLIST. Na just my chronic procrastination never make me watch them yet.
The Host ...I'm thinking it's Korean, if true then it's in my list. Sinister (the other franchise I've been meaning to join) and Ichi The Killér also on the list. I've watched bits (I think) of I Spit on Your Grave as a teen. Can't remember the details except it's a slasher.
Anyways, I'll download and give feedback next week after I'm done with the Ramadan and Eid El-Fitr celebrations.
Side note: watch Cannibal Holocaüst and Cannibal Ferróx while you are a teen (16-17yr old), and maybe I'll just believe the OG narrative.
😂😂😂😂 those ones I mentioned are just horror flicks. the real horror to me I cant even call them movies anymore they're just torture p&0rn and I have mentioned most of them to you before 1. The Human Centipede 3 2. A Serbian Film 3. Eraserhead 4. Nekromantik 5. Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment I actually hope you don't try to watch any of this - it is worse than worse. If you can't watch this https://2girls1cup.ca/ to the end don't bother turning this movies on
abduleez1: E be like say you be quick learner....time to boost you up to University of Horror. U don graduate from SSCE.
Go help me watch these ones first....I wan check something. The Wailing, It Follows, REC, Candyman......
From there we know wetin go be your project work.
Bro u neva even reach SS2 for horror if this your go-to If you want to graduate with first class find this movies because they're banned almost everywhere Ichi the Killer (uncut version) I Spit on your Grave Host Sinister. If you can watch this movie in the midnight - no pausing - no switching off and come out without OCD - I'll give you personal first class award
Achilles100: I will use this upcoming public holiday to watch all parts. I have never seen any part of Final Destination, just the viral timber logging expressway clip
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I WON'T BE PEER PRESSURED TO WATCH THIS SERIES NO! NO!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
oyaskii: You literally went hard with your reply like i did the casting, hence i had to return the favour, because if you grab my entire piece, you could clearly see that i was leaning against the casting altogether.
Again, they have made the casting, so just allow. Paapa Essiedu isn't a bad actor, and he has done a fine job in another HBO production in the past. So if he goes on to kill the role, you wouldn't acknowledge or see it, just because he his black? Common on mann....You should be better than this 😩.
He's a great actor - Sad his race will affect every decision he will make in the show
GloriousGbola: Snape was a poor and bullied boy as a child He was bullied and humiliated by the guys in the in crowd He found a female friend and caught feelings for her The friend found him toxic and got with the bullies
A nasty wizard started a cult. Snape joined the cult because it gave him feelings of power and a place to belong.
Things got out of hand when his leader went after his crush.
Because Snape had never actually gotten over her, Dumbledore was able to use this to make snape his inside man
Snape spent the next decade watching over the son of the guy who chanced him
This story can apply to people of any race or color. When you consider the fact that there were not that many blacks shown in the Wizarding world a minority black snape who is an outcast and bullied as a child us an easy sell.
Don't know what your 'ultimate Fandom' of Harry potter has to do with this.
EXACTLY MY POINT!!! Dont you guys understand? It applies to every race but it deters from the original purpose of the story itself. The story isn't about race but most casual viewers will always pinpoint race on its telling
Calibrator: Solo Leveling latest episode ending is giving me a reminiscent of Simeone reaction during A. Madrid vs Barcelona with prime Messi about to be subbed in vibes
abduleez1: I don't even understand the uproar with so many people about this casting..... especially when it's from HBO who has the track record of handling this sort of diversity issue with finesse.
I can very well recall HBO doing this same thing 3 years ago and all hell let loose on the internet.......but the final product having come out this past few years and everyone has already forgotten about the black ensemble cast of the Velaryons in House of The Dragon. This would probably be no different.
Besides, it's a fictional character. Make all this fake rage dié down. I'm not enthusiastic about the casting myself but I'll wait for the final product and judge. They've done it before and it didn't impact the enjoyment of the story rather brought more audience and discussions about the characters.
Also, not all adaptation should be like for like...... looking for copy and paste, you can just as well read the Original. That's the beauty that has brought us varieties we didn't know we wanted like Michael Keaton's Batman, Christian Bale's and Robert Pattinson's. Same character, different iterations and style.
What makes these arguments even ironic to me is the fact that the very authors & creators of these books are very much involved in the projects and okayed the decisions, how much more we the viewers? People cried about Neil Gaiman's The Sandman's De@th being cast as a black yet everyone quickly forgot about this squabble once the TV show premiered.
So, I say, let's give the showrunners the benefit of the doubt and see the finished product. Except the crux of the matter is just down to the fact of Purism.
My two cents. ✌🏽
All you mean to say is you're not connected to the story. It's just like me giving my two cents on Star Wars when I don't know anything about the story. HP fans with childhood nostalgia hate the casting not because they are racist but because it affects the whole reason behind Snape's story
phr0nesis: While I 100% do not agree with the casting, oyaskii isn't wrong. The book doesn't indicate his race, neither did your post
Only 4% of black individuals have a large, hooked nose but anyways that's not the point! The casting itself is abysmal . They don't need to follow the skin color but the idea is vital!
oyaskii: Die hard indeed 🤦🏿♂️....are you trying to be an obtuse bellend on purpose? Bring out a text from the book since you are a diehard fan, that explicitly say he his white...No? You rushed to bring an A.I generative hogwash that describes vague features that neither improve your point nor educate us any further in general on the subject matter, than what we already know...
And i even explicitly stated that the casting wasn't worth the trouble, it will bring, or it's obviously bringing now going by this your rabid reaction....man unclench your butt cheeks....i didn't do the casting and this your rant is totally misdirected...🤦🏿♂️.
I will reply with the utmost respect that you decided not to offer me. I don't need to explain to you OF ALL PEOPLE to prove I'm a die-hard fan - Harry Potter is literally the only franchise I care the most about and I have said it multiple times on this page and it is the only franchise I traveled to a different country to visit its world. You probably have NEVER picked up the books in your life or read a single page. I could write a whole essay on the reasons why it is a bad idea not even because he's black. When the rumour was spreading I was literally the first to say here it could be a good idea since Rickman was too iconic to copy but then I decide to think more about it. But if they are going to adapt the books with perfection as the producers said, making a black Snape is literally the worst idea possible giving the history of Snape and the insanely bad things he did in the books! No matter how they try to separate the character from his skin color it would always come BACK! That literally destroys the type of escapism the Wizarding World offers. I can't explain further because this will be really long. I can understand your point - you don't see it as anything because you're not attached to the franchise. The OG of Harry Potter Youtubers (someone you wont call racist as usual) made a video explaining the reasons it is a bad idea, he'll explain than I will hopefully
On one side, Tbf, Severus Snape's race wasn't explicitly stated in the source material, and People just came to the conclusion that he was probably white and the movies re echoed this fact.
I think a black broad played Hermione in the stage plays, and J.K Rowling seemed to be cool with it.
On the other hand, The times are so charged up to boiling point because of political, racial and religious tension. People are easily upset, and to make a casting like this, in this time? looks like straight up pandering, even though that might not have been the intent, i mean, you don't dose yourself in gasoline, if you don't want no smoke.... 😩
And to the actor, i know it might seemed like a great chance to play an iconic character, but he is about to be called every slur in the book, they might even invent new ones, so much so, that i personally think playing the character, isn't worth the hassle and wanton trouble it will bring.
As a diehard Harry Potter fan - all you're saying is full of dog shit. If you dont know anything about a particular franchise just keep quiet. If they are really following the books - the casting is a really terrible idea giving that Harry's father bullied and tormented Snape plus a host of other things i dont have the time to share
pu7pl3: Project wey go tank go done dey show signs from the beginning 🤭🤭 WB and HBO have their heads too far up their asses on this one.
I’m almost in tears sincerely because it’s probably the only franchise I’m totally invested in fully. They literally brought a director who has NEVER finished the book and doesn’t even show appreciation for the franchise
Baddestguyp: Lol... Characters who are goody-two-shoes are annoying...
Personally I prefer good characters who are capable of cold logic. They can tell the logical thing to do is to end that villain
eg. the Punisher, Deadpool, Wolverine and Batman perhaps. Any sane hero would already know that you can’t put this guy in jail. Invincible is very strong but he keeps punching like a tiny girl
oyaskii: That S1 sold me dreams fr 😩....glad i have been able to form the habit of dropping media that no longer serves my interests, no matter how high profile they may seem on paper...
I might get around to this S3 sometime in the future or not even, it's not a priority anymore... can't be arsed tbh.
I can’t even believe I’m saying this but I enjoyed Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man more than I’m enjoying this shit of a show - it’s like they’re no stakes for invincible at law- hundreds of thousands of people just died in the last episode and a particular guy from the first season and I felt nothing at all - WHICH IS THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE SHOW!
Invincible is pissing me of. They keep trying to make him dumb asf🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ you just met the guy that killed almost your mother and killed hundreds of thousands of people including your friends in cold blood and you are hesitating to kill him AGAIN!! Until your tiny little brother tells you otherwise 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ who in the world thinks that makes you a good person🤦🏾♂️🤦♂️ I believe Invincible is the fault for all those people dying - he wasn't the guy with the knife but the harbinger itself. Dumb ass show
Last December, I decided to dive into some of Nollywood’s most acclaimed movies to see what the hype was all about. Two films stood out from 2023: Breath of Life and A Tribe Called Judah. Both were commercial and critical darlings, so I downloaded them, ready to be impressed.
Breath of Life swept the Nigerian Oscars, winning Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Trailblazer Award, Best Lead Actor, Best Director, and—most importantly—Best Movie. With all those accolades and glowing reviews, I thought, “At the very least, this movie will be passable.”
Oh, how wrong I was.
Breath of Life is set in Nigeria between (I think?) 1960 and 1995. It follows Timi, a man who was once the epitome of perfection but is now a recluse after a series of tragedies shattered his faith. Enter Elijah, a wide-eyed, asthmatic graduate who returns to his village (??) in search of employment and dreams of becoming a man of God. He lands a job as a houseboy for Timi, and the two form an unlikely father-son bond that culminates in a Christ-like sacrifice. Oh, and there’s a romantic subplot thrown in for good measure. The film tackles themes like grief, love, found family, justice, injustice, loss of faith, and reconciliation with God. Sounds deep, right? Well, it’s not.
The Positives
Let’s start with the good stuff because, honestly, there isn’t much. The acting is solid—no surprise, given all the awards it won. The movie also attempts something ambitious: recreating Nigeria between 1960 and 1990. This is no small feat. Where do you find authentic cars, houses, and fashion from that era? How do you avoid accidentally capturing modern-day elements that break the immersion? Hollywood, with its massive budgets, can pull this off with elaborate sets, props, and color grading. Nollywood, with its limited resources, deserves some credit for trying. It doesn’t fully succeed, but hey, at least they dared to be different.
The music isn’t terrible either. Most of the tracks fit the scenes, though I wish they’d used more music from the 1950s to 1990s to really sell the time period. And visually, the movie is gorgeous. The colors pop, and it’s nice to look at—when you’re not bored out of your mind.
The Not-So-Positives Let’s get into the real issues, starting with the pacing. This movie is almost two hours long, but it feels like 10. Scenes drag on forever, subplots are left unresolved, and by the halfway point, I was taking breaks every 5 minutes.
Then there’s the plot. The main story isn’t particularly interesting, but the church subplot? Oh, that left me baffled. Here’s the gist: Elijah wants to be a pastor and stumbles upon an abandoned church that Timi used to lead. He cleans it up and starts hosting prayer meetings, hoping to eventually turn it into a full-fledged church. But wait—his girlfriend’s dad wants the land! He has even paid off the land use charge (a whopping 49 million naira) to demolish the church and build… something. So Elijah and his girlfriend start fundraising to save the church.
To me, and this is extremely ridiculous. First, why is a state government land accruing land use charges? That makes zero sense. Second, why is Elijah so attached to this church? It’s been abandoned for years, and he had only just started using it for prayer meetings—not even Sunday services! Why not move the meetings elsewhere? In 1995, you could buy land for less than 10,000 naira (Elijah raised more than that), so why not just relocate? The whole subplot feels forced and nonsensical.
And don’t get me started on the morality angle. Elijah repeatedly insists he’s saving himself for marriage, but then he’s seduced by his girlfriend, which somehow leads to his incurable lung disease worsening. The movie seems to imply that his illness is divine punishment for giving in to temptation, but it never explores or even acknowledges this idea. So why include it?
Final Thoughts
Breath of Life is, at best, mediocre and, at worst, a boring slog. It took me three months to finish this movie, and by the end, I was left wondering: Why did this win so many awards? If this is the best Nollywood has to offer, what does that say about the films that lost to it? Or the ones that weren’t even nominated?
Nollywood, we have to do better. We can’t keep celebrating mediocrity.
Rating: 2/10
I disagree........ I enjoyed the movie because I decided to keep my brain outside my body and watch the whole movie as if I was in a trance. Last Nollywood film I ever watched. I'm not going back again no matter the awards any of the insult to movies Nollywood makes
TV/Movies › Re: What Series Are You Watching Now? Part 2 by Illusioneffect(m): 11:17am On Apr 17, 2025
