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majesticguy:
The role of the 6888 Battalion in World War II may seem insignificant at first glance, [b]but their impact on the war effort was really great. [/b]As depicted in the movie, maintaining correspondence between soldiers and their loved ones was crucial for their emotional well-being and morale.

As someone who actually knows and have read about the 6888 battalion extensively before Netflix thought of making a story about it - I can totally tell you they had almost zero significance in the course of the war- firstly, they couldn't even finalise their actual jobs because almost every letter and parcel did not get to the soldiers before the end of the war so the war was already ending before the soldiers received their letters. Also, the allied forces were already significantly winning around 1944 when they started their assignment. the only reason they were even chosen was because of their skin colour not because of their parcel expertise - anyone would have done the job they did unlike actual soldiers in the front lines and even women soldiers, nurses and doctors who acted not because of they were chosen but because they volunteered.
Netflix making a film about postal workers who had no actual significance in the war because they're black women is a big disgrace to this country's veterans who put their lives on the line and get absolutely no recognition in my opinion and flat out racism. They over emotionalise and dramaticized the whole story like the women were strong willed or something😂 when they were just regular women doing their jobs.

abduleez1:
I will drop my box office predictions for some of the major movies of 2025 in a few days. I just want to focus on wrapping up many of the 2024 films I haven't watched yet within this first two weeks of January, especially the Awards buzz films.

I've been consuming far too much film and TV news and personal film release schedule analysis I've given little time to actually watching the film and TV shows themselves. I want to reduce that habit this year and improve my film count and reviews significantly.

But for SUPERMAN, I see around a $750mn+ global haul based on the hype and excitement I've seen so far. Before the trailer came out, I pegged it around $650mn. These are conservative numbers tho.
US domestic numbers would be high tho, around $400mn but could go as high as $500mn+ if people really turned up and bought the hype or the new iteration. This domestic number would closely bring the movie to a billion dollar range tho as only the biggest hitters make such haul.

Overseas would make up for the rest. But I see US & Canada being the overwhelming biggest contributor.

Russian market is sorely missed in all these overseas permutations tho.

I'm hoping WB brings their A game in marketing which I'm somewhat seeing. The key to a huge haul and awareness for this movie is I pray and hope WB just this once break tradition and release a trailer at the Superbowl 2025. That already exposes the film to over 120mn US viewers just as Deadpool and Wolverine benefited from. If WB prefers to be WB, at least they should bring back the marketing team behind their biggest hit in years — BARBIE.

Anyways, fingers crossed.

Superman actually has the potential to make a billion esp if it's as good as GOTG 🤷🏾‍♂️.
Movies that would definitely make a billion is just 4 - Avatar, Zootopia 2, Michael, Jurassic World
Maybes are Minecraft, Superman, F4

drisham:
Definitely

Something they should have ended in season 1

But trust netflix to milk it


I just hope they don't ruin stranger things

no stranger things is officially ending this year

Looks like it's definitely not ending in season 3 💀💀 Netflix will definitely not end their money making machine in just 3 seasons

Happy new year to everyone here.
This is your year of making awesome memories❤️ and creating adventures, structures and memories that will last a lifetime. You all will enjoy success this year 🎉❤️
Still evening here tho so our new year is still coming

abduleez1:
Bruh, DC really seems to be back. Where are all this love and excitement coming from? 😳😍

These are top respectable directors showing their willingness to join.

it won't make money, it has to be R-rated so 90% chance it will never happen

abduleez1:
I really want to see this right now..... 🤤

till Jan 28th

abduleez1:
Fvvk naija cinemas for making me miss this masterpiece. 😤🙄

The cinema was packed when I watched which is a first for Eggers

Phant0mStranger:
Yet to see anyone hate this casting ☠️💀

Who’s this?

Baddestguyp:
Hating on a show because of a fan favorite character is wild.

I don't like LGBTQ in movies too just like you...but it wasn't an issue in Squid Game at all...

So I'm not sure why you're complaining...


Anyway, the highlight of the season was the ideological battle between the Frontman and Gi Hun.

Imo Gi Hun proved both the Recruiter and the front man were right.
Gi Hun choosing to gamble on the 1/2 chance I'm the Russian roulette instead of killing the Recruiter proved he was just like those beggars at the park that the Recruiter saw as the scum...

Same way by sacrificing a few for the greater good, Gi Hun proved the Frontman right in his justification for the squid games and the fact that Gi Hun was no hero at all

I just watched the Squid Game sequel 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️
It was going well as in mid at best until the atrocious plan bro made to escape. Bro is the dumbest person I have watched on screen.

I sincerely forced myself to watch it till the end 🤦🏾‍♂️. He took people to die on his behalf not because he cared about no one there but because he wanted to squelch his own grief.

If he had made sure he allowed team X to attack first his friend would still be alive. How the hell did he think capturing the Black Mask guy would end the games, when he's dealing with people who had more than 45 billion wons to waste🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ they can employ more people to continue and no one would be the wiser. And how did a guy with absolutely no training, some Marines and some fat guys take on a bunch of soldiers who have been trained for events like that.
Even though they had succeeded, no one is making any money from the hardships they had faced 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ all those folks just died in vain🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

Cringe comedy, awful dialogue, no bump in cinematography, you already know who would die right from the beginning of the games - no suspense, just bland in every shape or form

That's the problem with adding American writers who really don't care about the story🤦🏾‍♂️. The only reason I'm glad the sequel was made is only because of the money the director and lead actor will get, they made close to nothing from the first season🤷🏾‍♂️

4.5/10

abduleez1:
My eyes dey pain me..... Dude said Nolan is all about spectacle and no substance. VFX, music and vibes...... 🤯🧐😳

Most Twitter folks comment to rage bait and seek attention

10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025
1. Superman - James Gunn
2. Mickey 17 (if it ever comes out) - Bong Jun Ho
3. Michael - Antoine Fuqua
4. Mission: Impossible final reckoning - McQueen
5. Avatar: Fire and Ash - James Cameron
6. F1: Joseph Kosinski
7. The Battle of Baktar Cross - PTA & Leonardo DiCaprio
8. The Running Man - Edgar Wright
9. Zootopia 2
10. Sinners- Ryan Coogler

What's your personal most anticipated movies?

Illusioneffect:
My personal best films of 2019
Joker
The Irishman
Ford vs Ferrari
Jojo Rabbit (Waititi was amazing)
1917
Once upon a time..... In Hollywood (best of all)
Marriage story
Parasite (2nd best..... Actually a Korean film)
Little Women
Judy
Knives Out

My personal best movies of 2024
1. Wicked
2. Dune Part 2
3. Carry-On
4. Nosferatu
5. Conclave
6. The Substance
7. Sonic 3
8. Deadpool and Wolverine
9. Terrifier 3
10. The Complete Unknown or Babygirl

abduleez1:
Greig Fraser?? I highly doubt that. He's already scheduled for Dune: Messiah. And DC Studios is still trying to see if they'll get him in time for The Batman II.....which is hardly feasible.

So I highly doubt story.

no

abduleez1:
I don't know about the blank cheque narrative with peeps exaggerating it on Twitter but the movie will be BIG nonetheless. He had a bigger impressive cast last year for OPPENHEIMER and film was capped at $100mn. Dennis Villeneuve had a similar bonkers cast this year for DUNE PART TWO and yet the film production is around $160mn.
So I wouldn't be all too concerned with budget this epic is gonna take. At most, it won't exceed $200-220mn. Nolan is not a profligate director in terms of production cost, neither is Universal.


On the film slate, year I've checked both many times. 2026 is the mega year of the decade. It has the biggest numbers of heavy hitters.

It'll definitely be more than 100 mil -imagine the CGI they'd need for the movie😭 and if Nolan asks for 400 mil they'd give it to him not that it'd ask that.
I heard Greg Frasier is involved this time

Pattinson in both Batman 2 and Odyssey
Zendaya in Dune 2 and Odyssey
Insane!

Xactly what I thought too

abduleez1:
Lol, I no really know where Zendaya go fit.

Athena should go to Charlize Theron. Anne Hathaway can take on Circe.

I'm sure Nolan has great plans😭 bro cooks with casting too. Some dumb fcks are calling it woke already because it has a black woman Lupita Nyong'o? If they knew any history, they'll know black people existed in the Northern Part of Africa and they were not even slaves then

abduleez1:
Chris Nolan is breaking the internet with this!!

I've been waiting for ages for Hollywood to get back to Greek Mythos for long and Nolan just gave us a new push into the next decade. ✌🏽

We've been flooded by Norse mythology this past decade till now in TV and film. Roman Empire is back on the menu with Gladiator II, but my itch has been basically Greek which has seemingly been forgotten before now.

So grateful and joyful for Nolan spearheading this fresh push. Agba for life.

Bro definitely has a blank check for this movie. Sincerely imagining Nolan with seven headed witch monsters and one eyed Cyclopes eating sheep 🐑 is mind blowing!!!!!!!

Have you checked out the 2025/2026 slate of movies? They’re fucking insane!
2025
A Bong jun Ho movie
A 50 cent movie
A guy Ritchie movie
Superman
Minecraft
A Wicked movie
Mel Gibson movie
A Jordan Peele movie
A Jurassic World movie
A captain America movie
A mission impossible movie
A Brad Pitt Movie (F1)
Fantastic 4
Avatar 3

2026
Spielberg movie
Dune 3
Nolan Odyssey
Batman 2
Avengers Doomsday
Mike Flanagan The Exorcist
Del Toro Frankenstein
Spider verse
Paul Thomas Anderson movie
Shrek 5!
Toy Story 5
The incredible 3

The next 2 years will not choke me. Amen

abduleez1:
The worst Luthor I've ever seen in my life. Giving hippie Joker vibes and a psychopathic trait. Some major characters characterization by Snyder really alienated his universe from many audiences. It's mainly DC fans that stuck with him. The average audience zoned out with the character assassinations.

*Having a Batman that kills despite all his morals and fans initially having problems with Affleck cast as Batman.
* Superman killing Zod which is still controversial to this day.

*The single act of killing Superman in his second movie just put the nail in the coffin for his universe.
Reason why that film debuted with the largest opening for a superhero film at the time with $420mn worldwide and still couldn't even beat $1bn because after opening weekend fans and audiences was pissed how the film turned out. First time ever Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman shared a screen ever and it couldn't hit $1bn despite the m@d anticipation with that movie and opening weekend.

*Goofy @ss looking Doomsday even the CW design looks way better and the way and manner we got the Doomsday was sketchy.

* A highly controversial Joker portrayal with Ayer and his goofy gángster vibe who'd always have Heath Ledger's shadow on him.

* The poorly executed "Martha scene"....fine, he wanted to show how emotional Batman can be to his parents de@th and all. It's still stüpidly executed. Batman who's been gathering info about Superman and secretly knows about other Justice League members (Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman etc) but couldn't know that Supes mom was Martha?? The fvvk you kidding me. It's a very stüpid plothole. Someone he's been plotting to take down for a while.

* There's also this one I always found annoying: The Kill!ng of Robin by Joker. We haven't even seen a Batman movie and he's already kill!ng off characters —off screen for that matter. If he even showed the story on-screen I would have appreciated it. For a director task with building a universe kill!ng off characters without fleshing them out and plotlines and you're expecting everyone to buy it like that.

But his Darkseid showdown in Apokolips would have been glorious tho.

Like I said.....it's all vibes and insha'Allah with that universe. There's so many structural problems not to like even if you're the most optimistic DC fan.

Snyder verse sucks but Snyder fans will never admit - the writing sucked ass all the movies were either mid or bad.
Superman's personality was so different from the comics that it looked like he had no future. Cavill was an awesome cast but his writing was bad🤷🏾‍♂️. So I'm sincerely glad Snyder verse is done

samistry:
But ign said mufasa is the superior movie with a 8/10 rating while sonic got 6/10.

Bro IGN has lost their authenticity, most of their reviews are personal attacks and just plain bias or probably they get paid for their positive reviews.
I just watch this beast games show that they literally gave a 2. Something that's probably one of the best reality shows I'll probably watch till the end

abduleez1:
I guess MUFASA is fvvked!!

I guess a part 4 will be coming sooner than later

abduleez1:
Lmfao...this is wild AF.

This people be reprising the movie in real life. 😲🤯

Hey.... Innocent till proven guilty🤷🏾‍♂️ if you were following the story closely, you'ld understand

m

oyaskii:
The movie just go to show, that politics and power tussle exists everywhere and is just as fierce, even in the church. The tribalism and division you see in our country today, didn't start from thin air. I know some parishes that won't vote in a CWO president who isn't a tribe of where the church is located...same Catholic faith o, but tribal division comes in.

lol I saw a Black Man, a Nigerian for that matter ascending the papacy with relative ease, and i said absolutely no way 😅, i just knew they were gonna find some dirt to nuke him 😩😩.

The movie was good, not action driven, but the dialogues carried enough weight to fully explore all the scheming and twists going on.

I thought that final twist was a bit too "woke" and not needed, as the movie would have been fine without it....Good film nonetheless.

Church politics is worse than normal politics in some countries

BlackManta:
The views confirms that the interest is there...

It's not enough for box office success because there's still work to be done. The marketing for this movie has to be very good and the movie has to be well recieved by movie goers and critics.

But having a successful trailer debut does give them an early advantage. It's up to studio to build on that hype and deliver a great movie.

Yeah, it's literally left for them to manage the hype

abduleez1:
The cinematography could easily rival DUNE PART TWO in my opinion.
Easily one of the top 3 Best Picture of the year imo.

Almost but not on par with Dune cinematography. Is Anora amongst your top 3?

abduleez1:
Awards season in full gear proper.


Senegal already in the Best International Feature shortlist but Nigeria is busy with Nzóbu Nzóbu!! 🤦🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

So far, the International category seems my most interesting this year. Really lagged behind on last year's lineup. 😤

I hope Dune 2 wins best picture - it probably won't because it came out too early

GloriousGbola:
Now fk off and stop quoting me empty headed magat

You are free to suck the dick of your lord and savior Donald j trump

Good riddance to bad rubbish

Only a shit head magat would drag his vacuous politics into discussions on entertainment. Even the russophiles have more sense than that.

You literally could have said anti-defamation laws applies to everyone and it would have ended but you decided to double down on the lies with no evidence.
I just wanted to show how hypocritical you truly are. Shut up about morality and talk about entertainment since you know nothing about the former.

GloriousGbola:
this is why i normally ignore your posts

was trump not found liablein a court of law

what kind of person runs around telling people if you're a star they let you do it?
what kind of mans storms dressing rooms of underage children?

please keep your trump worship out of here

you have your golden calf and you are free to worship it

_{effing lunatic conservatives injecting their trump worship into every conversation}

You're probably sincerely and utterly dumb if you think your favourite actors or celebrities in the 80s and 90s are saints and have never said anything derogatory about women esp when they were literally making movies about sexualizing young girls and no one complained at that time.
The only reason Trump was targeted for what he said at that time was because he was running for office from a different political party😏.
And also you're sincerely dumb and retard*d (looks like you are already) if you think that's cause for charging someone for rap*. The person who said he rap*d her literally went on air - not crying or even traumatised but talking about how proud of her self she was and how much money she would make.
Trump just recently won 15 million dollars for defamation against ABC News for the rape defamation and is filing a lawsuit against the alleged rape victim - he'd probably win that too probably to shut you fckin assholes.
This is not even about Trump but about how retard*d folks like you support liars simply because you don't like that particular person. If Trump was not famous or rich- you can imagine the ruin it can create for an innocent person's life. I hope it never happens to you simply because you talked to a woman

abduleez1:
Lol, why are you surprised?

I've been hearing SONIC tracking better at the box office for about 2 weeks now over MUFASA. Paramount's pic is also better well received compared to Disney's.

Fingers crossed on legs both later amass.

Paramount has been taking Ls throughout the year- glad they have a win. Mufasa is also not tracking well internationally. Omo!