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Baddestguyp:
All my browsers are updated.

I just installed Opera Mini (a browser I haven't used in almost a decade)

And for some reason it worked in uploading photos.

Opera Mini is a dead browswer that is out of touch, but somehow it's working on this site lmao

Meanwhile all the better browsers are not working at all. That's enough proof of the state of Nairaland

The truth is I’m actually using opera mini for Nairaland. This shows up whenever I try uploading photo but it verifies when I tap.
I think Nairaland has an app, ba?

Movies I watched last week (I watched a lot)
1. Liar Liar (1997) - 9/10
Really fun but stupid movie, what you expect from a Jim Carrey movie
2. The Substance - 8/10
Demi Moore is my MILF🥵. Absolutely abhorrent movie- disgusting but a good movie
3. The Wild Robot- 12/10
Best animation and beautiful movie I've watched in years
4. The Iron Giant - 6/10
Interesting story but not my taste
5. Am I Racist - 7/10
You may not understand the premise but I laughed
6. Wolfs - 6/10
Spider-Man director didn't cook in this one.
The rest
7. Sing Sing - 7/10
8. His three daughters -7/10
9. Uglies - 2/10
10. White Chicks - 9/10 (they'll never make this movie this days)
11. Snakes on a Plane - 6/10

Baddestguyp:
There's no way to defend this.

The site is broken and Seun needs to fix it.

You admitted yourself that the site works better on your older device which obviously makes no sense. Even before this recent encounter, only Google chrome could upload photos for me on this site.

Now I can't upload any photo no matter the browser I use. Even comments are 50:50.

Half the time when I try to comment, it just keeps sending me back to homepage no matter what browser I use till I give up.

I have updated all my browsers, nothing works.

It's clear that this site is now broken beyond repair or Seun doesn't care about fixing the issues.

If you have to keep toggling browsers in the hopes of a simple comment or upload, then it's obvious that the site is completely broken

Seun has not done any upgrade on this site since 2016 - don't bother disturbing him

Baddestguyp:
Nawa oh...
I can't post any review or upload any photo on this site.
Half the time I can't even comment.

Seun what have you done to this site?

I logged out on chrome because I couldn't upload or comment there...now I can't even log back in on chrome.

I have tried 5 browsers and different image types for the past 2 days. I have updated everything

It's literally impossible to upload images on this site anymore

Update your browser and see if it works.
By the way, Seun has abandoned this site- he's a Twitter man now, it's just a money making site - we're the ones still keeping this site alive. The creators just sit and watch

Kaycee7:
He meant that, in the movies, Neville kills Nagini during a chase sequence while in the books, Neville kills Nagini right after pulling Gryffindor's sword from the Sorting Hat and nobody was being chased.

He's not wrong but it's a nitpick which isn't what I was expecting

Exactly😂😅 I wasn't expecting that - that's why I thought maybe he meant something else

abduleez1:
Last Days At Forcados High is also a gem. Honestly, we have all the resources to produce top quality, our studios here are not just serious enough.

Forget the rest - TLDAFH would be a really popular movie not just in Nigeria but in the world because its themes resonate with everyone. I can't even believe no one in Nollywood has thought of that yet- it's cliche, simple, easy to understand. And it has a great theme?
I'ld love to even get the rights to make a movie like that. Netflix would swallow it raw since it's already so popular.
Even InDependence - that story would make for a good movie

joseph1832:
Read what I wrote again.

Oga, I thought you were saying something else only because you as a hp stan should understand why it happened that way - it was more fun and action packed to film a scene like that than Neville just killing the snake in front of everyone

abduleez1:
Leave those jokers in Sky.

How will they give you their biggest anticipated show. Thinking a traditional studio wants to share money with an outsider, why do they have a streaming platform in the first place. It's because they don't like sharing money with Netflix and them likes so they distribute their content themselves.

TV show that David Zaslav has been shouting about since last year, you now expect him to give it to you when he's finally planning to go big on Europe. That show seems even way more important to WBD than even Game of Thrones/HOTD.

Even if the court forced WB to give them shows out of the deal. I'd pick low tier HBO/Max shows to give to them. It wasn't specified which title they get so it's a stupid loophole they forgot to think about.

I'd give them Suicide Squad Isekai and Velma and co series to co-produce since they want HBO content.

😭😭😆😅 a whole Harry Potter - Zaslav will share - even though the tv series is not good- people will watch. The Harry Potter franchise is too profitable to fail - that is WB's bread and butter. Imagine the toys and merchandise of the HP franchise. The show is like an ad compared to the money they'll make from merchandise and toys. It'll be as profitable as Marvel if they decided to squeeze the profitability out of it but they didn't, they instead waited for the franchise you turn to sweet wine

LifestyleTonite:
Africa and beyond? Are you guessing or you have proof? Look, it wasn't even a hit in Nigeria, perhaps it was in Igbo land.

As for the book, it is popular abroad.



Just say your household or Igbo land was glued to their TV watching Things Fall Apart.

It wasn't a monster hit as you try to paint it. Wili Wili, Basi and Company, Village Headmaster, Tales By Moonlight, etc, were the monster hits.

I didn't know it even know it existed for a long time. Tales by Moonlight was more acclaimed and recognised than every show at that time and it wasn't even regarded as a monster hit😂

oyaskii:
I think I understand Joseph1832's point on some level.
Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets were easy to adapt because they were the shortest books in the series, allowing the filmmakers to go scene by scene and even page by page.

However, things started to go off track with Prisoner of Azkaban. They regained some balance with Goblet of Fire, but after that, the adaptations never quite hit the mark, in my opinion.

To put it in perspective, how can Order of the Phoenix, the longest book have one of the shortest runtimes in the entire film franchise, second only to the last part? They could have split it into two movies, but that would have likely required more money, effort, and especially time, since Warner Bros. was on a tight schedule to release a film each year.

J.K. Rowling had significant creative control over the first two movies, but as the films' popularity grew, it became overwhelming for her, and Warner Bros. began to make more of the decisions. She had been on the brink of financial ruin a decade earlier, and the Warner Bros. deal turned her into a billionaire and one of the most influential people in the world, so she couldn't really complain. She has since admitted that while the movies did some justice to the books, she is excited about the new series that has been greenlit, which she hopes will be more faithful to the source material.

Now, apart from the obvious cash grab, why would they feel the need to revisit the series if the original film adaptations were truly satisfying? I'm not saying they were bad, but they weren't entirely great either.

Personally, in hindsight, the only films that have 100% rewatch value for me are Chamber of Secrets, Goblet of Fire, and Philosopher's Stone, in that order. I could care less about the others, to be honest.

The books are my best books of all time but the movies are not- but it doesn't mean it was mutilated. Adaptations are not word-to-word or else it'd seen flat. Imagine making an 8-10 hour series of a book as short as the philosopher's Stone - that'll be way harder than making a movie out of it.
In my opinion, they did a very good job adapting the last 5 books giving how detailed the books are. Not perfect but perfect enough

joseph1832:
In the books,Neville didn't kill Nagini while it was trying to attack Ron and Hermione, that's a pointer.

There are far too many inconsistency in the movie....

Is as if na Parry Hotter you read😂

GloriousGbola:
My fave book is the chamber of secrets and the movie matched the book 90%

This was the original voldemort mask but they felt it would scare the kids too much.

Thank God they didn't use that. Very awesome decision

armadeo:
Nope. Beyond.

Things Fall apart was a monster show. African amd beyond.

The book of a literary classic forever.

Don't play

Keep deceiving yourself. Most people in the outside world didn't know Africans had tv then talk less of a show👀.

Kaycee7:
Me that has read the books, I'm now also asking this question

I don’t even understand him. Like he expected the films to include everything. Just the first film is 3 hours

joseph1832:
if you've read the books, you wouldn't have asked me this question. Lol

I’ve read the books a thousand times and I don’t understand how you believe it was mutilated. They adapted it as films the best way they can since they can’t put everything in the movies even though it wasn’t perfect. That’s why they are making a tv series. Things fall apart is not even as long as the 4th book and they’re making a tv series

joseph1832:
Saying Things Fall Apart was a monster hit, is an Understatement. It was the most watched tv series back then, with steller cast like Pete Edochie, Justice Esiri etc and every house hold was glued to their TV when it aired.

The story was topnotch back in the day, it still make sense till today. I'm very apprehensive on what Hollywood will do to that masterpiece, given the way they mutilated Harry Potter.

How did they ‘mutilate’ Harry Potter oga

armadeo:
Things fall apart was not largely unknown.

It was one of the most epic TV shows back in the days. It was a monster hit back then.

In Nigeria

No one even remembered to post this?👀

@everyone
What streaming service is the best when it comes to dishing out quality instead of quantity 🤷🏽‍♂️
IMO it's still HBO Max

abduleez1:
Lol, Sky Europe fighting for it's life for its daily bread.

They want to eat out of the magic bread😂😂. I remember when everyone wanted to boycott the Hogwarts legacy game and it became one of the best selling games of all times 😂😂😂 the Harry Potter franchise is too huge to die out. Thousands of people still go to the Harry Potter world in Orlando here everyday 12 years after the last Harry Potter movie

oyaskii:
Solomon Northup who 12 years a slave is based upon, was a son of parents of color who were African American slaves. Where did Americans get African Americans slaves from? and we now know that Igbo slaves landed on the shores of the new world aka America and it's very plausible for Chiwetel Ejiofor to play that role and still be historically correct.

If this is your point, don't you think it's racist to call someone unsuitable for a role because he's British, even though he's black and his ancestors could be Igbos.
After all, Chiwetel is not African American and he doesn't understand the struggles of African American people.
I don't know why if a white guy does something with An African story, it's cultural appropriation but when another race does it (which they do all the time) it's normal.

oyaskii:
It's is solely a Nigerian story first and foremost, as it an Historical fiction set around the times of the Igbo culture during British occupation, other British occupied African countries or regions can have unique stories of their own about this time.

You're right. All I'm saying is the events of Things Fall Apart happened every where there was colonialism. The story of pride and sticking to tradition played it in every colony occupied by the British

oyaskii:
Beasts of no Nation is nowhere in scale of Things Fall Apart in terms of literary relevance, but i totally get what you mean

Exactly, that's why I trust A24 more than any Nollywood asaba film production company to tell a better story

oyaskii:
Skipped Beasts of No Nation (2015) for years now, because for some reason i haven't gotten around to read the book. might delve into it now since this one of similar vein is on the horizon.

It's one of my favourite movies of all time. And very sorrowful but rewatchable

drstranged:
Nigerians just don't read stories with understanding. I don't see anything wrong with someone taking photos with another family. More important, he never claimed or said that was his family. So I really don't understand why people are making such a big fuss over nothing really.

I think Nairaland is getting paid to post propaganda against the Republican party on front page so the Democrats can win the election - they've been doing it for months now. I can't believe no one is talking about the atrocities the Democrats have been doing this past months to win the election. If I were to post about it - it won't be on the front page

Have anyone noticed how Nairaland mods have been shitting on the Republican party like they're getting paid here to give an impression that the Republican party is bad when in hindsight the Democrats have been doing the worst shit since 4 months😂 like Democrat nominees have not been doing the same thing for years.
I'm sure it's nlpfmod that has been bringing this to front page every time. If I decide to post negatives about the Democrats - the mods will not bring it to front page

abduleez1:
Funny enough I worked on a Nollywood-esque movie recently so it's kinda hypocritical of me bashing the industry but it pains so much seeing the potential but we barely scratching the surface.
It was a BBC sponsored movie with Nigerian heritage filmmakers. It was a highly organised set and production (something unheard of in Nollywood ) and I might say it's one of the biggest production spend on filmmaking in Nigeria if not the biggest. It told a familiar time in naija's history and I'm looking forward to when it's released and the reception.

I remember we both discussed about Nollywood quality few years ago and how the coming of Netflix largesse will propel the industry to greater heights.
And yet, here we are still talking about quality...only improvements in production quality and being qualified to stream on VOD can be noted.

See how Koreans and Japanese over perform with shoe string budgets compared to Hollywood and yet they deliver and specialized in their capacity.
Nollywood no fit even specialize on good comedy no more, the genre we so much love to produce.

These historical movies with "Oyo Empire" period piece is a cheat code for Nigeria to market herself to the world. And yet these people ain't seeing the big picture despite conquering funding palava.
E just dey pain person dey are all now looking formulaic after someone cracks the code to success.

A good number of your aforementioned movies has crossed my radar sometime. Downloaded King of Thieves, Breath of Life, Gangs of Lagos for a while now but ain't watched.
Afamefuna and The Trade really piqued my interest with the brilliant trailer I watched. Planned on watching them but somehow missed when they released.
I heard of Coming From Insanity a while back.

At least with Netflix and a recently resurgent theatrical culture in Nollywood, the industry seems to be on the way evolution. Probably with more profitability more riskier tales might be told.
At least now Nollywood films now compete with Hollywood films for box office gross over here and popularity.

Make we dey see sha maybe I might start looking at the industry in a new light.

Who has heard of Mami Wata? It was heavily discussed here when it was a contender at Sundance. With the serious marketing the filmmaker did for it. But film release and nobody talk about am for here since then? Wetin sup?

It's not necessarily the problem of the writers and directors. The normal consumer of Nollywood content don't want to be challenged with complex storylines - it's not like they're force feeding Nigerians bad content - it's just the content most Nigerians want🤷🏽‍♂️ that's why most movies like Mami wata doesn't do well😪.

oyaskii:
Imo, This is some level of cultural appropriation. You can't tell me that one of the biggest stories from the African literature scene written by one of the greatest author the continent has ever produced is going to have no involvement in terms of headline casting from the people the story is actually about. It makes zero sense. The production can be foreign given, but give Nigerian actors the chance to star in it. I don't even want to hear the BS, that Idris Elba is black and whatnot, that brother is 100% British and he has no business playing this role except they are gonna interpret the book wrong. It's like saying Tony Umez should go and play Thor!...These things matter.

So, realistically, How will he even interpret Okonkwo? with a British accent? or he will improvise a Nigerian accent? which imo opinion will only make it worse...they are already losing me...

Well, i wish we took ourselves more seriously, the NTA adaptation happened eons ago, and since then no Nigerian film exec has deemed it fit to retell one of the greatest literary work from these parts..😔

It's not cultural appropriation - telling the story of Things Fall Apart is not just a Nigerian story if you actually think about it - it's an African story and a story of history- the story of Okonkwo should not be segregated to Nigerians only, after all, the events of Okonkwo's death was what played out in almost every British colony.

If it has to be told on screen by a Hollywood studio with a budget a Nigerian studio can't afford: I think it'll be perfect and also you forget Idris Elba produced Beasts of no Nation - 90% of the side characters were Africans. The boy actor who played as the protagonist spent a year in Africa learning the accent and practicing for the role. I'd rather have a good Hollywood actor play a role than the mediocre actors we have in Asaba.

We have talented actors - probably, but most of them don't understand Hollywood and if you don't know this - A24 is a Hollywood studio and they have to abide by the Actor's Guild - no actor can act in a Hollywood film without being a member of Actor's Guild Association except you're a background actor or extra and you don't believe A24 with a tiny budget will fly a lot of Nigerians to act as background actors in different film sets🤷🏽‍♂️.

If you haven't watched Beasts of no Nation - watch it - they did an amazing job with the accents and the acting. Idris Elba did an amazing job with the accent - accents can be acted - there're a lot of actors who act with different accents from their main accent : even learn a new language for the role : I won't be surprised if Elba speaks Igbo in the series, anything is possible.

Think of the screenplay - I don't trust Nigerians to write a great script that's totally original🤷🏽‍♂️ sorry but that's just the honest truth.

OhBritannia:
Rings of power season 2 episode 7 is a solid ONE million/10 for me.

Ladies and gentlemen!!! this is the best episode so far since they started this project, this episode could easily be the finale and i am even suprise they made it a finale before the grand finale.
Now this is what i am talking about, this is what we have all been talking about, instead of other networks to use fillers to waste our time and then expect us to wait till next year or two to give us wars we have been waiting for, they should learn from what the rings of power has done with this season 2.

Proper top of the notch bloody, no mercy war and fights.

This episode is just top notch.
Dialogues 10/10
Blood and gore 10/10
Cinematography 10/10
Action and war 10/10.
Plots 10/10.

I swear, i can't wait for the episode finale next week and now that arda has gotten a ring, next episode will be bloody.

Though to not drop spoilers, there are some sad deaths in this episode though, some people died that made me feel sad.

We keep talking about how deep this project is that in this episode 7 that's a masterpiece, they didn't even show us Numenor and it's people or the Harfoots and yet the episode is a masterpiece.
This is just to tell you how deep this series is and now i understand why they committed 5 seasons to this awesome project.

Anyways, let's see what the episode finale will bring to us.

Will Durin arrive with his dwarf armies or not.

Ladies and gentlemen!!! I am fully and 100% entertained.

Blink twice if the show-runners are holding you hostage👀

kendrick9:
**Spoiler**** I heard he dies. Is it true?
Haven't played the game.
If so i wonder how the show can cope without having it's leading star Pedro in future installments

I think they'll divide the game story to two seasons - if not, he'll die in the first or second episode - from there- it's feminist and girl boss propaganda - tiny Ellie slaughtering grown up men with ease - like how every girl can do - GIRL POWER 🤲🏾🙌🙌

armadeo:
Idris Elba as okonkwo.

Oyibo wants to take this away too. Let's see how it goes.



My favourite scene was when one man told okonkwo that akamefuna called him father.

It was touching.

Elba with his fake Nigerian accent😂. But I think with his work with Beasts of no nation and with a24 involved : it could be special

Ishilove:
Maybe because I know a little bit about the history of Dahomey and the Amazons, that's why I have never felt inclined to watch the movie. I don't quite appreciate Hollywood's retelling of a story that involved slavery

Exactly, they retelling the story of Africans written by non-Africans, acted by Americans

abduleez1:
Peak returns in 2025.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOsAJ7oe2QE?si=51F7LmXlU5ViTjuB

If they stick to the game story and its development, 80% of people are going to hate it.
You can't imagine the amount of hate coming to anyone playing Abby (let her get ready for death threats) as a player of the game- it's a masterpiece in storytelling but in game play to narrate the story - it sucked!! Everyone hated the game play.

Tiny Spoiler:
If you thought the LGBTQ stuff was much in the season 1 😂😂😂 you haven't seen anything- they brought an LGBTQ expert to write the story for the game -I'm very certain it'll get banned in most countries because it'll also be like watching child porn because the actress who plays Ellie still looks like a child - that's one of the main reasons everyone despised the game
NB: The way they keep advertising Pedro Pascal is false advertising imo

myami:
Armadeo, illusioneffect, bankygee, ishilove, guys I was watching the woman king and during the war scene between the agojie and the oyo fighters, the oba told his men to retreat which they did resulting in a stalement. Next scene I saw, the oyo fighters were carting away prisoners of war from the agojie soldiers. This got me wondering, how did they capture this ladies since they retreated?

If I remember correctly, It resulted in a stalemate but some ladies were stuck on the other side of the battle wounded and unconscious resulting in their capture