₦airaland Forum

Baddestguyp:
I'm actually hyped for this movie

Unfortunately, I can only imagine Dev Patel as Zuko in the worst film of all times Avatar the Last Airbender😂. The fact that he forgot his past and is directing movies is a massive achievement. 97% of the actors in the movie ended their careers right there

ErenXSatoru:
First bolded, I'm actually talking about the acting between Ferrera and McAdams - McAdams was way better in Are you there God, it's me Margaret - Ferrera was only given that nomination because of her Men are evil speech - only that scene

About Margot - her roles have always been one dimensional - The Wolf of Wall Street, The Suicide Squad, Babylon, I, Tonya, Once upon a time in Hollywood - they've all been the same characters all the time - she may be a good actress but we dont actually know that yet. Take a look at Emma Stone and Charlize Theron works - although they're all beautiful looking actresses - there movie roles have multiple dimensions - Monster is a good example - Charlize Theron totally killed that role when everyone thinks she was just a beautiful face

This actually sums up my thoughts on this matter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYvI5CPyMMs?si=GVHw1JvjoLqctkfI

BlackManta:
Ryan Gosling winning the only Oscar for Barbie despite eight nominations

Ryan Gosling can't win in a category where RDJ and De Niro is

BlackManta:
The media has been milking the Greta and Margot Robbie's Oscar snub for virtue signalling...

Barbie got 8 nominations ffs and the woke media is acting like it's not enough for mumu optics.

"The women most responsible for the success of Barbie were snubbed, therefore bla bla.... "

Go fvck yourselves with your brain dead agenda

Like it's just sooooo strange. How does being a blockbuster make you win awards, if that's the case, Avengers Endgame which was definitely wayyyyyy better than most films that came out that year would be nominated, Greta has been nominated before too, she has 3 best picture nominations already- Margot Robbie didn't do even half better than the female actresses in her category.
Barbie was not that good, the hype should die down

Baddestguyp:
The effects were top notch...I said it before...

It blows the One Piece LA series out of the water in that department

Nahh, the One Piece effects are perfect - the only reason Avatar's effect seems better is because of the world building and bending which requires a lot of CGI, note that the One Piece budget is actually bigger than this too

oyaskii:
One of my fave show last year... absolutely supreme.

I was surprised it was a Netflix show, only to find out A24 had a hand in it...so that's why it was probably that good 😊

The acting esp was awesome and the story felt so real to me

abduleez1:
😏😉


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByAn8DF8Ykk?si=jGmzSuZTWREEPnYg

Reactions to this has exploded on YouTube, what do you think of the trailer?
I felt the acting was subpar

Biggest Upsets of the Oscars 2024 Nominations

1. How tf is America Ferrera on this list and Margot Robbie is snubbed, what did that feminist act abeg

2. The Iron Claw is snubbed totally when it actually had the best performances of the year esp from Zac Efron

3. I know this is going too far but that Blackberry guy outperformed everyone on that Actor role except Cillian big problem was it was marketed by Apple

4. Spiderman across the Spider Verse didn't get Original Score Nomination

5. I already knew Fantasia from the Color Purple wasn't going to get nominated. Side Note: I hated that movie

6. BIGGEST SNUBS:
I. Greta Gerwig for Director 😪
2. Air as a whole
3. The Iron Claw
4. Blackberry
5. Greta Lee in Past Lives snubbed
6. Leonardo DiCaprio snubbed
7. Rachel McAdams snubbed
8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles snubbed- wtf is that Robot shit movie??
9. Suzume snubbed
10. Charles Melton snubbed
11. Saltburn snubbed because of too much d

abduleez1:
Name them asides from Talk To Me, Bottoms?, and Past Lives.

Are you serious??
Past Lives
Talk to Me
Bottoms

The Zone of Interest (That's 3 Oscars for Best Picture)
Beau is Afraid
Priscilla
Dream Scenario
You Hurt My Feelings
Earth Mama
All this movies were considered for Oscars throughout last year i.e is 9 out of 17 were bangers which is absolutely rare for studios

MatthiasChin:
In Nigeria today most people see marrying a white girl as a very risky thing.

owing to the fact that you may get divorced, your children may never come back to Nigeria and all of that....

But I'm of the belief that some countries have white women who are exceptionally loyal and cool headed, Brazil for example.

But yet I will like to here a firsthand experience story..

Sir please give us your candid advise...

Is it worth it, is it advisable like what's your experience?

I'm biracial and my parents have been married for 23 years without a significant issue

abduleez1:
Great news.... Been waiting for eternity for this.

I wasn't surprised when this movie bombed on its 5th day

oyaskii:
"The Boy who harnessed the wind" (2019).

"Inspiring and Uplifting"

This Biopic tells the story of a boy whose village faced severe drought and famine, and he was able to harness wind energy from crude materials to provide water and save his village from starvation.
A very nice watch 8/10.

Side Note: Will Africa ever leave the trenches? The movie was based in Malawi but if i didn't know, i could have sworn it was Nigeria, because it's basically the same problem and scenery, lack of portable water, lack of electricity, more out of school children and so many problems that are so alien to first class countries! Like how hard can it be to provide just basic amenities? I was on a video conference call with colleagues from Brazil one time and they "took my light" and my screen went dark, and they were genuinely afraid for me, they kept asking if i was okay, and i explained to them that they "sieze power" and could you believe this people didn't understand the concept!, like they haven't experienced such before 😭😭 and mind you Brazil is still tagged as a fellow 3rd world country but they have somehow hacked their way out of basic problems that still plagues us here.

Racism is despicable but i feel Africans makes it easy, It's easy to question if the knowledge to be great rest only on the white race.
African and to be specific Sub Saharan Africa is still a long way off from being a "proper continent" and i fear it may never attain it. 😮‍💨

This is a truly honest question. I've been following this issue of how massive racism really is esp in the United States and China.

No matter how Africa changes, it won't change racism in the slightest

oyaskii:
367 downloads?? 😩😩. Find time to watch them and declutter!.

My YouTube life is actually well curated lol, i devote time weekly to watch videos i "liked" during the week but i never go near that "download" button. Andriod apps are too unstable to take that risk, small shake to the cache and data of the YouTube app and you'd lose those downloads in an instant 😩.

Plus those downloads require alot of storage to function properly because of how YouTube encrypts their downloaded videos.

So my basically just like, watch and move on, although they keep recommending but i never hit that "download" button 🙃

This could be Kanye West YouTube page. Why use Premium when you don't download

en0uwem:
I'd rather watch Waterloo, than this crap

How can you tell it's crap when you haven't watched it

pepemendy:
I would pick ‘Succession over GOT’ succession as an equal masterpiece as GOT.

Both are equal masterpieces in their own different universes

Whizkay:
you could have said that without saying comparing Succession and billions is "horrifying".

Or maybe understanding English is too tough for you

Ikillbrokehoes:
YouTube link?

It's a movie

Whizkay:
Comparing Succession to GOT isn't horrifying?

You tried to make a point but then lost it.

But thanks still

Wth are you saying, who said anything about Succession and GOT, I was comparing their pilot episodes and their payoff at the end of their 1st seasons bro

dimexy247:
😂😂😂 You’re right bro. 👊🏼 I watched too because of him. I shutdown my brains before I watched. They want to make Hart a serious actor by force. Poor him.

He should stick to comedy abeg. When I was watching, i was like "bro, do something funny for God's sake 😂, stop making that serious face😂"

2001: A Space Odyssey

This is the greatest science-fiction epic ever made for its time. This is supported by those who claim to understand the complexities involved and leading up the Star Child ending. The others, like myself, find it as absorbing as watching paint dry on woodwork.

The musical background is glorious, the colors are dazzling, and there's an interesting use of HAL as a villainous computer. Beyond that, there is nothing the least bit interesting about the human characters (trite dialogue and no personality or warmth to any of the individuals), the pace is unbelievably slow (so the intellectually gifted can philosophize on the mysteries of space), and the payoff at the end leaves you either breathless with enlightenment or convinced that you have watched three hours of nothingness.

I had the same letdown feeling when I watched THE CLOCKWORK ORANGE, so your like or dislike of this movie is purely dependent on personal taste. Intellectuals will take the position that you are a mentally challenged clod if you dare disagree with their elevated opinion of the movie--so be aware that this is not conventional story-telling in any sense whatsoever and only for those who admire Stanley Kubrick's way with unlikely cinematic material.

The fact that for the 1st 25 minutes no dialogue ensued, just a bunch of chimpanzees crying for bananas or some shit is just crazy

6/10

dimexy247:
😃😃😃. I just like the actions scenes.

What action scenes😂
This is a totally mid movie. The only reason I watched this to the end was because of Hart. Hat hasn't made a good movie except his standups since Fatherhood unfortunately

Whizkay:
For those that have seen billions and Succession. How does Succession stack up against billions. I've seen billions and I think it's absolutely fantastic but the first episode of Succession didn't give me that taste. Wonder if it worth proceeding.

Comparing Billions to Succession is horrifying bro. Continue and see what the fuss is about, first episode of Succession is a little like first episode of GOT, the payoff really is greater than its beginning

oyaskii:
That's why i put the caveat "might".

Can it win over? "Oppie", a long stretch, can it win over Killers of the flower moon? I think yes.

There was even an internal rambling of it being submitted for best original screenplay as the writers guild considers the movie as an "original" creation of and her husband but the Academy said no, that it is definitely adapted. It would have stood a better chance at the original category.

Christopher Nolan made an all timer with "Oppenheimer", the movie is far too superior in overall quality than all the movies last year. I am tipping it to get the "Big 4", the "scraps" of which one of them is Adapted screenplay should "naturally" come to "Barbie", for the sheer fact of it being the biggest box office success last year, one of the biggest pop culture influence project in recent history and most important passed a very important message albeit subtle.

Barbie should be an Original Screenplay so it'll fail

oyaskii:
Death's Game (2023).

This is getting so much praise, but i fear it might not be enough!.

Not a fan of Kdrama or anything K for that matter, bought into the hype of this to see what the fuss was about and i was totally and completely blown away!
The writing might be the boldest, best and probably the freshest i have seen in a while, like it was actually better than what hollywood has been offering for a good number of years now, like i couldn't believe what i was watching!

A crazy Non-linear plot that the pilot looked so simple, but each unfolding episode was delicately and deliberately made that they could stand as an "anthology standalone" meanwhile they were part of the bigger plot line, like an onion, with which layer you peel, you discover you have been served a subtle clue in the preceding layer!

The production value was so high, like i couldn't believe it. Is it what you k drama people enjoy on a regular basis, or was this just a one time hit? Because it looks like K drama has my attention now because i think they totally have something for me!

Who noticed the clock counting down as the guy passed through each death? small easter egg.

100% worth the hype

9/10.

I watched the E01 but i dumped it

This topic makes me think of how crazy it'll be to adapt Grand Theft Auto; it would make money but it'll flop so hard in reviews imo giving the fact that Grand Theft doesn't have a single storyline plus it is already real life in so many people's opinion

abduleez1:
Yes it's a bigger industry but it's not a trillion dollar industry.
And we're talking about video game adaptations for movies and TV shows. The genre is still predominantly a high risk one and only started making inroads in profitability and/or success from 2022.

Video game adaptations were largely known as ultimate flops for decades. To the point of the industry coining a phenomenon for it — " the Videogame Curse".

Still, even the positives in the last year, it's nowhere near CBMs.

YOu're right, although I meant to say games in general.
The bolded made me remember the Live Adaptation of Death Note
But what do you think will be the hardest video game to adapt

oyaskii:
The album was in my Spotify wrap for last year lol. My lullaby even till this day. So so good.


But Hans Zimmer na still their father lol. I have this Hans Zimmer "Live in Prague" concert that he played out his all timer scores, from "The Lion king score" to the Gladiator score to the Rain Man score to the interstellar score. 4 hours of sublime goodness 😩😩.

Hans is so so versatile, this man can score even a "rom com" 😩.

It was the album that prompted me to listen to almost every John Williams, Ramin Djawadi & Zimmer scores on Spotify.
But in my opinion, John Williams is still the best of all times. The 'Hedwig's THeme + The Jurassic Park + E.T is just too awesome to ignore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao77ZUCQNnY?si=hxTO92as59FKn3R_

oyaskii:
"The thing isn't can you read music, it is can you hear it."
"Can you hear the Music, Robert?"

As a lover of film music, I must say the Oppenheimer score might possibly be the best piece of film music i have heard in a long while without any shadow of doubt 😩.

Every note, every key totally in sync with the particular scene, like the score is so so"deliberate" that hearing the score, you can "hear" the particular scene it was "played", naaah Ludwig Göransson made magic with this.

I saw clips of the Live orchestra of the Score with the actual movie playing in the background and i am like damn, White people really do know how to enjoy themselves 😩😩.

Good luck to any film music/score trying to compete with it this award season 🙏🏿.

A timeless....timeless piece of film music...Up there with the greats 🌱

This song has 200 million streams already, I've listened to the album like a million times- everyday
If Dune came out last year, Hans Zimmer could be a contender

abduleez1:
Uhm BARBIE is definitely winning Best Original Song and that's a serious category.

You're definitely a Barbie ass grabber😂. Original Song is not a serious award bro, Just a 3 minutes song in a 2 hours movie can't be taken to seriously compared to Score or the Big'uns like director and the rest

oyaskii:
Yes, the true story as bizarre as it sounds would had definitely made a better movie.

I don't know if you followed the Golden Globe? I feel that is a true reflection of how the Oscars is going to go..."Oppie" will sweep the main categories, while the other movies will fight it out for the scraps. Best actor, Best Picture, Best Director, Best score, Best sound editing is totally off the table for other movies imo...Oppie is far too strong and clearly in the lead in those categories.

I won't be surprised if Barbie doesn't win anything. Heard Oppie will fight it out for Score 😂😂😂 against who?? Boy and the Heron? 😂. I just recently watched the Oppenheimer Opera Concert and being a fan of opera, I can genuinely say it's the hardest form of music to be played, any simple mistake can cost the entire performance worthless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQBywpw3ve4?si=cmpMfII7H72Pc4zd

Chibudollar:
Theirs something about Honorary awards. It just feels like "oya take you don try award"

Exactly😂😂, esp Angela Bassett, as she bone face for that Oscars, dey no like am

abduleez1:
We've not had a year like 2019 in recent times.
Both critically, quantity and quality of top films as well as great to massive box office.

2019 had a total domestic gross of $11bn. Hollywood ain't achieved that since the pandemic.

A perfect example of an overblown balloon and a massive burst.