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AmINotHuman?:

This is a very smart post and I agree whole-heartedly. I'm not a fan of Nollywood but Hollywood is way worse in terms of its 'delusion'. Permit me if this is slightly off-topic but at least we can say Nollywood 'lies' are harmless or even funny. But Hollywood loves to promote many false- even dangerous- ideas:

Africans are uneducated, starving savages;
The British are pompous, tea-loving and cruel;
Arabs are terrorists;
African-americans are criminals;
Russians are bitter against the US etc.

But almighty white Americans are perfect, awesome people who, in the time of danger, are the ones to save the world even though the average american is just some fat guy.

Besides, how often do you see a poor (white) American in a Hollywood movie?

See, you and your oga at the top (speedyboi) couldn't be more wrong: Do americans lie in their movie? Of course. Do they have stereotipical opinions about people of other nationalities? Very yes.... But do they sell the idea effectively with "make believe" in their movies? Another resounding YES.

The issue is with the delivery, not with the message...

Titamic the movie, is 3hrs long, and you would sit down and watch it over and over again (I have seen it more than 10 times) and although what they're telling us is a lie, it is still an enjoyable lie.

They have mastered the world of "make believe" that they can sell any lie to anyone enjoyably....

Hold it, before you rubbish my post, mention one hollywood film you've seen and enjoyed, and a nollywood film that you feel equally passionate about. Do a side by side comparison, and you'll realise that our 9ja people still have a lot of work in the make believe world....

In fact don't go too far, watch an average 9ja music video, and you'll see the magic of make believe in action.

You can see that I'm not being unpatriotic, I just refuse to celebrate mediocrity. That's all.

Orikinla: Please, give the titles of the Nollywood movies you have seen so far and tell us what makes them delusional.

That's a very ardous task...it would be easier to mention the few ones that are not delusional...I doubt if you can count 20 in NULLI(fication)WOOD's history

mimicue: Nollywood has so many problems what annoys me most is the fact that they keep using old actors d ones that have been there they don't try to use new people young people....honestly I detest nollywood I won't use my money to watch nollywood at d cinema
.......they need to to have so many actors use fresh people.... New ones too....and the fact that nkem owoh will be acting high school movies damn no child they can use...if they train them they will act it better wesha watch Hollywood movies where children are stars and act very well...over here nothing like that just old cargoes

You're so right...Nulli-wood only reduces one's IQ...I won't even watch it on dstv, not to talk of renting their yeye dvds or going to the cinemas..tufiakwa.

Nulliwood..by retards for retards.

speedyboi: Hypocrisy!
Shallow thinking!
and more full this thread!

Of all things to criticize in the industry, this is what you think is important?

If you want to start criticizing delusional movies (leaving behind the fact that movies are not documentaries and not necessarily meant to be 'the real situation'), Hollywood movies and all other woods will come before Nollywood!

what will you say about;
A. -A single criminal defeating a battalion of well trained soldiers like say na ice-cream dem dey drink for army their whole life. Is that the situation in real life?
-In a movie like Olympus has fallen for instance; first part of the attack in white house, the Police or whoever were practically coming out of the building to be killed. I'm sure 'the grrreaat' american police force wouldn't be so dumb in real life, would they? ,
-Or in all action movies where lots of people could've taken the criminal at once, but they always prefer to go one by one... to be killed ofcourse - How realistic is that....

Mister, you're missing the point...true, the concept and message of a movie does not have to be realistic (horror films, sci-fi are a case in point), but they have to be believable, and people should be able to relate with it....

for example, Superman Returns was not as well embraced by the audience, because they couldn't "feel" the movie...Man of Steel however was well received....and the avengers went on to garner way more than $1B dollars....

in the same vein, Eddie murphy's last 2 sci-fi films were woeful at the box office. Why? Not believable enough.

I'm very sure that you're one of the practitioners of this crappy industry called nollywood...even the name sounds like a nullification of hollywood and everything the make believe world stands for

Very few of you guys understand your trade...a lot of you ride on the wave of...it doesn't have to be realistic....yes, it doesn't have to be, but the trick of the trade is to make "eating shit" a believable exercise.