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fergie001:
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Gmajor:
Citation (2020)
Citation is a 2020 film that was directed by Kunle Afolayan which tells the story of a young girl who reports a predatory lecturer to the university and the ensuing hearing that takes place.
First the things I liked about the movie.
1. Cinematography: the movie was competently shot. It didn’t contain too many bad or distracting shots so I have no complaints there.
2. Extras: The movie had a lot of extra and I appreciate that they went the extra mile to infuse a layer of realism into the movie.
3. Fight scene: The taekwondo fight scene was really good. I was really shocked by quality of the fight. It was well choreographed and the actors involved in the fight really knew what they were doing. Hopefully, we’ll be seeing more action movies from this director.
4. Location: the movie takes place mainly in a university and they made good use of the school setting to bring the story to life. Part of it was also shot abroad so it would seem that went all out.
5. Crateful use of language: I love how this movie masterfully wove between English, French and Yoruba. It felt very organic and natural.
6. Acting: The man who plays the Prof. Lucien has stared in some Hollywood movies so I wouldn’t have expected less. Temi Otedola also tried in her first Nollywood role. Her acting was good most of the time, though her emoting was off in some places, however, I don’t see it negatively affecting anyone’s viewing experience.
Ini Edo is a veteran actress, but is it that she has forgotten how to act or that this role wasn’t good for her? Because her acting in this movie was mostly bad.
7. The twins: they were super cute and quite likeable. Though the shift from a very serious tone to a comedic one when these two came along was quite jarring.
Things I didn’t like.
I could write a 3000 word easy on all the things I didn’t like about this movie. But for brevity sake, I will just try and pen just a few of them down.
1. Pacing: the gravest crime this movie commits is its atrocious pacing. This movie is 2 and half hours long but it feels like it’s about 7 hours long. Shot linger for an necessarily long amount time and some scenes go on forever. The movie is so long so it was quite infuriating that the screen time was further padded with bullshit that added nothing to the overall story? Watching this movie was very exhausting. At the end of the movie I was relived- not because Moreni had won her case but because the director has final put me out of my misery. This movie had no right to be 152 minutes long. One hour could have been trimmed from this movie without affecting the story in any way. The taekwondo scene I loved so much, the sex for marks incident at the beginning of the movie, Seun Kuti’s performance and many other incidents should have not made the final cut.
2. Time jump as a narrative device: jumping between the present and the events that led to the present day is nothing new in storytelling. One of my favourite movies – The Social Network employs this narrative device in a similar way by jumping from before Facebook was founded to a hearing after Facebook has been established. However, a lot of the time jumps in this movie are very confusing, and you’ll be left scratching you head as to the time period the scene you’re watching took place.
Also, in the social network, even though you know that Mark is being sued by a bunch of people including his close friend, you’ll be eager to know how they got to this very situation (the hearing). On the other hand, from the very beginning of the Citation I already had a good guess of how things will go.
3. Dialogue: a lot of the lines really came out weird. In some cases, the dialogues flows naturally, whereas, there are a lot of cases where the dialogue is really bad. Like, Real people don’t talk like this.
4. Not-very-smart lead: even though Moreni is presented as a very smart girl, there are some decisions that she made that left me scratching my head. This includes not putting more distance between her supervisor and herself, letting a random boy she just met lead her to God-knows-where in a country she has never been to before, brandishing her diarrhoea stained pants during the hearing etc.
There is naive and then there is dumb
5. Editing: maybe I should have moved the time jump stuff here, anyway this movie has plenty instances of bad editing. Apart from the poorly convened time jump and the scenes and shot that linger for way too long. There is also a choice that was made in this movie that I can’t quite wrap my head around. When Moremi went to Senegal to find a man that would help her with her with her case, the scene repeatedly cuts from her boyfriend fighting in a dojo to her searching for the man. I have no idea why these two scene was juxtaposed with one another. There was no relationship- thematic, or otherwise between the two incidents so why are you directly cutting from one to the other?
6. Etc:
a. An eyesore disguised as a wig: the wig that Prof. Lucian wore was not only extremely ugly but utterly unnecessary. Even if the director didn’t want him to be bald, at least they could have done a better job with the wig. It was so annoying to look at.
b. Annoying beret girl on the panel: I thoroughly hated this character. Come to think of it, in a real life situation will a student representative be allowed on the panel? Who know?
c. Audio: the audio during Seun kuti’s performance was bad. I don’t know if it was on propose or that the mic on set were bad and for some reason they didn’t fix it post, but anyway it wasn’t good.

In summary, this movie is very pretentious. The dialogue is pretentious and the artistic choices that were made were pretentious. The movie has zero suspense and it plays out exactly like you would expect. The movie is slow and tedious and I don’t see myself watching it more than once.
If this movie was 90-110 minutes long, I would have given it a rating of 5/10 but because this lasted forever, I’ll be giving it a rating of 4/10.

johnyace:
TENET
My rating 7/10
I feel like Nolan had a great concept but used the wrong story to tell it, Nevertheless it was Worth 2 hours and 30 minutes of my life
Spoiler
Who else noticed that Robert was the woman's son

Nbotee:
Taaaaaa stay one side... Adekunle Gold, Lil Kesh, Fireboy all did/doing well.. U no get talent dats all. Dropping 5 singles in 5 years doesn't tell the whole story, how did those singles do and how were dey received.. If U get talent, drop ur hits now wey u no dey under dem anymore.. U are as free as a bird and have their label on ur CV.. Drop those songs and hits wey dem no allow U drop or forever hold ur peace.

Buh, do you realize ONLY Yoruba artistes under YBNL are making it. If an artiste is not Yoruba, Olamide drops dem like it's hot.



Oh shut the F.up.. Simi does her thing, Teni does her thing, I'm sure if I ask U what record labels dey belong to, U have no idea.. Wen U get talent ur music will speak for u wen ur label wan fall ur hand.. Na mor.ons like U dey b woman wrapper becos all dey have to do is guilt trip U and u begin wash pant.. TOZO

Synord:
2) Disregarding Other Talents - Not recognizing and constantly downplaying other talented and competitive artistes shows toxic followership. Once you start noticing the urge to always compare other artistes with your favourite and regard the other Artistes as never good enough or talented or constantly disrespecting and insulting other artistes in competition with your favourite for no reason, you might need to caution yourself .

OgogoroFreak:
Eat puff puff like 30 balls daily. It works like magic.

enomasly:
Guys help me out how do i gain chubbier cheeks i've started taking Burger and milk at least thrice a week some people say i should add raw egg and a host of other stuffs please advice me.

obembet:
LIONEL MESSI has been hit with a £540 fine for his tribute to Diego Maradona after the legend’s death.

The Barcelona superstar started his career at Newell's Old Boys and unveiled their shirt in tribute to his fellow Argentine - who also played there - after scoring in Sunday's 4-0 win against Osasuna.

The goal had striking similarities to a goal scored by Maradona on his Newell's debut 27 years ago.

He picked up the ball outside of the box, beat two defenders then fired a shot into the far corner of the net.

The celebration forced referee Mateu Lahoz to book Messi for removing his Barca shirt, in line with the Spanish FA's rules.

It has now been confirmed that the 33-year-old has now been sanctioned.

The forward, who earns over £60m-a-year, should have to cough up a £540 fine.

And Barcelona have also been hit with a fine of £316 over the incident - although they plan to appeal.

The rule which imposes a fine for celebrations like Messi's is not exclusive to the Spanish league, it is also applied by FIFA.

On FIFA's official website, it states: "The IFAB, the body responsible for the Laws of the Game, decided to add a detail to Law 12 relating to ‘Fouls and Misconduct’, stating: “A player who removes his jersey after scoring a goal will be cautioned for unsporting behaviour.”

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/13360088/lionel-messi-fined-maradona-shirt-tribute/amp/

Luckydubby7:
This woman have children?
The way her breast completely flat ehn.

Arysexy:
Is d girl aware he is HIV positive and a woman beater?

Meanwhile all these for marriage? E never reach to open shop. I thought they said it's only kolanut and 200 naira u are married in the North?

Zis is bery bery flenty

slawormiir:
Damnnn niggarrrr
Isoright....
Highest view with just million

I was expecting a billion view

slawormiir:
Damnnn niggarrrr
Isoright .....what da fuckkkkkkkkkk
Fuckkk shit.....
Now this is what we call talent ....


Davido should see real talent

Not the dog shit songs he dishes out to his fans after using too much voice enhancer in the studio because of his frogged voice
With time davido fans gonna realize he is one untalented moda fuckkker

MhisTahrah:
World war Z(2013). 'TF' was the only thing on my mind while I was watching that movie, finished it in 20minutes.
3/10

alexistaiwo:
The Cure


These people should be calming down.
Two seconds everywhere burst.

nwaezeemmanuel:
Greenland - 8/10

One of those world ending plots that teaches a lot about love, death and rebirth.

Gave me a makeshift rapture kind of feeling even though it's not a Christian movie.

Liposure:
OLOTURE
A very good movie with a very poor ending

Carlylepneuma:
is much too early to get drunk dont u thinkp?

doffman:
Islam touches every aspect of life ... So happy to be a Muslim.