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Did Nia Jax just turn heel?

And I'm really missing Enzo Amore
Can't WWE be a bit lenient with him?

Falz - This is Nigeria
Simi - One Kain
Falz & Simi - Foreign

Was watching an old SmackDown episode. Reigns came in through the crowd à la Shield entrance and the crowd was cheering. Where did it all go so bad?

wiilly02:
For those looking for anime to watch and Dont feel the need to be bothered with lengthy anime like one piece, naruto fairytail et all
U can try
Spirited away
Porco Rosso
Howl's moving castle
Paprika
My neighboring totoro
Princess mononoke
Wolf children
Lupin the third:The woman called fujito
mine. In fact anything done by hayao Miyazaki is recommended


PS: I see a lot of people talking about fullmetal alchemist brotherhood... You should also try full metal alchemist 2003....Same characters, similar plot, But somewhere along the line the plots diverges!

How can you tell someone to go spoil the taste of their mouth with Fullmetal Alchemist 2003. After watching Brotherhood, I laid a curse on whoever came up with that bullcrap. Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is one of the anime you should advice people to avoid

pu7pl3:
And just like we expected smackdown was on point

The intensity in all the matches were great

The miz issa unicorn

Samoa joe issa national treasure

Jeff hardy still got it

DB having dream match after dream match

Aj nd nakamura killing it

Its just sad im talking bout all these alone since everybody abandoned this thread

Month's been hectic bro. Haven't even watched last weeks SD. Hope I can binge it all tomorrow. And yeah! The silent thread issa vibe killer

Don't they teach artificial insemination in schools again? Cos the level of ignorance on this thread is damaging my IQ

Just looking at these niggas who listen to some popular American artistes and be feeling like their taste in music is better. That you don't like any song from any Nigerian artiste is no reason for you to term Afro crap

edunaking:
what is d movie all about

A middle-class black family living in surbubia with a father who feels his family is losing touch with their values as African-Americans and tries to correct it, usually in absurd was

koice:
Black-ish

I asked for a gold bar. You gave me a gold mine. You, Sir, have my eternal gratitude.

Koice
Help me out with a link to download Black-ish. WatchTVseries isn't loading on my tubemate

NicestDude:
funny thing is, they keep bringing more from nxt, and won't even give some of them quality screen then they loose their steam and become relatively useless...
look at tye dillinger.
I guess that's why they started the selfie promo which I find dumb and I know I'm not the only one that hates it.

You're not alone, bro. Most of the selfie promos are cringe-worthy. I didn't meet Dillinger in NXT. But if they fvck up Andrade, the thunder that revived Undertaker at Wrestlemania will fire them

And the women's evolution takes a giant step by creating a female Lesnar/Reigns character. Ronda moves from UFC to WWE à la Brock and gets handed an opportunity at the Raw Title when she said she didn't want handouts à la Roman. So we get another champion who defends like 4 times a year and Creative kills an even better talent than Roman.

I did. This morning. This week is kinda hectic. Haven't even seen Raw and SD for this week

Frostyzone:
Why did I hate Cobra kai? Lotsa reasons man, lotsa reasons. what's with this latest trend of casting young bloods in films and expect red blooded adults to take it seriously? Everyone know d kids are piece of shiit actors, they can't act worth a damn. Put a gun to their heads and they can't act to save their miserable lives. I know what you're thinking, maybe the gun is a revolver with one bullet in the chamber, huh? Maybe it's a game of russian roulette, huh? Well, it doesn't matter. A gun is a gun but I will take a fully auto Smith and Wesson 45 any day. They don't call it the fbi gun for no reason man, the contraption won't jam on you like a glock would or a semi auto berrata 32 would too. Don't trust your life on those outdated fvcks man. Always go with state of the art. You don't even have to be a dead shot to use one, the thing does most of that for you. it's like riding a Tesla electric car. The car does 80%. Eleon Musk is the man.

You tend to ramble on and forget the initial point you wanted to make.

I didn't like how they dropped variety in mini bosses. Mostly trolls. There are a lot of Norse mythology characters that could have served as unique mini bosses. It's still in a great game. Love the changes

MichaelBlake40:
I'm averse to certain types of change and besides even if they weren't gonna put the blades of chaos, they could have put something cooler than an axe and FYI i may like part 2 but i certainly endorse part 3

Do tell. What would have been cooler than that axe?

Seems like some folks here are averse to innovation and change. Apparently, they want God of War 2 re-skinned.

MichaelBlake40:
I so do not like god of war 4 i mean why did they have to give him that rich beard :-D and why did they replace the blades of chaos with that axe?.

The beard was a really good cosmetic decision, IMO. And after 4 installments using the Blades of Chaos/Athena, a renovation of the fighting system was very welcome. Oh, and incase you weren't following the game from announcement, Sony Santa Monica said it would be a soft reboot.

femi4:
Poverty of the mind.....Oyinbo will not put a Cinema TV in his living room

Where will Oyinbo put it?

Trace
Fox

oyetpel:
Bro it's possible, even rape victims forgive rapists over time.

The forgiveness arc is possible if they wanted to explore it.
It was T'Challa father that did it, so why was he hellbent on destroying his son in return?

Why did he want the throne? Was his father's death as a result of throne tussle?

He was just a disturb radicalized boy who needed affection.

In fact if not that W'Kabi is at loggerheads with T'Challa for not catching Klaue, he wouldn't have allowed Killmonger in like that.

That's why I said his backstory would have to be changed. If he needed affection, he would have hesitated before killing his girlfriend or he wouldn't have killed her at all. He would have accepted to atone for his crimes in jail over death. The Killimonger we saw in the movie was past redemption. A Killimonger from an alternate universe might need affection, though.

naijaking1:
Is Indian attire now better than African attire?
Low self esteem is a disease!!!

Which you're probably suffering from. Bet you didn't say that the Americans who wore Ankara to watch Black Panther had low self-esteem. Someone cannot wear what they want in peace again. Most of you African culture advocates haven't been to your hometown for years

Ishilove:
Finally finished watching Black Panther.

There is a saying in my place: Don't look too closely at the anus, otherwise you will see a lot of rubbish.

That said, I will not come down too hard at the movie for the simple reason that for once, Africa is not depicted as a starving, corruption ridden continent at war with itself. Like someone pointed out, it is movie that gives a middle finger to racists like that Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper, who infamously described African history as 'darkness'- the "...unrewarding gyrations of barbarous tribes in picturesque but irrelevant corners of the globe..."

This is a Hollywood production, and the past years have seen producers doffing their hats to minorities in productions Coco that saw an all Latino cast for the first time ever, and Black Panther is one of these bold forays into uncharted Hollywood territory.

While it is flawed in many aspects (let's not even go there), the saving grace of the movie is the depiction of Africa and Africans, although it is even faulty in that aspect. Seriously, most African societies have a system of checks and balances that can prevent even the most autocratic leaders from completely destroying age old traditions. Even if he succeeds, it can't be done overnight. A stranger cannot ascend the throne and in a blink of an eye destroy a kingmaking practice that has been on ground for centuries. The movie producers got it wrong there.

Be that as it may, I love the music and some of the action sequences. The acting is average and the gaddem fake accents distracted me from the dialogue, but I simply enjoyed feasting my eyes on that eye candy, Chad Bosewick. Chocolate! Meooooow

My favourite line in the movie is..."don't scare me so much, colonizer!"

7/10 is my verdict, and I'm sticking to it

On the subject of the accent, the cast really tried in replicating a decent Xhosa accent, as the language used was also Xhosa. I don't know any Xhosa personally so I can't say how spot on they were. But I wasn't put off by the accents.
Next, Killimonger didn't do away with the king making tradition. He destroyed the heart shaped herb. You could still challenge for the throne but you wouldn't receive the power of the Black Panther if you win. That's assuming he accepts your challenge.

Afam4eva:
Let me go and watch it first but i have a feeling that no matter how good it is, i will be underwhelmed because of the hype that the movie gas garnered. I've not met a single person who has had anything bad to say about the movie and that's why i'm scared because i tend not to really like what most people like. I hope i'm wrong.

Are you sure you've been on the internet since February? Cos haters (I can't bring myself to call them critics) have just been whining unnecessarily about how overrated and overhyped the movie is. I remember having to deal with people who just jumped on a bandwagon without looking to see where it was headed during the cinematic run. I'm not going to stress myself this time. Haters gon hate.
My advice: If you didn't like Spiderman: Homecoming, then don't bother watching Black Panther.

oyetpel:
Though i also feel the writers shouldn't have made Killmonger challenge for the Throne, but they wanted to make him a total villain.

(We all grew up watching Hollywood and feel the joy when Actor prevails over the Boss which is equal to happy ending for the movie, movie critiques and our increase in knowledge due to internet now see most of us root for villains in movies)

This is a guy with a family connection to his Wakander origin, and it was clear his father taught him a lot.
He referred to Queen mother as 'Aunty', called Zuri 'Uncle James', T'Challa he called 'cousin'.

The boy had a rough childhood, and you know how all these 'tokunbo' children behave as if they are better than children back home, because they were born abroad.

He just wanted a family.

The elders in the throne room should have calmed him down when he challenged to take the throne. Try and make him feel welcome, while T'Challa also will apologize on behalf of his father, since he also know that what his father did was bad.

Then bring Killmonger into the fold, so that him and T'Challa will join forces together to defeat the villain.


Now, they need a villain to sacrifice, and the villain should have been Klaue. They should have made Klaue all powerful and defeat him in the end.

Dude met his dad dead at the hands of his uncle, then dedicated the rest of his life to seeking vengeance. And you think he was looking for warm hugs? As long as his backstory remains unchanged, that outcome is highly unlikely. And they would also have to give Klaue more depth if he's to be the primary villain

BlackManta:
Black Panther 5/10.

So i had the chance to see Black Panther again.

The first time i saw the movie at the cinema i rated it 6/10.
Today i have reduced it to 5/10.

Black Panther is so overated and it didn't live up to the crazy hype.
Marvel fanboys might come for my head.
But the truth is even after seeing the movie nearly 3 times, i still cant get myself to like it.

Alright you sad, depressed DC hater, you've got my attention.
First, why can't you people understand that the hype was never about how awesome a movie it was, but the racial significance to African-Americans in Hollywood. And quit lying. You didn't even watch it twice, talk more of thrice.

I can point out several flaws in that movie but let's start with the good part shall we

The good thing about Black Panther is the way African cultural elements was potrayed.
The movie is based in Africa so i was expecting it and Marvel didn't dissapoint.
They put up a good effort in expressing the aesthetic authencity of African elements in this movie.

Another thing i liked about Black Panther was Andy Serkis (Ulysses Klaue) and Michael B Jordan (Killmonger)
Andy's acting was superb. He was the only one who seemed like he wasn't reading from a script and he got genuine laughs out of me.

Michael's acting was a close second.
He brought Killmonger to life unlike Boseman whoose character was very dull and boring.

What i didn't like in BLACK PANTHER

Now lets get down to the bad aspects of this overhyped movie.

1. Predictable and Poor storyline:

The story was extremely predictable and to be honest I don't know if the most virtuous resolution was reached in the climax. Michael B Jordan's character had fairly reasonable intentions for wanting to kill the Black Panther and take his place in Wakanda as he had been abandoned, with seemingly no family, to live in the ghettos of Oakland. However, his whole plan to give advanced Wakandan weaponry to every African person in the world so they could kill and overthrow people in power who weren't African was extremely "on-the-chin" in terms of its narrative motivations within the current climate. It wasn't remotely clever or nuanced and really unbalanced his character, his motivations were understandable but his plan was moronic. Additionally, who didn't see Black Panther surviving his fall? Who didn't see the Gorilla tribe coming to the rescue at the end? The entire movie was so bland and predictable I wanted it to be over well before the end.

Dude, it's 2018. Movies have been around for more than a century. We're actually in the age of remakes and reboots because filmmakers are running outta ideas. So if you've been watching movies for the past 10 years, then yeah, you should be able to predict some stuff that happened in the movie. You would be an idiot if you couldn't. Of course we knew T'Challa would survive his fall. He's the protagonist and there's still close to an hour of runtime left. I mean, most of us know a lot of The Avengers would be back in infinity War 2. Does that make Infinity War a predictable movie? I not only knew he'd survive his fall. I knew he'd be rescued by the Jabari as well.
Did you know W'Kabi would turn against him? Did you know the border tribe would fight for Killimonger? Did you know Killimonger would break Klaue out only to kill him? Did you predict the end of the movie from the beginning? If you didn't, then don't call the whole story predictable. Besides, unless you're a newbie to movies, there's very few plots that will surprise and/or amaze you these days, so that's not even a negative.

2. LACK OF CHARACTER VALUE

I didn't fall in love with any major character except Ulysses and Killmonger.
Most part of the movie focused on T'challa but in the end i found his character very boring and dull.

Forest Whitaker's character was shallow. I barely knew him. So i didn't give a Bleep when he died.

In this movie they spend maybe 30 seconds building up the characters, if even that. They just assume that we will have feelings to any character who pops up in the movie - BUT WE DON'T.
If anyone fights, almost dies and in the end dies anyways we just do not care since we do not get to know the person. Forrest Whitaker acts is but off yet you do not care if he dies... WHO is he, tell us something about him before please (!).

Speak for yourself. If you weren't too busy looking for reasons to hate the movie, you would have fallen in love with the beauty that is Okoye. Wise, cool, badass, loyal with some dry humor and a bit of sass. Nakia was interesting. And M'Baku was entertaining with the little screentime he got.
T'Challa is royalty. Born and raised at his father's side. You expect him to be Tony Stark? He's a king with the weight of a kingdom on his shoulders. And he bears it well. His humor was spot on when he showed it. And it humanized his character.
Zuri's death wasn't meant to be felt by us. It was for T'Challa. He lost all battle calmness when it happened, enabling Killimonger to finish him off easily. Oh! And Zuri is the spy that was planted on Killimonger's father at the beginning. He's also the kingmaker and obviously a close family friend to T'Challa's family. But you were probably waiting for a narrator to tell you all that.

3. POOR ACTING

The acting was very wooden - Not a lot to say here really, some really poor line delivery from the cast across the board except for Andy Serkis and Michael B Jordan. No one was particularly charismatic, the main character for instance was extremely boring.

You probably can't touch Andy Serkis and Michael B. Jordan because both professional and user reviews praise their performances. But if you bothered to check, you would have also discovered that Danai Gurirai (Okoye), Lupita N'Yongo, Daniel Kaluuya and Angela Bassett's performances were also applauded. And any unbiased viewer would agree with that.

4. POOR SCRIPT

The script was very robotic - This ties into the poor acting, but perhaps as a result of the script, some of the actors never really had a chance to bring their characters to life.

I'm just going to shake my head at this and move on.

5. T'CHALA


Basically throughout the entire movie you never really learn anything or see anything of the Black Panther's character, he basically moves from one place to another showing no emotion and just either smashes things or asks people questions. Apparently the character is supposed to be very intelligent, while it was probably a narrative choice, the Black Panther in this movie seemed like an emotionless Jarhead whose only really characteristic was that he get nervous around his girlfriend..

T'Challa was conflicted about keeping to the age long system or sharing their existence and technology with the outside world. He had aspirations to be a great ruler. Yet he wished to keep his father's mistakes a secret. A flaw. And yeah, he had feelings for Nakia. Probably not the most awesome character but definitely not an emotionless jarhead.

6. POOR ACTION SEQUENCE

Apart from the impressive car chase and the challenge stuff, every other fight scene in this movie was average and lacklustre.
the action in the movie is terrible and not remotely on the level of the well-choreographed fighting in say Captain America Winter Soldier - please for the love of god show someone getting punched or kicked without having to cut the shot 5 times.

Yeah, the final battle was definitely terrible. Everything about it was horrible. The entertaining Dora Milaje Vs Killimonger fight, Black Panther Vs Killimonger and the rhino stampede. They were definitely the most horrible action sequences ever shown on screen. I'm sure even you could come up with something better.

7. POOR CGI

The CGI in this movie is terrible.
Did any one notice the Rhinos
Very poor CGI.
the CGI was awful in the action scenes: whenever someone was even prodded, they would go flying across the screen in the most outlandish fashion.
the CGI on Black Panther felt extremely overused and was surprisingly quite bad.

8. SOUNDTRACK

The impressive Kendrick Lamar curated soundtracks barely feature in this movie.
The orchestral score is also quite average, coming in strong at weird moments and being quite out of place in certain places.


BLACK PANTHER 5/10

Dude, if you're going to hate on a movie, my advice would be not to watch it. Use the time and do something productive instead of torturing yourself by trying to hate a decent cinematic production. And then coming online to troll its fans. Your life can't be that sad and empty

Photos from the Greatest Royal Rumble
Guess football makes for a good warm up

warrant:
Lana Del Rey - Fine China, any Lana fan here?

Yeah

alexistaiwo:
Imagine those spewing rubbish that they haven't been funded sef.
I went through their details only to find out that some have already received.

I was just speechless since yesterday, on top how much will I run

It's cool bro. Just as long as your conscience is clear, don't mind your detractors. They're just venting their frustrations

Here's a breakdown.

You can't use an artiste's property in a commercial product without a royalty agreement or permit.
Before you start screaming "One Direction" and "Story of my Life", allow me to point out that the Sade track sung with Story of My Life beat was a cover. Not a commercial product. When the song gained popularity, he re-recorded it with a different beat. Compare the beat in the video. If Adekunle hadn't done that, he could have been sued by One Direction and Syco. So Adekunle isn't guilty of any legal wrongs in the Sade issue.
Had it been Adekunle's song was used in an Instagram or YouTube video, it wouldn't be an issue. Though, courtesy would demand they reference him as the original artiste. They would not be required to reach a royalty agreement or obtain a permit as long as their product is not commercial.
The producers of this movie, however, released Adekunle's song in a commercial product. A movie meant to make profits. But they did not reach a royalty agreement nor obtain a permit from him. That's illegal and criminal. Adekunle Gold shouldn't stop at bashing them. He should sue them.

MJBOLT:

There will always be a Marvel Vs DC factor in comic book related stuff(movies,TV series, games) etc,you can either dread it,run from it destiny still arrives

Yeah, well. You're right. There will always be petty people to spoil a perfectly good moment. Carry on