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End of Year Movie

- Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

Started the year with Ghibli (Spirited Away), ending the year with Ghibli.
This also brings to completion my watchfest of the Ghibli movie catalogue, almost. I don't really have any interest in watching Tales From Earthsea and Ocean Waves. And then of course, there's The Boy and the Heron coming to international audiences in 2024, but I digress.

Ending the year with Howl's fantastical story to match starting the year with Spirited's fantastical story is not exactly a theme I planned but now that I realize it, I do appreciate this unintended touch.

- Ricky Gervais (2023)
I don't really see a better way to enter the New Year than laughing my heart to some brutal Ricky Gervais comedy.

oyaskii:
Okay. Let's wait and see, hopefully 2024 is considerably better than this year.

It was nice to forage through motion pictures with you and the nice folks on here all through out 2023.

Have a magical 2024 my man ⚡🍻

Hoping 2024 will be more cinema than this year. Looking forward to enjoy the gems, catch a few trash bullets and debate our different opinions.

phr0nesis:
First Class and X2 were my favourite before now, after the rewatch, Days of Future Past easily took the number one spot

X2 still remains by number one followed by Days of the Future Past. While First Class is the better movie and should take the 3rd spot, Last Stand is closer to my heart.

CoolUsername:
Yes

She did a good job, especially with the hair and expressions.

CoolUsername:
Average Chainsaw Man fan.

(Might delete later)

Is the second pic Kobeni?

NoonMasamune:
some pics i took

That Tosen cosplay is on point

Baddestguyp:
What exactly is your problem?

So I cannot hype a show I enjoy again? JJK has been great.
And I've been enjoying Gege's writing style.

Some people complain that it's unnecessarily convoluted and hard to follow but for me, I enjoy that he doesn't spoon feed his audience. If you don't understand something, you watch it twice.

His use of subtle imagery to tell his story and develop characters is something I'm beginning to enjoy a lot.

I just remember a time before S2 aired when you used to classify JJK as averagely written with nothing deep.
Now e don turn advanced calculus for your head.

Like I said, I've taken note. Carry on with your hyping

Baddestguyp:
The entire power system of JJK has a lot of mathematics, biology, chemistry etc

Don't compare that to some kids tràsh...

There's a reason why a lot of people don't understand the JJK power system...

So JJK's the latest bandwagon you're on. Noted. Carry on

Baddestguyp:
"Anime is for kids"

Yet this is what we have to understand in Jujutsu Kaisen...

Wtf is this power system

There channels dedicated to dissecting the science in actual kids shows like Rusty Rivets. This is not the flex you think it is

Chibudollar:

Superman can see in the dark. Bro knew who he was doing 😂😝

oyaskii:
Ricky Gervais. "Armageddon" (2023).


laugh your hearts out whilst you can, before the world goes to total shït!.


After his overtly offensive last special, "Supernature" (2022)", Ricky teased a new "less offensive" special aptly named "Armageddon" where he uses sick humour to talk about the "right and the wrong kind of woke" as the world seemingly races towards a near certain self implosion either by global warming, nuclear nuking or something as asinine as misgendering a man who wishes to be a cat now!

Ricky Gervais tolls the the very dark side of humour lane and he doesn't apologize for it and him be irreligious makes his jokes a lot more heavier to the "brittle" crowd, but if you have a "normal" sense of humor this will leave you in stitches and a sober reflection of how better the world could be, if we were all the right kind of "woke".


if you think you hate dark humor and the likes of Ricky Gervais then look away, because a new Dave Chappelle special is out on the very dying embers of 2023 and he's basically x2 as worse as Ricky 🙃, but i am out here , beaming with smile at this prospect 🤤.


9/10.

Downloaded this 2 days ago the moment I saw it on PSA. Now looking even more forward to closing out the year with it.

SOZINN:
Still anticipating Deadpool 3 with your superhero fatigue.

The same fatigue wey him say we dey deny

abduleez1:
Pick your most anticipated 2024 movie from each row.



Me:

DUNE PART TWO
DEADPOOL 3
A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE
JOKER 2

Dune Part II
Deadpool 3
Sonic 3
Joker: Folie à Deux

Ishilove:
I'm not quite getting your point, Kaycee. Are you suggesting that the movie was made for the gay populace alone? If that is what you are saying then point me to the caveat to warn normal, heterosexual people like me off. If you can't then you are just making strawman argument.

Why should there be a caveat to warn heterosexual people off? Do Christian movies have a caveat to warn off people who are offended by Christianity?
Do horror movies have a caveat to warn off people who are scared by it?

Besides where did I say anybody is being forced to watch that gay shît?? Google the meaning of subliminal programming if you don't understand it.

If the movie was actually an attempt to subliminally program you, you wouldn't have turned off the movie after 5 minutes. The whole point of subliminal programming is that the audience doesn't notice it. If you can notice the programming after a mere 5 minutes, then it's not subliminal.

My point is back when gay people started getting representation, one of the arguments you people raised was that they should go and make their own movies instead of shoving their agenda in regular movies. Now that they've gone and made their own movie, you're still accusing them of some agenda against you.
When they add caveat now, you will still find another excuse to scream agenda and programming

abduleez1:
Jujutsu Kaisen S2 has been a blast.
Kinda pained it's ending in a day.
The wait till next year will be torture.

E pain me say that stupid Mahito wasn't offed by Yuji. Dude was beginning to look overpowered AF.

Todo showing up was a blast and the time I began to really enjoy this season.

Todo came in late like the VIP he is and still managed to steal the show.

Ishilove:
I agree that it's my fault for not looking up the plot, but making a comedy about two homosexual people is all part of the indoctrination. I will not watch anything that puts homosexuality in any kind of positive light because that's subliminal programming

So homosexual people shouldn't have their own stories told for their own audiences? How is a movie done for a different audience part of some indoctrination?

As you've said you'll not watch it, has anybody come to force you to watch it?

Ishilove:
Someone recommended the movie here and said it was "funny". I think he even gave it a high score. What he didn't mention was the overtly gay sub-themes that smack you right in the face from the very first scene. After enduring for 5 mins, I borrowed myself brain and switched off.

Well, it's a comedy about 2 lesbians. Nobody was trying to indoctrinate you. Faults on you for not looking up the plot at least.

Ishilove:
Bottoms.

I watched the first five minutes of it, switched off and deleted it forever. I refuse to be indoctrinated into LGBTQIAANMDHSND acceptance

How did you end up watching it at all, in the first place?

holluwizzy:
Please how do u download on this site...

Tried it several times showing me proxy detected and will just take me to anonymous site.

I don't really know how to walk you through this considering that there's a number of view-farming sites you have to pass through while still dealing with pop-up ads.
And what you download is a zip file that you still have to unzip.

I'd recommend "lightdl" dot xyz instead.

Crumbian:
iCarly didn't end like 10 years ago?

They did a revival series in 2021.

Ceciluchiha1:
Nigerians in general only care about football and triple a games( especially God of war) and maybe mortal kombat

Sad but it is what it is

They only care about football. Only about 50% care about triple A games and even less than that play those games to finish.

oyaskii:
. The perceived cult following might be his greatest undoing. For every 100 cult member that says his work is good, there will 1000 Anti Cult to revolt and say it is thrash, there is no way to grip any shred of objectiveness when judging the actual project under these madness.



Fair. Not his best work, and he could have done better.


I thought Kora had a decent character development ..No? They were able to show, what was, what is, what was to come of her Character...No? As for Tarek and Gen. Titus, they gave a little hint about there character, and not to delve into too much spoilers for those who haven't seen it, but they did call Tarek, "prince", giving a little hint about his character, so we still have part 2 to see about whether we get any more about their character development as i think this part 1 was to introduce the main act which is Kora.


While all your concerns are valid which i totally respect you still rated it 6/10 which is might fair. ZS "making it easy for haters" has to be put under an intense microscope because the residual bias is all too real on this, i saw a rating that said, " This was an utter pile of hot mess that looked like it was made by a 5year old and it is totally unwatchable", this review hurt me because the movie was anything but unwatchable.

If there's one thing we know about the internet, it's that people will type just about anything on their keypads. They don't even need it to make sense.

Folks like the obvious hater above aren't really the ones enabled by this movie. It's the ones who disguise themselves as being critical that have been armed with ammunition.

Let's hope Zack still has enough goodwill with the audience by April and that Part 2 provides a essential piece to this creation.

oyaskii:
I want to ask, if this movie was done by another filmmaker other than ZS, will it have been judged differently because with the way people have been tearing apart this flick, i was actually entertained and intrigued by it.

Most definitely it'll be judged differently. As much as Zack got himself a cult following, he also has an anti following, especially within the industry itself.

But A Child of Fire is basically the first time I'm admitting that he made his haters' work easy for them.

Did it have it's issues? oh yes? The major one being that the screenplay is like 75% Star Wars, ZS literally had a "Death Star" and "Light Saber" in this, that aside, it is a fairly decent flick, and it's not even the worst this year, let alone for a long while now, have we really had flicks of "high standards" in recent while to hold this against?.

Definitely not the worst flick of the month even. But even going by Synder standards, this was sub par. I mean Army of the Dead did the whole gathering a team of mercs to pull a job better than this one.

it had all the fine ingredients of an epic fantasy sci fi space saga. Good world building, decent character development..i mean, you have to really hate ZS, to actually not see what he was trying to do with this. The slo mo that people whinge about wasn't even distracting and it was purely there for dramatic effects and ZS had been doing this in his past project without qualms so what was the fuss about this?.

Good world building? And decent character development? Are you going soft, bro? Or is it in the spirit of Christmas?
The world building was barely fleshed out. I'm not even holding that against him since world building is something I prefer done slowly across the story rather than being hit with exposition after exposition.

But decent character development is the one I can't get behind. All that lore revealed about Kora isn't selling me on her character. What reason do we have to care about Tarek or Gen. Titus? Let's not talk about the one who appeared and died in 30 minutes of screentime.
Only Nemesis and Noble are the only characters that evoke a bit of interest. Let's be real here, please.

Again, The "residual bias" against ZS is like 90% the reason people hate this, and i fear it has tanked his reputation for good, no serious prod company is giving him any serious money to make any serious project from here henceforth i fear, only prod companies like Netflix who has lots of money to burn and zero reputation to uphold will look his way.

but i am 100% seated for the Part 2 of this because oddly enough, i enjoyed this.

The residual bias is definitely a factor but, like I said in the beginning, Zack made it too easy for the haters.
I mean, if he's not winning the interest of me, a fan, can the haters really be blamed for everything?

Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire (2023) 6/10

This was supposed to be Zack's big break. I was rooting for him, as were a lot of other people. Only to be disappointed.

While one of the most popular opinions about Snyder is that he's an awesome with the visuals but subpar at plotting, it wasn't until this movie that I also realized that the man also used to offer interesting characters.
Say what you will about Sucker Punch or Army of the Dead, they had memorable characters. You had at least one character in Army of the Dead that their death made you feel something.

After 2 hours of Rebel Moon, I don't give a flying fück about any of the characters. Part 2 could literally start with all of them massacred in the first 5 minutes and I wouldn't even blink.
To say Zack dropped the ball here is an understatement.

The main job of a first entry in a series is a solid introduction. The audience is introduced and made to care about the world/setting, the characters and/or the plot.

I don care about any. Basically the only way I'm watching Part 2 would be seeing it being praised by folks I take seriously as a massive improvement over this first part. I'm saying it would have to pull a Wheel of Time S2 to get my attention back.

And, apparently, Junkie XL learnt nothing after ZSJL. Man composed one epic track and started spamming the whole thing in multiple scenes. It wasn't as bad as Epic Lamentation in ZSJL. Maybe because this movie wasn't 4 hours long but by the 4th time of him repeating the same track, I knew I'd be seeing Tom Holkenborg in the credits.

All that said, Zack has something decent here. There's some jewels under this pile of rocks he served. Perhaps he can polish them in the next entry. I won't be holding my breath though.
Fortunately for him, the movie seems to be doing well so Netflix won't be on his neck.

Nickshrapnel:
Making a true world war Hulk movie will disprove the superhero fatigue theory.

Theory that GotG 3 and Across the Spider Verse have already disproven since

nani667:
°°

Szeto the goat 🙌🏿

abduleez1:
All these ones na SHALAYE.
Y'all said the same thing last year while I was defending her. Now she don deliver, Una dey shift goalposts again. 😂😂😂

Make na rest free my baby girl. She's been pretty busy these past two years (4 projects) with 2 films each for 2022 and this year. All these films with top acclaimed directors. No be anyhow peeps. E no easy na.

2024 is still very early and there's much time to shoot, edit and release a movie in the next 12 months.
She's also a producer for awards contender SALTBURN. 😉 E no easy to be producer na. If she ain't acting, at least she's producing good content.

There's also an untitled Margot Robbie OCEAN'S ELEVEN film in development. She's starring just so you know. Correction, BARBIE money ain't small. She pocketed a cool $50mn for that movie. That's no small feat even for the biggest of the biggest A-listers. 😊 She deserves the rest.

Make we dey look sha. Nobody shift goalpost pass you for box office. When her next lead project flops now, you'll start telling us how this and that movies were blocking cinema theatres or how September is a tough month at the box office

abduleez1:
She has done it before in 2017 when I,Tonya where she was lead made $53mn. 5x it's budget. With an Academy nomination in tow. 😉

Ryan Gosling last theatrical movie "BladeRunner" was an epic flop even with a blockbuster director like Ridley Scott. Also take note it's a legacy IP film too.

I'd she wasn't well liked by the audience the movie wouldn't gross that much at the BO no matter how good it was.
Never doubt Margot's star power. 😉

I'll doubt the star power sha until her next project does good numbers at the box office. She doesn't even have any new projects lined up for next year. See the fraud you're defending.
Just because of small Barbie money, she's already going on sabbatical

abduleez1:
Lol, which excuse be this one again... 😂😂😂

Many of y'all said BARBIE would flop and no one would watch it.
Margot already shut everyone up, being the Lead, producer, a billion dollar grosser and topping all films for the year at that. Especially in a year were many online punks and incels rebel against female led movies. She don overperform. Nothing wey anybody fit tell me again.

Ogbeni rest. She was had carried by Greta, Gosling and the Barbie brand. Let her do it again make we believe

Illusioneffect:
Ads all over YouTube

There's an Amazon x YouTube alliance. You can't convince me otherwise

Erenjp:
Has anyone seen this Nollywood movie?

Heard good things about it

You can watch and then tell us about it.

abduleez1:
I remember when peeps where bandying this analogy of Margot being a box office "taint" last year.

Who's laughing now.
Ironically, she's the highest grosser this year topping everyone in US domestic, Internationally and combined global gross.

Let her sha do it after Barbie before you people start pushing agenda