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abduleez1:
Na mumu dey worry dem normally. In trying to come off as protecting their culture, they sound off dumb and grappling at straws.

The funny thing is how stupid most of these said "anti woke" fans sound. Hollywood or Americans are incorporating "woke" stuff in their content and you're here dictating how they should do their progressive content. Instead of you to support your own industry and police them as you want, you're trying to influence a country you don't even contribute to their success whatsoever.

How you expect their movies not to mirror their culture and realities is mind boggling to me. Ppl just want to shout and make noise. And it seems woke is now branded to any gay or feminist looking content.

Now if you're an American and you're saying all these crap or "anti woke", I wouldn't have a grouse with you. But you wey dey Nigeria/Africa here go dey try claim wetin you no know and try to join foreign battles. No be stupidity be that.

It's a hobby for them, at this point. Watch foreign content, complain about forced wokeness, watch more foreign content again, complain some more about wokeness and round and round like that.
Na their time and energy sha. If that's how they choose to spend it, how e consign me?

abduleez1:
Okay brother.
Happy now?? 🙃

How polygamy take enter this matter, comrade? 😂

oyaskii:
You know ball chief! The entire OST was so trippy and good. Gave good credence to the scenes.

The OST just dey carry me go where I no know. From the funeral songs to Burna to Fireboy and then that track. Thankfully my subtitles put me onto the title immediately. Didn't have to wait for shazam.
Reactions to the rest of the movie may be mixed but I think we can definitely agree on the fire soundtrack

Flamemignon1:
I can't seem to pick between this album and the eternals OST as my favorite marvel OST album,Gorannson is the GOAT,I can't wait to see what he does with the Oppenheimer

My favorite MCU OST would be No Way Home's OST. Arachnoverture is unrivalled in my playlist.
Loved the Eternals' OST as well. Across the Oceans of Time is an eargasm anytime.
Göransson has definitely been on fire for a while now. He'll definitely cook with Oppenheimer.

This track has me in a chokehold. Definitely best track from the soundtrack album.

Folks already writing up foolscap lengths on what this is foreshadowing

Stealing your brother's line, Shuri?

Loved this callback

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) 7.5/10

Ryan Coogler helms another journey to Wakanda as we watch the nation and new lead character Shuri, deal with the death of T'Challa and threat from a whole new civilization led by the mutant, Namor.

First off, we're not just dealing with a character race swap here. It's a whole culture swap, with the European Atlantis being replaced by the Mesoamerican Talokan.
Now I generally don't have much problems with swaps in fiction. My major problem is that they appear to be one-sided and this constitutes a double standard and I abhor double standards.
That aside, the concept of Talokan is amazing and a pretty decent incorporation and presentation of Mesoamerican culture by my amateur opinion.

Tenoch Huerta's Namor doesn't exactly reach the heights of Michael B. Jordan's Killmonger but is still a really solid character, one that we can expect a lot more development from and who I believe will eventually grow into his place with the fans.

Now, of course, there's the matter of Shuri. With Chadwick's tragic passing putting a kink in Marvel's plans, they were stuck between recasting or rewriting. Choosing not to mess with Chadwick's cult following, they opted to pass the mantle of Black Panther to Letitia Wright's Shuri.
I don't really know how many ideas they ran through before deciding to rerun a different version of T'Challa's Civil War introduction with Shuri's character. So just like her brother before her, Shuri loses a parent, goes on a grief-stricken revenge warpath and then realizes that vengeance is not the path she wants to thread as well.
It's not the most original character story, obviously but it gets the job done, considering that they weren't supposed to be introducing another Panther this soon. Perhaps, having Shuri rewalk T'Challa's story beats shapes her Panther to continue plotlines that were originally intended for T'Challa's Panther. That would definitely solve some real world headaches.

The acting is decent enough in most parts, and even great in some parts. Angela Bassett does an amazing job, even if I don't consider it amazing enough for that Oscar nomination.
Tenoch Huerta impresses in his debut and Namor is definitely a character I look forward to see more of going forward.
Lupita handles business effortlessly at this point. Her talent isn't really addressed enough.
Danai Gurira didn't really do great. Infact, I'd say her performance dropped from the previous movie. I suspect it had to do with how her character was written here. Her character arc felt rushed and the humor they were going for with her in some scenes either fell flat or was just cringe.
Dominique Thorne's Riri Williams didn't get much chance to showcase or develop her character past cool, genius black girl, which is quite the lost opportunity considering that this should be a springboard to get people interested in her upcoming Ironheart series.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Val de Fontaine keeps it intriguing with every small appearance and I can't wait to see her have a more major role in the Thunderbolts movie.

The plot isn't particularly mind-blowing. It's essentially the foundation for a new larger story and it does a pretty good job of introducing its new characters and new roles for existing characters.
Some plot points could've used more time but understable that stuff had to be cut to fit the 2 hour 40 minute runtime and there's not really scenes I would particularly call filler. Resulted in some beats feeling a bit too fast paced.
The fight scenes were well done, with some really good choreography in some spots. Loved the concept of a siren song as a weapon for the Talokans.
That said, anyone that called Riri's suit a Power Ranger was not lying or joking. I like Power Rangers (Mighty Morphins will forever be golden for me) but that design should never be seen in the MCU again.

The music was great. Great performances from Foudeqush, Burna, Tems, Rihanna and many others. Ludwig Göransson does a really good job composing the background music and curating the score.

Wakanda Forever closes out what is figuratively a new phase 1 after Endgame with a decent presentation while paying tribute to a much beloved Chadwick Boseman and setting up new storylines to be explored in the upcoming phase.

Blueelf:
Abeg bro, which site you wan download am?

Knew the bot would be on my ass in a second

Weekend Movie

- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Gmajor:
im a fan of Honest trailers, Pitch meeting, and HISHE

I used to watch Cinema Sins, but the channel got very stale and repetitive

Cinema Sins' sin (hehehe) was trying so hard to find sins in movies, they started taking things out of context or suffering from selective amnesia just to be able to rack up the sin count for movies. Nowadays they exist just to get called out by the comments section.

AnfieldFan:
Hopefully, Black Lagoon and Summertime Render...

Bro, you are in for an amazing time. Enjoy!

abduleez1:
Lol, ppl go shout wokeness taya for wetin don sup decades ago.
I'm waiting for the tears.

The wailing go loud gan 😂🤣😂
Probably louder than this Last of Us own

AnfieldFan:
Saw Demon Slayer-Movie last night and it was awesome...Was a little creepy but it delivered..

Kaycee7

What's next in line?

CoolUsername:
We're on page 666!! So lets get evil 😈

Allow me to introduce you to the anime movie from Studio Madhouse called Hells.

Without going into too much detail, the story is about a girl who dies and goes to Hell. Much hilarity ensues.

The visuals are stunningly unique and it has the added advantage of its official dub being done Team Four Star, the geniuses behind Dragon Ball Z Abridged.
However, the plot of kind of a mess and movie seems to get lost enough itself. Still a fun ride, nonetheless.

This one gets a 6.66/10.

So you noticed. Was hoping someone would drop a cool comment on it as I had nothing.

pu7pl3:
Recast Miller and Heard with all their drama biko

SUPPORTED!!!

oyaskii:
Man the book is a masterpiece and Francis Ford Coppola been a master filmmaker brought it fantastically to motion picture.

Mario Puzo was a delightful writer in the crime genre i consider "The Godfather, The Sicilian and Omerta" is holy trinity.

I grew up in a household were your Christmas wishlist would most likely be granted if you request for novels and books and daily newspaper reading was a thing. I still have my Dad's archive of books and newspaper from yester years.

From Anezi Okoro's "One week, One Trouble" to Chinua Achebe's "Things fall apart" to John Grisham's "A time to kill" to Micheal Palmer's "The Patient" to Stephen King's "Full dark, No stars" to Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress' to Dean Koontz's Mr Murder ( He's my favourite author btw, i have read countless of his books). I voraciously read them all across multiple genre.

But recently "Life" has happened and for about 2 years now I don't seem to have the legs, time or concentration for reading again🥲, it's so bad that i am actively hoping the books i have currently now that i haven't read, are adapted into movies soonest to save me the hassle lol 😭😭...but i seriously hope i find my reading spark again 🙃

Got back into reading fiction again during covid. Maintained it all the way till mid 2021 and then my work/studies just ate that window up too.
Been trying my best to carve out a new fictional reading time since.
Even great adaptations aren't enough to stop me from wanting to read the source.

SOZINN:
Make Fast and Furious people rest abeg. 😒

Nah! We want them to do the galactic saga. Race on the belts of Saturn and beat an alien space lord just with the power of family.

SOZINN:
😒😒

Family time

Absolutely love the karaoke theme of High Card's ED sequence.

Real recognize real.

IngeniousLeez:
DC slate is here ....



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY8XcmrIujE

LETS FÜCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!!!

ValeeLove:
lol. What a name. I just thought to ask cos they are funny and entertaining and it's also surprising how they always have issues with every movie, no matter how good.

Every movie, no matter how good, always has something that can be joked about or spun in a funny way. Also, check out Pitch Meeting, another funny YT movie channel

DOyaskii:
She dey apply pressure steady and she takes no prisoners. They are have been trying to cancel her for a while now but she's sitting on one of the biggest and most successful franchise ever so that plan might be DOA for the foreseeable future.

Especially considering that she must have a jazz that turns controversy into sales for her. /s

There's a new Harry Potter verse game dropping and some folks tried to sabotage it by claiming anyone that buys the game is a transphobe that supports JK's "attacks on trans people"
Result? The game, Hogwarts Legacy, now has one of the highest preorders currently 😁😁

pu7pl3:
I'm sure this Jack the ripper fight they talking about will take up 6 episodes alone like that silly Adam Vs Zeus fight. 😏🤧

Lol! Funny enough, peak battle shounen fights back in the day used to take like 12+ episodes 😁😁

CoolUsername:
All I did was recommend ecchi anime

Weak. Should've recommended some hardcore hentai to scare the bot

Was wondering what was taking him so long. Showed up with the predictable list as expected 😂😂

pu7pl3:
I don't know why they here talking about the animation like it's peak...very empty stuff...

I guess taste differs.

Fam, like the only reason it wasn't review-bombed to Tartarus was the passable art design and really good sound production. The voice acting and OST are the major reason why the show was successful enough to get a second season. Let's see if it gets a third. I enjoy it enough to keep watching for now.

Calibrator:
Record of Ragnarok is back....


One of my all-time best animations!

If only they were actually animating 😭😭

Another Coolusername acct bites the dust 😭😭

IngeniousLeez:
Ok na.....

So she wrote Fleabag, 4 episodes of Killing Eve and was a co-screenwriter on No Time to Die. Interested in seeing what she'll cook here.