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Calibrator:
Good ol' days


The most interesting part is when the inevitable "ban hammer" drops, it is always unproportionate to the level of involvement in the fracas, gladiators with multiple body counts will get two weeks, you that just quoted one or two insulting posts to egg them on will get three months

oyaskii:
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pu7pl3:
It's here

Ishilove:
We will utilise it to go back March 2024, one day to the presidential election

GloriousGbola:
It is time once again to reinitialize the league of extraordinary posters! Men with big brains, bigger words and the biggest members on this side of the planet.

Smooth brain micro penis niccas with kindergarten vocab gonna hate. They have no choice.

The league of extraordinary posters rides again!

Hide yo lame posts, hide yo wife, hide you gf because we in town and we are here to shit on your lame, puerile, uninspired takes on modern cinema!

You got a problem with that go and discuss nollywood flicks in YouTube comments!

Pseudo intellectual midgets be like - what we gonna do now TLEP back in town

Now let's have some in depth and penetrating discussions on Selma hayek knocke-rs!

EmperorCaesar:



Kamala is overrated

With the way they keep bragging before now, i actually thought its gonna be a walkover for her, but here she is, struggling to make a head way


Like Mongolla, Rome and Greece before now, A woman has never headed the most powerful Nation on Earth, So...

Trump will triumph this time too

OhBritannia:
Some non living things takes this thread and that of the movie thread as their only life's inheritance
They want to be known as authorities and alphas of movie and series thread.
A anonymous forum that even the forum owner has abandoned the forum and he is now focusing on other areas of his life.

But non living things have built mansions in the forum while people are building real mansions offline.
These non living things lives in a deluded world that they seek attention and acceptance in nairaland.

They are so deluded that they have multiple handles and the sole purposes of these handles is to use their main handles to drop something and then use their alternates to give likes
I call them fools at 40 and when you see people like this, don't waste your time and energy on them, they are just inconsequential.

If you observe the thread and nairaland in general, you will come across them.

Please!! Starve them of attention and they will begin to doubt their own existence.

DeepSight:
Who is the creepy stalker now?
Get lost. You are a creep, a coward, a capital illiterate and worst of all a teenage girl.

armadeo:
The concept of teleportation and time travel fails the logical test because if the object is " shattered " down to its individual atoms is it still the object how do you pit it back together.

Now take a human being and break it down to all its individual cells. Whatever you have left is no longer a human being because once the heart separates the body dies. The brain moves the body dies you see where it leads?

Its impossible. Unless via magic hence it remains a dream.


As for legacy
Omo na just him and the dog. One guy do 21 minute video ontop 1 minute trailer.

joseph1832:
Agreed.

I believe Time itself stand still and the same time, it moves. It stand still with dates. Take for example 05-10-1983 etc. That itself is Time standing still, and Time can't go back to that time again, but it might be possible, humans can, with the aide of machines, just like aeroplanes, that usually take us from one time zone, to another.

The blackhole theory just make it easier to people to arrive at their various Time destination.

Take for example, going to Egypt. Egypt is 2 hours ahead of us, if I'm to walk there, it will probably take me more time, and also age me during the process of walking there. So using an aeroplane, it takes me less time and doesn't age me, much as walking will age me. This is the same logical explanation I have that buttress the blackhole theory.

abduleez1:
Bruh, I concede. 😩😩
I don't think Todd Phillips will have a job anymore for a high budget big studio project in the near future. The man has burnt bridges and is a living cautionary tale as to why studios supervises Directors.

There's some people you don't just give full creative control to. This is a big example of what can go wrong when Studios don't "interfere". A reminder to fans of IPs why at times its good for studio execs to bútt in at some point or have an executive central figure giving general directions to a franchise.

Its like he hates the project. And decided to shït in it. First major shït that the new WB heads will have to deal with that comes directly from them.


At least I'm glad DC Studios and James Gunn is not a part of this project. We're having a good start to life to the future with DC Studios first production in THE PENGUIN tv series.

abduleez1:
You'd see there's some level of sarcasm, no?
It's well known filmmakers struggle to translate Stephen King books on screen.

abduleez1:
True sha.

Correction: Ridley's Bladerunner movie in the 70s was a massive flop too. Same as Denis Villeneuve latest iteration.

abduleez1:
I disagree with this.... There's a good number of instances where directors have still gotten jobs despite flopping bad.

A living working director is Ridley Scott. Man has underperforming and flop movies littered across his career in Kingdom of Heaven (2004), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)..... The Last Duel(2021) and Napoleon (2023) both being catastrophic back to back flops with both costing $100mn & $200mn respectively and yet he's still getting top gigs.
In fact, his new film Gladiator II this December is rumoured around $250mn.

Essentially, I'll posit this to say it depends on your directorial pedigree. There are big directors and top directors....still everybody get him grade.

Then there's Martin Scorsese who got about $200mn for Killers of The Flower Moon. Denis Villeneuve had a catastrophic flop in Bladerunner 2049 in 2017 yet he was rewarded by WB with two DUNE movies with similar big budgets.

Although I still agree with you that I can see Todd Philips for getting punished with the aftermath of Joker 2 if it outrightly flops. Still, its not set in stone for any big time director.

abduleez1:
Lol, where I said it was doing $1bn??

All this one no dey move me....cos when my predictions actually come right and good none of you dey celebrate or congratulate for my predictions.

I no hear anything when I accurately predicted Bad Boys Ride or Die box office gross. When all
of you shout say BARBIE go too flop last year, I stuck to it and it became the highest grossing film of the year. Same $700mn+ range for DUNE 2 I no see my praises. Same for Despicable Me 4.
So make no nobody disturb me on the rare occasion my prediction no sup....that's why it's a prediction. Besides I was doing all these predictions with little to no data.

Say what you may but none of you dared to say Joker 2 will flop. So make you keep quiet cos you've already seen the answers written on the wall.
You waited till you saw results while I made a bet without data. So you essentially don't have anything to say. Other than gloat wey no go move me sef. 😂

The only person wey fit follow me talk for here na Illusioneffect, asides him make Una go rest.

BlackManta:
Joker 2 makes history as the first CBM ever to recieve a D cinema score

Congratulations to WB, Todd Phillips and everyone involved in this mess.

This movie will go down as one of the worst comic book movies of all time

abduleez1:
No offense but I don't see WICKED doing a billion.
It would have to do impossible numbers to be able to reach that milestone.
I know it's a very popular musical but I don't seeing it being enough for that worldwide gross. It'd most likely over-index in North America and some European countries but I don't see it juice up to $1bn. The best case scenario I see for it with mad performance is $700mn-800mn+ worldwide.

In fact, I'd pick Joker Folie Á Deaux a possible billion dollar film over Wicked.
Why?
*It's done it before. Has more credibility to do it than Wicked. Wicked also has a massive competitor to face in Disney's MOANA 2 a few weeks after release. They'd justle for same audience. So that movie is definitely gonna impact Wicked's gross.

*Lady Gaga also brings her own set of fans to the DC brand. That's a new fanbase that would probably replenish the lost steam Joker might have garnered.
Joker is also leaning on a mix of musical too.

*The addition of a new Harley Quinn iteration is also a big draw. Every ardent DC fan knows Harley Quinn is easily the highest selling female comic book character in terms of merchandise. In fact she's regarded as DC's third pillar, Wonder Woman doesn't even come close and she even outsells Superman. And she's very very popular with girls, t£enage girls at that.

*The Joker is also the most popular and recognisable CBM villain of all time. So there's that. We've seen before @dults are willing to go out enmasse to watch what they want regardless of no kids demography since COVID ie Top Gun: Maverick, The Batman, Dune Part 2, Venom 1&2.

This movie is also almost as controversial as the first. So more juice of the same.

So there's many variables at play for these two movies. Don't be quick to write Joker off. The same way you can bring many PROS for Wicked, I can do same for Joker 2.

Although, I see Joker 2 doing $720-850mn. It has better chances of doing a billion than Wicked. The only advantage I see for Wicked here is cos of it's PG rating.

abduleez1:
That Bob Hearts Abishola is a very weak choice of project. Back then when it was just fresh I saw a few clips of it and I hated it automatically. The Nigerian accents was annoying and off-putting and I don't even see it as a representation of anything Nigeria.



Accents are the easiest way to turn me off any Hollywood project pretending to be authentic to the culture. You can do your shït without the pretentious accents and get the history or facts right, and I won't complain. But when you force yourself doing a stupid @ss accent that's never gonna fool me one bit, that's where I have the problem with. Boyega in Woman King is the closest I feel Hollywood has tried to nail the accent thingy but I still found it cringe. There's some point when some of these accents now looks like a mockery.



These type of Nigerians are the most annoying and gullible set of buffoons I've ever come across.
The ones of this subset that pisses me off the most are the educated illiterates who says "Israel can defeat the USA in a war because the lord promised them to be undefeated". The same Israel that the US ensures and insures its existence?
Same Israel that has been beaten black and blue since time immemorial in the same bible by Assyrians and what nots. Same Israelites that was chased away from the "promised land" and dispersed across the globe for a thousand years.....a strange precursor to Nazi Germany ethnic cleansing of Jews.



When I say Black Panther movie is a peak product of pandering to Africans or blacks and doesn't move me, people think it's cos of DC vs Marvel sentiments. The movie is good but a cultural appropriation I feel no connection whatsoever to.
And anyone trying to feed me tales with how historic it is to the Black race ain't convincing me shït.

I've never felt that movie represented me as an African and in fact I felt it and it's sequel very pretentious with the African culture. Excuse me but I find that African country with world beating technological advancements theme overtly exaggerated and appeasement to make us feel important or feel better with our failures.
If they portray Africa as an advanced civilization above most parts of the world in the form of Ancient Egypt before the Ptolemaic Era, then I can accept that tale of tech superiority. Or even the Benin Empire, Oyo Empire. Mansa Musa, the undefeated Ethiopians etc..

And the funny subtle theme most people fail to see about the Black Panther stories is that it all still boils down to how the white man sees us a "natural resource rich region" a la VIBRANIUM.

They just can't see us outside the lens of mineral resource rich.

Illusioneffect:
It looks like you guys don't really get my point at all🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ and honestly I won't try to write a whole essay on the subject anymore.

My whole point is IF THEY ARE SPIRITED AND DRIVEN ENOUGH TO MAKE A 'THINGS FALL APART SERIES' - being American or British or Yoruba or another culture shouldn't and should never be a cause or deterrent to shame them into thinking they won't do a good job - how can you guys not actually see that?

Have Hollywood made mistakes in adapting African cultures? Of course!! Could they make exactly the same mistakes? Yes! and could it even be worse? Yes! But does that mean they should stop trying? Of course No!

How can you say Hollywood should stop 'cultural appropriation' and adapting African series because they can't get our accents🤦🏽‍♂️. There're not a lot of African shows and movies from Hollywood because of this constant complain - it's still a learning process. Do you actually think they would just get the 'African formula' instantly?

Just thirty years ago - Hollywood tried adapting Japanese stories into movies and they were receiving significant backlash because they were never accurate. Jump to 2024 - Shogun is receiving the most awards in the Emmys.🤷🏽‍♂️

Being accurate is awesome but it takes time🤷🏽‍♂️ they may not get everything right but it'll certainly be an improvement. Bro, they've not even announced anything except the show-runners and you guys are already huffing and puffing. Have you guys not actually thought about the significance to Nollywood if this series does well at all?👀 Or you guys think it's 10 naira they use to make films? Be smart! Everything is about money - if this show does well- Hollywood will start taking a closer look on Nigerian stories - that way - it'll ensure they get better in adapting them🤷🏽‍♂️. In turn Nollywood will see a significant boom in quality because of investments - that'll never happen if Nollywood adapts the story itself

joseph1832:
Love Death and Robots. Season 2. Not as good as season one

Illusioneffect:
It's still racist. You forget Hollywood is a smorgasbord of different cultures - just because Hollywood is in America doesn't mean only Americans make Hollywood movies. Mexicans, Indians, the Brits and every country directors come to Hollywood to make movies.

The person who made Bob hearts abishola - Chuck Lorre is very white but he loved the Nigerian culture so much that he created a show about Nigerians in the diaspora - it'd be racist to deprive him the joy of creating a show because it's not his culture🤷🏽‍♂️.

People tend to forget Idris Elba is Ghanian not just British and John Boyega is both Yoruba and Igbo 👀 - if they'd read the source material and found it inspiring enough to pitch to A24, it's worth understanding

Illusioneffect:
Wow, you surely don't know a lot about the movie business, there're a lot of Nigerians directing, screenwriting and working on movies and shows in Hollywood - even any recent movie from the past ten years - there's likely going to be a Nigerian there. They don't need to have worked in Nollywood before working in Hollywood.


That's pretty racist.
But you're ok if a white person directs it even though he doesn't know shit about WW2🤮. What if the Nigerian director is a World War 2 historian and he would like to make a movie about his interest - he shouldn't because racists (esp on twitter) said he isn't qualified or he wants to adapt a World War 2 book because he finds it interesting - he shouldn't👀 because it's not his culture 🤮🤮 wtf!.In your own notion - the only people who can make a movie about something must be directly linked to the culture - if it's a film about Black people- it must be directed by a black man? 😂 Tarantino in your opinion should be cancelled for 'cultural appropriation' even when he writes his own movies😂


Who the hell labels someone a racist because his movie isn't good? Except a Twitter rage baiter
Abduleez come and see your people

Illusioneffect:
Why's it ok for Nigerian directors to direct Hollywood movies but wrong for Hollywood directors to direct a movie based on a fictional story from a Nigerian author

Gmajor:
Lol. I don't agree with this sentiment

1. Things Fall apart already has a Nigerian adaption. It was a long time ago and I don't remember it very well, but a Nigerian adaption already exist.

2. The job of a actor is to interpret a script and bring it to life. The heavy lifting has already been done by Achebe. A good actor should be able to research and bring a character to life. If he has to live through an experience in order to act it out, then that person is a bad actor.

3. You don't need first hand experience to ''understands the culture deeply''. Most Nigerians are not familiar with pre-colonial Nigeria and anything they know about it, is from what they read or what the heard from a 3rd party.

4. The Nigerian movie industry seems to be mostly disinterested in telling pre-colonial stories or adaption of classic Nigerian literature. If Hollywood has to undertake this task for them, then the will make to to appeal to a a very broad audience. And one of the easiest ways of doing this is by hiring established actors who are households names. There will be people who will see a movie/series because Idris Alba is in it and not because they have any particular interest in the clash of ideologies that the coming of the white man to eastern Nigeria brought.

5. Idris Alba already has a solid repertoire of playing Africans characters. His performance in Beast of No Nation and Sometimes in April were both solid. Yes his accent will be off in the new movie, but I don't think it will ruin the movie.

IngeniousLeez:
So many firsts for Asians in the last three years both at the TV and Film Academies....
They've really grown.

Empiree:
Did you have a better candidate?

pu7pl3:
Lol, "the Flash or a warp machine" in your layman term would have to be a big event like crisis on infinite earths, Flashpoint or something else they come up with and it wont be injustice Superman it'll probably be the crime syndicate with Ultraman as your evil Superman, and it brings me back to what i said earlier there is no need for that right now.

Personally I'll prefer an elseworld injustice movie like Matt Reeves Batman but it'll make too many elseworlds and it could get confusing for some people, they need to build their main universe up well first.

oyaskii:
This you? You were praising the movie to the high heavens last year, only now to realize it wasn't fan service enough for you anymore

phr0nesis:
The fact that they didn't do exactly what you wanted does not mean it wasn't fan service. The Flash had enough of it