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toluxe0075:
Season 3 finale felt like the end of the show. If the creators feel they can create another season and still maintain quality, then I’m trusting them to do so.

S4 has been greenlit and S1 and S2 final episodes also felt like the end lol, and they found a way to come back each time but, some actors seem to have reached the end of their story, like Robert.

But let's see what they do with S4.

jikins:
I don't agree they have to come to Nigeria to shoot that scene in Captain America. It makes more sense for them not to security issues aside. Its an unnecessary cost. It's not the first time Hollywood movies have simulated locations in a different country before. Heck they have even simulated locations in the US when filming is majorly in a different country. Even recently the new TWD spinoff which is filmed in France simulated locations in the US you don't see anyone crying about it.

You misconstrued the point i was trying to make with this analogy.

But I do agree they need to do better research when it comes to Africa, but to be fair we aren't their main audience. Their main audiences don't really care too much how accurate their portrayal is to a large extent because they too are ignorant. Also a Nambian director can do whatever he wants, if it will sell to his main audience. It's 2024 nothing you do will be accepted by everyone but as long as you are smiling to the bank who cares really.

If we aren't the audience or at least part, of a book to screen adaptation of probably one of the best literary work to come out of this continent and one book that is at the zenith of pan African literature, then i rest my case and there is no point battering on. They should do as they please.

abduleez1:
Happy Birthday Queen....


Love her wonderful smile. Always dey gimme joy.

Although she has been in various writers room, I remember her big break coming on to replace Jenny Slate as "Missy" on "Big Mouth", a controversial casting to walk into then, with Jenny Slate leaving the role, feeling uneasy voicing a black character whilst been very very white. Ayo took on the role like a champ and made it her own amidst the noise. Then she went to totally smash it on "The Bear" and a deserved Emmy followed. I might be off mark here, but I'd like to think she is truly one of the "bankable actress" in Hollywood right now, and at 29, she might look like a "late bloomer" in this industry but to me this is just the beginning of greatness!

And as you rightly alluded, that infectious smile completes it all, so what's there not to like about her?

Happy Birthday Queen 👑🎁.

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

Bob ❤️ Abishola is the absolute worst project to drive home your point, because 5 episodes into season 1, i couldn't stand how cringe it was. They were trying too hard and it came out blatantly pretentious. There are tons of articles that criticize them for it and i culled one from medium below. The comedy holds up, but beyond that, i.e. trying to infuse the Yoruba culture and all that, was total garbage and cringeworthy.

That being said, you can't just wake up and make a movie or write a book about a totally different culture, because you love the culture, it doesn't work that way. Culture is a lived experience and you can't properly portray an experience you haven't lived, you might deceive yourself all you want, and people not wanting you, who haven't lived their experiences to tell their story, is not racism except racism has another meaning. It is a condescending mentality that makes Hollywood think they can tell stories of other cultures without fuss, if a Nambian director wants to do a JKF story in Namibia, sorry, he will be vallified from here to Timbuktu for it!.

Hollywood is multifaceted given, but when stories about mexicans, Indians, Brits, or Jews, are being made, you actually see the effort that goes into it. They research, meet with locals, go to actual locations about the culture to shoot and they come out good because it is a true representation but you see stories concerning Africa or Nigeria per se, they can't actually be arsed to come here and do any proper research. They just find a film head that is British Nigerian or American Nigerian who has probably lived there all his/her life to spew some nonsense about Nigerian culture, and they slap the person's native name on the credits and call it a day. The opening scene of Captain America: Civil War (2016) was supposedly an open market in Lagos, Nigeria, and these people couldn't be arsed to come here and shoot, and they just simulated it in Atlanta, Georgia and kept it moving.

So, no matter the defence you put up, people having a bone to pick about one of Nigerian favorite book being given an Hollywood treatment are in the right. The premise of the books takes place in "Iguedo" in the Umuofia clan in south east Nigeria, so i am close to 100% sure, that they are not stepping foot here to shoot, so they will simulate "Iguedo", Umuofia clan, in America, and to you that will be the true representation of the book, because according to you, "They love the culture"

Abeg Abeg...They have bought the rights to the book and no lamentations will change it, my own is that, they had better not fail....😒

abduleez1:
It ain't looking good brev..... 😐

Omoooo... Ratings so far, are in the gutters 😭😭....abi make i use the money i budget for this one, take flex suya this weekend? 🤔😩

Industry (2020) S3

"Still sharp, provocative, and unapologetically cutthroat."


The final episode of S3 might not have had the pomp and pageantry of previous episodes before it, but it was still good. It tied up old threads and possibly opened new ones.

After all the rógbódìyàn Eric Tao pulled for Pierpoint in the previous episode, they still knifed him, and he learned in record time that the Game is absolutely the Game. 💀😩

Harper is still as slimy as ever, a proper snake who isn't too bothered to fraud her way to the top.

And I am proud of my boy Robert, the way he let go of that social-climbing bimbo, Yasmin. Bro has made peace with the fact that you can't save a damsel if she loves her distress, worse still, a damsel with serious daddy issues. The way he smiled and said "I understand" after she said, "I'm sorry," after seemingly breaking his heart.
that was the smile of a fulfilled man. She even threw in a pity parting coitus, so win-win for bro.

A rare case of a show getting better with each passing season, and I duly appreciate the effort. They totally smashed it this season.

You see this series-cooking thing? Abeg, leave am for HBO... Dem sabi enter kitchen!

The only bummer is that it's insha'Allah and a painstaking wait until the next season airs, since it apparently takes 3 to 4 years to make one season of a show now 😭. ffgs

8/10.

After James Earl Jones Passing, another member of the Coming to America Hall of Fame has sadly left us 😞. John Amos aka Mr. Cleo McDowell, Owner of McDowell's on Queens Boulevard and also known as the "Dad" on Good times has sadly passed....

Rest Easy King! 😞

pu7pl3:
Penguin episode 2

Let's dance 🔥🔥

calling it early, Collin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot, is in the early running for Best Male lead in a Drama at the next Emmys. Impeccable performance so far 🥶.

Baddestguyp:
There's no way to defend this.

The site is broken and Seun needs to fix it.

You admitted yourself that the site works better on your older device which obviously makes no sense. Even before this recent encounter, only Google chrome could upload photos for me on this site.

Now I can't upload any photo no matter the browser I use. Even comments are 50:50.

Half the time when I try to comment, it just keeps sending me back to homepage no matter what browser I use till I give up.

I have updated all my browsers, nothing works.

It's clear that this site is now broken beyond repair or Seun doesn't care about fixing the issues.

If you have to keep toggling browsers in the hopes of a simple comment or upload, then it's obvious that the site is completely broken

Not even supporting them per se. I was just trying to provide a workaround that works for me.

It's common knowledge that this site has been toast for a while now.

OhBritannia:
Deadpool and wolverine 2024 is a solid 1/10 for me.

Most cringest movie i have ever seen in my life.
It's like these people don't even take us serious anymore, they just ride on the cult following of marvel and then keep giving us trash and junks.
When i keep saying that i am not a fan of super hero, the reason is because of marvel.

Marvel don't even rate us anymore.
Because how on earth does this Deadpool and wolverine makes sense?
Plot 0/10
Storyline 0/10
Dialogues 0/10
Jokes 0/10
The only good thing is the action but they just have to spoil it with so many cringe moments, like what the Fvck!!!

Nah!!!! These people ain't serious at all.

When i keep saying that DC superheroes movies have more mature storylines and plots than marvel, people kept attacking me.[/b]

Where and when was this attack?? By the by...definitely not recent DC superhero movies, as both universes have been knee deep in crappy movies releases lately, and within the last 10 years or so, Marvel has actually had better and worthwhile movies out.

author=Achilles100 post=132207232]Industry S03E07

Eric Tao is just an animal. Zero loyalty and he will be eulogizing how loyalty helps one another. Did same to Harper and now also.

I stopped excepting any form of loyalty since S2. They are all despicable career climbing incels. No saint on that show. If the roles were reversed, Adler would have done same with Eric Tao, But Eric smelt blood, and did the ultimate gaslighting on Adler, and suddenly it's Brain Tumour that was supposed to be a secret was suddenly on the table, handing Eric a massive advantage in any power play. The Game is the Game 💀

As for Harper, girl can't just stay away from illegality.

See her eventual fall will taste like fine french wine.

Yasmin is a dumb bimbo. Always playing victim. Robert is a better man than me cos good Lordy Lawd, I would have done things unspeakable.

See, I am glad Robert wasn't buying any of Yasmin's BS. No cure for her Daddy issues.

I can't believe we already at the end of S3 already, and now we have to wait another 2 to 3 years for another season 😩. I can't wait to see the final episode tonight tho, A 10/10 season 🌟

Baddestguyp:
@ Seun

Your site needs fixing.
Half the time, I can't comment.

The other half, I can't upload photos

It keeps redirecting and asking if I'm human. It doesn't matter what I click, I get reverted back to home page

The human verification thingy before photo uploads has been on for a while now, most likely to avoid bots spamming the forum with unwanted photos, but after passing the captcha, it uploads just fine. I have been uploading photos with minimal fuss for months now and i keep seeing people say they can't. Infact i will just upload a random info to this post about recaptcha, just to show you.

It fails most times due to various reasons too. I use NL on multiple devices, and it is works best on one of my particular device which isn't my daily driver which i supposed it would work fine on, since it is the more robust and recent device, but No. so check your devices too. Make show your browsers is updated and has JavaScript enabled, or better still, change browsers. Network strength too also impacts it.

Kaycee7:
Bruh!

I think I understand Joseph1832's point on some level.
Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets were easy to adapt because they were the shortest books in the series, allowing the filmmakers to go scene by scene and even page by page.

However, things started to go off track with Prisoner of Azkaban. They regained some balance with Goblet of Fire, but after that, the adaptations never quite hit the mark, in my opinion.

To put it in perspective, how can Order of the Phoenix, the longest book have one of the shortest runtimes in the entire film franchise, second only to the last part? They could have split it into two movies, but that would have likely required more money, effort, and especially time, since Warner Bros. was on a tight schedule to release a film each year.

J.K. Rowling had significant creative control over the first two movies, but as the films' popularity grew, it became overwhelming for her, and Warner Bros. began to make more of the decisions. She had been on the brink of financial ruin a decade earlier, and the Warner Bros. deal turned her into a billionaire and one of the most influential people in the world, so she couldn't really complain. She has since admitted that while the movies did some justice to the books, she is excited about the new series that has been greenlit, which she hopes will be more faithful to the source material.

Now, apart from the obvious cash grab, why would they feel the need to revisit the series if the original film adaptations were truly satisfying? I'm not saying they were bad, but they weren't entirely great either.

Personally, in hindsight, the only films that have 100% rewatch value for me are Chamber of Secrets, Goblet of Fire, and Philosopher's Stone, in that order. I could care less about the others, to be honest.

Lana1:
Monet went out like a badass.
This nigga Tariq cant do anything right. Monet's dead because of him

Monet walked into a building full of opps knowing she was gonna be outmanned and outgunned, and she duly got clipped... how's that Tariq's fault? 👀

"With Difficulty Comes Ease" (2024)

Demise, Grief, Acceptance, Healing, Renewal!

I absolutely love it when Nollywood hits a home run in the slice of life genre. This movie beautifully depicts everyday experiences that are not overly dramatic but stay grounded in reality, a far cry from the recent trend of loud and vulgar narratives that have largely tainted our cinema. This film is a breath of fresh air!

Zainab mourns the sudden demise of her husband while observing Iddah with her unforgiving mother-in-law, navigating a challenging inheritance process. It all seemed downhill from there until a ray of light enters the scene in the form of Rayyan.

This film offers a refreshing break from the norm of storytelling we are accustomed to in this region, which often relies on excessive outward expressions. Instead, it serves as a subtle inward mirror for each character, all of whom are likable due to the quality of the performances. The stunning visuals and ominous score perfectly capture the narrative, and to top it off, the film is bilingual, a perfect mix of Hausa and English. Honestly, I have never heard Hausa sound so refined and soothing to the ears in years!

Korede Azeez's With Difficulty Comes Ease is endearing and warm. It is easily one of the best Nollywood films I have seen in a long time, and this has unsurprisingly made its way into my Top 10 list of films this year thus far!

It’s a slow burn, but it pays off, making it an easy recommendation, especially if you want to see just how good Nollywood can be when they set their minds to it.


8/10.

LifestyleTonite:
Chiwetel Ejiofor did a marvelous job as the lead actor in 12 Years A Slave. According to your argument, an American of slave ancestry ought to have played the role instead of Chiwetel of Igbo ancestry.

Commerce doesn't give a damn about tribalism. Those behind this project are in it for the money. They know Idris Elba will give the movie a broader reach, while an Igbo actor will subject the film to an Igbo confinement.

Take a look at all those who have starred as Mandela in movies, how many of them are South Africans?

If you guys want an Igbo man as Okonkwo in a new Things Fall Apart, then go set up your own production and stop telling David Oyelowo what to do with his own investment.

It's so sad to read post on X complaining that a Yoruba man is behind the project. They are already trying to start a campaign against him. Well, there's nothing anyone can do about it except rant. Angry people should go and do their own film and let's see.

Solomon Northup who 12 years a slave is based upon, was a son of parents of color who were African American slaves. Where did Americans get African Americans slaves from? and we now know that Igbo slaves landed on the shores of the new world aka America and it's very plausible for Chiwetel Ejiofor to play that role and still be historically correct.

But i totally get your point. They might have paid a butt load of money to get rights to the material from the Achebe's estate and it's only wise they explore the best route of getting their money's worth back and then some. It's a business like you alluded, after all.

Illusioneffect:
It's not cultural appropriation - telling the story of Things Fall Apart is not just a Nigerian story if you actually think about it - it's an African story and a story of history- the story of Okonkwo should not be segregated to Nigerians only, after all, the events of Okonkwo's death was what played out in almost every British colony.

It's is solely a Nigerian story first and foremost, as it an Historical fiction set around the times of the Igbo culture during British occupation, other British occupied African countries or regions can have unique stories of their own about this time.

If it has to be told on screen by a Hollywood studio with a budget a Nigerian studio can't afford: I think it'll be perfect and also you forget Idris Elba produced Beasts of no Nation - 90% of the side characters were Africans. The boy actor who played as the protagonist spent a year in Africa learning the accent and practicing for the role. I'd rather have a good Hollywood actor play a role than the mediocre actors we have in Asaba.

Beasts of no Nation is nowhere in scale of Things Fall Apart in terms of literary relevance, but i totally get what you mean.

We have talented actors - probably, but most of them don't understand Hollywood and if you don't know this - A24 is a Hollywood studio and they have to abide by the Actor's Guild - no actor can act in a Hollywood film without being a member of Actor's Guild Association except you're a background actor or extra and you don't believe A24 with a tiny budget will fly a lot of Nigerians to act as background actors in different film sets🤷🏽‍♂️.

Again i totally get this. Basically, "It is he who pays the piper, that dictates the tune"

If you haven't watched Beasts of no Nation - watch it - they did an amazing job with the accents and the acting. Idris Elba did an amazing job with the accent - accents can be acted - there're a lot of actors who act with different accents from their main accent : even learn a new language for the role : I won't be surprised if Elba speaks Igbo in the series, anything is possible.

Think of the screenplay - I don't trust Nigerians to write a great script that's totally original🤷🏽‍♂️ sorry but that's just the honest truth.

Yeah, basically all of i have been singing on here for the past few days. Quality is a finite metric in our movie making process and a book of this scale deserves truly the best treatment despites what my emotions may think or want to happen but A24 had better not fail because Nigerians despite riddled with all the basic problems of life, are so relentless in criticising what they hold an opposing view of.

Skipped Beasts of No Nation (2015) for years now, because for some reason i haven't gotten around to read the book. might delve into it now since this one of similar vein is on the horizon.

abduleez1:
I think same to at the bolded.
I'm still hoping they can infuse two to three homegrown stars in it. If the writing team doesn't have a Nigerian at the helm or involved I don't think I'll take it seriously too.

I have had time to reflect bro. I think we not being serious with our movie industry it's the root of all these, and it's not even peculiar to Nollywood but the entire African movie industry. Most of our stories and historical experiences in the continent, have been continually retold by Hollywood, even sadly better. Take e.g Joseph Olita's (An African) portrayal of Ida Amin in The Rise and Fall of Ida Amin (1981) and Forest Whitaker's portrayal of the same character in The Last King of Scotland (2007). The latter was seen as too brute and historically inaccurate and met with so many negative reactions, with many accaliming it was "unrefined" for the screen. Forest Whitaker went on to grab an Oscar for his, so i need not say more.

Wait, shey na Idris Elba wan portray Okonkwo?? Omo..😳

lol rumour has it so. I totally respect his craft but I can't particularly see how he does this.

Na Oyo Empire we dey focus on now. No real seriousness from this industry. The problem with this industry is that we have very few people like Kunle Afolayan or none at all sef. If we can somehow reproduce up to 5 of his likes and risk taking and breaking new grounds mentality with good audience reception and success, then the Industry might truly kick off.

When someone adapted Half of a Yellow Sun, that was when I was filled with hope that the industry was finally ready for serious stories. We had a string of serious movies with gritty story and history with the likes of "76", October 1..... Chai I never still watch these movies sha despite downloading them back then. 😢
But I was wrong. Naija people and execs seemed fixated on comedy then. Even up till now. After the fanfare with release of these movies everyone went back to default settings like it was a testing to confirm whether we had the capability to tell well produced gritty stories.

I no even know wetin EbonyLife Production company even dey do sef. With their earliest movies and Fifty one would think we were finally getting serious with their dedication to theatrical experience. Now I hardly hear about no more.
I remember vividly Mo Abudu / EbonyLife Production sealed a deal with I think Netflix for production of African stories and these popular literature adaptations was discussed.

Few days ago I also saw Chimamanda Adichie's "Americanah" is getting adapted in one of the streamers.

Case in Point. Nigerian film exec, like i have been have been telling you for days aren't serious, just leave Chinua Achebe's "Things fall Apart" sef, there are literally thousands of exceptionally good books here they can bring to screen, They can just go through Cyprian Ekwensi catalogue and they will be good. What about Buchi Emecheta's Joys of Motherhood or H.A. Mohammed's The Last Days at Forcados High school . All these will make for good tv but No, A typical Nigerian Film exec thinks the Nigerian experience is about been unnecessarily loud, crass, jaiye jaiye and the likes, so this niche is what they repeatedly try to bring to screen.

The EbonyLife deal with Netflix is actually dead in the water in respect of these adaptations we seek. These mfs haven't come up with a single script since the deal, and the last big project they had was that Ólutûre part 2 that nobody asked
for

See bruh....i genuinely can't with this industry 😔

iamoyindamola:
please link to ebun pataki movie

Pasted the link in a txt. file. Grab it within the next 24 hours as the link itself self destructs after then.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GehAN6aso_fdiLAKVvdGAge0SoPqkDbt/view?usp=drivesdk

abduleez1:
As we no fit tell our own stories oyinbo go help us tell am....

With A24 at least one might be assured they'd give it their best shot.

Imo, This is some level of cultural appropriation. You can't tell me that one of the biggest stories from the African literature scene written by one of the greatest author the continent has ever produced is going to have no involvement in terms of headline casting from the people the story is actually about. It makes zero sense. The production can be foreign given, but give Nigerian actors the chance to star in it. I don't even want to hear the BS, that Idris Elba is black and whatnot, that brother is 100% British and he has no business playing this role except they are gonna interpret the book wrong. It's like saying Tony Umez should go and play Thor!...These things matter.

So, realistically, How will he even interpret Okonkwo? with a British accent? or he will improvise a Nigerian accent? which imo opinion will only make it worse...they are already losing me...

Well, i wish we took ourselves more seriously, the NTA adaptation happened eons ago, and since then no Nigerian film exec has deemed it fit to retell one of the greatest literary work from these parts..😔

abduleez1:
Damn true. I remember this movie so vividly. It's my best historical Nollywood film till date. I've watched that movie many times and it almost always feel like I'm just watching it for the first time. Tells you how compelling and personal that film was.
yeah, you could tell in the story that it was a personal tale and the filmmaker tried to be painstakingly true to history and facts and research.
Top top film I really recommend especially to fellow Edos. A movie I always wished was on a bigger budget and more popularity with general audience.
I'd really love a remake of that film with a bigger push. If that movie was to come out today it would have been very big and pushed for more Benin Kingdom tales. Just sad the man wasn't that lucky.
I knew the film wasn't really successful but it's the first time I'm hearing about the filmmaker leaving the scene because of that failure.
So the man ain't into filmmaking no more??

Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen still does movies but is very very low key. He's mainly doing those straight to YouTube releases now. Actually sad he hasn't benefitted from said Netflix largesse.

Anyhow sha I know say e go tey before I watch Nollywood again sha. Maybe, I'll just rush and cop out Anikulapó just out of curiosity to see what kick-started all these films.
I got about 5 Nollywood projects in the last 2 years to date on my phone I haven't even watched or bothered to plan for on my phone already downloaded. But interest to actually watch am past the earlier curiosity of downloading no dey.

Bruh, You know i am in a love-hate relationship with Nollywood. I am their biggest fan when they rarely get it right and their biggest critic when they often miss the mark.

I do know the allure of seeing them is nothing compared to movies from say Hollywood, the gulf in class and quality is so staggering, even worse off, when you actually realise that Nollywood is one of the oldest film industries in the world and should actually be doing better. But please don't turn your back completely on them, there are still some indie filmmakers doing great things here on a meagre budget, far from the noise of the shiny unpolished ones that make it to Netflix and Prime video each week...In fact I made a list, sometime ago...These ones i can vouch for, not Hollywood standard but they are good and worthwhile...do check them out when you have the time...

Adírè (2023).
A Father's Love (2024).
With Difficulty Comes Ease (2024)
Sistà (2022).
For Maria Èbun Patakí (2020).
Breath of Life (2023).
The Trade (2023).
Áfàméfùnà: An Nwa Boi Story (2023).
Gangs of Lagos (2023).
Kings of Thieves (2022).
Funmilayo Rasome Kuti (2024).
Breaded Life (2021).
Coming from Insanity (2019).
Collision Course (2021).

potland:
Asaba nollywood is the problem of this industry. If not for kunle Afolayan and a few good heads, that is how we will be consuming crap in the name of watching movies

If I have my way, i will ban any movie from Asaba because what the actual F, are those Mfs even doing making movies over there? 😩😩.

They write, direct, cast any riff raff they see on the streets, do principal photography, edit, and release all inside a week 😩.

They saturate the market with rubbish, and dance around the same nonsensical 5 plot that makes absolutely zero sense.

The only reason Africa Magic (which is an absolute dead channel anyway) insists on them, it's because they pay close to nothing in royalties, airing them, they are even given the garbage free promo. Instead of paying huge distribution fees for movies with actual quality.

abduleez1:
Yeah, I know about the Kunle Afolayan film village as well another one by Ibrahim Chatta where they said they spent 1bn on them.
I know its cos of these new facilities making it easier for filmmakers to start telling these stories that's why there's an influx but I didn't expect this much crazy frenzy for everyone to start telling the same story. This "Oyo Empire" flicks are starting to look over beaten in my opinion.

They're looking just the same. Same focus on war fights and politics and warring warlords with charms and JuJu and stuff. Then slap in a background romance story in between the chaos and that my good friend is a "similar trope" everyone is spamming.

You should know Nigerians by now. They are always seeking the next gold whilst still exploring the one in their hands. That particular niche of story seems to be the biggest pull of Netflix's money now, who themselves want a footprint here of projects grounded in our culture and rich history. The spamming would have been worthwhile if these movies had any semblance of depth.

I actually love the Oyo Empire storyline being that I was in my teenage years obsessed with reading those stories on Wikipedia as well as the Benin Empire.
I don't know why there's no one thinking about telling the stories of the infancy of these empires when they just started expanding, no Sango story despite all these largesse, no Osun or Oranmiyan just same old greedy Bashorun and co fights.
There's no active motivation to make each story unique in its own way.

Again, this stems from the reason i gave in the previous paragraph. Old Yoruba filmmakers used to tell these stories you crave but this was way back in the days, so low quality and an hairline budget , but they actually used to be good and historically factual, i actually enjoyed quite a few. But since Kunle Afolayan seemed to have struck gold with Aníkúlápó, all other filmmakers have been trying to replicate it by making movies along that line, sadly, all other stories around the Yoruba lore, will have to wait 😔.

Where's the Benin Empire since they have very similar set and production style. The only issue with that period will be the "Walls".

Bruhh, to be totally honest, the Yorubas and Igbos practically own filmmaking here, so filmmakers from other parts of the country lack the pull to attract the kind of "modern investment" it would take, to properly tell these stories, hence less incentive for them and i am not sure the country is tribally and religiously sane enough for a Yoruba or Igbo filmmaker to tell the story of the Benin Empire, i can't even imagine the uproar if they even make the slightest mistake. The biggest filmmaker from Edo, Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, made a film about the "1897 invasion of the Benin Kingdom by the British", that was actually good but bro couldn't sell the film to a major distribution company, albeit in times without streaming platforms boom. He couldn't recoup his investment and he just left the scene.

Just like you said, the writing and storytelling are the main issues cos Nollywood seems to have overcome the cinematography and quality equipment hurdles. Seems they've also learnt to depict decent action scenes regarding the times and costumes.
Cos I remember being gripped by these stories just only reading them back then. It was novel with the Jagun Jagun hype but now it's looking the same. There's even another one LISABI coming out later this month.
Good story but average delivery is the game. They'll just hype it because of the big production scale with the backing of Netflix money and co

Bruhhh, You don't want to be in a room with a Nigerian Film exec that has Netflix wallet to burn. They don't listen to anything you have to say. You present them with a story, they redo 90% of it, and tell you, if you want your name to be on Netflix, just relax and let's do it my way, if you agree, the movie comes out lacking substance and you are blamed, if you don't agree, you lose money, get blacklisted in the industry and lose international exposure because of one stubborn film exec. That's why most Film exec just go ahead, and double as director, cinematography, casting, and costume in their film!, giving rise to subpar projects but hey, it's on Netflix 😩.

Even this "House of Gàà" , a freelance filmmaker on twitter back then, decimated all that was wrong with it from the trailer alone, months before it even released and instead of take notes, industry bigwigs were calling for his head. They were wrong costumes and the actors actually using "Lagos accent" for a supposed Oyo film. A little effort into research and they would have known that though, Yoruba is the common language of the South west, but each region speaks it distinctly. An Ondo speaks different from an Oyo person, even within Ondo, they are distinct differences within the same Yoruba dialect with each region. These little details matters when telling a story as grounded in culture as this. The original one before this called, "Bashòrun Ogà" was more grounded in the nuances of the subject matter than this, despite the low visual quality and it coming out some 20 years ago...

abduleez1:
House of Gaa.....7/10

Great African epic. Great story and superb acting inkust say from the cast. Especially superb performance from Femi Branch. Man really proved his mettle and flexed his acting dexterity. Great casting choice.

But I'm seeing a synonymous trend of new Nollywood filmmakers going for this same type of stories of war and pillaging.
I'm hoping it gets more nuanced and unique before they start looking like they come from the same director or filmmaker.

It's because Kunle Afolayan built a film village in Oyo state that depicts the Old Oyo empire, so it has made principal photography for movies along that plotline easy and now every filmmaker suddenly remembers that they have an "Old Oyo empire" story to tell and they are all running to Netflix and those ones looking for more reach here, are duly obliging. One of such movies is even releasing this Friday.

But locations and cinematography has never been the problem of our movies in my opinion. The critical missing piece is still the story and delivery. They will rather throw money at props, locations and etc than properly pay a screenwriter his/her due.

If you buy a shiny new Bugatti and hire a quack driver to drive it, the purpose it's in futility.

If we hack properly story telling, with the other tools of filmmaking we have now, we might actually be unto something good...

Kaycee7:
Finally!!! We get a Thunderbolts trailer. I've missed Yelena like party jollof


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-94Snw-H4o?si=Xvlzi2XC-DLR77QZ

First off... Impeccable choice of trailer song, just scintillating..."Pixies" where is my mind" is such a pristine choice 👏🏿

Secondly... Yeah this look so good, like it's actually the first MCU project that has gotten me excited to look forward to in awhile, based off this visuals.

Thirdly....is that Buckky!😭....


I am so so awakeeee 😩.

NobleStag007:
The esssnc of appreciation of work of art IS YOU HAVING YOUR OWN VERDICTS AND YOUR CRITICISM BASED ON WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN AND ACKNOWLEDGE.


It's only in science that experts works. Literature is mind and brain

How is choosing Bale as the batman ever comes off as a product of influence by external factor or by what critics said? . Do your own independent search and see, he ranks in and around the Top 3 in most lists not drawn up by critics, and Ben Affleck doesn't even smell Top 5 in most list.

It isn't even about skillset, cuz given they are both immensely talented actors. But an Iconic comic book character such as "The Batman" takes more than just talent to be translated well to live action. The story has to be good, the supporting cast has to be good, the props has to be good... everything needs to be perfect for the "The Batman" character to work well on live action and Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy had all these....no gainsaying it earned the first major Oscar win or so for a CBM.

pu7pl3:
Una no rate Affleck?

Affleck una 😩. He almost made me hate the Character. It doesn't negate his talents as an actor tho, the role wasn't just a great fit.

pu7pl3:
So yesterday was Batman Day. Who are y'all taking?

unequivocally....Sir Christian Charles Philip Bale ✌🏾

OhBritannia:
of all these series, Westworld was my favourite.

HBO really messed up with Westworld, moving the script to the city was a wrong move,
They should have left everything on the desert.
They truly messed up for real.
the western theme with horses was the best, i don't know why they changed settings.

I miss Dolores, she was my favorite in the show.

Bruhhh...Westworld S1 was truly special...the storytelling and world building was just peak TV, shame how it fell off so bad after then...ot was well and truly on it's way to, earning GOAT status after that S1....so untypical of HBO.

HBO supremacy uno 👌🏾🌟. They might actually be the network with the most solid shows this millennium 🤔.

Illusioneffect:
I'm sorry too say but you're just being ignorant🤷🏽‍♂️ if you've watched the first movie and do a bit of research, you'd know Mel Gibson has been working on a script for a sequel for 10 years and already had an idea the time The Passion came out. The movie would be about the events before, during and after the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The writers of the movie has written Oscar winning movies and had never written a bad movie EVER!
People always hate on Mel Gibson but no one ever talks about how he has never made a bad movie yet.
I'm totally looking forward to this movie🙏. People always make fun of Christian movies and I'm not surprised🤷🏽‍♂️

Pull your head out of your àss and stop been overly dramatic and emotional like a pre puberty teen. If you were able to discern and construe the intent of the post and follow up comments, you'd know it had some sarcastic undertone to it being that nobody wants to see a sequel to "The Passion of Christ" or "The Resurrection of Christ" as you'd want to call it, in 2024!. The story has been told countless times over!, there are other stories to tell. The main takeaway being that all the sequels and remixes of movies from yester years that is a trend in Hollywood, points to the fact that there is a brain drain in terms of screen writing, if not why would an acclaimed Oscar winning screen writer still be banging on about probably one of the most well known story in history?.

I seriously doubt you care about movies and you mostly likely just see them for clout, but me, i do seriously care, and this year, I can't confidently count 10 movies of very high quality i have enjoyed, because the whole year has been riddled with nostalgic fare, that excites very little, and another one is been planned for a movie that came out 20 years ago, and you said i should lap it up because it's a Christian movie? Please be for real!!.

Moreover, no one wants to see a Christian movie about a story that holds such significance in Christendom from a man riddled with controversies that go against the very tenets of the faith and it's not like the first movie it's self was smooth sailing, it has been called out severally for been antisemitic and for various historical inaccuracies. There are countless movies around this theme that do great justice to it or simply just read your Bible 😩.

It's a good thing to thoroughly think before you spew any rubbish to avoid making badly informed statements especially in a fora like this, you might look like a dunce thereafter if not.

pu7pl3:
I think I saw this post this morning and I wanted to comment but I was like nah, I won't watch it anyways cos what other story do you want to tell that you named it part 2. Fucking dumbos

likeee 😩