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Ballzproblemm:
Reviews are important I don't care what anyone says,if your show ain't critical acclaimed I will avoid like plague there by saving my time.


I have avoided star wars "the acolyte" so far from what I've seen I made a good decision.

If rotten tomatoes or IGN no rate your show over 8 or 9 I ain't watching.

I have seen some not so critically acclaimed media that totally banged, more often than not even. I have also seen highly critically acclaimed media that were totally bare áss.


Not saying you shouldn't follow ratings per se, but there is no recognized degree in film or show critic, and every critic is expressing his or her own personal views, views which might be totally different from yours if you eventually get to see said media.

Moreover, the mechanics that goes into criticting a movie or a show, are just too much these days, with many different underlying agendas warping genuine criticism. An Alphabet person critic, might rate a bottom tier flick high just because his/her/their people are represented in it.

Baddestguyp:
These 4 shows are the literal definition of "peak fiction."



I'm almost done with my Mr. Robot rewatch.

I have had so many false starts with this because i found it to be too dark and depressing earlier on. I eventually planned to return to it, because i know it's a good show, but did it stay good till the end?

Yo...Brooo...wtf was Homelander cooking in that last episode of The Boys? 😩. I am completely oblivious of the comics, but i just hope the show writers haven't written this mf too strong to eventually unalive, cuz outside of his fragile ego, does he have any visible weakness?. He is like the evil that it's at the core of the entire show, in hindsight, so deading him is totally best for all, so this brother gotta go 😩

Katcall:
See also:
Jerry Maguire
The fan
Million dollar baby

. Good recommendations tbh. Top tier sport related flicks ⚡👍🏾

Tboy2050:
Hello house, please between "dark" and "Evil" which is the most interesting to watch?

Both are good in their on rights depending on what you really fancy.

Evil is about a rag tag team that investigates supernatural occurrences and it's really well done.

Dark is more like a time jump sci fi that you really need to pay attention to get, because they move through time a lot and so it may be a more tedious watch.

Dark Matter (2016) by Blake Crouch

There is nothing else i want, Just my Daniela......


I paused the show at episode 3 so I could read the entire book first, and man, was it worth it. Although it was painstaking at times, as it took the book about 7 chapters to reach the events of episode 3 of the show, the book compensated with a rich and vivid experience that enhanced my appetite for the show, even knowing how it ends now.

By the way, it was one of the most profound books I've read in a while. The multiversal trope was handled with a clever twist. Books are such a magical medium, one of the very best forms of art.

Now, back to the show 😊

Donald Sutherland aka President Snow! and the father of Kiefer Sutherland aka Jack Bauer has sadly passed away today.

A talented actor that would always lit up the screen which ever role he was given, His strong antagonist flair in The Hunger games, made that franchise a force to be reckoned with.

Rest easy king 😔🕊️

abduleez1:
I envy your dedication to watching oldies movies man. I got over 25 solid top tier oldies and classics to watch, but fear dey catch me to start.
Don't understand what's going on. At the point before I download, I'm in a rush to watch but as soon as I download ginger drops.

I'm more inclined to watch a long @ss TV show than a 2hr movie. I have like 3 films (Gerald's Game, In the Mood For Love, Hitman) I've watched halfway through and haven't still finished just because I paused to catch up on my latest TV shows. Getting back to them now became herculean tasks.

Imagine me having watched 14 movies all year long, while I've watched about 15 TV shows in the same span. 😢🥺🤦🏽‍♂️

lol The regular unavailability of top shelf movies these days has made my work easier. It gives me ample time to knock off my oldies. To put things in perspective, the only new flick i have copped this month and that i even think is worthwhile has been Hitman, and we are already passed middle of the month.

Plus, i have recently found out, i have lost the ability to even download and hoard media in large volume .They recently upgraded the internet around me to a fairly high bandwidth and each time i connect, i just lose all urge to download, cuz bro i have several drives with years and years worth of media, and i basically don't see the point of copping more without clearing the backlog that i have, maannn, i had files i got as far back as 2020, unseen!!.

The straw that even broke the camel's back, was a last month, Google changed policies to their unlimited drive option for workspace, and my admin was forced to delete one of my drives without prior notice and this drive had close to a 1TB worth of files, files that i have curated from way back, from torrents with seeds that are dead as of today or hosting sites that no longer exists, so getting them back is near impossible 😩

So bro, is all vanity downloading and hoarding unending without dedicating the time to see them, so what i do now, is to shuffle within my HDDs each week, and just pick out oldies to see, i have a priority list of which to see first too, then i follow a max 3 shows weekly, that's just 3 episode per week, and then the occasional good new flick that drops once a while.

abduleez1:
We're having at least one A World of Ice and Fire project a year.

So glad HBO finally doing the needful and having sense. Use this one to chill while waiting for the 5 course meal proper a year later.

G.R.R. Martin seventh generation to come, are probably still going to be cashing HBO's cheques at this rate, wallahi, that's why the man is so chilled about releasing "The Winds of Winter" 😩.

But HBO should bring sha, because i will be meeting them at any adaptation possible 😊

abduleez1:
That was quick...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy7kaI3GKzo?si=SaAbEhvqtcjJFSmx

lol i thought the first one ended well but i will be there 😊

RE: Still Alice (2014).

A gut wrenching journey through the fragility of memory.....

There are some movies that you dare not see a second time, not because they aren't good enough to warrant a second watch, no, far from it, in fact impeccable motion pictures, but is just because they are incredibly sad, and this and Manchester by the Sea, are 2 of such movies for me, but i dared to see this again, and whilst is such a beautiful film, it was just as grim as the first watch.

Still Alice is a horror esque flick, a heartbreaking portrayal of a disease that shouldn't even exist. Alice Howland is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, and she quickly begins to forget the world she knows.

Julianne Moore shines as Alice Howland, and i read up on how religiously she researched on the disease so she could deliver a masterclass performance. And man what a hell of a method acting it was!. The film opens with her being a professor of linguistics, with a firm grip on reality and as she is diagnosed, her countenance gradually changes into an inevitable mental incompetence. There was this scene, where she had to take a leak, but forgot where the bathroom was in her own house, and in the struggle to find it, she just leaked on herself 😩, It was sad to watch, but boy, it was some fine acting, and that Oscar best actress nod was all too deserving.

I sometimes use to wonder, as perfect as our bodies, it can actually succumb to diseases such as this, cancers, diabetes etc and eventually see the corruption of death, like this perfect body, will rot away someday!, and all the thousands of religion in the world doesn't provide enough comfort from this inevitable dread...it just doesn't make sense! 😔.

Anyway, i can't promise that this is a happy movie but it will be worth the watch if you get around to it.

8/10.

Kaycee7:
19/24. And it's been mostly amazing experiences.
The Boy and the Heron will make it 20/24. Not really interested in the remaining 4.

19/24 is huge maann, i have only seen the major titles, but i plan on knocking the notable mentions out of the park soonest.

Studio Ghibli Supremacy uno ✨💐

Holav:
😂😂

Bro literally risked his head for this sarcastic bomb of a reply because what the hell did Alicent mean by that nonsensical question 😩🤣? Like Rhaenyra should reply your letters, after your side topped her son?? The reply was so apt 😅

jikins:
You are only digging a deeper hole for yourself. Same context applies to your Mufasa argumentcomplain of studios doing remake as cash grab. When so many remakes have been made by different studios as cash grab. You see the hypocrisy

Just as you had the right to complain back then others have the right to do the same.

And the Mufasa is out now, and you have seen me watching it and complaining about it on here abi?.

Whatever i complain about, and i genuinely don't like, and i don't partake in it, i stand on business till the end!

You guys saw all 3 episodes, and eagerly waiting the fourth this week, but you and the others have written a thesis on about 2 minutes that disgusts you, out of the entire episodes released thus far...

It's best you guys set your priorities straight and you, yourself learn the concept of context while at it.

Chibudollar:
what exactly are you saying?? the viewers have the right to express their disgust or praise over whatever they watch in a particular series, I mean if i enjoy a particular scene i can come here to say what an amazing scene, why can't i also do same for something i didn't like in the same show.

jikins:
Well thats the world you live in you have to accept it. People will always complain about stuffs irrespective of the fact they will not change it by complaining same way you were complaining about Disney's Mufasa a while ago knowing it won't change anything same way people are entitled to air their views. So on that point you have no ground to stand on. Because you are just as guilty so rest

jikins:
Well thats the world you live in you have to accept it. People will always complain about stuffs irrespective of the fact they will not change it by complaining same way you were complaining about Disney's Mufasa a while ago knowing it won't change anything same way people are entitled to air their views. So on that point you have no ground to stand on. Because you are just as guilty so rest

That's why context matters. The show y'all complaining about has proven time and time again to have no shred of care for any sort of morality. So complaining about, something that they have quite literally done before in past seasons albiet in a different medium feels pointless.

Point being "The Boys" isn't a show to form morality police about. They have done more disgusting things without a war cry from you guys, so probably it's the act itself that disgusts you guys, and not the grey area of morality around the act itself, that's why I feel the outrage is pointless. If it was Butcher, that was suddenly turned, then i would have listened, because he has not had any prior inkling, but not Frenchie!.

If you lot can't still see the point, by all means carry on with the whinging and complaining 👍🏿

abduleez1:
FFC finally has a distributor for his decades long passion project.

Good. I really wanna see what scared those fellas at Cannes that made them say this was probably the worst movie experience they have been in😩

Chibudollar:
And "Nigerians" on this thread aren't the only ones complaining about Frenchie being gayy, search his name alongside gay on Twitter. Then you'll see the real complain

As we have complained now, they will definitely delete and re-plot Frenchie's role in the upcoming episodes right?? 🤷🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️. You lot keep bothering your heads over what you can't control, and how does this not even ruin the experience of seeing the entire show for you guys, if all y'all gonna do is complain about something that didn't even last 2 mins on screen for an episode that lasted about an hour.

Besides, i don't know what show you lot have been seeing for the last 4 years or so, or probably you lot haven't been paying attention, cuz the Frenchie guy has always been suggested to be on the spectrum.

This is how the world thinks now, or a section of it, best to get with the program, FF X4 the particular scene if it disgusts you so much, or better still avoid the show, instead of bickering about it for days, when you damn well know, when Episode 4 drops this week, you are still gonna be there 🤷🏿‍♂️.

RE: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.(2004).

Inception (2010) for the hopeless romantics!

There is a reason why Charlie Kaufman is one of my fave screenwriters. He writes just above the normal machincs, in a somewhat complicated way but in the end the story is clear and coherent, but in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, he writes his least complicated scripts yet, but it's probably the best of his illustratious career.

Presented in a non-linear way to confuse you, but it's all premeditated, to firmly ground you on it's emotional core devoid of traditional timing, infact the movie exists outside of time. it tells the story of Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) who goes through a tumultuous relationship that leads to a painful breakup, with each willingly undergoing a procedure that erases all the memories of the other person, but Joel, mid-erasing, within his subconscious, decides to fight for Clementine....

It is just such a beautiful piece of cinema that is unwilling to be tied to any genre, A sci-fi masquerading as a romantic flick if you must, but the message it's not lost, a full gazette on how all of our memories and experiences makes us who we are, our pain, love, sadness, even our mistakes, so erasing them, means erasing our person, it means you will never learn from your mistakes, because you wouldn't even remember it in the first place!, and you can easily as well just repeat them..., On a personal level, i sometimes wonder if erasing the memories of a lost loved one would ease the pain, but i wouldn't want to live in a world where i didn't have their memories 😔

There is a reason why movies are one of art's best medium and films like this are the archy type of how good cinema can be. In a time where good writing and storytelling has been relatgated to the background and films are trying to outdo each other on who use VFX more or who pleases which woke agenda more, this film stands as a cult classic, not because of it's elegance, but infact because of it's simplicity in telling a story that encapsulates the entire human condition and all it's emotional weight with a visual spectacle that seeks to tell a story of it's own.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of my favorite films ever and i am always skeptical about making my personal list of "best films i have ever seen" because of the sheer number of good films I have been privileged to see over the years, but should i ever make such a list some day, best believe this will be right up there.💚

9/10

Exhuma 2024.

Kdrama + Supernatural Horror = A good mix!

A wealthy family is seemingly cursed and they implore the help of a shaman and a geomancer who links the "said curse" to the vengeful spirit of their grandfather, they exhume the corpse to appease, but baba granny had a decade long score to settle and he wasn't having any appeasing but that was even the least of the problem, because in exhuming baba granny's corpse, the shaman and the geomancer unearths something more sinister and angrier with a century worth of score to settle that ties up to the Japanese occupation of Korea, turning it into a bone chilling, horror visual spectacle with genuine scares as opposed to the clichès usually done by American horror flicks.

The acting is so strong, lead by Veteran Choi Min-sik from Oldboy and a chance to see Kim Go-eun do a sexy shaman exorcism dance!. The writing was also good, so good that the whole thing actually looks plausible in real life , and you'd almost forget this is infact a fantasy supernatural horror flick.

Good Good Horror flick for the neutrals 👍🏿

7/10.

armadeo:
We're gonna have an hour long scene of them harvesting grain in slow motion .....

Bruhhh...That grain bit of the plot might be the worst writing in a flick in the recent while in hindsight because it made absolutely no sense in the end. The Imperium with all it's tech couldn't grow grain, and had to descend with all it's might on a tiny Village for the grain, then change course to chase some rebels, and level the village, in other to get rid of the rebels, and along with the "said grain" that they couldn't do without before..... ChatGPT would've cooked a better storyline ngl...

Achilles100:
Wetin dem dey director's cut for Rebel Moon again na?

probably more of the same rubbish we saw before but this time, a longer version 😭.


But it's ZS, and i am sorry, this man moves me, so i will be there, but with my expectations on the ground tho 👀😩

It is not a ZS movie if there is no director's cut, but the question is, will you be there? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Macha77:
Pls sir which site can I leverage on to search for my project topic in Philosophy Dept.

So unfortunate some people cannot write their research themselves and will now resort to a writing service. How then will you be fulfilled that you achieved that certificate when you eventually get it knowing that it really wasn't you, but someone else that did it for you?

If you cannot write and do a project on the course you've been studying for 4 or 5 years as the case may be, then that person has no business being in school.

Kaycee7:
It's Star Wars. These days, it's hard to tell whether the content is passed or the fan base is wildling as usual

I have been jonzing for some Star Wars content for awhile, and so the speed i used in coping the first 2 episodes of this morning ehn 😩😩, so i am not even arsed about the ratings because i am already there 😩

Moneyboyz:
Are we still talking about movies here?

You lot that keep asking this questions surprises me. These discussions stem from movies that we see, and discussing them in totality, makes the thread more alive, and some people actually learn from these discussions. Movies encompasses the entire "Human Condition" and it is not out place for discussions about them to dabble into various facets of life. Giving, some airheads often try to derail, revolt or become a total troll to some certain people on here, that they feel they have a personal vandetta against, for a pointless feud that they cooked up in their heads, it's best to starve these people of any attention, and along the line, these people will crawl back to the hole they came out from, allowing for a more sane discussion here.

Because if everybody just drops a name of a movie and maybe rating, without any discussion of some sort when the movie warrants it, this thread will be dead before you know it.

Illusioneffect:
I can't count how many times I've argued over and over again about how foul religion is 😪.
White men brought a religion to your country so they could dominate you easily- they left and Africans are still like the elephant who thinks he's still chained when he isn't - Africans just love chains at this point🤦🏽‍♂️

Religion is not foul, it is the practice here that is foul. It has more to do with the poverty and low quality of life here. When the government has failed to do the basics, people outsource their problems to God, because it's seems like their only hope, when ironically 80% of the things they are calling on God for, it's the job of the Government to provide, and so in this heightened state of hopelessness and delusion, they believe hookline and sinker, everything their religious leaders says, year in year out, and the problem never gets solved, because God can't give you road or give you light . The religious leaders complete wash job , by promising that enduring suffering here might actually lead to a better life in the after life 😩

abduleez1:
Many of us don't like to admit it but within the last few years and seeing the mentality of an average black man whether in developed countries or in Africa, all I can say is.... The average black man is indeed the race with the lowest IQ on planet earth. And hard facts and socioeconomic development backs it.

That is the main reason the Northerners will always remain painfully behind the Southerners in Nigeria because of religious dynamics, since the South is still a little more flexible.

If you look everywhere, countries with a high penchant for religion are usually behind secular nations in HDI.
I remember the useless back and forth brain-d£ad convo between Black Americans vs Africans with that "Foundational Black American" bullshît was it two years ago? I just dey shake head. Na that time I confirm say, the problem isn't even colocated in the continent alone but a genetic source code engineering.

Me, I don comot hope for Black man ever getting sense and receiving emancipation evidenced in that dude that always finds a way to show his inferiority complex under "white man" supremacy.

Africa no dey move forward at all till religion is relegated to an afterthought and funny enough none of us are ready.

One thing I usually ask these overly religious people is that: since your religion is the only way to "redemption" and all others are false, do you want to tell me all your ancestors, are all dancing in hell fire cos there was no Christianity or Islam back then. Billions of people dey hell dey chill.
And they always fail to give a reasonable response.

Another ironic thing is none of these religion even originates from us. And we always behave as id we're more religious than who brought it to us.

Bro...I have already clocked that Africa is not moving forward anytime soon, the part that is predominantly black that is, because countries like Morocco and the lot, are doing quite well for themselves.

Check well, there's no Nation that is predominantly black that isn't backwards, the common denominator is melanin and i am starting to believe it's genetic. Haiti is so close to America and yet it is a Godforsaken spit of land, and I don't need to tell you the race dominant there, so the thing spreads across continents.

But black dominated African countries are the worse of the draw because low HDI, brazen poverty and religion fanatism are a bad mix. These countries in this continent have all 3.

Liposure:
Going by the spate of drive by shootings, black on black violence, gangbanging, gangsterism, babymama lifestyle, they are not in anyway superior to their black brothers in africa. We have values. They dont. The average nigger apart from the ones that are highly educated is poor in mentality. The difference is the geographical location they found themselves in courtesy of slave trade. Many of them won't survive in Africa if the topography was reversed

The ones saying this are actually the thrashy blacks, the drug addicted good for nothing blacks that are unhappy that blacks from Africa, are reaching feats they can't reach and getting jobs they can only dream of....i pay no mind to them.

JackBizzle:
I understand what you are saying. But how do we as blacks move forward?

We are enslaved by religion and colonial mentality.

Just look at the front page and see how many Nigerians are supporting Israel. The same Israel that the whole world is now wanting to stop the genocide. And of course, the Muslim Nigerians support Palestine blindly. I have two Muslim guys in the Muslim section who have never criticized APC or Buhari or Tinubu but they shout for Palestine all day.

We are enslaved mentally. The slavery of blacks has moved from physical to mental.

We worship the white man and also worship his God.

Just even look at the comment saying that the western countries are better because they have war heroes.....as if Africa or Asia don't have war heroes as well.

I preach every day but the enslaved ones say that I'm a fool. The irony

Man, I feel Religion is the biggest monster here. A Northern muslim feels people in Gaza are his direct bloodlines because they share the same religion, and meanwhile, all the wanton killings and kidnapping going on already him doesn't concern him, because to him "these infidels" deserves it and despite being of the same nationality, aren't his brothers!...such a gutter mentality that reeks of low IQ.

Same vein some Christians are also supporting Isreal because to them, they are one and the same! part of God's own people they say!, meanwhile, Isrealis aren't even Christian, they gladly signed off Christ's crucifixion, and they don't give a damn about any teachings that is outside the mosaic law.

Religion has such a stronghold here, like it is so uncanny, recently women were rejecting, cervical cancer vaccine because their pastor said so, and they want to use the vaccine to control world population!, like how dumb can you be?, you did science basically all your life, and all that education, logic and reasoning is out of the window because your pastor said so?? So no free thinking of your own? Haba.

Sorry to say, i might not have the data to backup it up, but blacks of African descent, are probably the demographic with the lowest IQ, in the entire world and that's why it's very difficult to make any meaningful progress.

The damage that religion and cultural differences have done here might be irreversible, in genetics, a person's personality and thinking is a result of genetics and environment, and this warped herd environmental low mentality thinking has been engrained into genetics here, and so children born these days, come out thinking this way, the only way to save such child, is if you as a parent is proactive.

It will take years, if not centuries, of social re-engineering to change these hyper religiosity and cultural bais mentality, only then, will Nigeria, or Africa be ready to move forward, i wouldn't bet on it tho.

I am pretty sure if this was a white actor, "The Slap" shindig would have boiled over by now, but because of his race, all his illustrious achievements is still gonna be defined by that action. I mean this man is quite possibly one of the greatest entertainers ever, but his career is been wilted down to a misdemeanor that quite frankly came from a good place, i mean, most sane women will totally love their man defending them in the face of disrespect, albeit the wife is thrash tho imo.

Ezra miller's rap sheet is longer than the rival Nile, and he is damn near a felon!, but that didn't stop him from appearing in a big budget flick on a big platform with said platform bosses even trying to defend him before the movie came out.


Will Smith is an Oscar Best Actor winner, and he is still been treated like this, inferring that as a person of Black origin, you are already at a disadvantage, sad, but it is what it is, and The only way to gain prominence, break the stereotypes and earn global respect is for us to be united for causes that concerns us...See what the Jews and Indians are doing, Isreal is damn well committing a genocide but the "first class countries" are turning a blind eye, because Jews are in the upper echelons of the world strata. Compare to Blacks, Black Americans have a low mentality thinking that they are more "superior" than Blacks from African descent, like same skin color o, but they feel they are ""Superior"....beats me.

I saw a US grad student from Africa leading a #FreePalestine movement last month, and this brother was ready to loose his admission, lose his F-1 visa and possibly get deported for the cause! and i was like, look at this dumb fóól!, if the roles were reversed, no arab or Caucasian is risking all that for your black behind!.

We as blacks need to do much better.