Illusioneffect:

What would you compare the mini series to? I've always wanted to watch it but I didn't enjoy the first episode and never proceeded further

It's like other good historical mini series but probably better in terms of general production design and casting.

I wouldn't say the first episode started slow, but it picked up pace once the Nuclear blast happened.

abduleez1:


A Masterpiece show by all metrics available. After watching this show I acknowledge the total dominance of PREMIUM TV that is HBO. Premium cast all through, superb storytelling and production design and quality. Na once I binge watch this genius inside midnight that year. Got properly lectured how premium storytelling will make you easily forget action.

One of the major reasons I dey laff if I hear person say HBO are not masters of Mini series. HBO is the only network that can use a new miniseries to pack all the major awards available in one night even without their biggest franchises. Awards wey this show pack that year ehn, then there's Lovecraft Country, The White Lotus and Watchmen. The pedigree long no be today.

Bro, Mini series aside, Have you noticed how HBO shows, are always Clean. Like from seeing the opening sequence, everything just looks sharp and in order. I opened White Lotus S2 the other, and it was just so beautiful to look at. Them sabi this show production thingy die. Probably why they are one of the most awarded Network at the Emmys.

As for the dangers of nuclear energy, well things are better managed this era than before. And the Soviets were pretty reckless with that incident.
The 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan in the aftermath of the Tsunami comes to mind. I heard it's gearing back to operation this year or so. Nuclear is by far the cleanest energy available with gargantuan yield and with time the technology is being improved upon. The biggest issue is radiation. On that front I'm hearing the human race is progressing on Nuclear Fusion which is even way cleaner and safer in terms of radiation in comparison to Fission tech we are currently using. Let's see how it goes.

Atomic energy would be one energy mix I would have liked Nigeria to explore. All this epileptic and unreliable power supply go massively reduce (although that's if the useless grid is overhauled for modern capacity demands). The nuclear power plants deal with Russia some years back be like audio.

I don't even mind Nuclear Power being used to drive turbines for electricity. It is clean and great for the environment.

It is the potential arming and usage for military purposes that has me shaken. USA still actively has like 5000 Nuclear war heads, Russia may have even more. Smaller nations like North Korea and Iran, have also start gathering these Nuclear war heads, with nobody ready to decommission its. I just hope there isn't a point they decide to use it for any reason.


Nigeria?? Nuclear Plant?? Abeg Abeg Abeg! 😭😩. We can't even maintain roads, heck, we have four refineries that have been out of commission for years, that we are still struggling to put just one online. Bro, our maintenance culture is next to zero coupled with brazen corruption is just a bad mix for a potential Nuclear Power Plant. Nuclear reactions are so fast, and gives high yield energy levels in such a short time, that there's no room to correct any mistakes once it happens. Nigeria is too unstable for Nuclear energy at the moment, so make we just dey manage our Kainji Dam dey go 😭

GloriousGbola:


the show was meh - not great - not terrible

just shit posting - it was FANTASTIC!
complete with full frontal nudity of the ideal male form!
and Stellan Skarsgård went as hard as he did in andor

You totally had me at that first line ngl 😅😅.

Stellan Skarsgård is just a fantastic actor, he basically just slip into any role. No wonder he birthed offsprings, that are just as good as him in acting.

Nuclear blast and all that, Radioactive materials everywhere, and these men didn't care, they went full frontal, because of i quote "heat", naah i salute their Valor 🖖🏿.


And do you have a cache of memes or a meme generator 😅😩? How do you always have all these memes handy?😅

abduleez1:


I first dey suspect say na bait.... I'll watch anyways cos of Zendaya.

On subject of Zendaya
I really can't fathom the perceived hype around her cuz i honestly don't rate her. The only decent performance i have seen of her, is the one from Euphoria. She always seem to play this lethargic character that has zero dimension.

So what's the hype bro? Is it that there isn't enough actress around her age bracket with similar star power to rival her? It can't certainly be sex appeal. I always know what to expect with her acting and I don't think that's a good thing, or maybe i have not seen enough of her movies, is there a particular one i should see?

"Chernobyl" 2019.

"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth, and sooner or later, that debt is paid".

Valery Legasov at the Chernobyl Disaster Inquiry hearing.


It's like HBO has really hacked this mini series thing cuz i am in total awe of how well made this was. This tells an impressive historical account of Chernobyl Disaster, the subsequent clean up efforts and the cover up by the Soviet Union to downplay the true extent of the crisis, inadvertently leading to the break up of the USSR.

Although some aspects of the show was fictionalized for dramatic effects, but the account and delivery was so vivid, and the horrors of a nuclear disaster is laid bare in an emotionally charged 5 episodes. So good that you wouldn't even notice the show wasn't in the native language, and the cast were infact almost entirely British.

Ever since i learnt basic Physics, the dangers of Nuclear Power has never been lost on me. It is perhaps the cleanest energy there is, as a few kg of nuclear charged particles could power a whole city with minimal fuss, but again it can be harness for so many other things, some good and some evil. After WW II, the world had now known the dangers of a Nuclear weapon in a armed conflict. The disaster, isn't like chemical bombs, that just destroys buildings and call it a day, some radioactive elements that, are used in making weapons have a very stable half life that could range from a few years to thousands of years, or even millions of years!. A small yield of a nuclear weapon could obliterate a whole city within seconds, every person, every animal, every plant, every microorganisms...I mean everything, gone in a flash!., that is even the short term effect, longer term effects include, Acute radiation poison, cancers, change in DNA sequences, for even people far away from the ground zero and making such places inhabitable for years and years. The city of "Pripyat", which was ground zero for the Chernobyl disaster, is still a desert waste land and unfit for living even till this day, because of the acute radiation still present, some 30 years plus, after the disaster.

There is a treaty that protects everyone from Nuclear weapon from been used in an armed conflict, but i fear the world is been pushed further and further into a point where a nuclear weapon is used. Countries with mentally unstable leaders like Iran and North Korea, can seemingly arm and enrich nuclear materials at will, Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Hamas/Palestine are been drawn to endless battles for months and years now, without a end in site, and countries like the USA that are supposed to be suing for peace, and send billions in aid and military relief to these nations, to fuel these wars, i fear we are at the brink.

Back to the show. The fantastic attention to detail and impeccable delivery from a talented cast makes this one of the best series ever made and it been one of the highest rated show ever on IMDB, doesn't it flatter. it was able to hold a high level of suspense and grim even the though the story is so well known...Just a brilliant brilliant piece of Tv Drama

A true all timer ⭐

9/10.

DieRich5:
your saying there only one sex scene when zen and the 2 guys in an hotel?



Her fans won't be happy about it but still gon watch it leta tho

Spoiler alert... Nothing even happened in that scene 😩😩

"Challengers" 2024

Hyper-Bait!.

The ménage à trois scene plastered everywhere when this film was announced, sold this film as some sort of hyper erotic fest flick, with lawn tennis as the side dish. I think that's what drove the popularity.

In reality, lawn tennis was infact, the main course , with the side dish being two guys who really loved themselves and a girl trying to separate them, with like one semi erotic scene in the entire thing. That was basically it, just so you know what you are getting into.

Absolutely great if you love tennis 🎾, seeing it for any other reason? Look elsewhere.

6/10

Akuko. We have been hearing this since last year.

You think you've hid the filling station with that blur abi?? That's Nipco logo naa 😩😅

abduleez1:


I don dey see high praise for this film throughout this week.

I have just seen it had the "infamous 7 minutes ovation at Cannes". That's not always a good sign 😅

We are so backkk 🍃😩

abduleez1:


Lol, wetin you expect. Lionsgate is probably the major studio with the least number of franchises to call upon. Others are re-engineering their old franchises for more money. They got no choice.

But this one wey you dey use Xavi pic like dis. You dey troll Barca fans?

lol shey they did a show on the John Wick universe not long ago?


The Barca meme na stray bullet 😁

Elite milking No? cuz I don't think this mf has enough back story for a whole àss movie. I dey background dey observe sha ,🥱

IngeniousLeez:
S2 teaser trailer


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCwmXY_f-e0?si=SOJedEbtPU2KPijo

sho! E don turn horror show?? Well i don leave this one for una o.

I couldn't even finish S1 😩😩

Kaycee7:
There's a mix of narcissism and FOMO with most of these types, coupled with a bit too much free time on their hands.
With time, I've eventually tuned out just about any feeling towards anyone or any post complaining just for the sake of complaining.

Like I've always pointed out, you're not tied to a chair with your eyes taped up and forced to watch the content. Stop > Exit > Delete and simply move on to something else is one of the easiest things to do.

Also going to add, for the young ones who feel they can get some validation from finishing some certain show.
There's no such thing as a show/movie for high IQ people. No IQ test anywhere in the world ever included the analysis of a movie. So stop torturing yourself trying to finish some Nolan movie or a TV show that has you sleeping 10 minutes into the first episode because you're trying to prove to some randoms on the internet who can't do quadratic equations that you're intelligent.

If you're intelligent, it'll show. And no be the movies/shows wey you dey watch go show am.

Also pleading for 5864th time, if you don't like a show, please stop accusing the people that love it of overhyping it. Especially when you know you'll not accept accusations that your own favorite show is being overhyped. That's hypocrisy.

succinctly put!. If you don't like a show, just drop it, and leave the crowd hyping it, to keep hyping it, instead of coming to complain every market day. It gets tiring.

I have a clear set of personal traits i look for in a show and not just going after a show or movie, because everyone else seems to like it. This my personal traits sef, has lead to see some mid shows and movies, sometimes, but i always trust my guts.

Anyone struggling to see a show they don't like just because finishing it and talking about it on here, means they will tagged them as having a fine taste, are seeing shows for the very wrong reasons and missing out on the only valid reason why we see shows or movies, which is self enjoyment.

GloriousGbola:


cosigned

especially when i have a backlog that goes for years - no point in wasting time when there are other shows i can watch instead

not everyone can be like abduleez1 who will rate a show 101% once it has booba

My man abduleez1,😅 , abeg free my man o, he knows what he likes and he goes after it 😁

Baddestguyp:

I agree with your point, however I want to add something.

I just like many others believe that media is subjective...but I still believe there is a level of objectivity involved.

For instance, no matter how you hate Game of Thrones or One Piece, you cannot deny that they have incredible worldbuilding. You cannot hide under the banner of "media is subjective" to say that One Piece has terrible worldbuilding for instance. That is just an objectively terrible take because anyone with eyes can clearly see otherwise...and even you will have a hard time believing yourself.


There is also the issue of people not actually paying attention or even putting any effort to follow a show but just come online to give terrible reviews that they cannot defend.

If you say a show is trash, you should be able to give reasons why you believe it is trash. Not just claim that you are entitled to your opinion and people should accept it as that.


For example the AOT you used as example. The dude who came here to say it was trash but cannot state a single reason why. He could not even say anything about the story or characters for fear of embarrassing and exposing himself as someone who didn't understand anything he watched.

I don't think anyone has an issue if you say a show isn't for you. That's fine and very acceptable.

But if you say a show is trash, you should defend your claim. You should tell us why it's trash.


If you post a show here and call it 2/10 or 5/10, that's fine...but if people ask why you rated it as such, at the very least you should be able to give your reasons and defend them rather than running away.

If you cannot defend your opinion on a show, your opinion holds no ground...
It is even possible you formed your opinion based on serious misinterpretation of the show...

That's why you need to remove emotion from things like this because the fact remains, absolutely nobody owes you any explanation why they hold the views they hold on your fave show. Your emotional attachment to the show is what irks you when someone says the show is bad or mid. Tbh, for AOT for example, one can't tell if the person saying it's mid, is saying it out of spite or genuine imperfections of the show, but you shouldn't worry your head over that. An explanation will do you no good, it will ultimately lead to pointless arguments around circles that drags on unnecessarily. The fact is a negative comment about your fave show, wouldn't change the way you feel about that show or stop you from enjoying it, and if peradventure, you actually meet someone on here ready to debate you on the flaws of AOT on here, fine and good, if not, just look past negative comments and keep it moving.

At bolded, the statement reeks of narcissism, movies and shows are not that hard to grab or decipher, infact it's even easier to break down a show to bit for more understanding with the use of forums, blogs or even A.I. so a person having a negative comment about a show, does it mean they misrepresented the show,or didn't understand it or let me use the word you like to use, they have low media literacy
. That low media literacy bit you usually use sef, is down right condescending tbh, There is no university that awards "high media literacy" to you or anybody else for that matter.

Learn to leave emotions aside, you would see how much more you will enjoy shows, movies and interactions about them on here also.

I always see people on here and generally, keep chugging shows they don't like, hoping they will eventually like it because its rated highly by fans and critics and i just laugh because more often than not, they always end up disappointed.

When it comes to seeing media, and in life generally, you must trust your guts more often, because not every show or movie will resonates with you because we are all wired differently, and everybody rating it high doesn't necessarily mean it's good for "you", read that again, the show isn't bad and probably deserve the high ratings from the people rating it high, but the most important thing is that it's not good for "you" and there would be no point trying to make sense of it. It doesn't mean you have a bad taste or the people rating it high have a bad taste either, and i am very sure if you sieve through all the many good ratings, you will also find a pretty good amount of bad ratings as well.

There is absolutely zero price for liking every show or movie that drops, infact personally for me, it's a red flag if i see someone that virtually likes everything that drops, and i begin to question their taste.

Baddestguyp is ready to wear an armour and shining valour to defend AOT as the greatest show ever made but there are people, even here, that would counter him and burst his ballz that AOT is just another anime on top the thousands that already exists and it's nothing special. These 2 truths co-exists in a unique duality of our nature as individuals to perceive art and media differently.

So next time a show isn't working for you after a few episodes in, just drop it despite any celestial ratings. That's why it's becoming increasingly difficult for me to even recommend shows to people cuz people just like what they like and hate what they hate at the same time despite your opinions.

Shallom!

i started "Dark Matter" (2024) and i immediately fell in love with the main title sequence/opening sequence, totally reminded me of one other one i like, which is " that of Severance", and ironically both shows are Apple Tv originals, seems they have a knack for it.

it might not seem like such a big deal, but for someone like me who moonlights as a motion graphics designer, these kind of thing excites me and when i see a show with a very good one, i never skip the opening, all season long. infact the Emmy has a category for it called "Outstanding Main Title Design", of which unsurprisingly, GOT and Severance have won in the past, 2 of my all time fave, notable mentions are that of "The Leftover" and "Westworld".

To the show itself, it's off to a great start, but i think they have given away their biggest mystery just 2 episodes in or no?, but i am sure it's gonna be good going forward, and they definitely have my attention.

I mean, Apple TV making a show like "Severance" where they dwell on alternate/dual realities? best believe i will be there, with my bowl ready to be served 😌

Chibudollar:
I think THE BEAR is one of those "just there" series, but the world just decides to collectively overrate it. Or maybe na me no watch am well sha.

It's totally the former, Just imagine, such a basic series, the whole world, the whole world o, both critics and fans, just decided to collectively hype such a bottom barrel show...🌚

Illusioneffect:

I still think there are a lot of great shows coming out this year tho. The problem tho apart from the strike is most of the award magnet shows are done and dusted. But series like Abbott Elementary, House of the Dragon, The Bear, the Sympathiser, the Boys, Cobra Kai, Hacks, Shogun, Eric, Ripley are likely the main award series this year. Baby Reindeer is a limited series so it doesn't have a lot of competition

HOD,The Bear and The Boys will be next year, as only shows that aired between June 1st 2023 and May 31st 2024 will be considered. We are having 2 emmy awards this year because the one for 2023 was pushed to January. 2024 because of the strike, the one for this year holds around September.

Bongadu:


The wire


Twin peaks


True detective

Does heist have another meaning? Cuz none of the show you mentioned here can be construed as a heist show.

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abduleez1:


I see. Yeah, I've been reading reports this week that overall this year's Emmys lineup is looking very weak as there's serious low numbers of eligible shows due to the strike. And the drama series is criminally less competitive.

Yeah, it's weak and any show minimally above par has a shot.

I need to see this "Baby Reindeer" soon enough to see what the fuss is all about.

It is really good but it depends on individual perspective sha, and it is Netflix's strongest shot at the Emmy.

Also is it the same shït that's played out with FX's "Fargo" TV show? I see that show in limited TV series and I get confused cos I know it's running on its 5th season by now. 🤔😕 Or is it cos its an anthology series format? Seems Fargo is among the favourites for Best actor role in Limited series so its a win-win for FX if Shogun stays clear and give it better chances against Baby Reindeer.

Yes!. Emmy classify Limited and anthology together, so Fargo qualifies since it is an anthology! and FX potentially don't want it and Shōgun in the same category, maybe that's why they submitted the latter as a drama.

On the best actor for a limited series, i can tell you now, that the guy from Baby Reindeer did better than John Hamm in Fargo S5, and will most likely get it, imo.

As for Shogun S2 I don't see a way they're doing it good with how it ended. It's only filler after documenting how Ishido is defeated in which we already have an idea how. Source material is dried up....unless they plan on borrowing from the true life events its adapted from. I still see it ending poorly cos I can't picture them matching the sauce they just served or even surpassing.

That will take genuine wizardry in writing to pull that off, which I highly doubt. The original creators never planned for a follow up, so what's gonna be the motivation.

Anyways, I always felt S2 was inevitable after seeing the show becoming FX most successful show ever. They've never seen this popularity and success in a while.

Bro, there is no wonders money can't perform 😩, but it will be so bad if they are doing this mainly for monetary reward rather than creative and artistic reward. They should find a balance between both. They spent years developing S1, this S2 is most likely going to be developed quickly to strike whilst the iron is still hot and it leaves little room for a proper creative direction. Like it most likely going to be real life events as i explained to geezyk. We have to wait it out and see.

Reminds me of "Money Heist", it original channel it aired, billed it as a 2 season event, they Netflix bought it and started remixing things and unnecessarily elongating and it become bland, the dip in quality between S1S2 and the other seasons it's so wild, the writing took a tumble and it just turned into a glorified Telenovela. I haven't even seen the final season and i don't even care.

geezyk:
I fell they'll combine different stories around the period of the events of shogun. Or it'll be a sequel, a backstory before the death of the Taiko.

The backstory before the death of Taiko, is highly unlikely imo, since it most likely takes out the Anjin's timeline, and with the show already losing two key characters in Mariko and Yabushige, there best bet, is to continue with the characters they have now, and just move forward with the story and since the source material is done, they might just draw from the real life events. Tokugawa Ieyasu who is depicted as Toranaga and the Anjin became close friends after the Battle of
Sekigahara, and Tokugawa Ieyasu ruled as Shōgun and the Anjin became his ally in trading with the Europeans, Taikō son came of age and assumed Lordship over Osaka, and even laid claim to the Shogunate in real life, so these are the stories that i feel, they will explore in S2. It may seem like they are clutching at straws, but since the beginning of time, there have never been a big motivator like money!.

abduleez1:
Nice read....

Oyaskii what do you think of this??

https://variety.com/2024/tv/columns/shogun-moving-drama-emmys-limited-1235988104/

interesting read.

FX pulled this same gimmick with "The Bear" last year, pushing it to comedy cate at the Emmys, instead of drama cate, potentially avoiding a head on collision with HBO's giant, Succession, that was having it's final season and was a sure Emmy win magnet, and it paid off big with "The Bear" clearing about 8 Emmys in the comedy cate, even though, in actual fact, it is like 95% melo dramatic with serious undertone and even if there was humour it was very subtle.

Now again, they face the same dilemma again this year with "Shōgun", which was clearly intended to be a limited one off season affair, but with Netflix pulling off "Baby Reindeer", in the last couple of weeks, the limites series category is looking like a fierce dog fight, as I can't even lie, "Baby Reindeer" is a ridiculously good show and the subject matter is an award magnet 🧲, and the awards available for the limites series category are not that much compared to that of Drama category.

So FX, throwing Shōgun into the drama category ring, means it has more than enough chance to scoop so many awards, as i think its the best show, all things considered so far this year, if for anything, it's the best drama show out this year so far. Then, there are 2 curveballs associated with this move, the first been it's a foreign language show, but perhaps the biggest curveball imo, is that throwing Shōgun into the drama category, means it has lost it's limited series tag, and FX hands have been forced and are now open to making a further season, completely outside the source material which they have exhausted. Fillers is that, they have already gotten Hiroyuki Sanada (Lord Toranaga) to sign on, and i can't blame bro for signing, it's a guaranteed massive payday, but i don't even know how a season 2 would look like, i have tried to envision it, and it always comes up sour but if there is one network i trust is FX but this is gonna be thier biggest task yet. If the S2 is officially greenlit, they have the chance to etch it as one of the best shows ever with a good S2 that is plausible or completely ruin the legacy of S1. The S8 of GOT is stil fresh, and universally accepted of how terrible it was, and it did almost ruin the legacy of the entire show, but the saving grace of that, was that it had 5 or 6 really really good season to ride on, but Shōgun doesn't have such luxury, it's go big or go bust for it, i am afraid.

Illusioneffect:

Another big problem is how physical media is dying out bro🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️ no one is buying physical movies anymore and that was were most tiny movies made their money back like Paper Soldiers and those 80s movies. Back then movies like the lion King made 2 billion dollars in physical media sales sometimes even way bigger than its theatrical run movies like Boogie Nights, Terminator and even Die Hard

It is about moving with the times bro. Physical media holds almost no essential value over digital media other than nostalgia. Digital media is portable and can be accessed anytime, doesn't take up physical space and doesn't degrade over time.

Physical media used to also have better picture quality and sound quality compared to Digital media when they were just starting out. 4K Ultra HD and DTS used to be a Blu-ray disc thing, but most VOD services now, have their contents up to 4K res now with 6.1CH Dolby Atmos sound. Get a 4K Netflix plan and pair with a solid sound bar, and see "Underground" (2019), the experience is so immersive and all the action looks like it's happening around you...a true cinematic experience right inside your living room without need for a physical media.

Besides how many true "classics" are out these days that deserves owning a physical media of it? Oppenheimer is the only one i can think of.

Physical media won't phase out, but it gonna be less and less of a thing as the time goes by. COVID lockdown opened people's eyes to how going digital is probably the way forward cuz when people couldn't go out to buy physical media, they relied heavily on digital media, and i think it stuck with people, and apart from media, it spread to other sectors, People now knew that you could be a customer care from the comfort of your room for a company that is continents away.

abduleez1:
@ SOZINN

To highlight the hypocrisy of the average moviegoer who uses poor scripts as an excuse when every year at least 5 really good widely released original films releases but no interest shown in box office.


Where's Original movies with critical acclaim and box office success with $350mn or more like these👇🏽👇🏽 also note some of these movies were among the top ten highest grossing films in their individual release year as well as award contenders and winners.

"The Revenant" (2015) over $533mn
A Star is Born (2018) $400mn+
The Martian (2016) $630mn+
La La Land (2016) $440mn
Coco (2017) $800mn
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) $377mn



In these past few years we've had top quality content in The F@belm@n$, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Northman, EEAAO, Triangle of Sadness, Poor Things, Pearl, Anatomy of a Fall, Saltburn etc.

Yet no audience turn out.
Shït is so bad in fact seeing new original films being marketed seems like a guaranteed flop.

Original movies should just strike VOD deals, make their small coins and call it a day, than engaging in a cinematic run that they are not even sure of even making their budget in a month. The VOD deals are even becoming more juicy now, increased competition and all that, because of the sheer number of streaming platforms that exist, so they can leverage on selling to the highest bidder, some like Disney+, Hulu and MAX are even combining to form a super streaming line, so imagine the money offer for a VOD release, from these kind of super streaming line.

Just leave cinema for none IP established titles as an original film, as these ones have enough nostalgic juice to ensure you recoup next to nothing, cuz with cinema adventure being crazily expensive now, people will rather risk it for what they know. The Fall Guy that even has an official Guinness world record, is out this May, but The Kingdom of the Planet of the Ape, The Garfield Movie, and Furiosa:A Mad Max Saga are also out this May. Ain't no way it was surviving this none IP giant franchise sandwich.

Hueyreckless0007:
Guys, I highly recommend “Blue Lights”.


Solid show.

A proper northern irish show! Fast paced and chaotic, but good. If you loved this, see "The Responder" next!

RE: The Dark Knight (2008).


"some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."

My yearly revisit of this gem and it just seems to get better with each passing rewatch. It has become such an easy watch now, so much so that I have started to pick on some fleeting funny moments, like this one scene, where a goon saw the Bat signal, and he was like "naaah, i ain't gonna catch no Baty smoke tonight" and bro just dipped 😅.

A total risk for Christopher Nolan taking on this project as it differs marginally from the type of movies he usually makes prior, but he totally cooked, makes me genuinely wonder if DCEU albiet now defunct, even made a better flick, post this?

A torchbearer for the flicks in this genre. Kinda poetic that the shining light for CBM for such a long time now, is The Dark Knight.

Proper..Proper.... Proper Film 👏🏿✨


9/10.

abduleez1:
Salient points.... Ryan Goslings "The Fall Guy" already underperforming at the box office and most likely lose money with a $130mn budget.

lol people were clamouring for an "original" story and yet The Fall guy is stilling at the B.O.

The biggest factor from the list imo, is the streaming platform. The other factors are just an offshoot of it. The streaming platforms are so much now that they are now in a fierce competition to get the biggest title to stream on their platform, if not on release day, within a month of release. If people know the biggest title is available on VOD within a very short time, they aren't gonna be spending astronomical fees for food and movie tickets, and so it just trickles down to the other factors.

abduleez1:


Preach the gospel my niqqa.

How will I take those people seriously when they're most likely the r@pe capital of the world. I vividly remember at the close end of my secondary school days I'll be hearing and seeing r@pe cases almost every goddamn week from India. Back then I consume BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera and the likes on a daily. Seeing those things and seeing their annoying supposed "holiness" or "virtue" and "morals" in their Zee World TV series just made me mad and stopped giving zero fvvks about that industry.

lol I think Botswana and SA has overtaken them in that department, and studies have shown that, is not because it stopped happening, far from it, they are still like 90 reported ràpe cases daily, but there is a stigma on women reporting they have been assaulted and so they rather just keep mute. I read a story sometime ago where a group of guys over there, kidnapped a cow, and went at it from behind, for about 2 weeks till the cow passed out... totally bizarre set of people 😩

How come India TV show gets Emmys nomination and I miss am? What year was that?? 😳

It was in 2019 I think, it got an international best show nom.

Contrary to popular belief, most people think Asia as a whole are conservative in terms of nud!ty, violence and bizarre.

In The Realm of the Senses remains the most bizarre shït I've ever seen if I haven't forgotten about a few other films. This movie belonging to the 70-80s makes it even more shocking when you'd think the world is now in a more liberal disposition.
I even doubt Hollywood will go as far as wild as the storytelling of films like "Oldboy" and such movie still becoming a cult classic globally and widely revered critically everywhere. Then there's some old 2000s or older Chinese movies I recently discovered with nud!ty I was shocked as hell. Then it occurred to me why it's pretty scarce these days or well known is because of the govt "Censors Board" and their need to "preserve" the image of the country overseas.

There's this funny shít I see in their culture.... They are almost always on "saree". Something wey na only br£@sts e dey cover..the upper abdomen and the belly button is fully exposed. Make that kind people dey sell me conservativism I fit knack am 2-by-2. The existence of Kama Sutra come spoil everything. 😂😂

Yup they censor thier movies so much to latter to present some form of "holier than thou" apparition in contrast to the west, meanwhile they maybe actually more perverse and deviant. It makes their movies all the more pretentious. If people actually invest in India movies, or Asian movies as a whole of yester years, they will be shocked to see how many lucid ones that exist, but Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham is making people think is all boy meets girl, and they express their love through song and dance for 2hrs plus 😩, To crown it all, Bollywood segregate alot, back in the day, you'd think "black Indians" didn't exist, because of how their movies are portrayed, you'd have to have some type of skin colour and facial looks to break into the industry. Indians and Asians are surprisingly very racist, many people do not know this. If you have to collaborate on a group project with Indians on say Fiverr or Upwork, you'd understand what i am talking about.

Even leave india first, Pakistan is another Sodom and Gomorrah regen, i invested in thier cinema last year and na me know wentin my eyes see, beneath all the Jalabia, Kaftan and Hijab, they are properly perverse.

Like your like statement, The Holy book of Sèx, the ultimate template for all the styles, was literally written by an Indian, so case in point, they are the last people on God's green earth, i would take pointers on conservatism and morals from.