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Edu93:
If the Germans or Japan had the atomic bomb they would have used it..
The US was in race against time when creating that bomb.

The Japs were actually developing theirs but they couldn't get lay their hands on Uranium

You are correct about the Japs building something of a "nuclear" nature with enriching uranium becoming a stumbling block so the idea never made it past blueprint.

But it's a game of If's, there's no certainty in telling what they would have done if they did successfully build one, but it still doesn't justify USA's use with oblivious civilians the main casualties.

Kaycee7:
The second clip basically mean the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were war crimes but who was going to put a victorious world power on trial? The world has never been fair sha

Maan. WW2 was such a complex war that they were no clear rules of engagement. After the gruesome acts of Nazi Germany against the Jews, All bets were off but the use of a "potentially world ending" weapon was supposed to never be an option but Uncle Sam wield so much power beyond people's imagination. If you deep it, they have been getting away with alot over the years.

Edu93:
The bomb was necessary.
It ended the war

They are 2 school of thoughts, the other being that the war could have effectively ended without the use of the Atomic Bombs albeit it would have taken a little longer. The use of the bombs was effectively down to Harry Truman's temperament and America being accustomed to winning wars in past with "an unconditional enemy surrender" and "dictating peace", and Uncle Sam's complicated relationship with the Soviets that still persists till this day. The allied forces lead by the Soviets were marching on the Fuhrer's stronghold, hell bent on bringing them to a total surrender, America needed a quick and decisive victory in the Pacific to even out this perceived "power balance" with the Soviets, Hence the "hasty" decision to drop Little Boy and Fat Man on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th of August, 1945.

abduleez1:
I don dey hear of that Ali Wong performance all season. With the Dominique Fishback actress for Swarm. Shey no be Swarm dem say one mad nude scene dey?? For Chloe I think.

Ali Wong na for BEEF abi?

Bruh, I'm too damn slack on TV shows this year. Na anime be the overwhelming majority of series I don watch this year. 😭
I'm in the dark of most nominations since I never watch many of them.

The Swarm nude scene na like 2 minutes... proper bait 😂...

Yeah Ali Wong na for BEEF...Tight show...

Infact the entire nominations reflected the very best shows from the last half of last year and the first half of this year... I can't really complain.

Baddestguyp:
again it's a matter of you not knowing how to pick them...

Agba Picker 🙃

abduleez1:
Emmy don start ojoro....
How the fvvk is Elizabeth Olsen absent from this lineup?? 🤯🤯🤡

Na Ali Wong or the girl from Swarm get this one sha 😂😂

abduleez1:
HBO takes the cake once more....
Safe to say HBO got best series already. 😉


This Disney 40 tally dey funny me...

Disney na Newbie na 😅

abduleez1:
I feel this should go to The White Lotus....


Guess it's time to finally watch Wednesday.

Agreed. The score was perfect.

Fairs i guess.... since they have kinda seen the real life version 😩🤐

Lmaoo...HBO is too gargantuan maan fgs. Rooting for all my faves show that i have seen this year tho I.E "Succession S4", "Beef" S1 and "The Bear S2" 😌😌

abduleez1:
Make we dey observe.
Saw some commenters say Microsoft's plan is to starve Sony of titles by acquiring all shït available.

Yeah, Xbox performs rather poorly especially in Latin America and Asia. Maybe If they get more exclusive titles as wide as Sony, they can compete better.
I'm not even a fan of SONY's monopoly.

Maan. SONY too hold ground for the console market and they have the better titles. The Xbox one and PS5 launched almost the same time and the PS5 is outselling the Xbox one by far, SONY can't even keep up with the demand. Activision main title is "Call of Duty", if Microsoft can make it an Xbox exclusive title going forward, then they might be in business...make we dey see sha.

WriterNig:
🎥 Transformers: Rise Of The Beast (2023) = 6.7/10

How's this any different from the last 4 Transformers? 🫤

So what's the 6.7 for?

abduleez1:
Gamers in the house.... W or L??

W for Microsoft but The Xbox brand doesn't have much traction outside of the US.

gustav25:
Interstellar!!! What do you get when you combine a god tier sound scorer and an impeccable movie director ? Interstellar!!!!

You just reminded me about the Score! That German wizard Hans Zimmer made magic with this one. "Cornfield Chase" for one, sounds like peace

abduleez1:
@ Nickshrapnel

This lineup is my biggest reason for giving Aquaman 2 high marks despite misgivings. Universal's movie only seem to pose serious threat. Still, December is lacking the Blockbuster tentpole film audiences might crave for. My perspective tho.

I also maintain that each movie performs on its own based on different circumstances. But I don't see DC's last two films this year performing worse than The Flash.

It's just sad cos I think The Flash had one of the best marketing DC and WB has had in a long time. Too bad Miller had to soil things.
For Shazam 2, it's obvious WB refused to promote that movie and left it to die.

Blue Beetle and AQ 2 is more of a realistic gauge of the state of the franchise for me. It's wait and see.

At the 2 bolded, When the promo for "The Flash" started, WB and everybody involved in making it was so sure that Ezra Miller's antics wasn't going to affect it but here we are.

My point being, Using AQ2 as some of metric to guage where DC's head is at, doesn't sit right with me cuz keeping Amber Heard in the movie is almost on the same plane as Miller was with "The Flash". She's effectively cancelled and ex cummicado in Hollywood as of now and she's a huge red flag as of now in any future projects of hers plus initial reactions to AQ2 screenings aren't all that positive.

To me, i have wash my hands off making any bold predictions for any upcoming flick as the BO atmosphere is too volatile and toxic to even make a clear prediction on how well a movie will do, 2023 alone has been somewhat of a disaster with very few anomaly seeing profits so far at the BO. These 3 upcoming blockbusters out between now and next week remains my litmus test to know if the earnings from cinematic features have actually gone mad.

RE: Interstellar (2014).

"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt".

With "Oppenheimer" almost a week from the premiere, i had to re-see this and remind my self why Christopher Nolan is one of my fave film makers and why him releasing a new movie is such a big deal.

This was such a brilliant watch then and is still is now, The plot itself is nothing new and almost cliché if you will, The Earth's resources is dying off due to ecocide, and scientists are looking for other habitable planet to save the species. On paper it's a reoccurring theme but it's the way this crazy film maker makes and tells this version that takes its levels above its prior, deeping it, it's like nothing we have ever seen before.

Visually stunning with shots that you can hang in the Louvre, Nolan uses the IMAX camera to full effects, cropped when the shots needed too, and uncropped when it needed to too, to create the best out of this world experience. The sheer amount of work put into making this film can only be the doings of a master film maker at the absolute top of his game. The movie was so scientifically accurate that 3 actual published science papers emanated from it. The depiction of the warmhole and blackhole was grueling hours of work, with theoretical equations written for the engineers to create a new type of CGI rendering software to render the frames for the warmhole and blackhole, with some frames taking up to 100hours to render and the entire frame rendering size was a whopping 80TB!, No surprises when it when won the Oscars for Best Visual effect the following year.

The casting was top tier, Matthew McConaughey fresh from winning Oscars Best Actor for "Dallas Buyers Club" (2013), was impeccable here as the lead, probably could have won back to back best actor nod, if not for other stronger performances that year, with Eddie Redmayne [/i]winning it for his excellent portrayal of [i]Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything" (2014). Jessica Chestain and Anne Hathaway gave a good account of themselves.A certain very young Timothée Chalamet [/i]stars for a bit and what is a CN movie without Micheal Caine been involved in it.

Christopher Nolan might have his critics, but he's the right amount of crazy autuer that even if you are woken from a cryo-sleep, you would recognise his brilliant work instantly. I am yet to see a film of his i didn't like, and i am not even going to lie..[i]..i will follow this man anywhere...on to a "Oppenheimer" it is... let's blow shït up! ☢️💣🤯

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9/10.

Dotng:
Interesting...

And RP was his first choice cast for Opphemhemier but according to him RP was so busy with other commitments that he literally couldn't get through to him, so he decided to cast an even crazier method maniac in Cillian Murphy. The casting is been described on the scale of Heath Ledger playing "Joker" in TDK!.

Some doubts have cropped up about Christopher Nolan's ability to drop a generally acceptable banger due to his flair for "over tinker" as seen in TENET, but i feel this is a straightforward biopic with the promise of a beautiful Nuclear explosion.

I trust my man CN, but this movie has been put on such a high pedestal that it simply cannot afford to fail.

abduleez1:
Reservoir Dogs..... 8/10


Quentin Tarantino and his weird style of storytelling.
Everybody just died for nothing except one guy reaping all the benefits.

The opening scene had me in stitches 😂😂

Saturnalia:
The Man with the Iron Heart - 2017.

The assassination of “Reinhard Heydrich” came at a very high cost to the Czech Resistance Forces.

This movie tells a more better story from both warring sides (Heydrich’s and the Czech Resistance’s) than it was told in “Anthropoid - 2016”.

Mehnnnn! I doubt the genocide committed by the German Army across Europe during the WW2 can be rivaled by any other in the history of mankind.

The way I am thirsty for all these Nazi Movies ehn; my spirit is telling me, I was a high ranking official of the Reichsführer-SS, perhaps Himmler.

I rate this beautiful movie 8.5/10.

"Downfall" (2004) and Schindler's List (1993) should be right in your alley if you enjoy movies about a certain famous Austrian painter 😌

abduleez1:
LMFAO.... I died seeing this. 😂😂😂
That thing dey muze me sometimes I wonder how come very different movies across different years ALL have the same score for action and if person wan use native doctor charm knack person. 🤣🤣





True, Nollywood ain't serious yet about the musical score side of the business. They're mainly focusing on the visuals, costumes, makeup and Cinematography.
Nigeria has a culture of one person doing a whole damn job that in outside cultures is broken down and specialised. Na only Naija you go see person edit, score and animate graphics all at once just to hope of seeing some reasonable cash.

Shey no be WB wan sell their music catalogue rights for DC movies of past for $500mn+.

Small hope dey sha as eyes don dey open.

lol..Yeah.. Nollywood keeps treating movies like a hobby rather than an actual business. One person we want to direct, edit, screenplay and only calls other crew like the musical people deep into post production to perform magic. That's why most of the movies aren't sellable outside of cinemas, they can't properly merchandise them with such shaky movie making process.

pu7pl3:
Nollywood left the conversation

Lmaoo..Old Nollywood was actually insane, They were probably working out of a meagre budget of 2k and trying to shoot a movie inside 3 days!. They always just contract the music to one man called Stanley Okorie, and the man had the easiest job ever, he will just take the plot of the movie and throw in a few gibberish and call it a day...You will hear "Nne me, In this life, you reap what you sow" fgss 😩😩, and they have one score template, if you are familiar with old Nollywood ain't no way you won't know the score when someone is about to poison food, once you hear it, someone is about to die by poison.

But new Nollywood are trying a bit with the Netflix and Amazon prime money coming in now, I have a UNI friend who works as a sound engineer out of an indie studio in Lagos, they were the one that actually worked on the "Gang of Lagos" score, but as you can guess, the budget for it was little as they rather spend on custumes and props, and so jobs to score a movie here rarely comes, if he had taken it as a full time job, he would probably be living under the Bridge by now lol.

Nollywood just bank on cinemas and streaming numbers for revenue, forgetting that there are other ways of making money off a movie, like making a proper OST, releasing it digitally and commercially mining it

Kaycee7:
They don't call Hans Zimmer the GOAT for nothing.
I don't know any man of culture that doesn't get goosebumps when Maximus is saying his final words with Now We Are Free playing in the background.

Drink Up Me Hearties made me want to jump on a ship and brave the wild seas.
[color=#994500]Fun fact: There are pieces of Drink Up Me Hearties in other movies Zimmer scored, namely Gladiator and The Lion King.[/color]

Howard Shore and Isabel Bayrakadian set a blissful romantic mood for Aragorn and Arwen with Evenstar.

Michael Giacchino took No Way Home's climax up many notches with Arachnoverture.

Ramin Djawadi's Across the Ocean of Time was one of the best things in Eternals, as flawed as the movie was.

Yuki Kajiura's Sis Puella Magica! was one of the many amazing tracks she cooked on Madoka Magica that had me in goosebumps.

Hiroki Sawano and Laco accompanying on of the best battle charges in fiction with Before Lights Out and this isn't even close to his best work on Attack on Titan's OST.

I could go on and on.

You spit facts here. There's very few things that cement a scene and even going so far to make it iconic as the music.

A fellow man of Culture i See. There's a reason why the oscars award the best film music and score each year. It's such an integral part of film making, that even if a movie is bad, a good score could actually increase it's replay value. Seeing the title of a particular score alone and immediately start playing the particular scene in my head....If i see "Dream is Collapsing", my mind immediately goes to that one scene in "Inception" (2010).

Mann. The Joy of film music is unmatched for a true cinephile

majesticguy:
You be man way Sabi jare. Steve Jablonsky's Arrival to Earth is my work song. To me, I think Transformers 2007 has the best orchestra sounds track in the franchise. It so much resonated with the movie. As in they were able to perfectly blend or combine the act with the music score. When the Autobots were descending from the heavens, the sound track played that's the Arrival to earth was glorious, as in, you literally feel goosebumps all over your body.

The James Horner's "Southampton" was another masterpiece.

I haven't seen First Man, It seems it's a space movie, I'd gladly check it out now.

It's space themed. The biopic of the moon landing. Top Top tier and highly recommended.

abduleez1:
I guess that's where most of the budget went into .. 👀

All this for nostalgia and unwarranted fan service. The man is 80 years old fgs with 5 stunt double, he should be resting fr.

"We have to keep them" 😂😂😂

majesticguy:
Boss, I've noticed that just like myself, you don't joke with your cinematography and music score.

You're absolutely right, the sound editing and cinematography was some next level sh.it. I don't think any movie has come close to the sound editing of this movie. The cinematography was drop dead gorgeous.

Maan..I don't joke with those 2, expecially score. Be it Hans Zimmer's God Particle Playing as Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra search the Vatican's catacomb for the "Anti-Matter" in "Angels and Demons" (2009) or As Steve Jablonsky's Arrival to Earth resonates as the Autobots descends on earth" in "Transformers" (2007) or James Horner's "Southampton" is playing as the Titanic sails away on a doomed maiden voyage on the North Atlantic in "Titanic (1997) or as Hans Zimmer's "Cornfield" is playing as Cooper and his kids chase the drone across a vast cornfield in "Interstellar" (2014) or Justin Hurwitz's "The Landing" eggs on Niel Armstrong played by Ryan Gosling as he lands on the moon becoming the first man to do so in Damien Chazelle's "First Man" (2018) or and this is a personal fave, Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard "s "Now we are free", echoes as Maximus ask for the freedom of his men as he lay dead dreaming of a peaceful life beyond the Gladiator arena in "Gladiator (2000)

mannn film music is bliss, drives the narrative with a perfectly weighted emotion that you will always remember the particular scene by.

i have a large section of my library dedicated to film music collected over the years. I have a very good docu on it. Nothing i enjoy more than a movie with a profound OST or Score 🎶🙂

BlackManta:
Worst case scenario, WB sticks to making only Batman movies.

The only DC character whose movies are guaranteed to turn a profit no matter how bad the brand may be.

lol another angle but they have to make other movies as well based off other characters in DC, they can't tell me these characters are no longer marketable. The Blue Bettle is almost a month to premiere and the level of marketing I am seeing, is like it's a next year movie... absolutely next to zero buzz imo. It looks like a ticking time bomb in waiting ngl.

majesticguy:
Gravity (2013): 8/10
Genre: SciFi Thriller

The cinematography and sound editing was so top tier. The scientific accuracy of the sound editing was absolutely genius, probably the best depiction of sound in a space themed movie i have ever seen, knowing sound doesn't travel in space due to no medium to travel with like air, it was perfectly depicted, instead the "no sounds" were interchange with gut wrenching score by Steve Price creating the chilling feeling of agoraphobia and claustrophobia

Absolutely brilliant 👏. It duly won "Best sound editing" at the oscars the following year.

Baddestguyp:
I found it on PSA
But that sîte is ads galore...

To download 1 episode I have to hurdle through about 15 pages of ads...wtf

What is the sîte in the second image?

Found it on PSA indeed...but you were on about not knowing what PSA was in your previous reply 🤦🏿‍♂️

If you know your way around, there are tons of telegram pages that host thier files for easy download. I can't even remember when last i actually went on the site to download, i just SS it to illustrate to you.

author=Baddestguyp post=124290806] what sîte is PSA?

I'm surprised you are asking this. PSA is where you go to, if you care about quality and reasonable size.

All my movie sites don't have it
Even Kisscartoon doesn't have it

"All your movie sites" must be a very short and limited circle then cuz it was on virtually all the sites i use, yesterday.

abduleez1:


WB is big na.... They got other divisions to pull money from to make up for the losses and hope future films turn profitable.

Earlier this year when I see an article of David Zaslav pay wey shareholders give am for 2022, about $39mn or so for a good job done, Omo fear catch me. Shey na company wey dem dey talk say dey broke na in dey vote that kind money for new executive.

Prolly money wey dem dey get from HBO and WBTV dey do enough to keep them running. Cos the disastrous flops of last year asides from the Batman and Elvis and the flops this year reach to bring company down to half mast.

Only Paramount wey that kind thing happen to dem nearly Comot from existence and use 5 years before getting to path of recovery. 😂

But funny enough, you still see the company dey undertake projects worth $150-200mn like it's nothing. HOTD na $200mn with S2 prepping for production Q1 2024, TLOU na around $150mn, Aquaman 2 na $220mn+, Joker 2 na $150mn, Batgirl $90mn for an unreleased movie,😂, Dune 2 is $122mn, Wonka — $125mn, Meg 2= $175mn, Furiousa hovers around $150mn and you still have The Batman 2 and Superman Legacy gearing for production next year.

You see these losses and head go begin dey pain you how they afford these largesse for these projects despite their lack of liquidity. WB is probably an entity that fall in the proverbial corporations that are "Too Big To Fail".

Make we dey look sha.

lol i was joking with the Bankruptcy, a clear hyperbole. WB as a entity makes enough money elsewhere to cover any supposed losses from any part of the conglomerate. But DC has an entity needs to start raking in money soonest for them to be taking seriously

If DC's movies keep bombing, it's a really bad outlook on the brand.

Baddestguyp:
Just saw episode 1 of My Adventures with Superman

I couldn't find good quality tho ...Adultswim website wasn't loading...and I don't know where to download cartoons...

Saw some people complaining online about the blue effect on Superman in one scene...
Seems it's based on some old blue superman comics

I personally didn't see an issue with the blue effect...

There's no specific place to download cartoons as any site that host movie files also host cartoons. PSA even had 1080p quality of it for about 160mb.