NaijaMemes:


Twitter is a cesspool. It's worse than Nairaland. No comparison

abduleez1:


While you may be right in some ways, I don't think Japan Cultural influence is gone. It seems to have waned a bit in terms of live action but it's still solid and well respected.

True, we're in Korean's pop culture reign. But more of it has to do with Korean content gaining more audience and spreading globally. And it is yet to reach its peak unlike other regions below that had reached their peak popularity.

It's an interesting topic/argument you brought tho.
Makes me reminisce on the days when South American (Mexican) soaps held sway. Indian too at some point as well as Chinese/Hong Kong movie industry. Bollywood seem to adapt and keep a sizeable audience with Zee World content.
Each region has its time of dominion but lack of adaptation to current zeitgeist may affect an industry.

abduleez1:


You're kinda wrong on Japanese content tho.

While Korea now has many movie great titles to call on, Japan can also boast same. Although, the Japs has been losing ground on live action in recent years while the Koreans has been consolidating.

Ju On, The Ring are always in best horror movies of all time.

The Wind Rises, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Paprika, Akira, Ghost in A Shell, Perfect Blue, Princess Mononoke, Grave of Fireflies.....

These are some top well recognized premium Japanese anime movies even tho I haven't watched all.

IbrahimMav:


In terms of live action, Japanese influence is non existent.
It's only Anime that's keeping Japan relevant at the moment
Take that away, and they'd disappear like Hong Kong movie industry.

Korean pop culture has peaked.

K-Pop is dominating the airwaves, Parasite won the Oscars for best motion picture, BTS is a global sensation, goated movie directors, etc....

The scary thing about the Korean wave is that even though it has peaked, it's not abating.

abduleez1:


I'm still wondering how come Hong Kong movie industry died off just like that. The only thing they can boast of of recent memory is IP Man franchise.

GloriousGbola:


alignment with mama china.

NaijaMemes:


Twitter is a cesspool. It's worse than Nairaland. No comparison

pu7pl3:
why do people on Nairaland always
pick a hill and decide to die on it despite glaring facts and evidences of how wrong their hill of choice is

Even on Twitter people always find a middle ground or concede to a new school of thought after evidences have been brought forward on how wrong you were previously.

Na wa o

Ray360:

Though i am not a popular poster here as i just read comments for most of my visits. But what you just pointed out is so true. It's a nairaland thing and has been a long term cankerworm. But i have never seen the peak of it in any section than this movie section. hian! high-horse braggadocios everywhere. Nobody wants to play second fiddle to anyone in knowledge ratings.

pu7pl3:
why do people on Nairaland always pick a hill and decide to die on it despite glaring facts and evidences of how wrong their hill of choice is

Even on Twitter people always find a middle ground or concede to a new school of thought after evidences have been brought forward on how wrong you were previously.

Na wa o

abduleez1:
Japan and Korea has done well for themselves both critically and commercially in entertainment industry. They have given us premium good content over the years and solid alternatives to Hollywood's English speaking fare as well as differing cultural influence.

But in terms of top quality and consistency as well as legacy and deep long history, no one comes close to Hollywood. Be it TV shows or movies, pound for pound Hollywood has no equal. I'm not capping.

Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
Titanic
Saving Private Ryan
Se7en
LOTR
The Matrix
Inception
The Shining
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
It Follows
Black Hawk Down
Back To The Future
The Dark Knight
Joker etc

Only movies from the 90s to 2010, no one can boast of that catalogue of awesomeness and Hollvariety. I don't even want to talk about early 50-80s movies like The Godfather franchise, Gone With The Wind etc.
With these top quality adding the 2010s till now will be overkill.

Note that these movies I mentioned are 95% of what I've already watched and not the full repertoire of cult classics and all time greats.

Forget the rubbish wey 2020s don dey give us, Hollywood no get mate!! I believe 2023 will be a huge bounce back for Hollywood great storytelling. We already seeing some of it in late 2022.

teeshet:
Not in my dictionary

pu7pl3:



Not when it comes to arguements like this, you'll see more people finding and meeting themselves in the middle during arguements like these there than you'll ever see here.

NaijaMemes:



Lol. The same twitter where people block each other and hurl abuses on simple arguments

teeshet:
Hollywood is a copycat. Most of their stories were stolen from other countries and remixed to make you believe it's theirs. Britain is the biggest victim here. They took their bestselling books and adapted it to make millions in the box office worldwide. They know how to tap from countries misfortunes take for instance Slumdog Millionaire and make money out of it. That's why it's one of the highest grossers of all time. If only other countries can see through them and stop them before they pillage the world with their imperialist monopolistic agenda, the entertainment world will be free for all.

pu7pl3:


There is toxicity there ofcourse but I'm saying that you'll still find people agree more there or concede to being wrong than you'll ever see here.

teeshet:
Hollywood is a copycat. Most of their stories were stolen from other countries and remixed to make you believe it's theirs. Britain is the biggest victim here. They took their bestselling books and adapted it to make millions in the box office worldwide. They know how to tap from countries misfortunes take for instance Slumdog Millionaire and make money out of it. That's why it's one of the highest grossers of all time. If only other countries can see through them and stop them before they pillage the world with their imperialist monopolistic agenda, the entertainment world will be free for all.

NaijaMemes:



Was the matrix stolen? What about inception?

Hollywood also has original ideas.

Google "high concept movies"

Ray360:

Though i am not a popular poster here as i just read comments for most of my visits. But what you just pointed out is so true. It's a nairaland thing and has been a long term cankerworm. But i have never seen the peak of it in any section than this movie section. hian! high-horse braggadocios everywhere. Nobody wants to play second fiddle to anyone in knowledge ratings.

thatthickgurl:
Oldboy (2013) : 7/10

A nice thriller, I didn't expect the conclusion. Apparently, it's a remake of the 2003 south Korean movie of the same name.

After reading the plot of the original online, I prefer the ending of the adaptation.

Frostyzone:
Having gone down the rabbit hole of Korean movies, I have to say, pound for pound, Korea make better films than Hollywood.

>>Not from Korea<<
*13 Assassins, Outrage (Japan)
*The Cabin in The Woods, Evil Dead (Hollywood).
*May The Devil take You (Indonesia)

NaijaMemes:



You forget that twitter had character limit.

I wonder what discussion you can have with such limits.

I assume that you don't discuss politics. Especially world/International politics.

Twitter is trash

MirrorD:
I miss the time this place was used for movie reviews only.

NaijaMemes:



Was the matrix stolen? What about inception?

Hollywood also has original ideas.

Google "high concept movies"

abduleez1:
Omo, the fvvking roll Horror genre is in this year ehn no be here.
See hits and crowd pleasers left right centre.

Horror fans don over Belleful this year.

Cc Oyaskii