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Illusioneffect:
The fact people really thought Nolan would make a bad movie

cao:
The Sheep Detectives.

Illusioneffect:
did you watch the movie

samistry:
My guy dn suffer no be small . Take heart oyaskii

armadeo:
I no kuku put mouth.

Chris Nolan do rubbish ke. Person when dey build to spec. I knew it would blow up even with all the backlash. The guy sef no answer anybody.

God tier moves.

Na to wait the shores of tortuga as we usually do and let the tides bring in what we want.

oyaskii:
Errr...Nope 👀

Illusioneffect:
Knew it 🤣🤣 after praising the trailer

SOZINN:
Wetin be this 😂
Make Nolan rest abeg.

oyaskii:
lol yeah...SJ was my main draw to it, but eventually just decided against seeing it...btw why did you scroll up to a post from last year? fgs😭🥲

BlackManta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORTe1wW3Wg?si=JRfguUVqeyHBrqmB

Tom Cruise wants an Oscar

oyaskii:
gbàrooms (2026).

The hype sold a better movie than this

Again, I think we're using the phrase "movie of the year" too loosely these days, and at this point, it has lost all its meaning.

If there is a list of films hyped up to the highest heavens since the turn of the year, this absolutely mid flick would be in the top three.

Now, me and the horror genre have stopped seeing eye to eye for a while now. I simply do not care for it. It doesn't excite me. But I was promised a really good time with this, and I'm still left stewing in the pre-c*m of that promise.

A psychological thriller, the first act was totally killing it. The disillusioned and probably bitterly divorced man trying to seek redemption from the pitiable life he had been living, and a therapist helping him get there whilst wrestling with a seemingly troubled past herself. They didn't really flesh out this story properly; they just jumped into the second and third acts, which had zero correlation with the first act, answering questions the first act absolutely didn't ask.

The cinematography and the sound design, as you could have guessed from the trailer, were top work. Spiralling, closed-ended rooms and eerie sounds set a true horror ambience, but they lost me by being overly vague with key details that would have made the film worth my while. I personally don't like things handed to me by the filmmakers when watching a film, but if you're overdoing the vagueness for the sheer fun of it, then I think you've made a not so good film.

The thing I keep hearing is that the director is 20 years old, and perhaps that contributed to the hype... like, boo freaking hoo. And so? This lad might be an industry plant. He wasted the talents of the two leads, especially one who is at the absolute prime of her career.

Now, is it watchable? Perhaps, yes. But it could do without the hype. It nowhere matched it in delivery. Difficult, difficult recommend.

5/10.

Illusioneffect:
Knew it 🤣🤣 after praising the trailer

abduleez1:
Lmao..... Like say I don see premonition know wetin go happen. 😭😭😭

Immediately I saw that trailer, na MID MID MID dey shine for my head. Lol, and I'm not shy and afraid of turning away from the bandwagon hype train.

abduleez1:
Lmao..... Like say I don see premonition know wetin go happen. 😭😭😭

Immediately I saw that trailer, na MID MID MID dey shine for my head. Lol, and I'm not shy and afraid of turning away from the bandwagon hype train.

Illusioneffect:
Oya predict the Odyssey box office

samistry:
Nostradamus wey dey hide face when e predictions no land

abduleez1:
Lmfao... You sef supposed don know me since na. I no dey hide no matter wetin happen. You know how many back to back L's. But I still dey face the heat.

I've been mostly busy with work and personal struggles which have mostly kept me away here for the better part of two months.

On a lighter note, I was on fire last year. I just don't pay that much attention to details and analysis of box office predictions like I do before. I no get time to dey look movie calendar several months before release and compare competing films. Very much unlike me when I know almost all the major films releasing each month through the year.
I just move with the feeling I'm getting these days. Which have been quite off lately. 😏

oyaskii:
Take it easy mann... it's going to alright in the end 🫂

abduleez1:
Lmao..... Like say I don see premonition know wetin go happen. 😭😭😭

Immediately I saw that trailer, na MID MID MID dey shine for my head. Lol, and I'm not shy and afraid of turning away from the bandwagon hype train.

pu7pl3:
The concept of the backrooms has a massive cult following in the US and Europe thats why they loved it

abduleez1:
Thanks so much bro.

How you dey prep for Nolan's new cinematic experience?

pu7pl3:
The concept of the backrooms has a massive cult following in the US and Europe thats why they loved it

oyaskii:
Bruuhh....Been seriously Adulting for the longest while, basically living like a nomad 😩...but as soon as i get a proper screen, i should get around to see it.

But i am hearing very good things about it, might be exaggeration, but some are calling it Christopher Nolan's best work. I might need to tender an unreserved apology, because i doubted the goat for a second there