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@Gamine, you don't know the least of it. If I had the time I might just shock you. Actors are mostly like wine

Gee, thanks. Fancy you being useful to me. You mean there's a 3GB quota per month? I hope I misunderstood. Not like he's surely gonna download CIA servers but I doubt if he'd like to be restricted. If I wasn't a poor runt, I might opt for this too. I like the instant access thingie. You know about glo's progress with their fibre-optic line. I'll PM you on related stuff forthwith. Gracias chico!

Really? Well, that just proves my point. Not a gaming nerd as you think. How does the MTN thingie work? Tell me the whole works. Tis cousin is not very young like. He's the kinda cos you call uncle, knowwhattamean? I wanna impress him with my business like reports.

I listen to only Freshly Ground and the old greats.

I was gonna mention I saw The Bonfire of The Vanities again. Felt like it was the first time. I don't understand why the title couldn't simply read; Bonfire of Vanities. The former sounds (to borrow from Ex ) verbose. It was truly a good watch.

You seem to be a real fan of Craig. Well one of my friends (arseblog) says not to watch the new film, Quantum Solace. But I don't think I'll be heeding. I've not missed any Bond movie yet, so I'll watch just to keep the record going. Did I say I liked Pierce the best? He sound more british than blondie blue-eyes.

See how easy it is to manipulate u? The wii thing was a trick question. I've never owned a hand game since SEGA's Game Gear. Be prepared for battle with Spikyn though. They dude loves his Nintendoes. How come you know so much about folks with low self esteem and their mannerisms? Honest question.

Say, Ex, you know how good this Starcomms internet connection is in KD? My cousins are about to sign up and they wanna how good it is.

And, don't worry, even if upstairs is questionable, downstairs is fine and having a ball

Take a cue nollywood. Maybe there should be a regulation that no more than 12 films should come out within a year. Which nollywood film is oscar worthy. They won't even qualify for Razzies. And about being proactive, I think we're doing the first stage. Letting these people know that they spew out incredibly and utter shite, week in week out. Plus they need to learn what makes a good movie (as they can't even be rated by Sisi's list. It's like not showing up for a test) instead of being smug and ridden with hubris.

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John Malkovitch is definitely on my, list. Where's my list?

I've never really made an issue of actors like I do of directors. I believe no matter how bad an actor is, he/she might just get that role that fits like a glove and earn him/her an oscar. How else can you explain Foxx winning for Ray? Directors on the other hand explore vast vistas. Vast vistas, I like that. The list, in no order too. I'll try to keep it short.

Jack Nicholson
Bruce Willis
Emma Thompson
Cate Blanchett
Anthony Hopkins, Sir
Sean Connery
I thought Denzel was overrated. I thought again.
Leonardo Di 'Capprio
Anytime I wanna leave julia out, I remember Erin Brocovich
Morgan Freeman
Bette Davis (I didn't see alive in the thread title)
Humphrey Bogart (humph are the first 5 letters of this guy's name?)
Spencer Tracy

Frankly I'm spent. I'll just second other actors other people post.

@Ice_Zik, whereever he is. I feel like I owe you an apology. I saw Speed racer and it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I thought it was a serious film. It isn't. It's like a cartoon with confused humans in it. The only thing I really liked about it was how colour was handled in it. It's something my lil 5 year old sis would love. Kinda like Spy kids. It should have been made into a DVD so busy parents can lock their children up with em watching it. I saw Joel Silver was following them about or is it the other way around? Where there's one, the other can't be far off.

Puhleeze. Second Life? Doesn't that sounds like somewhere someone dissatisfied with his 'first life' would go to? You can supposedly make your boobs bigger and look taller than you are, et cetera. That was the line they employed in their advertising. I didn't say there.com was second life. And since Ex has met reasonable people then I guess it's an endorsement. You just like to misquote me, eh? Is that more succinct?

I know where your funny bone is dude. Seriously how did you know about the Wii?

$1,000,000. Wow such mind boggling budget!

Nice thing you got going on here, Ex. Unfortunately I'll just be a viewer

That needs serious bandwidth. I heard about Second Life in the news sometimes back and it sounded like one of those RPG games. I was thinking how long will it take to download and install the environment (or is it online real time) and how fast your connection has to be. Well I always thought it was for folks with low self esteem but I guess you can meet people and talk about other fun stuff like Ex said. Will try to check it out. Emphasis on try.

@Spikyn, will do! Thanks! I just pray it doesn't take three millenia

So what if they used film instead of a minicam, or those giant reporter like cameras. It's still bull made on 35mm. That just goes to show u how lowly these people are. The first nigerian film on 35mm. U gotta hand it to them

Is Gamine a closet cry baby? Finding Nemo was cool and I couldn't cry over that if I was traumatised!

And, uh, Seun can cry of course, the question is "will Seun cry?"

I think I like Max's 'Sonny: Fighter for humans and robots' position. It answers more questions than it raises.

AS for the robots recognising Sonny so quickly, I think the robots have a mechanism with which they sense each other's disposition. Call it robotic sixth sense. But seriously I think they can communicate without words, even. They can sense that; hey! this dude's wired funny!

@Ex, glad to have you back, you spark plug, you. Where've you been.

About your essay, while it made for an interesting read, I have many of the problems I had with the matrix withI, Robot. I've not read Asimov's work and I do not know how he portrayed his own vision but I'll draw conclusions from the film. First off, when you're dealing with Sci-Fi I absolutely detest anything that even remotely reflects supernatural intervention. This was solely represented by Sonny's dream coming to pass. The revolution should have been inherent only in Sonny's ability to dream dreams and not dream a particular dream (graphic at that) again and again (even documenting it, so there's no mistake) till the damn dream comes to pass. That's off point anyway. About the revolution, to tell you the truth I still believe the revolution was just what it looked like. Prevent the humans from hurting themselves. And since there's no way of achieving this without collateral damage. Kill off the ones who interfere. A robot doesn't care if it kills off 10 humans to 'protect' one. There was no 'pursuit of happiness' in its code or the explicit laws. Finito.

I saw this film shortly after it came out. I may need to see it again. Maybe I'll notice other stuff too.

And max, you'll learn to ignore Ex with matters concerning me, if I'm not ticking him off with my overtly boring posts, he really is a nice guy.

Well good for the elves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

U r averse to marrying ur kind and u r a woman. Don't take ur heritage some place else

@Spikedcylinder, I think you shouldn't rate Hans that low. I know you didn't mean to but I really love that guy. And now that I know that these Qs were directed at nollywood, I'd say u can classify the 'soundtracks' into shitty, unbelievably shitty, and unfuckingbelievably shitty. One that stuck with was this one "onome, onome, love is yours" It had Olu Jacobs in it.

#2 set of answers. What spoils movies the most. Emphasis on 'most.'

- Bad Script, see above
- Irritating characters
- Poor Storyline
- Poor plot
- Noticeable mistakes
- Being based too loosely on a book
- Being too predictable (same with above and more. But to tell the truth nollywood is gargantuan in its guilt here bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

I just noticed the "STRICTLY FOR NOLLYWOOD MOVIES" part  

Lemme review my answers

#1, 2. I think you've over rated the industry. There are some questions that simply can't be answered simply cuz they aren't there. For question 1, maybe you should change 'really like' to 'can stomach'

#3. I walk out on most movies not because it pissed me off but because I'm usually stuck on it till something else came up to save me from it.

#4 I truthfully wasn't aware nollywood made stand alone movies?

Are those succinct enough answers for such succinct questions