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Not all the films in contention should be in there. Some are they mostly cuz of how short they fall of their originals. I'm not talking of Chip-wrecked. That one was just a disaster and I see many more coming. Hangover II is what I'm thinking.

My worst: Green Lantern, Twilight (even though I've not seen it), The Smurfs (and it made so much money!),

Ok. So long to this thread.

Nah, bruv. It's all kinds of wrong.

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Yeah, you better run. But you can't hide sha

Lord in heaven.

@TOH, as you can clearly see from his response, I'm in pain. Single handedly redefines the term 'over your head'

Who is blaspheming Steven Spielberg's holy name? Chika98! You must to like horse feem oh. Or the gods will not rest until etc etc.

^^^ I am besides myself with pure unadulterated joy that you approve of my taste in movies.

"I've got a wish list of people. No. 1 on my wish list is Justin Timberlake, because he played me before in a David LaChapelle video of 'Rocket Man' and was superb." - Elton John

Yeah, that, and probably cuz he thinks JT has a nice Behind. I kinda don't like Elton. I have no idea why. But a biopic? I'd complain but Bieber has a film about him so. . . . . . . . .

And Happy New Year Obinna. Danke

Lars And The Real Girl.

The channel I saw it on listed it as comedy and for the first twenty mins, it may have passed for one. It turned very touching and deep very fast. It's about some socially challenged guy whose subconscious lead him to fall in love with a doll he got over the internet to compensate or rather provide an outlet for his emotions. He's deluded and his brother and his wife along with the little community play along so he doesn't fall over into cuckooland completely. It features Ryan Gosling who I'm really becoming fond of.

Did you even notice Colin Farell's character? Best of the lot. I'd forgotten about hiim. He killed it.

I wish I could make out what it is you're saying especially when you're saying it repeatedly

Much ado about nothing sha. When will you people start making interesting threads again? Lemme go see what Deep Sight is up to.

C'mon Vieira. Paul was great. Well, the alien, Paul, was great. But being a comic junkie, you'll see many inconsistencies invisible to the regular dude sha. And, Man Utd and Chelsea and Spuds eh? Great New Year eve.

I saw The Contender.

Very good film. I didn't know Joan Allen had that in her. Great performance by virtually everybody. Great casting. No, perfect casting. Great story. Great execution but then there were heavyweights in it anyway. I find Christian Slater very awkward in most roles but this one fit him completely. Gary Oldman, was his usual perfectionist self. Jeff Bridges was his usual charismatic self. 8/10.

I think the results hitherto the rigging is fair jare. I'm the reason v3 is there. He probably doesn't care for it. Ogaga 'outwardly' doesn't care either and 'graciously' concedes to Obinna who I think is the rightful winner.

Well, this is embarrassing. I'll let Mukina2 do the talking if there's need.

I'd forgotten they were gonna make The Bourne Legacy. I've not even read the book. I really dunno what to expect. I just hope it's not gonna smear The Bourne Legacy, pun intended.

There seems to be a lotta anticipated crap movies too.

Lol. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a film only old men like me enjoy. Le Carre, the author of the book whose book the film is based upon has his feet firmly in reality. No dodging bullets and hitting someone such that they go to sleep. This Gary Oldman, not Jason Statham.

Eight Below.

An awesome touching movie about sled dogs who got separated from their master. They survived on their own for months in harsh Antartica and had to coordinate, protect each other and fend for themselves. It was really well made. I coulda done without the humans and there was a little sloppy CGI but it made my day.

The League. Pretty good comedy. Mostly men acting like boys which is awesome.

I will be moving threads with links to movies or episodes of series to the reccycle bin henceforth. pls post such links on this thread instead. This is in a bid to sanitize the section. Sorry for any inconveniences.

Let's say I'm a top shot Hollywood executive and I'm looking at someone's resume: hmmmn, so you were in Valentine's Day. Whoa, also in New Year's Eve? I'm sorry, I can't work with you

Not that these films are the worst things I've ever seen but what do they think they're doing by distracting us from the average story with the cast? I just feel used.

Oga, Orikinla. I like this thread you opened and I'm actually very pleased. More of this please

This is not even fun. Sigh

I hate most reality TV. To me, it is to TV what autotune is to music. It's funny how pretentious and unreal something that's supposed to be real can be.

That said, I like Chef/food related reality shows. I don't like food that much but food can really be beautiful and these kinda shows don't make me wanna kill someone.

Movies that show me the actual demons and all don't scare me at all. My brain just registers it all as bullshit. But the ones that leave me to the devices of my imagination, those are the scary ones.

The Omen films were all scary. The music alone, Jaysus!
Bless The Child scared me back then
First Blood too. Back then
I watched Drag Me To Hell with a surround system and I knew the difference.
The Ring is a cult favorite
I was moved and not really scared by Stir of Echoes.
My parents talk about The Thing but I haven't seen it
Freddy vs Jason (I forget the title) was awesome

There're probably more. I haven't the really good ones though.

How magnanimous of you

Seeing as the average age of the posters on this thread is probably above 30. It worries me that there should be so much ado about the poster of the year. Multiple ids, rigging, campaigning, slurring, manipulation, etc haba. Let's er try to be grown up and stuff.

Waaaaaat? Can you do one for me to put in my CV?

MyJoe:
Actually the three nominees are colourful enough to appeal across divides and it will be a shame if you can’t pick one. So lemme help you. 

Enigma

If the nom de guerre conjures up images of Kim Jong-Il, the Dear Leader who just kicked the bucket, you would have gone astray. For our own Enigma is within the realms of scrutablility. At least, his motivations are. Obviously a good Christian and a brilliant man propelled by a mission to use peaceful means to defend Christianity against its enemies, Engima’s reputation was not built on long posts or even sustained exchanges and debates. He prefers cryptic posts, often in form of quips or questions, some of which have several layers of meaning, some of which leave you scratching your jaw.

To many Christians on this forum, Enigma is the scourge of atheists. To others, the man sometimes comes across as an aspiring Brobdinag who squints down his nose at you to let you know that what you wrote is not worthy of his response,  in fact he was not responding to it but just wanted to respond and say… Some posters once resorted to invoking AS after his name. And you disagree with Enigma at the risk of having what you wrote described as “idiocy” or “nonsense”.

Whenever he is not hurling well-aimed stones at his bête noires, the “evangelical atheists” or “anti-Christians”, Enigma likes to leave them alone to focus on exposing evil plagiarists, except that, well, those just happen to be “evangelical atheists” or “anti-Christians”.


Joagbaje

Easily the most persecuted person in the Nairaland religious section, Joagbaje is not your everyday Nairalander. Some love him. Others despise him. And those who despise him sure know how to go about their business of despising. Joagbaje is a man of conviction. He is a pastor, has good knowledge of the Bible (Chukwudi44 and others insist he “twists” it) and has interesting perspectives on things Christian. You open a thread in this section and Joagbaje makes a post with copious scriptural references. He is known to be an admirer of Paul who he considers a superapostle, (at least, when compared to the likes of James, who Jo declares a “baby Christian”). Maybe Jo is simply a man who has accepted a church as God’s mouthpiece and will defend to his last breath anything dished out by the leadership of that church. Maybe he “knows what he is doing” and is out to twist the Bible to serve certain interests as his enemies say. I don’t know. However, I doubt some of the things Joagbaje preaches will make sense to himself ordinarily, but in a religious context, they don’t have to. Now, that is not strange, as it this applies to most religious folk. So to understand Joagbaje’s travails we need to look deeper. You need to understand Nairaland Christianity and its divisions and undercurrents.

Nairaland Christians can be divided into three wings. (1) the “emerging Christian” wing – those who say tithing is haram and that, while churches are useful, Christians can worship God as led “by the spirit” and do not have to submit to a “man of God” in a regulated environment; (2) the tithing group – those who say Christians must pay the tithe and offer first fruit and prophet offerings and that prosperity is a “part and parcel” of the Christian package and that deregulated Christianity is bad for the masses; (3) the reactionary group – those who will  make the Sadducees look like reformers, generally supporting tithing but rejecting group two’s tendency to lift certain aspects of the Bible above others, and have unshakeable commitment to Biblical inerrancy, believing that the Bible, as presently interpreted by “anointed men”, is the complete guide, which should be followed without applying common sense or countenancing scientific findings, and that all non-Christians are galloping to hellfire with first class tickets.

Group  2, which is made up mainly of Christ Embassy members, love Joagbaje to bits. Group 3, ably driven by OLAADEGBU and Image123, are ambivalent about Joagbaje. Group 1, which has greats like nuclearboy, KunleOshob and alethea, despise Joagbaje. They are the ones who made him popular. The response to Joagbaje by this group is almost like clockwork. Once he speaks, they attack him. But for the most part the man has stood head and shoulders above it all. Joagbaje’s refusal to get drawn into mudslinging and insults, rather than his religious views, is what stands him out to readers of this section who ordinarily have no interest in what he is selling or in the intra-Christian debates.

Frosbel

Frosbel is a crusader. A Christian advocate. A Bible exponent. He is a writer, a doodler, a scribbler. He has only one mission in his cyberlife: to expose falsehood and establish the supremacy of the Christian project. (By falsehood, of course, we mean anything frosbel considers falsehood and frosbel has a quick opinion on everything.) He has a highly developed falsehood detection radar. Note that I didn’t say he is pretty good at detecting falsehood. I said he has a military grade falsehood detection radar. And we’re not talking Ecomog kalashnikovers here, we’re talking naval SEAL covert ops!

Frosbel is not a philosopher and is not into debating and all. He simply likes to bring them to their knees and slaughter them. If he was a politician, he would most closely resemble Josef Stalin. If he was a Moslem, he would be Abu Musab al-Zaqawi. Frosbel is a shooter, a puncher, a cleaver. He does not take any prisoners. On his emergence and metamorphosis, I wrote this about him in another thread:
 

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Political permutations
Since the three nominees are Christians, Joagbaje may win for the simple reason that the non-Christians are likely to vote for him out of sympathy or respect for his principled manner of standing up to his traducers - most times. But Frosbel can win, the majority of active participants here are, afterall, Christians. Besides, Joagbaje won it last year and that might work against him in the minds of many. And, of course, Enigma can very well come from the back to spring a surprise. Let the other two underestimate an enigma at their own risk.