abduleez1:
I don even forget say na Halloween month we dey so.....

But how come LONGLEGS and ODDITY are missing??👀🤔🧐

pu7pl3:


This one is different from the boys bro. Just look at their faces, this is pure horror Abeg.

iamoyindamola:

Funny thing is I haven't seen none of the listed

abduleez1:


Same here.
Downloaded LONGLEGS and ODDITY.

Have Alien: Romulus, Exhuma and I Saw The TV Glow on radar.

abduleez1:


Lol..... This one no spooky na... 😂
Na small psychology.

Better yet, use that animation wey I post for series thread hold body first. After you mature from that one, you proceed to more m@ture tale.

Illusioneffect:

The movie didn't even have a specific story, it was like he was dreaming and singing all throughout the film. Before you know it, the movie turned to a court room drama

kendrick9:
You will be disappointed then.
This one is Courtroom drama + musical.
The first Joker was overrated anyway..
It had only one memorable scene

NaijaMemes:



Ah, yes Bob Hearts Abishola. The comedy with the most atrocious Nigerian accents? Remember Bob is a white man. The Nigerian sarcasm and quest for excellence is dialled up to the extreme. Remember that the Bob character is a white man. I see the show as a white man's struggle to date someone with a foreign culture to America. A white man is even the best to direct it.

America is diverse but not so much that Nigerians make a significant influence in the same way Mexicans, Indians, Chinese and certain Europeans do.

For instance, how many Nigerian restaurants would you see on a high street compared to Chinese, Italian and Mexican? Hmm?

The Idris Elba and John Boyega both flop when it comes to Nigerian accents. They both do American gangsta accents better. Boyega even tried a bit in Woman King.

Countries have heritage. No one will tell your story better than you.

Just even look at Nigerians today. We are sold the story of Jews being the chosen ones. Look at how foolish Nigerian Christians support isreal claiming that Muslims or Ishmaelites cannot hurt isreal because God is the protector of Israel. Lol.

African history has been whitewashed by the west.
Forgive me if I doubt that the same people will do well to tell a Nigerian colonial story well.

Just even look at Black Panther. I loved the movie but I realised that the villain was the guy that was ready to retaliate against colonialism. T'challa didn't care about racism or colonialism. Killmonger even pointed out how cultural artifacts from Africa were stolen by the British. Black Panther was directed by an African American. Maybe an African director would have the anti-colonianist be the hero....or maybe not as he could be one of those white-worshipping Nigerian Conservatives

oyaskii:


Bob ❤️ Abishola is the absolute worst project to drive home your point, because 5 episodes into season 1, i couldn't stand how cringe it was. They were trying too hard and it came out blatantly pretentious. There are tons of articles that criticize them for it and i culled one from medium below. The comedy holds up, but beyond that, i.e. trying to infuse the Yoruba culture and all that, was total garbage and cringeworthy.

That being said, you can't just wake up and make a movie or write a book about a totally different culture, because you love the culture, it doesn't work that way. Culture is a lived experience and you can't properly portray an experience you haven't lived, you might deceive yourself all you want, and people not wanting you, who haven't lived their experiences to tell their story, is not racism except racism has another meaning. It is a condescending mentality that makes Hollywood think they can tell stories of other cultures without fuss, if a Nambian director wants to do a JKF story in Namibia, sorry, he will be vallified from here to Timbuktu for it!.

Hollywood is multifaceted given, but when stories about mexicans, Indians, Brits, or Jews, are being made, you actually see the effort that goes into it. They research, meet with locals, go to actual locations about the culture to shoot and they come out good because it is a true representation but you see stories concerning Africa or Nigeria per se, they can't actually be arsed to come here and do any proper research. They just find a film head that is British Nigerian or American Nigerian who has probably lived there all his/her life to spew some nonsense about Nigerian culture, and they slap the person's native name on the credits and call it a day. The opening scene of Captain America: Civil War (2016) was supposedly an open market in Lagos, Nigeria, and these people couldn't be arsed to come here and shoot, and they just simulated it in Atlanta, Georgia and kept it moving.

So, no matter the defence you put up, people having a bone to pick about one of Nigerian favorite book being given an Hollywood treatment are in the right. The premise of the books takes place in "Iguedo" in the Umuofia clan in south east Nigeria, so i am close to 100% sure, that they are not stepping foot here to shoot, so they will simulate "Iguedo", Umuofia clan, in America, and to you that will be the true representation of the book, because according to you, "They love the culture"

Abeg Abeg...They have bought the rights to the book and no lamentations will change it, my own is that, they had better not fail....😒

oyaskii:


The opening scene of Captain America: Civil War (2016) was supposedly an open market in Lagos, Nigeria, and these people couldn't be arsed to come here and shoot, and they just simulated it in Atlanta, Georgia and kept it moving.

oyaskii:


Bob ❤️ Abishola is the absolute worst project to drive home your point, because 5 episodes into season 1, i couldn't stand how cringe it was. They were trying too hard and it came out blatantly pretentious. There are tons of articles that criticize them for it and i culled one from medium below. The comedy holds up, but beyond that, i.e. trying to infuse the Yoruba culture and all that, was total garbage and cringeworthy.

That being said, you can't just wake up and make a movie or write a book about a totally different culture, because you love the culture, it doesn't work that way. Culture is a lived experience and you can't properly portray an experience you haven't lived, you might deceive yourself all you want, and people not wanting you, who haven't lived their experiences to tell their story, is not racism except racism has another meaning. It is a condescending mentality that makes Hollywood think they can tell stories of other cultures without fuss, if a Nambian director wants to do a JKF story in Namibia, sorry, he will be vallified from here to Timbuktu for it!.

Hollywood is multifaceted given, but when stories about mexicans, Indians, Brits, or Jews, are being made, you actually see the effort that goes into it. They research, meet with locals, go to actual locations about the culture to shoot and they come out good because it is a true representation but you see stories concerning Africa or Nigeria per se, they can't actually be arsed to come here and do any proper research. They just find a film head that is British Nigerian or American Nigerian who has probably lived there all his/her life to spew some nonsense about Nigerian culture, and they slap the person's native name on the credits and call it a day. The opening scene of Captain America: Civil War (2016) was supposedly an open market in Lagos, Nigeria, and these people couldn't be arsed to come here and shoot, and they just simulated it in Atlanta, Georgia and kept it moving.

So, no matter the defence you put up, people having a bone to pick about one of Nigerian favorite book being given an Hollywood treatment are in the right. The premise of the books takes place in "Iguedo" in the Umuofia clan in south east Nigeria, so i am close to 100% sure, that they are not stepping foot here to shoot, so they will simulate "Iguedo", Umuofia clan, in America, and to you that will be the true representation of the book, because according to you, "They love the culture"

Abeg Abeg...They have bought the rights to the book and no lamentations will change it, my own is that, they had better not fail....😒

pu7pl3:


The person wey create that Animé really needs to visit a therapist. No Cap.

Illusioneffect:

🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ I've been speaking to someone who doesn't know shit about Hollywood by the way. You actually think it would make more sense to

4. Close down a market for months (EXACTLY! and pay everyone of them)
5. Report directly to the Lagos State Government (who have no significant laws when it comes to this sort of thing)

7. Cause significant chaos because it'll be very difficult to shoot considering it's Lagos

Remmedy:
Deadpool Wolverine solid 7/10

Illusioneffect:


It looks like you guys don't really get my point at all🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️ and honestly I won't try to write a whole essay on the subject anymore.

My whole point is IF THEY ARE SPIRITED AND DRIVEN ENOUGH TO MAKE A 'THINGS FALL APART SERIES' - being American or British or Yoruba or another culture shouldn't and should never be a cause or deterrent to shame them into thinking they won't do a good job - how can you guys not actually see that?

Have Hollywood made mistakes in adapting African cultures? Of course!! Could they make exactly the same mistakes? Yes! and could it even be worse? Yes! But does that mean they should stop trying? Of course No!

How can you say Hollywood should stop 'cultural appropriation' and adapting African series because they can't get our accents🤦🏽‍♂️. There're not a lot of African shows and movies from Hollywood because of this constant complain - it's still a learning process. Do you actually think they would just get the 'African formula' instantly?

Just thirty years ago - Hollywood tried adapting Japanese stories into movies and they were receiving significant backlash because they were never accurate. Jump to 2024 - Shogun is receiving the most awards in the Emmys.🤷🏽‍♂️

Being accurate is awesome but it takes time🤷🏽‍♂️ they may not get everything right but it'll certainly be an improvement. Bro, they've not even announced anything except the show-runners and you guys are already huffing and puffing. Have you guys not actually thought about the significance to Nollywood if this series does well at all?👀 Or you guys think it's 10 naira they use to make films? Be smart! Everything is about money - if this show does well- Hollywood will start taking a closer look on Nigerian stories - that way - it'll ensure they get better in adapting them🤷🏽‍♂️. In turn Nollywood will see a significant boom in quality because of investments - that'll never happen if Nollywood adapts the story itself

abduleez1:


That Bob Hearts Abishola is a very weak choice of project. Back then when it was just fresh I saw a few clips of it and I hated it automatically. The Nigerian accents was annoying and off-putting and I don't even see it as a representation of anything Nigeria.



Accents are the easiest way to turn me off any Hollywood project pretending to be authentic to the culture. You can do your shït without the pretentious accents and get the history or facts right, and I won't complain. But when you force yourself doing a stupid @ss accent that's never gonna fool me one bit, that's where I have the problem with. Boyega in Woman King is the closest I feel Hollywood has tried to nail the accent thingy but I still found it cringe. There's some point when some of these accents now looks like a mockery.



These type of Nigerians are the most annoying and gullible set of buffoons I've ever come across.
The ones of this subset that pisses me off the most are the educated illiterates who says "Israel can defeat the USA in a war because the lord promised them to be undefeated". The same Israel that the US ensures and insures its existence?
Same Israel that has been beaten black and blue since time immemorial in the same bible by Assyrians and what nots. Same Israelites that was chased away from the "promised land" and dispersed across the globe for a thousand years.....a strange precursor to Nazi Germany ethnic cleansing of Jews.



When I say Black Panther movie is a peak product of pandering to Africans or blacks and doesn't move me, people think it's cos of DC vs Marvel sentiments. The movie is good but a cultural appropriation I feel no connection whatsoever to.
And anyone trying to feed me tales with how historic it is to the Black race ain't convincing me shït.

I've never felt that movie represented me as an African and in fact I felt it and it's sequel very pretentious with the African culture. Excuse me but I find that African country with world beating technological advancements theme overtly exaggerated and appeasement to make us feel important or feel better with our failures.
If they portray Africa as an advanced civilization above most parts of the world in the form of Ancient Egypt before the Ptolemaic Era, then I can accept that tale of tech superiority. Or even the Benin Empire, Oyo Empire. Mansa Musa, the undefeated Ethiopians etc..

And the funny subtle theme most people fail to see about the Black Panther stories is that it all still boils down to how the white man sees us a "natural resource rich region" a la VIBRANIUM.

They just can't see us outside the lens of mineral resource rich.

armadeo:



As I saw solid ohbritannia came to mind.

NaijaMemes:


Simple and short- you are right: Hollywood can make an adaptation of a Nigerian story. However, it serves us best to do our own stories properly.

abduleez1:


I strongly disagree with you on these points... The local industry ain't as backward as you think.

Having been on an international standard movie set for 3 months here in Nigeria I'll tell you you're very wrong.

Communication with the Lagos state government and various agencies was mostly a smooth ride.

We shot at various high density locations in Lagos...closed off roads partially and/or fully for a few days during our course of shooting.
In fact, we shot on the third mainland bridge a few hours. With not much hiccups.

We didn't need to close down a huge market for months. Just a day was needed and a very tiny section with adequate collaboration with LASTMA, Police, private security and the market people and all necessary agencies or collaborators. And we didn't need to pay off everyone. We had our own extras to portray market people the way we liked in our own controlled settings.

We did all these without even delaying our original scheduled date to wrap up production. Almost seemed like a miracle to me sef.

So there's not much of a big deal here if you want to go serious in shooting a movie in Lagos or Nigeria at large. It just all boils down to serious planning and scheduling and division of labour.

abduleez1:
What is Netflix cooking....👀👀



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJejE1Xv8vw?si=PQfkpp18-YbcCFGk

abduleez1:
Happy Birthday Queen....


Love her wonderful smile. Always dey gimme joy.

abduleez1:
Happy Birthday Queen....


Love her wonderful smile. Always dey gimme joy.

jikins:


I don't agree they have to come to Nigeria to shoot that scene in Captain America. It makes more sense for them not to security issues aside. Its an unnecessary cost. It's not the first time Hollywood movies have simulated locations in a different country before. Heck they have even simulated locations in the US when filming is majorly in a different country. Even recently the new TWD spinoff which is filmed in France simulated locations in the US you don't see anyone crying about it.

But I do agree they need to do better research when it comes to Africa, but to be fair we aren't their main audience. Their main audiences don't really care too much how accurate their portrayal is to a large extent because they too are ignorant. Also a Nambian director can do whatever he wants, if it will sell to his main audience. It's 2024 nothing you do will be accepted by everyone but as long as you are smiling to the bank who cares really.

Kaycee7:
Have you finally watched the prequel TV show? Or you're still dragging your feet?

abduleez1:


Lol, I never still watch am oo.
But shey me and you been discuss the show before? Cos I no remember again sef.

Kaycee7:
She definitely got that girl-next-door look

Kaycee7:
I think I recommended the show to you at some point

abduleez1:


I see.
What's the show about sef cos this trailer is pretty vague?

abduleez1:


She does??

I know she's pretty and got that nerdy vibes.