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Government Secondary School Owerri Online Forum => Entertainment => Topic started by: Honeybunnie on May 19, 2005, 07:23:49 PM
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Being that it\'s almost summer again, and I hate having to waste my money on a not-so-great movie, this thread would include opinions on the movies that are out, be it Nigerian, Indian, American, Hindu, french. Whatever tickles your fancy. Feel free to give your thumbs up or down, give your suggestions and not-so-wonderful-reviews. Feel free to vent at the scenes you thought were the cheesiest in the movies, don\'t exclude stories on the NIgerian actors, roles and story lines. Do tell us what movies you\'ve seen lately as well, and your take on it.
I didn\'t get to see \"Assault on Precinct 13\" in the theaters, but rented it this past weekend. It was okay I\'d say, the story line was a little predictable though, but I\'d recommend seeing it.
Anyhow I hear \"White Noise\" is also out, and I didn\'t see it in the theaters, I\'d prolly get it this weekend, always love a good scare :twisted: !!!.
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You know, i was just wondering, Nigerian actors and actresses have found new adventure in music. Whats up with that?
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Although this movie is kinda old but i saw Amityville Horror. Man this movie is ok; i thought it would be much scarier than it was but it\'s aiight. For those that haven\'t seen it, it\'s about a family migrated to a haunted house. The house is haunted because of a man murdered his family due to voices he heard telling him to do so; therefore the bodies of the family were buried in the house. The ghost of those family members began to affect the new family that just moved in; especially the husband was the person most haunted mentally. He became less heedful to his wife and children. Eventually they were able to leave the house, but with a hassle. the husband/children\'s father was knocked-off and he became unconscious b/c he wanted to kill his children, who wanted to leave the house, but the eldest knocked him off..... so the husband realised where he was when they moved out.
I\'m a fan of scary movies, i recommend those that haven\'t seen it to see it. if you don\'t like really scary movies, you should also see it cuz it ain\'t scary that much. I will award it with 3 stars out of 5. Does anyone remember this old movie \"13 ghost\"... if you haven\'t seen it, you can rent it out. It\'s really good and scary as hell.
The question i have is why do directors of horror movies use the Church, specifically Catholic Church in their movies???? In Amityville Horror.... a priest was present. In this movie.... although kinda old \"Stigmata\" priest was present (by the way, the movie is GOOD)....and the church building was also used. In some of Stephen King movies.... the church is also used. why is that?
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So i\'m guessing they are using the church to make money.
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I love stigmata...for som reason
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Stigmata was a good movie, I remember that.
Frescoe I hear you about AMityville Horror, I saw that a while back, it was scary as hell....i got it mixed up initially with another movie till I reread your post. I loved it, did you see The Ring II?? Another hood one.
The one movie that until today pisses me off is Van Helsing. I advise you all not to even bother renting it, a complete utter waste of time. Slept through the movie, which is really hard for me to do.
Signo on the Nigerian actors and actresses, have you all heard that Genevieve Nnaji is the new face of Lux. She got a $75000 deal with lux to be the brand face replacing the other lady. SO she\'s going to be on all the soap wraps, creams and all. I tell you, Nollywood is not a bad place right now. Girl is going places that\'s for sure. I heard bout her siging though, I really don\'t know where she gets that from, I don\'t understand why they all want to sing as well, trying to be J-Lo, I guess.
By the way has anyone seen Interpreter, Million Dollar Baby, Diary of a mad black woman, House of Wax, or Star Wars? Haven\'t seen a movie ina minute, no time. :(
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Yea.... i heard about Nnaji forcing herself to sing. Singing is not meant for everybody. if you are good at that, fine; if not don\'t bother. I read how she was comparing herself with J-lo and Beyonce. She said sumtin of how J-lo does not always respond to her fans e-mails and stuff like that; i guess her fans wanted Genevieve to respond. Her comments infuriated her fans who then criticized her and called her snobbish etc. I believe Nigeria movie actors and actress are improving but the thing is that don\'t do something you know you aren\'t good at... interms of Nnaji\'s situation becuz its not gonna work for yah.
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As much as am not a big fan of some Nigerian actors and actresses especially Nnaji or is it Genesis, but come to think of it, she is not far from j-lo or beyounce. Actually she maybe putting more effort than they are. This can be well proved and defended.
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Here are the links to two Nigerian actresses\' web pages
Genevieve Nnaji . http://aboutgenevieve.com/
Omotola Jalade. http://www.omotola.com/
Dang, Omotola has put on so much weight, I remember seeing her movies back then, I was a huge fan, and she then got married to this guy on a plane, from what I heard then.
Why don\'t NIgerian actresses take care of themselves?? Has anyone seen Eucharia Anunobi lately??? 8O whoooooaaaa is all I can say.
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I visited Genevieve\'s website when it was on; she got some cool pictures too. I believe majority of the actresses and actors have their own websites, atleast people can visit to know what\'s up.
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Here is the site where Genevieve compared herself with J-lo and Beyonce.... feel free to read more about other actors/actresses.
Link below
http://www.nigeriansinamerica.com/articles/365/1/Is-Genevieve-Nnaji-Nigeria's-First-Movie-Superstar?
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good for her.
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Hey HB, i liked Van Helsing o (i like when movie makers r not afraid to let their imaginations run wild). i\'m a huge fan of movies like - Hell boy, Under world, Sin city.....I love thrillers.
anyone seen Hotel Rwanda yet? i absolutely loved it and i recommend. Kung-fu Hustle nko? i thought it was going to be lame but it cracked me up so bad(check it out).
Diary of a mad black woman was an angry movie(just ok sha)-d type u watch once and dats it.i\'m not into nigerian movies but i can\'t escape it all d time.when i have to watch i have my favourite actresses which include Stella Damascus(she\'s my best) and Omotola.Genevive is a good actress but i don\'t get d music thing.someone told me sometime ago dat she was razz, i thought it was beef but i\'m beginning to see it.
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Kung-fu hussle.... from the preview.... i think it\'s a funny movie and makes fun of Kung-fu. Hell Boy..... this is not my type, although will be interesting to others.
I\'m waiting to see Mr and Mrs. Smith, although not horror but i believe it will be a good movie.
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Hmmm.....Chinelo, maybe it was because I saw it in the movie theater, and I kept waiting for something to happen to help me explain the entire fireworks better, the storyline was a little off for me. The theatricals and graphics were definitely one of a kind, which was the main reason why I was attracted to it in the first place. I didn\'t see Hell Boy, have you noticed how Ron Perlman, the Hellboy actor is always the one in all the comic book movies, maybe \'cos he has a very strange/sorta-not-normal-look.
I rented and saw White Noise and Team America this past week.
Team America was AWESOME, I was laughing my head off, if you like some sarcastic humour, you should check it out. It was made by the makers of South Park, so if you can stand South Park Humour, you\'ll love this. I like how they made fun of regular movie roles, like how the lead actors in most movies always have these macho-one-liners. And look out for the long transformation that was given to the main team member, so he could go undercover, just too funny. NOTE: the entire movie was done with puppets, and that made the themes and different regular movie roles interesting. The movie started out with the members of team America asking terrorists to drop the Weapons of Mass Destruction they were carrying, don\'t want to spell it out, but my take???? Two Thumbs Way Up.
White Noise was kinda annoying, the entire movie was about TV screens going blank and this guy was just obsessed with trying to hear from his dead wife, just didn\'t get that part. Some parts of it were spooky though, maybe \'cos I saw it late at night.
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How about Closer, i think Clive Owen just does it for me.i loved his performance in King Authur and SinCity too. i must also give Julia Roberts and Jude Law their dues too (great performance). Did i mention that the co-star in Hotel Rwanda is from naija (even though she was born and raised in jand) her name is something Okonedo (her and Don Cheadle made a great pair).
b4 they clamped down on d pirates i was really current but now movies take time to come out in naija.
Hey guys! don\'t know if u\'ve heard of our very own 21st century cinema - complete with current movies,popcorn,escalators,pepsi and 5 great theatres(no be small effizi o).its Silverbird cinemas at Victoria Island,they even show d movies running weekly on tv.i went there once to see I Robot (quite expensive) and i was impressed.its the fad for all those ajebos now.
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Yes Oh!....I definitely have heard about the movie theater in Lag. I was talking with my coz, like so what are you going to do today....girl was like \"I and my friends are going to the movies\".... 8O 8O 8O I did a double take, like shooo, are you talking about renting a movie and watching at home, and she fully kowashiated it all to me..... 2500, abi 3000 Naira for a movie, Isn\'t that a little bit of a rip-off if you convert movie prices over here, which are in dollars (6, 7, depending on your status as a student or not) to the equivalent in Naira??.
By the way, I hope they get one in Abuja pretty soon, it\'ll be so much fun to check out a movie in Naija when I visit.
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2500 naira? that\'s quite a rip off! well may be the price will come when people really get use to it. as for me it\'s hard to spend $7.50 to watch a movie that\'s not all that. imagine myself paying N2500 to go watch \"Cookout\".
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Hahahaha, Ozy that is a very different way to look at it that\'s for sure. Or imagine paying 2500 Naira to go watch Gigli or Soul plane...I haven\'t even seen tha, gigli that ist, I should probably rent it sometime, or I\'ll just spare myself the pain of seeing the \"trainwreck\" of a movie since noone has had anything nice to say about it. :(
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Don\'t even bother to rent Gigli. when i finished watching the movie, i was like what is this movie all about? the good thing was that i watched it \"On Demand\" so i did not waste my money. for soul plane, that was a total waste of my money.
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My roomie rented \"Darkness\", this past weekend, and with all that was going on, we were finally able to watch it late last night. Ohmigosh! is all I can say, it was scary as hell, so if you are into scary flicks, feel free to rent it, the best part of it all was the twist and the end just leaves you craving for more. There\'s going to be a sequel for sure, that\'d be fun to see.
I can\'t wait for \"Hide and Seek\" to come out on dvd, I didn\'t get to see it in the theater, and I\'m pretty sure it\'ll be worth the wait.
Anyone seen Madagascar?? I know it\'s a cartoon, I do like watching those kinds of movies, I hear it isn\'t that great. I was in the movie theater to watch all three Harry Porter movies so far, and please don\'t laugh, they were really good! It was so funny, here I was with my friend standing in line, and there\'s a bunch of kids all looking at us like, aren\'t you too old .... i wasn\'t even caring, was like my visit to Disneyland, I stood in line to take a picture with Mickey , and all the people around me were little kids....hey, noone says \'cos I\'m taller I still can\'t be a kid. :D :lol:
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Honeyb I hear u. I\'m hooked on cartoons as well and Madagascar is a must watch for me, but Tom and Jerry is my favourite. Already watched all the harry porter series and I\'m waiting for the new book too. Honestly this idea of paying 2500 or 3000 to watch a movie is really dumb. That would to about $20 or more. I rather buy the DVD that spend that much to go to the movies.
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I rented and watched \"XXX-State of the Union\", all i can say is WOW. The movie was about Stone (Ice-cube) who tried to save the US president from being killed by the Secretary of Defense. The president didn\'t know that the Sec. of Defense was conspiring with the military to kill the prez after he makes the state of the union speech. At the end, Stone was able to help protect the prez, which would make him (Stone) become a free man because he was a criminal, who was sentenced to jail.
This was a good flick. If you like action movies and more demolitions, this is your type. Although I would prefer Vin Diesel to have performed Ice Cube\'s role because he was the person that performed in the original \"XXX\", and he did really good in it. I wonder how they would not put him but instead Ice Cube. O well, it was also fine. I was wondering how much money spent in it, because it would be expensive. I mean many buildings destroyed and number of people featured in the movie; imagine paying these individuals, that will be lots of dollars to spend.
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I am waiting to see \"Mr &Mrs Smith\". May be that is going to be the movie i will actually watch in the theater this Friday.
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Haba, the tickets are not that expensive o! i think i paid 1000 bucks(on a weekday though) but even weekends its like 1500 or so max. if its 2000 now,then its just a recent development and a frigging rip-off.they also have price cuts for students(but nothing too fantastic).for someone like me, i\'d do my research well before going to that theater. i wouldn\'t dare spend so much to see rubbish.
i didn\'t think much of XXX before and after the movie,the cast was wack to start with and they just overdid so many things.
i hear Tom Cruise is getting married to his co-star,i\'m looking forward to seeing what happens in Mr&Mrs Smith sha.
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I saw the Skeleton Key the day it came out. Well the movie was aiight and puzzling too. It\'s bascially about Carolina, a nurse who was called to assist an ailing man in a secluded mansion. The house was possessed by spirits of the former inhabitants called Justify, who practiced Hoodoo... some what similar to Voodo. To the nurse, she didn\'t know much about the history of the house and the wife of the ailing man, who knew much about the house, kept it secret. To the nurse\'s surprise she noticed that there aren\'t any mirrors in the house and she wondered why. She called the wife\'s attention but she didn\'t tell her the reason. When Carolina threatened to leave, the wife told her it was b/c she sees the spirits of Justify\'s family. She also told her about the house was hunted. She didn\'t tell her that she was the cause of her husband\'s sickness. Later Carolina decided to uncover the truth behind the man\'s paralysis. Carolina visited a woman who was familiar with the Hoodoo and questioned her.... the woman made her concoction which she would use to make the old man speak. It was during the process of making him speak that the old man told her that it was his wife that caused him to become paralyzed. Meanwhile the wife came to realize that Carolina had found out what was going on and began to hunt her down. Eventually the wife of the old man and her son wanted to sacrifice Carolina same way she did to her husband. Carolina later thought she found out a way to protect herself from those two but it was the opposite. She even helped the wife succeed in the exchange of their spirits.
As for rating...... well i give it 4 stars.