Thread: Mr and Mrs.

Originally Posted by kaymax

Kala, I 10q O! I thought it was good I don't see the hoopla at all. Now y'all want a good movie, check out

My first wife 1 and 2 (part one of the movie)Iyke and Dominic
I quit 1 and 2 (2nd part of the movie)

NOW THAT is a movie!!! Superb!!!

HUH? You are joking right? Any movie with multiple parts released at the same tim cannot be better than Mr. and Mrs.. Besides that I quit get as e be. I only watched part 2 and figured out the whole story from My First Wife.

Originally Posted by Kala Lou

Maybe it's me but the movie was just "eeh" TO ME
Nse's performance was superb tho.

It was a breath of fresh air!

Originally Posted by Village-Boi

It was a breath of fresh air!

I reviewed this movie when it came out last year, can't seem to find my review...anyway I just remember that it had a number of repetitive scenes trying to show the audience how bad the husband and mom inlaw was to her. All these praises being heaped on this movie made me go dig for it again...I'm about to skim through it again...maybe i missed something...

Originally Posted by kaymax

kala, i 10q o! I thought it was good i don't see the hoopla at all. Now y'all want a good movie, check out

my first wife 1 and 2 (part one of the movie)iyke and dominic
i quit 1 and 2 (2nd part of the movie)

now that is a movie!!! Superb!!!

Huh? I didn't even make it past "My first wife"....Supermom scratches head confused...

Originally Posted by Supermom

Huh? I didn't even make it past "My first wife"....Supermom scratches head confused...

Really? I loved that movie. I thought the writing was great and Jim did a good job.

Really didn't think the movie was fantastic. Quite drawn out in parts, and I feel like a lot of the stuff was fake, most especially after they'd gotten the divorce...it became quite contrived. Also I think Nse overacts sometimes; she does this weird facial thing that irks me. I also really dislike how these movies like to portray career women as the ones who end up losing out and then the glorified maids (wives) as the ones who fare better...total bollocks.

Originally Posted by Candylecious

Really didn't think the movie was fantastic. Quite drawn out in parts, and I feel like a lot of the stuff was fake, most especially after they'd gotten the divorce...it became quite contrived. Also I think Nse overacts sometimes; she does this weird facial thing that irks me. I also really dislike how these movies like to portray career women as the ones who end up losing out and then the glorified maids (wives) as the ones who fare better...total bollocks.

I'm with you there...the action and reactions of the characters came of as being not real...

and what was the deal with the children which both couples claimed they had? Children that we never saw any sign of..even schoolbag for ground or something. I know the main couple claimed that their children were out of the country with their grandfather(who is supposedly campaigning for reelection) but the director for include some scenes where they are talking on the phone with the kids, this could help reduce some other redundant scenes.

Good camera work tho, good acting from Nse and the dude that played her husband, I just wished they had giving them a better thought out screenplay to tackle.

Originally Posted by Kala Lou

I reviewed this movie when it came out last year, can't seem to find my review...anyway I just remember that it had a number of repetitive scenes trying to show the audience how bad the husband and mom inlaw was to her. All these praises being heaped on this movie made me go dig for it again...I'm about to skim through it again...maybe i missed something...

I do understand where you guys are coming from. Have we ever seen a 'perfect & flawless' film? - Probably not. Also there are various things that influence us ALL.
If you look at the dates of my posts you will see that I watched this the very day after seeing the absymal 'Somewhere In Africa' which, incidentally you gave a 7/10. Obviously watching 'Mr & Mrs' right off the back of such an awful film will influence me into thinking 'Mr & Mrs' as the best thing since sliced bread - and I'm going to stick by that because that's exactly how it made me 'feel'.
First impressions count and that was my first impression - totally loved it. You guys are completely right to say it didn't do it for you and I respect your reasons.

Originally Posted by Kala Lou

..and what was the deal with the children which both couples claimed they had? Children that we never saw any sign of..even schoolbag for ground or something. I know the main couple claimed that their children were out of the country with their grandfather(who is supposedly campaigning for reelection) but the director for include some scenes where they are talking on the phone with the kids, this could help reduce some other redundant scenes.

I'm actually glad they didn't do the 'phone thingy'... we use phones far too much in our films and not always very well. Showing the kids could easily have dragged it out even more. I think they kept the 'full' movie nice and contained and in a reasonable amount of time.

Originally Posted by Village-Boi

I'm actually glad they didn't do the 'phone thingy'... we use phones far too much in our films and not always very well. Showing the kids could easily have dragged it out even more. I think they kept the 'full' movie nice and contained and in a reasonable amount of time.

So having a story about 2 sets of parents that are going through marital problems where the kids do not play a factor of any kind in the matter, in any shape or form?? You don't see that as a major hole in the plot? come on now...

Originally Posted by Village-Boi

I do understand where you guys are coming from. Have we ever seen a 'perfect & flawless' film? - Probably not. Also there are various things that influence us ALL.
If you look at the dates of my posts you will see that I watched this the very day after seeing the absymal 'Somewhere In Africa' which, incidentally you gave a 7/10. Obviously watching 'Mr & Mrs' right off the back of such an awful film will influence me into thinking 'Mr & Mrs' as the best thing since sliced bread - and I'm going to stick by that because that's exactly how it made me 'feel'.
First impressions count and that was my first impression - totally loved it. You guys are completely right to say it didn't do it for you and I respect your reasons.

I never said the movie was bad because it wasn't perfect, infact I praised the acting in the movie...but I still see more plot holes in this movie than in Somewhere in Africa. So the woman changed her husbands' and mom inlaws demeanor from bad to good just because she played a prank on him..come on..

Somewhere in Africa, 7/10 was being generous because I was grading on a curve(for Nolly/gholly), but TO ME that movie was still more entertaining than Mr. & Mrs. Somewhere in Africa was more of an ambitious project than Mr. & Mrs., with all the location changes and what not.

Originally Posted by Kala Lou

So having a story about 2 sets of parents that are going through marital problems where the kids do not play a factor of any kind in the matter, in any shape or form?? You don't see that as a major hole in the plot? come on now...

They DID play a factor - we knew of the conversations they had and how aware they were of the situation.

Originally Posted by Kala Lou

I never said the movie was bad because it wasn't perfect, infact I praised the acting in the movie...but I still see more plot holes in this movie than in Somewhere in Africa. So the woman changed her husbands' and mom inlaws demeanor from bad to good just because she played a prank on him..come on..

Somewhere in Africa, 7/10 was being generous because I was grading on a curve(for Nolly/gholly), but TO ME that movie was still more entertaining than Mr. & Mrs. Somewhere in Africa was more of an ambitious project than Mr. & Mrs., with all the location changes and what not.

We are allowed to differ, nothing wrong in that. Plot holes? Somewhere in Africa had NO plot - apart from I-am-now-in-charge-and-kill-people-for-the-fun-of-it. Ambitious? As I said before they bit off far more than they could chew by being 'stupidly' ambitious. That film totally sucked.
Is your argument 'The more locations you have, the better the film'? You really don't believe that. You say you graded it on a Nolly/Golly 'influence'? Fair enough. I graded 'Mr & Mrs' on a just-seen 'SIA' influence and in my opinion it was light-years better.
Seriously? ? ? The 'plot holes' in 'SIA' were so huge there wasn't anything left. Having said that, I too praised some of the acting in 'SIA'.

Originally Posted by Village-Boi

They DID play a factor - we knew of the conversations they had and how aware they were of the situation.



We are allowed to differ, nothing wrong in that. Plot holes? Somewhere in Africa had NO plot - apart from I-am-now-in-charge-and-kill-people-for-the-fun-of-it. Ambitious? As I said before they bit off far more than they could chew by being 'stupidly' ambitious. That film totally sucked.
Is your argument 'The more locations you have, the better the film'? You really don't believe that. You say you graded it on a Nolly/Golly 'influence'? Fair enough. I graded 'Mr & Mrs' on a just-seen 'SIA' influence and in my opinion it was light-years better.
Seriously? ? ? The 'plot holes' in 'SIA' were so huge there wasn't anything left. Having said that, I too praised some of the acting in 'SIA'.

You're right I don't believe that, but what i believe is that if you're shooting a flick with about 6 principal actors and about four main sets that should allow you the time and leeway to produce a tighter script than what they came up with, like you said we are allowed to differ, I know you didn't like SIA but to say it had no plot??? But for me if I was forced to sit through either of those 2 movies again it will be Somewhere in Africa.

Originally Posted by Sola

By Jibril Sado

A good thing, it is said, cannot possibly remain hidden or in obscurity forever. In the case of Nollywood actress Nse Ikpe-Etim, this could hardly be truer. Her thespian star continues to grow in such a way that one can no longer ignore her acting prowess or discuss her honestly as a side dish in Nollywood. Mr. & Mrs., one of her more recent movies certainly makes a good case for her in this regard.

Mr. & Mrs. is a romantic drama featuring Nse as Mrs. Kenneth Abah and Benjamin Joseph as her irreverent husband. The movie tells the story of a much-maltreated young woman who decides to repair her lopsided marital relationship with her domineering, class-obsessed husband by seizing a lifeline inadvertently thrown her way by the husband and his overbearing mother. Susan, a drycleaner’s daughter (well, to the Abahs he is a washman but Susan insists he be called drycleaner) meets and falls in love with Kenneth, the son of a politician and they eventually get married. As Ken’s father’s political fortunes improve, Ken convinces Susan to become a fulltime housewife since, courtesy his getting more oil blocks, Ken now makes “enough money to take care of a community”.

Things, however, turn sour as Ken begins to treat Susan with disdain. He even cheats on her blatantly and torments her verbally, reminding her of her “wretched” background. Once, following a quarrel, he tells her she can leave the marriage if she feels uncomfortable with the state of affairs. His mother (played by Barbara Soky) also encourages him to divorce the “ingrate”. Emotionally-drained, Susan consults a counsellor, Mrs. Brown, a psychologist-cum-lawyer. Subsequently, what Ken initially planned as a mere threat to make Susan meeker and more sober quickly grows beyond his control. To the surprise of mother and son, Susan insists she also wants out of the marriage, this coming at a time when Ken’s father is vying for governorship. So, while Ken’s mother wants a divorce, she also craves assurance that no resultant scandal would affect her husband’s chances at the polls. She thus proposes a compromise in which, although the couple would be officially divorced, they must remain in Ken’s house and pretend to still be married until after the election. Susan gleefully accedes, but Ken, taken aback by her enthusiastic accord, hesitates until his mum and Mrs. Brown cajole him. Under the arrangement, Mrs. Brown grants the couple confidential divorce and they are to live in separate wings of the same house with not the slightest obligation to each other.

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I get it now....will rewatch it...was a bit confused by the sudden events in the movie