Ok, i really love those home movies, but they are so left backwards it's a shame...example: i have never watched a film where a young lady suffers for her education, struggle to make her dreams come true, then finally becomes someone of her own, a well respected woman, with a position in the society or one that ends up fending for homeless people....etc

All you see in the films are girls who want to meet rich men who can take care of them, or girls whose parents are already rich and so they tend to be spoilt and not work anymore because their parents are made, why is that so?
tell me oh, because i watch a movie with my flatmates, and this discussion came up, as much excuses i could come up with(like most of them are from poor homes...and blah blah blah) it just didnt make sense!

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I said this the other day in regards with Nollywood dealing with social issues, such as rape in the movies. They make light of it. I watch this movie "Bonjour" with Nkem Owoh and his character rapes this young girl and she ends up marrying him at the end of the movie. I was like "what the f--k".

I just don't think a lot of the movies are realistic but they are fun to watch.

I railed against this in "Traumatized" and "Games Men Play." The screen writers in Nollywood don't do enough research to do the topic justice nor do they explore other story lines that can serve to encourage. The men are brutal and unfaithful, the women are sluttish, the mother in laws are wicked and know every babalao with strong medicine, the married woman is boring, the village people are poor, the boss is corrupted, the secretary wants the boss, the college students all belong in cults, the police wants bribe etc etc. I am not saying these issues or type of people don't exist BUT not EVERY PERSON in Nigeria is reflective of these issues or character-types.

Let's not forget, you can suffer and suffer at the hands of a man or woman but don't help yourself because at the end, when you are all wrinkled and old, Jesus Christ will save you.

Yep!These are sterotypes,cliches.But if the producers don't use these cliches in their homvies and try approach their stories from a different angle and with new and fresh ideas in contents,you guys will be the first to scream foul and condemn the flicks as unrealistic,simply because they do not contain these same cliches that you people are claiming to be tired of.
The question now is,"Do you viewers even know what you really want?".
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You ask for new directions in storytelling,but when they come,you condemn.

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I condemn if the movie is bad but if it is good and I enjoy it, I usually praise the movie. i don't see anything wrong with giving your opinion about a movie. we all have different taste. And just because a movie is different, doesn't mean it is good.

For example, I watched this movie a couple of months ago called "The Empire" with Fred Amata. I believe it was based in London. This movie was very different from what Nollywood usually puts out but I found the movie to be very dry. Sorry, I can't give a movie a pass because it is different.

Then expect more and more cliched storylines from the producers because they are not about to risk being burnt by a viewership that is not sophisticated enough to accept new ideas,simple.

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I concur. From my observations, majority of Nigerians seem not to be comfortable with certain issues esp the ones viewed as taboos by societal consensus. I know I have watched plenty movies with fellow Nigerians (esp the older ones) and when certain scenes came up; maybe like a supposedly gay scene or kissing scene, you could feel them squirming in their seats.........and people always want to claim that it is not believable for Nigerian movies to portray certain themes and issues cos they are not obtainable in the Nigerian society........the accuracy of that statement is undoubtedly suspect.........but na naija na!!

I would like to see our movies venture more into otherwise uncharted territory, but the reality is the producers are looking to recoup their investments, so if a certain theme/issue is not going to go down well with the viewing public, best believe it will be scratched out.

That is a bit harsh. How can you claim people are not sophisticated? People are entitled to what they like and that doesn't make them less sophisticated if they don't want to try something new. They are entitled to not try something new.

As I said before, I am open to all types of movies but I will not be force to like a movie because it coming from a different angle.

For example, I actually liked "Dancing Hearts" with Olu & Rita. I thought it was a great concept having an older writer and a young bride. But I didn't like the movie "The Empire", another movie coming from a different angle.

Good point and I remember a thread where suggestion for movies being asked and I mentioned something along this line (suggesting that they use real life stories if we can't make it up) but was told that the time or the money for research is not available in Nollywood. I am sure they will get there someday once the serious producers remain and it is no longer a domain for all and sundry.

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Good point Afrosista i feel you o!

Morals in the films are becoming unclear or there are too many!

Now after you turn your TV you cant even say what the moral was... infact the morals are so common that a moral can apply to 15 films...

I cant wait till the day i watch a nollywood movie and can finally tell someone what it was about without using the characters

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