Notions (Be Careful on Creatives)

I am learning to be specific on the criticism of movies and because I study instead of merely enjoying movies these days, I am able to decipher from the angle of which a film is lacking.

Say Reach for instance. It's a Nigerian movie starring Timini Egbuson - of an older woman finding love, a low budget movie. The storyline is nice but the dialogue just isn't. It was mediocre at best, boring conversations and discussions, average something. Also, the lights crew didn't do justice to the movie. The scenes were dark but it's pardonable - twas a film featuring a few characters and the actors did try with their roles.

Another movie is Gabriel's Inferno. I had read the trilogy before hand. I would have said the movie has got to be the most boring book adaption I've ever seen but Native Son's own triumphs it. So it comes a close second on the list.

The adaptation was literally the book word-for-word and chronologically too. Movies and books are not the same in the slightest. The former should be more fast paced and exciting, different from when it's you and imaginary characters. Movies give life to the characters so some things should be different. Like, it's not everything that should be said, actions speak more in movies than dialogues whereas in books, you got to seduce the reader with the words. 

And I even heard it's about 5 hours long and so they divided it into 3 parts and I've watched just the first and I'm not even encouraged to go any further. I was regretting not sticking to just the book in my head.

For some movies it might be the camera angles and directions, some it might be hideous costume and make-up. The setting and locations might just be blehh at times while others might be horrible cast - actors literally reading their scripts monotonously. It could even be the soundtrack in a movie that doesn't rhyme with a scene/absence of a soundtrack or even a situation where everything is whack - cast and crew dead-ass (which is the case of many African Magic Movies)😂😂😂

Regardless, I'd suggest that before you cancel or declare that a movie is whack-ass, try to observe the movie in entirety. It's easy to describe everything as being gone wrong, but that's a generalisation that creatives do not deserve. I've been guilty of the above and I am learning to be specific in my criticism, I hope you do too.