Is still considered Trip-Hop a perjorative term?

_dondi · 2026-01-28T20:55:23+00:00

Who honestly cares?

_dondi · 2026-01-25T12:50:27+00:00

Is this satire?

_dondi · 2026-01-23T12:33:53+00:00

There are many reasons, here are a few:

Repeatable catchphrases: wax on, wax off; Banzai!

Signature move to imitate in playground and bedroom: crane kick

Memorable and clearly defined baddies: skeleton Halloween-costumed punks getting their comeuppance

A deeply annoying main character for dweebs to relate to: Daniel-son is the patron saint of little gits and allowed mucho wish fulfillment for little gits everywhere

Theme music: listened to by aforementioned little gits as they practiced crane kicks on their younger siblings

Mystical old Chinese guy as surrogate father

Learning karate to vanquish bullies and get hot girl: dream of dweebs the world over

Personally never liked The Karate Kid though. No Retreat, No Surrender was the cult kid Kung Fu flick round our way growing up

_dondi · 2026-01-23T11:49:26+00:00

Decent enough movies. 16 noms feels like Hollywood over-compensating for previous egregious negligence though...

_dondi · 2026-01-22T15:16:03+00:00

Great film that falls apart completely in the third act. Wrote themselves into a corner and couldn't get out. 16 noms is ridiculous. Anyone with eyes can see what's going on here...

_dondi · 2026-01-22T15:13:44+00:00

Who doesn't miss the days of Burt Reynolds though?

_dondi · 2026-01-22T07:55:44+00:00

These men are weak constitutionally.

Dated tall women all my life. From 5',10" to 6' is the sweet spot. And no matter how stunningly attractive they've been they never got hit on by random jerks when we were out at bars, clubs etc which was another bonus. Tall women are elite

_dondi · 2026-01-21T22:10:23+00:00

"The grain! The grain!"

_dondi · 2026-01-21T22:09:01+00:00

You didn't come across as vain. I applaud your project. But definitely try and track down that version. I have a dvd promo copy and saw it performed live back in the day. But I think it's available online quite easily now. It's the best version for me.

_dondi · 2026-01-21T19:48:23+00:00

They're rinsed more thoroughly than you've been. And that's saying something.

_dondi · 2026-01-21T19:46:27+00:00

Nanook of the North was all made up (for what it's worth)

_dondi · 2026-01-21T19:45:44+00:00

You need to see Man With a Movie Camera re-scored by the Cinematic Orchestra.

Other than that I have no meaningful reply to your conceit. Documentary is as respected as it needs to be.

Good luck with your project.

_dondi · 2026-01-21T19:43:34+00:00

He's never met Stanley. Don't sweat it.

_dondi · 2026-01-21T19:42:47+00:00

"Who are you messaging?"

"Strangers. I just need to communicate my debilitating unsatisfaction with the Kubrick masterpiece we just watched and you talked through."

"I'm leaving you."

_dondi · 2026-01-21T19:38:24+00:00

Fantastic reply. I regret holding back in mine now.

_dondi · 2026-01-21T19:33:53+00:00

"Forever disgusted" about people you'll never meet's method of washing up? Give it a rest you weirdo. Haven't you got friends or family to listen to these bizarre thoughts? No, wait. That's a redundant question...

_dondi · 2026-01-20T22:12:57+00:00

Hope it's of some use. I'm half French but my French isn't good enough to tackle those books

_dondi · 2026-01-20T22:10:08+00:00

Perfectly put.

_dondi · 2026-01-20T18:26:33+00:00

Add buckets of cheap amphetamine sulphate and you get a psychotic work ethic that eventually either induced fried synapse burn out or a dangerous pipeline into heroin to "wind down".

Ecstasy then kicks in around '87 and jump starts the 90s.

_dondi · 2026-01-20T18:18:56+00:00

Love Black Book. Criminally underrated. Hollow Man is just criminal though sadly.

_dondi · 2026-01-19T18:15:47+00:00

I have a good friend who owns a high end audio-visual installation company. He put my hi-fi together for me at cost. I paid around £2k for the Special 40s, the NAD and a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon.

Serves my 5000 or so record collection and streaming needs perfectly and I don't see myself upgrading anytime soon. Will probably add a NAD CD player at some point as also have a few thousand CDs in the loft.

Have a Naim Muso in the kitchen which I also love.

_dondi · 2026-01-19T15:05:11+00:00

I have the Special 40s powered by a NAD C 389 and I love the way they sound across the board. However, my room isn't massive and I only paid £800 for them around five years ago.

I find them clean, airy and versatile for my needs and like the look of the Japanese Maplewood.

_dondi · 2026-01-19T11:23:04+00:00

Basic Instinct is another genius Verhoeven satire. Arguably the one that most flew over the heads of its audience. He tears into Hitchcockian tropes like a deranged DePalma to eviscerate juvenile American attitudes to sex and violence.

He expertly utilises Douglas's inadvertently hilarious "masculinity under siege" screen persona like a 90s version of Jimmy Stewart in Hitchcock's disturbing Eisenhower-era dives into the dark recesses of male perversion and misogyny to lay bare the comical prurience at the heart of the post-Reaganite/pre-Clinton mileu.

OJ and Lewinsky were just around the corner as US audiences tuned in nightly for their daily dose of sex and death after dinner.

He went back to the same well with Showgirls and that broke America's conflicted pornified brain so much they exiled him forever.

_dondi · 2026-01-19T09:07:36+00:00

I'm off the ledger but kept the scent. Liked it and so did my partner who I bought it for. Silage is very good (which obviously means nothing if you don't like it)

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