u/Bnedem

Er is in de eerste helft 30% minder gemoord in Nederland dan in de eerste helft van 2025 (34 moorden t.o.v 49 moorden). Let op: 2025 was het minst moorddadige jaar in Nederland sinds de midden jaren '70.

Bron: moordatlas.nl. De website noteert elke moord/doodslag die in het land gepleegd wordt.

This damned show is mesmerizing. Fantastic film-making, captivating soundtrack, a leading actor who combines the charisma of George Clooney with the bite of a rattlesnake. And importantly, insanely clever and suspenseful writing.

Cancelled after just one season, I am convinced that this would have been a smash hit if it was released on HBO, post-Sopranos. It's that good.

I'm currently watching Profit (1996). It's a brilliant show and Pasdar is mesmerizing in it. He was the complete package. In a just universe, the show would have been a smash hit and Pasdar would have gone on to be a Hollywood star. Instead, this brilliant show was cancelled and Pasdar was forgotten.

He's a magnificent screen presence. Reminds of a hybrid between George Clooney and a rattlesnake.

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It's such a difficult riddle to fix. What is the coach going to do with Bouaddi? He's amazing, but he's still young. You have Amrabat, Bouaddi and Aynaoui vying for central midfield. I wonder, is 3-4-3 an option? Something like:

Hakimi-Aguerd-Mazraoui

Amrabat-Bouaddi-Aynaoui-Ounahi

Diaz-Saibari-Ezzelzouli

Als Marokkaan, geboren/opgegroeid in Nederland. Het is niet perfect, er zijn problemen. Zoals die overal zijn. Maar NL is echt wel een bijzonder land. En ik ben trots dat dit mijn thuis is. Wilde dat even gezegd hebben.

Wow, wow, wow. I did not expect this level of choreography. It's some of the best I've ever seen, in a movie I expected to be more comedy than action. A stunning movie. I know I'll be watching this a few more times.

Another user had made a post about a list of faves his father had made for him and TMB was sitting at 2, behind The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter, which is my all time favorite.

A bold statement of mine: TMB blows The Drunk Master out of the water.

Tot nu toe hebben we 26 moorden in NL gehad, vergeleken met 40 moorden in dezelfde periode in 2025. Dat is een daling van ruim 30% in de eerste 5 maanden van het jaar.

Ik weet niet of er iets in het water zit, maar NL doet iets goed.

The making of an action movie legend.

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow is so good. It's so funny, more than anything else. And it has Chan doing amazing things in the Kung Fu department. It's much better than Drunken Master.

Project A is one of Chan's greats, but it's also the movie where he becomes the artist that we know him as. It's his Off The Wall album. He does very little Kung Fu-ing here, instead he throws everything he has at his foes. He runs, bites, head butts, twists, turns and crawls. In many ways, this feels like something we had never seen in action before.

The murder, a first in decades, unleashes a media frenzy. Podcasters descend on the small rural town, but police officer Mike Beniras is on the case. The crime scene, a trailer in an amusement park, is clumsily manipulated by the murderer to make the scene look like an accident. The victim, an attendant at the park, has her flashy necklace missing. When the killer is identified, no one could have imagined such an unusual a suspect.'

The ending twist revelation is Shyamalanian. It really borders on the absurd, while still having the potential of working on a serious note.

Vaping in the past has been an amazing tool to help me quit smoking tobacco. Until earlier this year, I had not touched a cigarette for 9 months. Instead, I would vape. And I would vape very little. Like, 8 times a day, 10 hits a time.

I've recently been reading horror stories about vaping. So much so, that vaping stopped being an option as a smoking cessation tool.

To get to the point. Here's the question. What do you guys think is the less unhealthy alternative:

- Smoking an average of 15 cigarettes a day, or:

- Vaping 8 times a day, 10 hits a time.

If it were possible to replace my smoking habit with the above vaping routine, would that be something you would advise me to go for?

I'm in my late-30s, and I've been smoking for 20+ years.

I'm now rewatching season 2 of The Sopranos, and it makes The Wire seem incoherent. And I love The Wire.

But The Sopranos is just out of this world. It didn't just commit TV to this entirely new standard, it set the standard impossibly high. Nothing that has come after it has been able to do what Sopranos does. Game of Thrones feels soapy compared to the better seasons of Sopranos. The Wire feels at moments amateurish.

In terms of the quality of the writing of dialogue, characters and plot, the directing and acting, and the world-building, The Sopranos is the Citizen Kane of drama TV.

Obviously, all of these films are very violent. But they tend to be pretty blood-less or cartoonish. What are some movies from this genre and period that are genuinely 'brutal'. 1983's Duel to the Death comes closest to the sort of cinematic violence I'm looking for. Chiba's The Street Fighter also fits. The Japanese Samurai films of the period tend to be gruesome (Baby Cart), but they aren't Kung Fu.