Is it Hardcore ?

Posted on April 7, 2006 by gracie

Who the hell do the DLH crew think they are ?
If Skateboarding films are meant to be like porn films, (crap acting, and action shots), then in The DLH crew’s latest offfering “Fuck Off” we may have found the most common factor demonitator between the two artforms.
“Fuck Off” get’s 100 percent (as in the Sonic Youth song) for being Hardcore, that’s for sure. For a representation of some down and dirty local Skateboarders who make the manifestation of Porn magazine
be a reality. Who real and roll and trick in a out all night drinking getting off their heads, smashing up apartments, dropping barbeques from 1st floors and filming each other at the most retro of Bristol’s Skateparks Dean Lane. The Skatepark you wish was better.
But for the DLH, it’s their patch. They can rock and roll on the infamous skateparks terrible
concrete.
But I am afraid girls, the feminist prognosis isn’t that good. With women being only represented when you see their naked bodies, in Hardcore porn or as the teenage girl pest. If you are a women skateboarder would you want to go any where near this gang of goolies? Would you be able to be their girlfriend and discuss
your feminist concerns with them. Or is it all just a ironicism to the word hardcore, should I, we not be taking this seriously. After all it’s not really meant to be.
Quote the director ” This films was a fucking nightmare to make”
One of my favourite parts in the film was when girl skateboarder spectators are being mused at to be in the film.
“Fuck off” they proclaim.

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13 Responses to Is it Hardcore ?

  1. site admin ( mr_hopkinson ) says:
    April 7, 2006 at 1:57 pm

    Please to meet you Gracie, I like your hardcore perspective style – looking forward to reading more of your exciting inciting insightfulness soon!

  2. JB says:
    April 8, 2006 at 6:29 pm

    RE: the lack of ‘female skateboarders’ in the video IF THEY ACTUALLY SKATED PROPERLY THEN MAYBE THE VIDEO WOULD HAVE LESS OF A GENDER BIAS? What do you expect the director to do, fill half the video with some footage of women doing something else just to make it equal? Porn? IT WAS A JOKE!
    Get off your PC high horse for fucks sake.

  3. JB says:
    April 8, 2006 at 6:32 pm

    You may also wish to check your grammar.

  4. Gracie says:
    April 10, 2006 at 4:57 pm

    Re: “If they actually Skated properly?” Do you consider the DLH to be skating proper ?
    What is your definition of proper skateboarding? Y

    Re: Lack of Female skateboarders. It doesn’t matter that there aren’t any female
    skaters in the film. More the perspective of how you are representing
    women in the film. What I said about women in the film is true.
    Does the DLH have a female recruitment policy ?

    Also later on I do mention that I shouldn’t probably be taking this seriously. But
    Also I stand by what I said.

    I am not on a PC or whatever you choose to call my horse high. Just meerly expressing an
    oppinion on this blog.

    Get off your grammer high horse

    I don’t hate you, in some ways I love you.

  5. tinkerbell says:
    April 13, 2006 at 1:52 pm

    Hello Gracie in respect to the representaion of women being pornographic, it’s because skateboardings a male dominated sport and we men enjoy these images, despite main straem media trying to make the sport as presentable as possible in order to make more money, this video isn’t a stale corpatate peace of shit and the film reprosents the directors and viewers interests. Fuck conforming, fuck being pc. Keep it real.

  6. Big H says:
    April 16, 2006 at 4:43 pm

    Do you really believe that your opinion matters?
    You dont know any of the DLH so you have no right to judge them based on a ‘have a laugh take
    the piss film’ Why take it so seriously? As a woman, I am embarrassed by your feminist bullshit.
    Big H

  7. site admin ( mr_hopkinson ) says:
    April 18, 2006 at 11:00 am

    As a moderator, the amount of spam comments I’ve had to delete has quadrupled – those blog searching spambots must love the non-leet spellings of Hardk0r & pr0n . . . anyway . . .

    Big H, as another H, I’m slightly bemused by your apparent fury . . .

    I believe the original post was actually by a female skater and filmmaker who does know the DLH, so would be, in my opinion, well qualified to comment . . . but even if you didn’t know that, or I am wrong, I would say anyone has the right to express their opinion, and all comments are valued, and welcomed [ apart from from spambots ] . . .

    . . . it’s my opinion that it seems just weird to make out that someone having an opinion couldn’t matter ( ! ? )

    Seriously.

  8. Gracie says:
    April 20, 2006 at 12:11 pm

    Hi DLH, and everyone.
    I didn’t really want this to end up in a war of words,

    I just thought it would be an interesting thing to
    do to critic “Fuck off” from a feminist perspective.

    Afterall I do question in the piece if I am to be taking this seriously.

    But I didn’t really mean to diss you so much

    Thanks for all the fun days and the up keep of the park.

    See you on board

  9. GGGGRRRRRRRRRR says:
    April 20, 2006 at 2:45 pm

    FUCK OFF!!!!!

  10. Quatermass says:
    April 20, 2006 at 3:02 pm

    Gracie, are you some kind of Mong? (abrv. Mongolian, a person born or having citizenship of Mongolia) because you must have been residing in outer mongolia the past 30 yrs, not to realise that the whole fxxxxng point of skateboarding is that it is anti-establishment. The porn section, as the GG Allin section is supposed to wake people like you up out of your comfortable feminist slumber.
    Skateboarding is not feminist, it is Skateboarding.
    This film represents skateboarding not women or our views on women.
    Many of the DLH are in relationships, some are married, some have kids…you’re judging something you obviously know nothing about.
    If you are a female skateboarder the one (and perhaps only) place you would be able to skate without prejudice or judgement would be at Dean Lane with the full encouragement of the DLH….. BUT NOT IF YOU BRING YOUR NEGATIVE, SHITTY ATTITUDE WITH YOU……heres a fiver….do something usefull….. and go up the shops and get me some Cider…while I kill Planet Rock!

    DLH FOREVER.

  11. Quatermass says:
    April 21, 2006 at 5:03 pm

    Gracie, are you some kind of Mong? (abrv. Mongolian, a person born or having citizenship of Mongolia) because you must have been residing in outer mongolia the past 30 yrs, not to realise that the whole fxxxxng point of skateboarding is that it is anti-establishment. The porn section, as the GG Allin section is supposed to wake people like you up out of your comfortable feminist slumber.
    Skateboarding is not feminist, it is Skateboarding.
    This film represents skateboarding not women or our views on women.
    Many of the DLH are in relationships, some are married, some have kids…you’re judging something you obviously know nothing about.
    If you are a female skateboarder the one (and perhaps only) place you would be able to skate without prejudice or judgement would be at Dean Lane with the full encouragement of the DLH….. BUT NOT IF YOU BRING YOUR NEGATIVE, SHITTY ATTITUDE WITH YOU……heres a fiver….do something usefull….. and go up the shops and get me some Cider…while I kill Planet Rock!

    DLH FOREVER.

  12. Adrian.re.Line.d says:
    April 27, 2006 at 6:30 pm

    Porn, skateboarding, dicks, no girls, no boys, gangs, dutch, beer. A lot of fun. Ren and Stimpy, Bevis and Buttermyhead, derks, american-isms, perks, jerks, retro horseshit, over educated middle of the road kerb drawers, get a take away.

    tatoo it into into your forehead…this aint california or new york. backwards and then call it a rebel yell.

    Wish i had the bottle.

  13. MDofPC Custom Computers says:
    May 9, 2007 at 9:29 pm

    Almost sounds like a Jackass movie

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