Sep 26, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min · 10 segments
Michaela likes her European travelogue with a side of slaughter and finds Amsterdamned (1988), a movie which finds a grizzled police detective hunting for the slasher-in-a-wet-suit who prowls…
Why? Like a lot of people have made three movies.
Michaela, why is Dick Moss? What elevates him above above the rest?
All of his movies have a distinctly, you know, Dutch feel to them.
Very, like, pride in his city and his country.
And that's not something we see every day.
But his movies are outrageous.
They're over the top.
They usually take a premise that you're like, okay, I can see where that would go and make a couple left turns along the way.
Yeah.
Things escalate to an insane degree.
He's an auteur.
Yeah.
every sense of the word i feel like you can see the through lines in his movies that just you know um i think we talked about on the down episode that he famously passed on directing a nightmare on elm street 4 which went to renny harlan and i do think him and renny harlan kind of occupy the same space as a director
yeah i can see that
he's got um yeah i mean some of it is just like the It's like his...
Okay, so he is Dutch, and he loves making movies in the Netherlands about the Netherlands.
And to that degree, it seems like the government there gives him an insane amount of leeway because these movies... are very well produced they escalate in you know you're just like imagine the coordination that would take to get all these agencies involved in order to have this like high speed boat chase right that takes place through all the canals
but i wonder is it like a thing that he knows the right people or is it just they're very laxed on those rules
yeah i don't know or they're just like it's dick bus and he's gonna show us our culture to the world you know like is he in that
it could be that or it could just be that they're like yeah fuck make a movie i don't care who it is very
well regarded in his home country like because i mean um at any time his movies come out there is like a like would you guys be surprised if i told you there was a sequel to this movie no made in 2025
it just came out
yeah it just came out and it did like surprisingly well at the box office in the netherlands i guess people went to see i know because this is
Why? Like a lot of people have made three movies.
Michaela, why is Dick Moss? What elevates him above above the rest?
All of his movies have a distinctly, you know, Dutch feel to them.
Very, like, pride in his city and his country.
And that's not something we see every day.
But his movies are outrageous.
They're over the top.
They usually take a premise that you're like, okay, I can see where that would go and make a couple left turns along the way.
Yeah.
Things escalate to an insane degree.
He's an auteur.
Yeah.
every sense of the word i feel like you can see the through lines in his movies that just you know um i think we talked about on the down episode that he famously passed on directing a nightmare on elm street 4 which went to renny harlan and i do think him and renny harlan kind of occupy the same space as a director
yeah i can see that
he's got um yeah i mean some of it is just like the It's like his...
Okay, so he is Dutch, and he loves making movies in the Netherlands about the Netherlands.
And to that degree, it seems like the government there gives him an insane amount of leeway because these movies... are very well produced they escalate in you know you're just like imagine the coordination that would take to get all these agencies involved in order to have this like high speed boat chase right that takes place through all the canals
but i wonder is it like a thing that he knows the right people or is it just they're very laxed on those rules
yeah i don't know or they're just like it's dick bus and he's gonna show us our culture to the world you know like is he in that
it could be that or it could just be that they're like yeah fuck make a movie i don't care who it is very
well regarded in his home country like because i mean um at any time his movies come out there is like a like would you guys be surprised if i told you there was a sequel to this movie no made in 2025
it just came out
yeah it just came out and it did like surprisingly well at the box office in the netherlands i guess people went to see i know because this is
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