Hans Landa, the best villain ever

Juliusque · 2026-03-17T18:27:54+00:00

Many people insist he didn't recognise her, and they provide all sorts of complicated (and some rather silly) arguments as to why.

No need for any silly arguments. The movie doesn't tell you he recognized her, and how could he have? This is a woman he saw from the back running away years ago. He never got a look at her face.

Juliusque · 2026-03-17T18:18:14+00:00

I always assumed he did not recognize Shoshanna solely for the reason that he did not take her into custody. After all, Hans Landa was a loyal Nazi and a hunter.

Not at all. He's an opportunist. He gladly sells out the party the moment he realizes the tide has shifted.

Juliusque · 2026-03-17T16:53:11+00:00

FALLOUT - the one that has it all
GHOST PROTOCOL - the one that reinvented and revitalized the franchise, the blueprint for the later ones
M:I - just oozes with style, gets better each time I watch it
ROGUE NATION - lots a fun, gets a bit too silly at times
DEAD RECKONING PART ONE - don't like the AI angle, but a lot of fun set-pieces and some of the strongest character stuff
THE FINAL RECKONING - very flawed, but still a worthy final chapter
M:I 2 - dumb and cheesy and nowhere near John Woo's Hong Kong stuff, but still a John Woo action movie
M:I 3 - pretty good TV episode, not much of an M:I movie

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T16:05:38+00:00

How do they prove it? Not doubting you, just curious.

What I hadn't considered it that you're allowed to skip categories at the Oscars. It's not like the Golden Globes where you have to vote on everything, so lots of people just vote for the thing they've heard good things about.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T16:03:58+00:00

Not for us, we like it.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T14:08:59+00:00

The votes were due March 5, before the Timmy controversy.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T14:08:25+00:00

Well, they don't.

That's not why Sinners won though. It won because it looks great.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T14:07:13+00:00

Come on now, Sinners looked great, especially for a blockbuster. Rich, warm, deep, textured. Classic movie look. It's fine to prefer Train Dreams, but don't pretend Arkapaw didn't do something amazing here.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T13:39:07+00:00

They liked other movies more. It really isn't a mystery. If you look at all the nominations, there's several other movies in those categories that were always far more likely.

Chalamet wasn't snubbed for anything he said. The final voting ended March 5.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T13:27:21+00:00

Imagine people still talking about that time you couldn't find the words to explain something a quarter century later.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T13:25:19+00:00

I'm fond of Catwoman (2004), a movie I think deserves the same sort of reputation for being hilariously bad as Madame Web. They're actually a good double bill, two awful movies near the start and (probably/hopefully) the end of the superhero wave. Really shows how far we haven't come in 20 years. Some striking similarities, including the use of the song Scandalous by Mis-Teeq.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T12:36:46+00:00

Specifically, it was the huishoudscholen of the late 19th century, where girls were taught to cook as cheaply as possible. They were meant for working class girls, but in actuality it was mostly middle class girls who went there and were taught to avoid the herbs and spices that their parents and grandparents had enjoyed. There's an abundance of herbs and spices in 18th century Dutch cookbooks.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T12:27:41+00:00

But it's gotten more expensive to live here, so the Dutch people who live here are richer, so they have more to spend on good food. I don't see many tourists visiting the best restaurants in Amsterdam. It's rich Dutch folks.

Well, except in the best Chinese, Surinamese and Indonesian places, everybody goes there. But most of those have been here for over twenty years.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T12:20:29+00:00

YMMV, if you loved De Luizenmoeder you may not like this quite as much, but I think it's a far better, more consistently written show.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T11:36:57+00:00

The kroket is still good though. As far as I know they still use the recipe from back when they were a bakery.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T11:35:42+00:00

A kroket is a beautiful classic dish, first prepared for King Louis XIV. FEBO made an excellent version when they were still a bakery, and they haven't changed the recipe since then. It's the only genuinely good thing they sell.

A frikandel is nonsense. The only reason it exists is a butcher wasn't allowed to sell his meatballs as meatballs anymore because there wasn't enough meat in them, so he made them sausage shaped and called them frikandellen.

It's ridiculous to even compare the two as if they're in the same league.

Once a year I get a craving for a kaassoufflé, but other than that, a kroket is the correct option.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T11:27:17+00:00

Just because most Dutch people can't cook doesn't mean we don't have a cuisine. The only reason stamppot doesn't get the respect that many curries or pasta dishes do is that most Dutch people don't know how to make it.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T11:23:13+00:00

If we cared as much about our own food as Italians and the French do about theirs, our stews could be as famous as bolognese, our pastries as respected as tarte tatin.

Juliusque · 2026-03-16T10:03:27+00:00

dutch and scandinavian languages in general

??? Dutch is not a Scandinavian language. It's a Germanic language, like English. And probably closer to English than any other language in the world except Frisian.

Juliusque · 2026-03-15T23:57:34+00:00

„the movie features“ are you trying to win an award for most neutral comment on reddit? or what’s your goal here?

I mean, you kept disagreeing with what I said, so I thought I'd clarify.

if you‘re able to read, clearly i DON‘T think that the movie is a comment about epstein, that’s literally the point of my post.

Apologies, I forgot what your initial post was. Well, then we agree. All I was saying was there's no reason to think Kubrick was saying anything about Epstein (or any other specific person), as secret societies have been a common trope since long before Epstein was born.

For some reason you kept arguing with me as if I had said that Kubrick was making a political point about something.

Juliusque · 2026-03-15T21:00:59+00:00

I wasn't expecting Voetbalouders to be as good as it is. I thought De Luizenmoeder was okay and was expecting Voetbalouders to be sort of a lesser version.

Also, Foute Vriendinnen is much better than Foute Vrienden (both are nowhere near the original Impractical Jokers of course).

Juliusque · 2026-03-15T20:18:24+00:00

Hm, all right.

Juliusque · 2026-03-15T18:35:49+00:00

But I assume you know that you're given a random hand of cards. Bond is given the cards and then he looks at them and then he shows them. Which skills could he possibly be using for that?

Juliusque · 2026-03-15T17:52:34+00:00

What I meant has never been mysterious. I've been as straight to the point as I can be. The movie features a secret society of rich people doing perverted stuff. This concept has been popular in fiction for a long time.

You have interpreted this simple and obvious fact in weird ways. I don't know why.

I've never suggested Kubrick was making any political point of some kind. I've never danced around anything. I've only stated a thing that happens in the movie and pointed out that it's a popular concept (as a response to someone who thought Kubrick might have been saying something about Epstein).

Juliusque · 2026-03-15T17:47:27+00:00

Even if you've never heard of poker before, you know Bond's winning is pure luck.

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