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On the podcast this time, Steven and Sean are on the hunt for a mysterious hidden treasure and shooting at loads of people along the way with the 2008 film from Kim Jee-woon, The Good, the Bad, the Weird.

Perhaps this film won\u2019t be anything that breaks any new storytelling ground\u2014it is a new version of the classic The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Sergio Leone. Given the history of spaghetti westerns liberally borrowing from other films, that one was also probably a retread of other things, too.

There\u2019s nothing original anymore; all the stories have been told. What matters now is telling familiar stories in fresh ways.

Friend, this one tells a familiar story in the freshest way imaginable. It\u2019s a rollicking buddy-chase-shootout-caper western and that\u2019s a fantastic combination of genres. Stick all those ingredients together and you\u2019ve got a hell of a crazy stew going.

What\u2019s great about this one is its ability to surprise. You may be familiar with this story, but it\u2019s still not going to be what you expect. There\u2019s plenty of heavy emotion and blistering action. It\u2019s a truly stellar film from South Korea.

(Recorded on March 11, 2022)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

The Good, the Bad, the Weird - IMDb

The Good, the Bad, the Weird trailer - YouTube

Jee-woon Kim - IMDb

Kang-ho Song - IMDb

Lee Byung-hun - IMDb

Jung Woo-sung - IMDb

Seung-su Ryu - IMDb

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) - IMDb

Sergio Leone - IMDb

Eli Wallach - IMDb

Chris O\u2019Donnell - IMDb

The Bachelor (1999) - IMDb

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World\u2019s End (2007) - IMDb

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) - IMDb

Javier Bardem - IMDb

Mad Love (1995) - IMDb

Batman & Robin (1997) - IMDb

Oldboy (2003) - IMDb

Parasite (2019) - IMDb

Jackie Chan - IMDb

Incendies (2010) - IMDb

The Matrix (1999) - IMDb

How Stunt Horses are Trained to Fall in the Movies - Horse Illustrated

(Of course there\u2019s a Horse Illustrated. I both do and don\u2019t (but mostly don\u2019t) want to see that swimsuit issue.)

The Princess Bride (1987) - IMDb

The Magnificent Seven (2016) - IMDb

The Magnificent Seven (1960) - IMDb

The Proposition (2005) - IMDb