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Postby Technomancer » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:12 am

A short article about a recently released Japanese western. I should also try tracking down that Korean one they mention too.

http://www.slate.com/id/2198837/
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Postby bigsleepj » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:10 am

It looks interesting, and as a fan of Spaghetti westerns I more or less took notice of it. That said, Takashi Miike's movies tend to be very brutal.
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Postby Etoh*the*Greato » Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:02 am

This looks fantastic! I have the occasional western night with a friend of mine and one of the movies we watch on those nights is almost always bad, even if we wanted it to be good. I really look forward to this.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:12 pm

The Good, The Bad, and The Weird is one I really want to see. Song Kang-Oh and Byung-hun Lee are such phenomenal actors.
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Postby Kkun » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:11 pm

This movie looks perfect in every possible way. I just watched the scene with Quentin Tarantino's cameo and it was fantastic, right down to the poorly spoken English.
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Postby Puguni » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:00 pm

Yeah, I pretty much want to see The Good Guy, the Bad Guy, the Weird Guy.

I guess I want to see the other movie too.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:49 am

Trailer for The Good, The Bad, and The Weird:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imgdpz_0m-8
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Postby jon_jinn » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:43 pm

i saw something for this movie on RT a little over a week ago. i was trying to decide whether to post a thread about it but decided not to. the movie looks interesting but i think it's just gonna end up being non-stop fighting with a very thin plot line.
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