Sometimes I hate logging on Letterboxd because I get embarrassed that I haven't seen some of these films until now. Films can slip by.
Anyway, I was very much in to the Korean New Wave and have basically seen all the highlights... even most of Jee-woon Kim's films. But never this one.

Anyway, Mubi put this up and I finally checked it out. Fantastic film. Kang-ho Song is great as always... as well as the entire cast. Beautiful cinematography, production design and stunt coordination. And there are some shots that I have NO IDEA how they pulled off... remember this is 35mm and before drones were commonplace... so the shot that soars over the train in to the desert, then…

A western from the eastern side of the world, The Good, the Bad, the Weird is a slick, stylish & rousing adventure of gunshots, violence & vengeance from director Kim Jee-woon (A Bittersweet Life & I Saw the Devil) and, as perceivable from its name, is a refreshing take on Sergio Leone's spaghetti western classic, The Good, the Bad & the Ugly but its inspiration comes not only from that film but Leone's entire Dollars Trilogy & Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark as well.

Set in Manchuria at the time of World War II, this South Korean western tells the story of three gunslingers whose paths cross each other in pursuit of a treasure map. The Good is a bounty hunter who's hired…

(Part 9 of "Arielrocks5’s List of films to do for Todd Gaines’ Challenge! (George Lucas Special Edition Gen X Director’s Cut)"

Challenge: "Watch 'The Good, The Bad, The Weird" ")

There are good movies. There are great ones. And then there are ones like “The Good, The Bad, The Weird”.

Ones that go beyond typical conventions of genres or homage to create something completely robust in its own existence that strives to create a series of moving images that live up to what film should be.

This movie is a lot of a things. An Action movie. A Dark Comedy. A Western. A Treasure Hunting Adventure. A film that features a lot of people being stabbed. A story of moving…

The Good, The Bad, The Weird was one of the few films that got me into film. Which is weird, since this film practically owes its own existence so many other films - of which the obvious The Good, the Bad and the Ugly I am yet to see.

Nowadays, this film is my go-to film. When I want to wind down, or relax after six hours of non-stop typing on my keyboard trying to rush an essay. This is the film I choose when I want to be entertained. It's the bombastic chase through a motherfucking desert in motherfucking Manchuria with motherfuckers like Park Chang-yi, (The Bad - Lee Byung-hun) megaawesome bandit assassin with a habit of being cooler…

Yoon Tae-goo „The Weird“, Park Chang-Yi „The Good“ und Park Do-won „The Good“ sind hinter eine Karte her, diese soll zu einem Schatz führen. Doch was dieser Schatz eigentlich ist, weiß keiner von den Drei. Doch auch die Japanische Armee und noch eine Menge Verbrecher sind hinter der Karte her. So beginnt eine Verfolgungsjagd zwischen den 3 und die Japanische Armee und die Verbrecher machen jagd auf die 3.

Was passiert wen in Asien Western gehuldigt wird. Nun es könnte dieser Film dabei raus kommen. So werden alle großen Italowestern von Sergio Leone Tribut gezollt. Titel gebend und auch für den groß Teil der Handlung verantwortlich ist: „The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Zwei Glorreiche Halunken)“.

So werden auf…

This movie was made for the equivalent of $10 million USD. That alone is ridiculously impressive given the relentless excess of the action on display in The Good, The Bad, The Weird

Combine The Good The Bad & The Ugly and the Spaghetti Western in general, the pulpy fun of Indiana Jones, the bloodshed and precise direction of Kim Jee-woon's approach to action, a zany over-the-top style, 1930s Manchuria and a backdrop of the fight for Korean independence from Japanese imperialism, and you get this roller coaster ride of a genre homage.

You might find yourself nodding in agreement with the bandits' commentary trying to follow the plot, but in actuality, the story of Good Bad Weird is deceptively simple: there's…