The Top Five Westerns Since 1993 | Discussion (Ep. 93)

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

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🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In honor of ‘Red Dead Redemption 2,’ Sean Fennessey sits down with Chris Ryan — the Doc Holliday to his Wyatt Earp — to list and discuss their top five Western films of the last two and a half decades. Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’ Closed the Book on Movie Westerns, K. Austin Collins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Richard slugs.
0:03.0	Don't even have the guts to play for blood!
0:05.0	I'm your Huckleberry.
0:09.0	But just my game.
0:17.0	I'm Sean Fantasy Editor and Chief of the Ringer, and this is the big picture,
0:21.0	a conversation show with one of my oldest friends, Chris Ryan.
0:25.0	The ringer's Chris Ryan, Chris what's up?
0:27.0	I'm kind of the doc holiday to your wider.
0:29.0	Wow, I don't know what the Huckleberry is.
0:31.0	What does that really mean?
0:33.0	I'm the tuberculosis suffering,
0:36.0	wildly talented but problematic sidekick in your quest for justice in the West.
0:42.0	Hopefully we're not sickly today, but hopefully we'll have bars.
0:45.0	We're doing a top five, Chris.
0:47.0	Top five is becoming a part of this show, and we did one last week with Bill Simmons about horror movies,
0:51.0	and we're doing one today about Westerns since 1993.
0:55.0	And the reason that we're doing that is because, and maybe this will seem a little stupid when I explain it,
0:59.0	Red Dead Redemption 2 came out last week, and it made $750 million in its opening weekend,
1:05.0	which is approximately five times the amount of the most successful movie of the year.
1:09.0	So we've made a strategic mistake with this show.
1:14.0	However, we do love Westerns, and Red Dead has us thinking a little bit more about Westerns.
1:19.0	You edited a piece on the site about sort of what you're calling the New Western Cannot.
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