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The Nextlander Watchcast 066: Train to Busan (2016)
🕑 Added 2023-10-30 22:21:07 +0000 UTCFor our final film of our spooky October, we're traveling to South Korea, where a zombie outbreak has caused a number of train delays (and violent deaths) in Train to Busan!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 66: Train to Busan (2016)
(00:00:27) - Intro.
(00:03:02) - Our film for this week: Train to Busan! Leading off with our histories and general feelings on zombie movies.
(00:13:49) - Speaking highly of the zombie train concept, and the expedient collapse.
(00:18:42) - Little bit of production history and cast talk.
(00:23:08) - The general lack of sentimentality in this movie and the Korean movies Alex has seen.
(00:25:30) - The movie's (non-zombie) villain, and the set-up for the plot.
(00:29:53) - The limited backstory of the outbreak.
(00:35:18) - The zambies.
(00:41:58) - Break!
(00:42:19) - We're back, and let's talk about our survivors.
(00:47:09) - The rules of the dead.
(00:51:48) - What's happening outside the train.
(00:54:31) - The first attempt at disembarking.
(01:02:20) - Marveling at these spacious train bathrooms. And a dark contrivance.
(01:08:04) - Mr. Business makes his heel turn (and a brief aside on The Mist).
(01:16:40) - The younger sister takes revenge.
(01:20:54) - Mr. Business is not done messing things up.
(01:29:21) - Why's this zombie movie gotta make me feel Real Emotions?
(01:35:53) - Do they make it to Busan?
(01:41:45) - Final thoughts.
(01:45:35) - Outro.
Comments
Trevor and Adrienne R
Glad to hear Alex shout out One Cut of the Dead. Super fun film.
Sawyer Hildebrandt
All of Us Are Dead is one of the best pieces of zombie media in the last decade+ for me.
Dylan Bartholomew
if you like Ma Dong Seok he's in a really great TV show called "Bad Guys" that has the good mixed goofy/serious vibes of the yakuza games
Steve Singleton
Even though it's TV and not cinema, I feel like the South Korean shows All of Us Are Dead and Happiness have made this movie worse on rewatching. Happiness focuses on the threat of 1 zombie and keeps it small scale which is more interesting character wise, and All of Us Are Dead does hordes of zombies much better. I enjoyed this in the cinema when it came out but found it much harder to watch again after having seen those tv shows.
Eric W
I know it wasn't intended, but when the dad gets bit at the end, the actor looks like he raises his arm to get the zombie to bite him, so it's my joking head canon that he just really doesn't want to do the work of actual parenting and that was his way out.
IdyllicGhost
Brad was wondering if there was a side scrolling zombie game and the closest thing I can think of is Deadlight if anyone remembers that. It was good!
Michael Neely
This movie has to have one of the most unlikeable people ever in a movie. I was so mad at that guy. Anyone who has seen the movie knows who I’m talking about. Anyway, great movie, good way to cap off the month’s theme.
Nick Huval
I have avoided this movie because I am just so tired of zombie stuff. This movie was awesome. Up there as one of the best zombie movies I've seen and I even ended up crying at the end for the characters.
Michael Polston
As a zombie movie, I feel like this movie is just kinda fine. But as a train movie (and I love train movies), I enjoy it quite a bit more.
WulfBane
After watching Train to Busan, I also watched Seoul Station since they were both on Amazon Prime (kinda). I know what Brad was alluding to and the pre-outbreak background and final reveals with the main three characters it follows who are trying to reunite was a subject I wasn't expecting.
