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Train to Busan
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The girls are on board and BABES — this train does not have Wi-Fi, snacks, or emotional stability. This week on Go Get Your Girl, we’re watching Train to Busan, the South Korean zombie masterpiece that said “what if your commute… but make it traumatic?” We’re talking zombie Pilates in the aisles, a dad who discovers feelings way too late, and one baseball himbo who deserved the world. It’s high-speed horror, found family, and mascara running faster than the undead. We laughed, we screamed, we sobbed — and yes, we’re still riding the Trauma Express.
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Transcript
Introduction and Recent Experiences
00:00:01
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Here we are on this chilly, wonderful little, oh, it's Thirsty Thursday. oh for God's sake.
00:00:14
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I was about to say hump day and then I was like, no, it's not. It's not. Yeah. I've had a crazy couple of days. Yeah? I saw you were in New York. Yeah. Well, I'm close enough to to New anytime I want, Katie.
00:00:27
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Ooh la la. Ooh la la. Fancy smancy. Yeah, so I'm doing this masked sonnet. yeah little performance and our rehearsal was at um a rehearsal space in new york and it brought back a lot of memories of rehearsing storefront theater because it's like one of those rehearsal spaces where you can rent a room for 15 an hour and that's very cheap for a rehearsal room in new york was that in manhattan yeah Yeah, it's called The Tank.
00:00:58
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Oh, yeah. No, I know. The Tank. Yeah. um And so like we it was like 15 bucks an hour. And it's like a room.
00:01:09
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You get some chairs. And there's like 80 other people rehearsing in other rooms around you. And I'm like, on our bathroom break, I was just like walking around being like, whoa is everyone what's everyone rehearsing?
00:01:20
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What's going on I remember the rehearsal spaces in New York remind me of, this is going to be a deep cut, but the the TV show Lost, the Dharma stations, because there's the Tank, the Pearl, the Swan.
00:01:34
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um What are some more? Oh, man. I used to could name off about 10 or 12 of them, but I don't remember them anymore. Yeah. The Swan and the Pearl are definitely both rehearsal spaces in New York and Dharma Initiative outposts on the TV show Lost.
00:01:50
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I've never seen Lost, I'm going to have to take your word for it. Really? You didn't watch Lost? Oh my God. When we were in um college, we were obsessed with it. We would gather.
Pop Culture and Literature: TV and Twilight
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at first we did it at the Student Union building because they had like a huge projector TV. Nice. and Love that. And we would all like just a bunch. And then strangers would come in and start watching it with us too. I love that.
00:02:12
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But then there were too many strangers and it became kind of a different thing. And we were like, why don't we watch this in in in your room, Richard? And we watched it in my friend Richard's room. Nice.
00:02:23
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Ours was like... um and When I say we, I mean, I'm talking about like 10 people, not like just me and him. Yeah. ah my Our show was True Blood. Couldn't tell you why. Well, I guess we were in East Texas. i so like yeah Yeah. That's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:02:39
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Very adjacent to Louisiana, Texas. Yeah. it It was like Glee for a hot second, and then it was True Blood. We did Glee too. We did Glee too. Yeah. I stopped watching Glee in the second season.
00:02:51
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Yeah. just couldn't. The Ryan Murphy of it all was just too much for me. It got to be a lot. It just got to be too crazy. And yeah. I mean, did you ever watch- I tried to rewatch True Blood a couple years ago, and I made it to almost the exact same episode where I fell off the last time. It's right at the end ah season- it's what I think it's season five, or maybe it's season four, whichever one, where they're like in the bunker the whole time. It's- Oh. And there's like the vampire- You made it further than me.
00:03:24
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Yeah. no, no, no. Yep. No, I made it that far. Yeah. And then they make, they introduce her as a fairy and you're like, what the fuck? It's where, and then where, and then Bill turns bad. Yeah.
00:03:34
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and yeah And Eric turns good. Cause he loses his memories. It's like a whole thing. Yeah. But like, i mean, come on, they got it. Cause he's so much sexier than him. it just It's that same sort of Edward, ah Jacob sort of, you know,
00:03:51
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da Like what is your vibe Oh really is one of them super lame in Twilight I don't remember that don't remember them what i don't remember one of them being a fucking cuck I mean some might say that was Edward Okay sure yeah but ja doesn't Jacob suck too different way i've only seen twilight one that's the only one i've seen i think it's a terrible movie you don't get vindicated with twilight with new moon because new moon is where jacob comes out as a four or five years too old for twilight when it came out and it's just like i just missed it man
00:04:28
Speaker
Oh, man. It was my vibe. It was my hot vibe for like a second. Like, I i think I've mentioned on this show before, i left a party once early. And I, just because I was in the middle of New Moon, and I wanted to keep on reading New Moon. So i was like, deuces.
00:04:42
Speaker
Well, you're over day night you're i'm only two years older than you. So maybe I'm only two years too old for Twilight. Yeah, like maybe you're two years too old for Twilight. Slash. Slash.
00:04:53
Speaker
Uh-huh. Maybe it's just, like, not your vibe. Maybe it's, like, a little bit too... Mormon? It's a little too Mormon is the problem. Like, that's when I... When when I watch the movie, I'm like, this is the most Mormon fucking thing I've ever seen.
00:05:07
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And, like, no offense to Mormons who listen to this, although honestly can't imagine. Yeah. But, like, Mormon...
00:05:18
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ah Sex vampires is just not something that I think is is particularly conducive. See, like, I didn't realize it was Mormon because I didn't know anything about the Mormon church.
00:05:31
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I thought... Oh, I had some Mormon friends in school. Oh, okay. See, I i did not. and New zero Mormons, zero. think my roommate in college for like a semester was Mormon, but like yeah i had I couldn't tell you because we barely spent any time together and I barely knew her name.
00:05:50
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um And like I just I knew nothing about it. And so like it just I did not put two and two together. I just thought it was a fun vampire romance book.
00:06:01
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And
Societal Issues: Drugs and Movie Plots
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I am a sucker for romance and i love. well So am i That's the thing. But like it's. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, there's very few romance novels where I'm like, okay, fuck this. And then I throw it down. But it does happen occasionally. And I feel like Twilight would have been one of those. But I haven't read it. I was did you read the books?
00:06:20
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See, I read the books first. I read the books first. I read the books first. And um i I've never finished watching all the movies because they went so off rails from the books.
00:06:31
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okay And the like I really enjoyed the books, but it was like sort of... You know how they say weed is a gateway drug? Uh-huh. Yeah.
00:06:43
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I feel like Twilight- i mean, it's not, but yes, I understand you mean. yeah It's not, but it's what moms in the 2000s would tell their children so they wouldn't do cocaine. Yeah. You're going to do weed and then black tar heroin immediately after. That's what's going to happen.
00:06:59
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It's a gateway drug. You know, don't use the phrase black tar heroin as much as we did in the 2000s. Right. Whatever happened to that? Maybe there's like new terms for it. But I think that it all got taken over by like fentanyl.
00:07:11
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Yeah. fent Fentanyl is is really like the the the thing that you see people on the train on more often than not. Because I guess it's cheaper. I don't know. I don't know how much drugs are. And it's easier to die from.
00:07:24
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um Then heroin? Is it? i don't know. I'm not a scientist. I mean, I've had surgery, so I have had fentanyl. um So I can say that. Maybe it's like heroin meets oxy.
00:07:36
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I don't know. I've never had it. I have no idea. This is just me going off of like what I've seen. And like, I just had to portray a patient for Yale where I was like a 17 year old kid who was addicted to fentanyl and I wanted to get off of it.
00:07:49
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And it was like all about the students, like talking me through the steps of like going through and like, yeah. It's the one where like you, you like lean way over and don't move.
00:08:01
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Yeah. I didn't know that was a thing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We ah got years ago, we saw somebody on the train who is clearly on fentanyl and didn't understand what it was until more recently. But yeah, it's the thing where like you see people on the street like who are like doubled over and like not moving and like maybe really slowly walking.
00:08:22
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Like really really scary and sad. Yeah. Oh, that is really scary and sad. And weirdly, i don't know how we got to this discussion, but like, ah oh, well, I was going to say Twilight was my gateway drug to romance novels.
00:08:38
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Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. To specifically romanticy, because then I learned you could get down and dirtier. and Oh, big time. Yeah. thing about Twilight is they don't fuck.
00:08:49
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At least not until the last one, right? Until the second to last one. and Okay. Okay. But they get married first because they're more. They get married first is the thing. course. Of course. He's he's traditional.
00:09:01
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Right. Yeah. Traditional hundreds of year old man who's in love with a 15 year old girl. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which is in no way creepy. ah Spoiler alert. It is very creepy. Yeah. And also has nothing to do with the Mormon church.
00:09:13
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No, no, it doesn't. um But I was going to say, weirdly, our discussion of fentanyl. Yeah. I feel like that's sort of good enough segue into today's movie.
00:09:27
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That's right. ah That's right, guys. You guessed it. This is Go Get Your Girl. ah Sorry, go Get Your Goo. This is the podcast where Emma and Katie are kind of terrible parents because their kid just really wants see their mom, but they're like, your mom's a dick.
00:09:51
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ah And ah it's their kid's birthday and ah you're just too busy. We're just too busy trying to make money for them and in a high stress job working. This is a, this is, and this is apparently a weird ah um polyamorous three-way lesbian.
00:10:09
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Or yeah a conjoined twin situation. Oh, okay. Okay. Sure, sure, sure. As all of these scenarios are. You can, it's choose your poison, ah weird polyamorous three-way situation or conjoined twins.
00:10:25
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I don't want to imply, I did say weird. I don't want to imply that a three-way lesbian ah parenthood situation is weird. It would be weird if we were doing it is what I mean. It it would be weird if we were doing it.
00:10:38
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yeah um And conjoined twins, you take that as you go. um Anyways, so ah so yeah. So like we're just trying to make money for our kid and our kid doesn't seem to get that and they just want to see their mom. And you're like, okay, fine. We'll go. And they're like, no, no, no. i'm I can go on this train up to the suburbs by myself. And you're like – and we're like and I don't really like that.
00:11:00
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I'm going you. it's the suburbs. and Busan is ah is a huge city. It's more like going, if if New York and Chicago were much closer together is what it's like. Oh! It's a totally different, like, large city. Yeah. I think Busan is the second largest city and in Korea, but I have to check on that.
00:11:16
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Oh, okay. So like, we gotta take our kid to see their mom for a different
Zombie Outbreak: Train to Busan
00:11:22
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day. It is the second most populous city. Yeah, with 3 million people. So Busan is larger than Chicago. Yeah.
00:11:27
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Jesus. But just barely. Yeah. um But yeah, and so we take our kid on the train and we're also in the middle of like this really intense financial deal.
00:11:39
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um ah with and And yeah, and then things start going a little weird. Because people start getting a little violent and start attacking.
00:11:52
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And then it turns into almost a snowpiercer sort of situation where we have to move through the cars to sort of get to the front of the train. Also, there's some people that are great and there's some people that are massive dicks that are on this train.
00:12:06
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And some reason the massive dicks survive through a lot of it. Just like in the real world. Just like in the real world. You guessed it, guys. This is Go Get Your Girl. I'm Emma.
00:12:18
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And I'm Katie. And today we are, of course, talking about the 2016 horror zombie tragedy, Train to Busan.
00:12:30
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I think we're so used to saying a zombie rom-com. Yeah. This is definitely not a Zom rom-com. It is not. This from a Zom rom-com. um ah South Korean movie. It is, dura and I'm going to do my best on the South Korean names. I am not an expert in how to pronounce these, but it is directed by Yoon Sang-ho.
00:12:49
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And it is written by him and Park Joo-sook. Yoon Sang-ho has also made two sequels to this movie. are One prequel and one sequel called Peninsula and Colony.
00:13:02
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And there's a TV show, like a cartoon. It's a whole thing. It just goes. The prequel is animated. i had no idea. The pre the prequel, um um the station at Busan or whatever, one day at the station at Busan is animated.
00:13:18
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and I was like, who is this for? Well, I mean, you have to um understand that there's lots of adult animation in ah in Asia, specifically Japan and and Korea. too That's true.
00:13:31
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That's very true. It would just be funny if they were like, you know, similar to how we were discussing Nightmare on Elm Street and how Freddy Krueger sort of became. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like kids knew who Freddy Krueger was.
00:13:43
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Train to Busan in Korea was like a children's program. Maybe it is. I don't know. I mean, that kid does an excellent job. And she yeah she's sort of the protagonist of this film.
00:13:56
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um Yeah, for sure. She is. yeah Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, and I mean, who knows what the baby, the pregnant lady's baby is going to, I mean, what's going to, need to see the whole world from that baby's point of view.
00:14:09
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I mean, yeah, there is a sequel as well. I don't know what it's – I think it's about a different place, though. Yeah. um It's the first of Emma's Fun Facts, Emma's Fun Facts. um So the sequel – I know at least one of the sequels is nothing – it's just all new characters.
00:14:25
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's similar situation. um And so like, this is like a standalone, um but they take the same idea and they make, you know, sort of sister films, sort of like how the walking dead, you've got the walking dead and then you've got the the walking dead. One my favorite titles of, of a spinoff of all time, which is, I believe I'm doing this from memory.
00:14:53
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The walking dead colon Daryl Dixon colon the book of Carol.
00:15:00
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That's where he goes to France. ah So fucking stupid. he learns to speak French. No more the book of. Have we talked about this in this podcast before? feel like we have, but we're putting the book of in too many things.
00:15:14
Speaker
There's a spiral from the book of Saw. like What the fuck are you talking about? The book of Saw. Did Saw write a book? I think he was probably too busy being a singular booby trap like mastermind.
00:15:27
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ah Yeah. um And then there's ah the book of Boba Fett, I think, from the Star Wars show. Yeah. Yeah. i didn't know that he knew he had a book. Didn't know he had a book, too. Apparently. it's so It's about eight episodes long and everyone hated it.
00:15:42
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Okay. Well, then there you go. There you go. No more books of. So if you're listening to this, Train to Busan people, please do not make another sequel called Train to Busan colon The Book of Busan.
00:15:57
Speaker
The Book of Su-an. The Book of Su-an. The Book of... um oh my god, what was the asshole's name? I don't know his name. I just called him Rich Old Guy. Rich Old Guy.
00:16:09
Speaker
Yeah, that guy sucked. That guy sucked. That guy sucked. That's the character's name. Yeah. Yon-suk. You know who I do you want to see a movie from in their point of view? I really, really, really want to see... oh my god, what's his name? Because it it was... Sang-hwa. Sang-hwa.
00:16:25
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ah His little, his BFF little assistant, Sang-wa. Oh, oh, oh, no. You're talking about Analyst Kim. Analyst Kim. Analyst Kim. Analyst Kim.
00:16:37
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has a whole thing going on. Yeah, who knows what's going on with Analyst Kim. Right? There's a whole thing going on. He's got like this whole other like experience that we don't really get a glimpse of, but we hear that things did not go well.
00:16:51
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ah No, no, not in Seoul. No, no, no, no, they did not. But yeah. Yeah. So who's starring in this movie, Katie? Katie?
00:17:03
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Starring in this movie is a guy a man named Gong Yoo, which is unusual because almost all Korean names are are three syllables and ah his is not. But I assume that might be a stage name. all yeah Yes.
00:17:18
Speaker
So we have Gong Yoo, who stars as Sook Woo, who is our... main character, um who is the the asshole dad that we talked about. And he is, he's a fund manager, but he's doing, he's trading commodities of some kind. He's like, lose all the fish.
00:17:36
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Yeah, it's because he sees the fish are dying. Yeah. um We start off with a scene where this man is like driving his, um like a livestock truck or no, it's no it's just a lorry.
00:17:50
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what? A lorry? You mean a truck? ah
00:17:57
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Okay, Madonna.
00:18:06
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of some kind of true stuff. And um he gets stopped by some quarantine people and they're like, yeah, there's a quarantine, but it's okay. you're not We're not going to have to kill all the animals this time. And he's like, this fucking place sucks.
00:18:21
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And then he hits a deer and then the deer gets up and is a zombie. And it's like the title of the movie. And it's trying to buzz on. And then we go to Seoul where at this fancy smancy high rise with our main character, who's like making deals, making things happen. And analyst Kim comes in and he's just like, here's the other things.
00:18:42
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Here's other things. Hedge fund, hedge fund, hedge fund, money, money, money. Yeah. Yeah. Which is about as much as I understand of it. And he's like, it's my daughter's birthday. um what ah What a kid's like now. And analyst Kim tells him to get a Wii.
00:18:59
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Yeah, which is like, this was made in 2015. So like... It's a full decade after the Wii came out. Like, it's... Was it like Wii 2? Was there like a second generation Wii?
00:19:10
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i don't know. was There was of the deeply unpopular Wii which I think came out after that. Oh, okay. But it... Oh, come on. When did it come out?
00:19:26
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It came out in 2012. Okay. Maybe he does buy her Wii U. I don't remember. Yeah. I just know that she already has one. She already has one and he got it for her yeah the same year. Yeah.
00:19:41
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Because he inattentive. Yeah. He's too busy making deals, doing money. yeah And it's her birthday. And she, he's like, I'm sorry. What do you want for your birthday? She's like, I want to go to Busan to see mom. I'm like, why does this girl not live with her mom in the first place? Like,
00:19:56
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ah Well, I think they hint at that. I think that it's because um he has so much money and so much more clout that he fought for custody. And I think that he he won custody.
00:20:09
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Yeah, because just as a trophy. Yeah, because he's got... one these sky because you Yeah, well, and I think at the end of the day, like he is ah caring dad and he is he does want his mom. I mean, or he doesn't want his mom. He lives with his mom.
00:20:24
Speaker
um But I think that he thinks that he can give her a better life and soul because he is so fucking rich. Sure, sure. Yeah. um um But it seems like also that they're not divorced because the way that his mom talks about it is like they might just be separated. Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:41
Speaker
yeah It's hard to say. We don't know how long this has been going on. We don't have time Train to Busan to get into the nitty gritty of their um their family drama. I mean, it's two hours long.
00:20:53
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It's fairly long, but it does it does get ah does get intense really quickly. Oh, yeah. It's just like any zombie movie where like, it's like when we talked about Shaun of the Dead last year, it's like, and there's a little clues like at the beginning where you'll see little bits of things that are happening that we're not, that haven't quite happened yet. Um, that our characters don't notice.
00:21:12
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Exactly. Um, but things are going bad. Um, all the fish are dead. yeah there's they're They're talking about like there's some riot or something somewhere they talk about on the TV.
00:21:23
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He's like, okay, fine. I'll take the day off and I'll take you or I'll be in by lunch because it's it's a bullet train and it goes really fast. And they're also like not that far away from each other. Yeah. um It's a couple hours. I think he says it's like yeah an hour and a half or two hours.
00:21:39
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Yeah. So going at like, you know, 250 miles an hour or something too. Yeah. um ah they get on the train it's early early morning and we meet some of our other characters uh there's a i think there's a baseball team yeah um like a high school baseball team i think and they're one girl uh they're one the one the one girlfriend Yeah. um Who's not? I mean, she they're not together. like he They just like each other.
00:22:09
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um Yeah. Maybe she's just there. Well, she says she's like, I'm your one cheerleader. Maybe she's just best friends with all the guys. She's like a guy's guy and a guy's girl. And she doesn't have any girlfriends. And she's just going to support the dudes.
00:22:23
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Yeah. Well, it works out great for her. Yeah.
00:22:28
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Spoiler. So we've got them. We've got the rich asshole guy um yeah We've got a couple of trained stewards. Yep. And that's all we meet at the beginning, really.
00:22:39
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Oh, and the the old lesbian couple. Yeah.
00:22:44
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ah No, they're sisters. They're sisters? They're sisters. She constantly says, my sister. Really? Yes.
00:22:55
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Oh, I thought they were lesbians. No, she constantly is like, my sister, my sister. Where is my sister? okay fine. I mean, like, they could totally be lesbians.
00:23:06
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I'm totally open to that. It's just like, just don't think you call. They're just not lesbians together. ah Yeah, they're just not lesbians together because that's illegal. They're both separately lesbians. Exactly. They're separately gay.
00:23:19
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Um, wow, I really thought that they were, I was like, oh, that's really nice. you know, Korea is a very conservative country. i'm I'm glad that they had like a lesbian, older lesbian couple. No, they're old sisters.
00:23:29
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Okay, fine. Whatever. Because she even references that one is, that like her other, the sister is older than the other. Okay, well, listen, i have seen this movie several times and I may not have watched it, uh, with the closest eye this time, okay? Okay.
00:23:46
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You know, you have to read it because it's in subtitles. I do have to read. Yeah. So if I looked at my phone, I may have missed the fact that they were sisters. They say it like eight times. Okay, fine.
00:24:01
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Yes. So I'm stupid. no you just missed something or you maybe it was wistful thinking that that in this very conservative country they they were open-minded enough to in one of their top 10 most successful films of all time in south korea they have one of the like not main characters but like you know supporting characters as a lesbian yeah but turns out they're sisters They don't.
00:24:30
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So um ah we've got, and then he immediately falls asleep and leaves his daughter alone on the train. Yep. of Yep. And she goes, she's trying to go to the bathroom and we meet Song Wah, who is um who has his pregnant wife with him.
00:24:47
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And yes, he does. He immediately like starts looking out for this little girl. Yeah. Sue Ann is the girl's name. Yeah. He's a little cinnamon roll.
00:24:58
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um And he's great. I love him. He immediately jumps off the screen. He is steals the scenes he's in for sure. um And this brings me to the next of Emma's fun facts.
00:25:12
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Emma's fun facts. So the actor, Ma Dong-suk, he used to be Gong Yoo's personal trainer. Oh, really? Yeah.
00:25:23
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Also, nice Charlie, he was the one actor Charlie recognized. And i was like in he was like, why I recognize him? Why I recognize him? he goes, ah, Marvel. He's in a Marvel movie? He's in a Marvel. He plays Gilgamesh in The Eternals.
00:25:37
Speaker
Ah, yeah, I didn't catch that one. Yeah, neither did Well, I started to, and then I was like, this is bad. I'm peacing out. And Charlie was like, it's actually not that bad if you watch it a second time.
00:25:49
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No, thank you. Yeah, he's in a Marvel. by Good for him. Get that Marvel money. Yeah. Well, they thought it was going to be one of the good ones.
00:26:01
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Camille, our BFF Camille, was also in The Eternals. Oh, that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Angelina Jolie, I think. Yeah, but we're not BFFs with her yet. Well, that's true. We haven't done a Jolie.
00:26:13
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he there Is there a Jolie rom-com? I don't know. She's too serious for a rom-com. The tourist! Maybe not. It was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Comedy.
00:26:25
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remember. I remember and it being famously not a comedy.
00:26:30
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oh boy. boy.
00:26:33
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So, yes, all of this is happening. that And then there, and then then the zombie they outbreak happens. I mean, i don't know what you want. um I mean, this girl, this girl jumps on the train at the last minute.
00:26:46
Speaker
From the riots. And she's clearly fucked up. think There's just something so wrong with her. But she's not dead yet. um And she like gives herself a tourniquet. It's very sad. This whole movie is so sad.
00:26:58
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yeah um Lots of zombie movies are, honestly. um The thing is, like I've only seen one zombie movie that I think is really scary. And that is Wreck.
00:27:09
Speaker
Wreck is so good. you You missed it in the theater, right? No, we watched it together. that was the last one you saw then you left. Yeah. Yeah. We were waiting around for Wreck because it was like, number one, we really wanted to see it. And number two, Music Box of Horrors like did a deep dive to get like the original, what they say, like the film? the print. Yeah. Oh, yeah. They do prints. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:34
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And it was like a whole thing. Yeah. um ah Yeah, that is probably the only zombie movie I can say I think is really scary. Lots of other zombie movies are good and fun or sad.
00:27:47
Speaker
That is kind of where they fall. This one is definitely sad. I think anything with fast zombies is scary, in my opinion. Slow zombies, not as scary.
00:27:58
Speaker
Fast zombies, terrifying. This has fast zombies. I know, and it's scary. Oh, I don't find this movie scary at all. I mean, there's a lot more drama, but like, and like the, like because they make you really like get into depth with the characters and stuff.
00:28:12
Speaker
But like, yeah. um Yeah. I think like this and 28 days later, um i'd i'd count them as scary zombie. 28 days later is scary. You're right. 28 days later is pretty scary. Yeah.
00:28:23
Speaker
I've seen that in a long time. You don't just have to get bitten. That's true, yeah. And Resident Evil. Resident Evil's scary. The drop of Resident Evil is not scary.
00:28:33
Speaker
Resident Evil's scary! I haven't seen it since I was kid. I haven't seen it since I was a kid. And I remember being scared because everybody gets turned into a cube of flesh. Yes, it's so stupid.
00:28:44
Speaker
um the um Anyway, ah um she gets on and immediately attacks the one of the the train stewards and then...
00:28:56
Speaker
everybody's a zombie so fast. Just so fast. It spreads like wildfire. And like the thing that they do that I think is really great about the beginning of this zombie film is that they give you a few sort of like red herrings of like where it's going to go.
00:29:10
Speaker
So like you start to get a little bit of the backstory of the stewardess. Like you get lot her interacting with like her coworkers. So you're like, oh, she's obviously to be one of the final girls. Like she's going to, we're going to follow her around.
00:29:23
Speaker
um And then whenever the girl jumps on the train, another homeless man jumps on the train. And so like you don't know like which is which for like a hot second and until you see her bite. And then you're like, oh.
00:29:34
Speaker
and then And then, you know, you're like, well, what about this other guy that's like in a bathroom as well? And then they do this thing where you're like, which bathroom is it? Yeah. Yeah, because there's also like, because we've got Song-Hwa and his pregnant wife, and then we also have Su-An waiting at the bathrooms.
00:29:53
Speaker
Yeah. um So we put some people in danger. And the the guy, I don't, I guess he's homeless. I, but he escaped from- always assumed he was. Yeah. Because he keeps like muttering, everyone's dead. I just wrote, the guy's seen some shit.
00:30:06
Speaker
um So he's, he's seen the zombies before and he got onto the train to escape. Yeah. And, um, So, but the and the rich guy um immediately tells on him. Like, the rich old guy is just such a piece of shit from the very beginning. Such fucking piece of shit.
00:30:23
Speaker
This is where we immediately start to get into, like, the um the economics of this movie and the Snowpiercer shit, where it's, like, the the the rich people versus the poor people. And immediately it starts, like, they start dividing into groups on this train. Yep.
00:30:39
Speaker
Yep, because people suck. No matter where you are in ah in the world. no matter where you are in America. No matter where are in the world. If you're in Busan, America. or Or, you know, California, yeah America.
00:30:57
Speaker
the um And our main character, who I've already forgotten the name of. To be fair, I don't think they call him his name. They don't. I just call him Daddy. Maybe once in the whole movie. Let's just call Daddy.
00:31:12
Speaker
I'm going to go with Daddy. Yeah. He is pretty cute. ah but Yeah. I'm like, oh, Daddy. Are you divorced yet? oppa I feel like you could take care of me.
00:31:25
Speaker
the um um He is like immediately like the first thing he says to his his daughter is um she she gets the though little girl gets the pregnant woman like through the corridor, right? That's what happens.
00:31:44
Speaker
yeah And then he's like, why would you do that? um ah You have to look out for yourself. Looking out for yourself is the most important thing. um Other people don't matter. And she's like, That's crazy.
00:31:54
Speaker
I think she even says, like, well, mommy doesn't say that. like Well, no, that's to the end that's to the rich old man. um Because he tells her, this rich old man says to to her, like, when that, the...
00:32:09
Speaker
The woman is screaming in pain ah from zombie-ness says, like, if you don't do your study, if you don't do your studies, you'll end up like her. And she says, ah mom says people who say that are bad. And he said, looks like she didn't finish her school then. like, fuck you, dude.
00:32:25
Speaker
Right? What a fucking asshole. Fucking asshole. Yeah. i mean He sucks so bad. You have to have an evil villain in a zombie movie. Yeah, you do And the thing that sucks is that like he just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and you keep wanting him to die more and more and more and he keeps not dying.
00:32:44
Speaker
He causes so many deaths. He really- causes so many. He is responsible for so much death in this movie. Yeah.
00:32:55
Speaker
And he just, he needs to get to Busan so badly. Yeah. They, um they block themselves off ah fairly quickly um and are relatively safe for, for periods. Right.
00:33:10
Speaker
Yeah. The baseball team gets, gets eaten except for like, I think three or four of them escape. and Yeah. are yeah Yeah. It's like a couple dudes with baseball bats are main, like um sad, sexy dude. And then the chick.
00:33:24
Speaker
Yeah. um and then ah they all get in there i put zombie time suon has to pee zombie time uh oh yeah so he shuts the door on song wah um and but then they get through anyway and he's like you're such an asshole why would you close the door on me what you only care about yourself like fuck you dude yeah um the rich guy is immediately trying to boss the conductor around who says that they're going to stop at the next, uh, city, which I wrote down, but we'll get there.
00:34:00
Speaker
Um, uh, Oh no, no. She gives her seat to one of the older, I wrote lesbian, but sisters. That's what he says. Don't do that. Yeah. That's what he, when he says, don't do that. Uh, don't, don't, don't, um, look out for other people. You have to look out for yourself.
00:34:15
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. um They're quarantining in Dajon. That's what it, or day I don't know how you, I'm assuming that's how you say it. yeah um Another city on the way in between. And he is talking to analyst Kim. And then he's also talking to his friend in the military, it seems daddy is.
00:34:33
Speaker
Okay. Who tells that Dajon is quarantined and ah his guys are there, but don't go to the main square, go to a different place. So the train stops at Dajon.
00:34:46
Speaker
And everybody's going one way and he takes Sue on another way. Yep. but And the homeless guy is like, I heard you. I'm going with you. Yeah. He's like, no, no, go with them. Like he's, he's still trying to protect only his daughter and himself.
00:35:00
Speaker
Yeah. And, unfortunately as they're all going down the escalator in such a great shot, like you see that the, ah the military is compromised. The whole military outpost there has turned into zombies and everybody has to turn around and run.
00:35:16
Speaker
And this is like one of the major set pieces of this movie, this train station thing. And it it's so well it's so well shot and and and really like lots of of fun a little action bits.
00:35:28
Speaker
um They have to turn around because even the way he's going separately, it's also a bunch of military zombies. There's one last army guy who's like, ah, no.
00:35:41
Speaker
He's and he's bloody. And like, oh, fuck. And then you've got zombies coming from all directions. Yeah, all the whole army is there and they're all zombies. And they're all fast!
00:35:53
Speaker
Yes, and they're all running really fast and they're all trying to get back onto the train now. Yep. club Which also has zombies. Yes, yes. and um And so the um they're they're trying to hold the doors there for to let the other ones ah get out. This is where Sukwu finally, like,
00:36:15
Speaker
Starts to help. um So him and ah Song Wah and ah baseball boys are is there ah holding the doors and they get everybody else off. This is where they get separated.
00:36:29
Speaker
And pregnant wife. What is her name? I call her pregnant wife throughout the whole thing. mean, pregnant wife. Sung Young is the character's name. The thing is, is that they, with the exception of his daughter, they don't really, and Analyst Kim, they don't really say anyone's names a bunch. They never say anyone's names, no. Well, they say Jin Hee. Jin Hee, the high school girl. They say her name. Oh, Jin Hee, yeah.
00:36:52
Speaker
But like, I mean, those are like the only names that you really hear because everybody else is, they're too busy. I don't even know if they've introduced themselves to each other.
00:37:03
Speaker
Like, no, they don't know each other's names and because they're too busy trying to like, I don't know, not die. yeah Oh, she's a K-pop girlie. Oh, yeah. yeah She was in um Wonder Girls.
00:37:18
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. I was trying to see if she was in a K-pop, a K-drama that I have watched, but she is not. She is Ah, yeah. ah She did closer sir in Korean.
00:37:31
Speaker
Oh, really? Natalie Portman. Yeah, Natalie Portman. um The movie. i On a different note, but like kind of the same note, you watched K-pop Demon Hunters?
00:37:44
Speaker
Oh, of course I've seen K-pop. I saw K-pop Demon Hunters the week it came out, girl. Amazing. What do you think? It's really great. What are you talking about? It's really great. It's really great. Okay, cool. Why would you think I would like it?
00:37:56
Speaker
don't know. I don't know. It's like, what if Buffy the Vampire Slayer were also a musical? What if Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Sailor Moon were also a ah Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's great. It's great. I'm going to force Charlie to watch it this weekend. It's going great.
00:38:12
Speaker
Yeah. um I had to ask and and i I meant to text you but then I was like I don't know I don't know if yeah soda pop is like the song of the summer what are you talking about it's the song of summer little soda pop yeah yeah and golden is my um my soul song yeah like yeah my my heart sings it every day yeah that's good
00:38:38
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Um, so yes, they get separated. uh, I already forgot her name. Uh, it was so fast. Um, Sun Gyeong is watching out for Suan and they have the baseball people with them, right? That's the four of them.
00:38:56
Speaker
Well, the, and then one of the sisters, um I don't think, no, no, no. the baseball peep The baseball boys are holding the door. Oh, your baseball boys are with the door with Songhwa and um Daddy. But baseball girly is the one that like runs and she's she's the one that's like freaking out and like waiting her for her friend. And so she's in one car with like super rich dude.
00:39:22
Speaker
And then... ah no, no. Jinhee is not with the rich guy.
00:39:28
Speaker
Oh, you're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. here then we We get to like the, the, bit the bulk of the movie, which is everybody. You're right. you're right You're right. She's there. She gets there. She's the front the train. Yes, yes, yes. She's in the front of the train. So she gets onto the train somehow, but the rest of them don't.
00:39:43
Speaker
Yeah. um They, um, do on and the pregnant woman get into a bathroom. Yep. And, and one of the, the, the lesbian sisters. Yes.
00:39:56
Speaker
Yes. They're in, they lock themselves- No, no, the lesbian sisters is, oh yeah, one of the lesbian sisters- They're separated. Yeah, they're separated. So the three of them get onto a car that is full of zombies.
00:40:09
Speaker
Yep. But they lock themselves into a bathroom. Yep. Then all the baseball boys get killed um except for one. Except sexy romance guy.
00:40:20
Speaker
Yeah. Except for Min Young Gook. I'm going call him the Edward Cullen of the baseball boys. Sure. sure Edward Cullen of the baseball boys. Yeah. Yeah. Him and Song-Hwa and Daddy um get onto to yet another car.
00:40:35
Speaker
Yeah. um ah but they're they're also But they're safe. And they get up there with um with the rest of them. But they're not all the way in the front with the rich guy. Is that right? Yeah.
00:40:45
Speaker
Correct. Yeah. They're all the way Little girl, pregnant lady, um lesbian sister, and homeless guy are in a bathroom. Oh, right. Him too. Yeah.
00:40:56
Speaker
Yeah. But I think like he's not there at first. Like I think that he's in like another bathroom and then they all get together. he is. I can't remember. And then you have other lesbian sister, rich guy,
00:41:07
Speaker
um ah baseball girly, and ah like like maybe 10 other people. And the steward. There's a steward who's still alive. He's kind of in charge. yeah Yeah. He's trying to be in charge.
00:41:22
Speaker
Correct. And they're in the front of the train. So then- baseball girly calls edward cullen of the baseball boys yeah and she's like oh my god did you make it oh my god oh my god hi are you okay and he's like our friends are dead yep don't know why i'm laughing but they're all dead they're all dead pushed me to the edge all my friends are dead All my friends are dead.
00:41:44
Speaker
um and I barely made it out, but I'm here. i'm in the but I'm in this train car. And she goes, cool. I'm in this train car. Can you get to us? We're with a bunch of other survivors. And he goes,
00:42:01
Speaker
Then they get a call from ah um the pregnant lady. yeah And she's like, we're in this bathroom. It's full of ah zombies. And so they decide they're going to go get them.
00:42:12
Speaker
So baseball boy, Sang Ho, Sang Hoa, and Daddy, like, tape up their arms and get, like, make shields. And they have baseball but Also, this is a zombie movie with no guns in it, we should say. Yeah, which is fabulous.
00:42:28
Speaker
um And it's also like all of these action sequences. Like this is probably one of my favorite shots is when they first go in with like the baseball bat and like all taped up arms and they go in and they're just like, yeah.
00:42:43
Speaker
Yeah. They're beating their way through this car full of zombies to try to rescue them in the bathroom. Yeah. And they they do. They get through just fine. And they get them. Yeah, but they discover some stuff along the way.
00:42:55
Speaker
So one of the things that they discover is that when you go through a tunnel and it gets really dark, the zombies get really fucking confused. like the can't see. They can't see dark. They can't see in the dark.
00:43:06
Speaker
There's something going on with their eyes. Like the first way you know somebody's a zombie, the first thing is that their eyes cloud over. Yeah, they get real milky. um And so, like, part of how they survive and get from, like, very back of the train to the middle of the train is that they discover that if they can time out things with the tunnels, they can... At one point, they use a cell phone to distract all the zombies by, like calling the phone and throwing at the other end of the train.
00:43:34
Speaker
And then um another one, they... um they I can't remember what they do, but they do something to distract the They're like going over the seats. yeah But that's once they have um ah the ah the middle of the train. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah and and ah And so like there they trick the zombies. They learn to sort of best the system.
00:43:56
Speaker
And they get to the middle of the train car. dr car And they're like, hey, we're here. We got you. And they're like, yay. And then they see the train car in front of them. um And they're like, oh, fuck.
00:44:09
Speaker
More zombies. And they're like, okay, guys, we gotta wait for a tunnel. They wait for a tunnel. And then they this is where they crawl over um where all the luggage is on the top um to get to the front of the train. And it's going fine. It's totally okay. It's very nerve-wracking, but everybody's doing it.
00:44:29
Speaker
They rescued everybody. Nobody got bit. Yep. Until... Homeless guy is getting down and he crushes a fucking can. Then shit goes bonkers.
00:44:44
Speaker
Zombies go, whoa! And then they got to fight. They got to fight him off. They got to fight off some zombies. um And so then they keep going. They get homeless guy and they keep going. They get to the they're still okay. They're still okay. They get out. Yeah, they would have been fine. Yeah.
00:45:03
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. It's just a momentary like, whoa. um And then they get to the front of the train. All while this has been happening, Baseball Gurley has been talking with Rich Fuck Guy and ah Steward. And she's like, my friend's coming. My friends. And they're like, we don't... How do we know your friend's not infected?
00:45:23
Speaker
like and Like, your friend could be bringing the zombie plague in here with all of these people. There's like 20 people here. like Which... Which is good point. is a good point.
00:45:34
Speaker
and But point the rich old guy is such an asshole. It's not executed well. Yeah, well, and he's um he's like he's like, they could have they could have like you know taken some precautions, but he's like, no, they're dead. We're not letting anyone in here. Fuck you. like He doesn't care about those people on the train. He yeah cares about himself. Yeah, and he gave gives no fucks.
00:45:57
Speaker
Yes, and he but forces the the steward to um to try to to to block them. So they block the door. they instruct everyone to take their ties. All the business guys to take their ties and tie them together to sort of hold the door from being able yeah to be opened.
00:46:13
Speaker
Yeah, because the zombies can't open at the doors, man but they can beat on it. Yeah. Yeah. And they they can beat on it, but they can't open doors. And they can't, um if you like block a door with like, um they discover it when they put newspaper up i' at the very beginning. um And then yeah with this specifically, they use a fire extinguisher to sort of frost the window.
00:46:35
Speaker
um The zombies don't know you're there if they can't see you. Yeah, if they can't see the thing, they'll they'll calm down. yeah they don't They don't go into a rage unless they see. Here's the other thing. Unlike like Night the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead and stuff, they're not eating people.
00:46:48
Speaker
They're just biting them and then that's it. And then you're your friends. Once you're bitten, like they're they're there they have no interest in in attacking each other, which is a very yeah strange like middle ground in ah in a zombie thing. Yeah. like They're not there to eat. They're just there.
00:47:05
Speaker
mean, like, If you think about the nitty-gritty science of it all, it is like a parasite, you know? It's, you know, ah they just want to spread virus. Yeah, but it recognizes, like, the the the body, once the body is is dead, like, it doesn't attack anymore?
00:47:20
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Because it recognizes, it can it can sense that it has, the parasite is already there. Sure, yeah, okay. You know, like... Yeah. Yeah. yeah I mean, like, anything with zombie stuff, like, you have to be like, it's magic. Like, there's no...
00:47:36
Speaker
this Like 28 days later too. It's like when it's a virus, like you can't get too deep into the science in this because it is not going to make any sense. You just put a pretty lady with some glasses in the lab coat and you say science.
00:47:47
Speaker
Yes, exactly. um And they, um so yeah, so they get, they can't get through the door. And so the zombies are catching up to them They're, they're trying to keep the door closed, but Songwa gets bit.
00:48:02
Speaker
Yep. um ah They are trying to smash the door that's closed with ties so they can get through it. They eventually do it. Sang-wa and daddy are holding the door closed. Sang-wa's like, go, go. I'll hold them off.
00:48:14
Speaker
Yeah. And so he finally does. And he holds off the zombies for a long time before he turns and they turn around. But they do get through... The door, Jin and some of the other people pull the rich old guy off the door. block He's trying to block them still, but they get through.
00:48:31
Speaker
But then and he attacks the old guy. He's like, fuck you, man. Like those people are dead because of you. and one of the- could have saved them. One of the lesbian sisters gets killed too. Yeah.
00:48:43
Speaker
And she's just like, in the north she's just like, well, she just looks and like she's not going to make it. And she just they, they yeah yeah, they get through without her. And um they ah all the people turn on them and they're like, get out, get out. You can't fucking stay here. Go to the next car.
00:48:59
Speaker
Because rich guy like throws a wrench into everything and he goes, yeah this guy's infected. Look at his eyes. Look at his eyes. This guy's totally infected. He Salem witch trials it. did at all He doesn't look infected at all.
00:49:12
Speaker
But he's Salem witch trialing it. He's just evil. He's scaremongering. yeah And like um just, you know, and everyone's just like, yeah, we can't risk it. I don't want to risk it. I don't know what he's talking about with the eyes because I don't know about these zombies.
00:49:25
Speaker
But like, I guess. um Yeah, get out of here. Get out. And so- um the new folks that survived uh get quarantined to an even even further part of the train which is where like the like luggage hold is um and uh everybody else is back there and then you have like other sad lesbian sister who's watched her sister die it's like this is all bullshit why yeah why why why and then doesn't she open the door
00:49:57
Speaker
She opens the door. Yeah. Yeah. She opens the door. And then they all get killed. um Yeah. Well, most of them. But we see them through, they get through the door and they close. And then, then almost immediately all those people get killed I'm like, well, they deserve it.
00:50:09
Speaker
Yeah. um ah yeah so then the, our, oh, there's a blockage on the train. yeah The conductor has to stop the car, the train, because he's like, there's a, there's a flaming car, a train car on the track. We're going to move to another train.
00:50:26
Speaker
Two trains went like kablammy. Yeah. And so they're all, they all get off and they're all looking for other trains. Yeah. And this is where we find out that Rich Guy and the steward are still alive. They got they got into a bathroom and are still alive in there.
00:50:45
Speaker
When the train stops, Rich Guy immediately shoves the steward into the zombies and runs Right? Right? And runs out. And then is running after train conductor guy who has been running around this whole time trying to find a train that like actually works these stewardess. He finally has found one. Yeah. Yep.
00:51:01
Speaker
He finally has found one. He sees rich guy running over. And so he gets down to help rich guy. And what the fuck happens? Gets bit. Conductor dude gets bit.
00:51:13
Speaker
Rich guy survives. Rich guy survives. Like, what the fuck? What the fuck? And meanwhile, um you have the only survivors besides rich guy and conductor guy are daddy, daddy and daughter, pregnant wife, and homeless man.
00:51:30
Speaker
And Jin Hee gin he and the baseball but the last baseball boy, they got off and are looking for a train too. Oh, yes. They get off. I forgot. They get and they're looking for train. so this devastating scene where the two of them are are trying to move through a train. Like the door is stuck and he's trying to bust it open.
00:51:49
Speaker
And you see this shot from over his shoulder. You see Jin Hee and behind her, a rich guy runs out of a train being face chased by zombies grabs her, throws her into a zombie. She immediately gets bit and starts attacking the door.
00:52:03
Speaker
um And, and baseball boy just holds her in his arms until she dies and then that bites him and he dies. Yeah. It's very sad. It's suicide by zombie.
00:52:13
Speaker
Yeah. rich guy survives rich guy survives rich guy fucking survives and then you've got um so you've got our little quartet of um decent people and they're also trying to you know find find the train but um i forget how one of the trains like starts to like Well, so the train, a third flaming train just streaming into the station and crashes into their original train yeah where um daddy and the little girl were still on. And so it crashes and they're tilted over and they all get stuck underneath the train. Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:56
Speaker
And so then they're like trying to crawl through, but then you've also got like this window shot of like the zombies that are like pressing down on the windows.
00:53:06
Speaker
And then like, it's also like the train is like also fighting. It's fighting with zombies and with gravity because the train's going for but and everyone's like, oh no, we're going to die. And homeless dude sacrifices himself for the good, the good of the good of the the group.
00:53:23
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And ah he he says bye-bye because he's a good person. And then daddy and daughter and pregnant lady make it out.
00:53:36
Speaker
They see the train that is starting to go because it never stopped going from conductor guy. He never stopped it. He just slowed it so he could run off and run back on quickly.
00:53:48
Speaker
and But he got eaten. And they get onto the train and they're like, everything's fine. Which is basically just an engine. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And they're like, okay, we made it.
00:53:58
Speaker
This is really sad. you're Your husband and baby daddy is dead. Oh, he tells his wife what he wants to name the kid. Yes. At the very end, which ah is very sad. Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:13
Speaker
That's his final words before he sacrifices himself. Do you think it's you you soon? Yeah. Sun Yoo, maybe? I don't remember. I can't remember. stopped looking my notes.
00:54:25
Speaker
ah Yeah. Also, so names were so irrelevant in this. Right, yeah, yeah. Yun Sun, our baby's name. Yun Sun. And then he gets eaten, yeah. Yun Sun. um and I wrote, old lesbian sees her wife, smiles, gets eaten.
00:54:39
Speaker
It's her sister! Whatever!
00:54:47
Speaker
uh and so they're on this this train engine and and they're like everything's fine we're doing great nothing can go wrong now don't say that in a zombie movie out comes rich old fucking dude who has been bit and his eyes are clouded over but he opens the door from the train cabin which is important and he starts talking which is also we've not seen before and he is It seems like he's like halfway between being turned, and he's like regressed to a child.
00:55:19
Speaker
He's like, i need to see my mom. ah I live here in Busan. Please help me. I'm just like a child. And um Daddy is like, you've been infected. And he goes, really? No, that can't be. And then he looks at himself, and then is when he turns and attacks them.
00:55:33
Speaker
Yeah. This is when daddy gets bit on the hand, trying to hold him back. Poor daddy. down He chains himself to the engine and then throws old rich guy off the train.
00:55:47
Speaker
Finally. yeah Jesus. Right. Thank you. Old rich guy's finally dead in the last act of the fucking film. So many more people would have totally survived this if it hadn't been yeah for him.
00:55:59
Speaker
They would have had like a whole half of a train. Like, yeah Jesus fucking Christ. But that's what all these movies are about, you know? Like, that yeah that's but based in in Night the Living Dead. Like, the zombies are an outside pressure that turns people against each other. Like, the people inside turning against each other, that's the real villains.
00:56:20
Speaker
Yeah, and I mean, like, so true. Or Dawn of the Dead, it's a biker gang, you know? So...
00:56:26
Speaker
I mean, that's the thing. The thing about Dawn of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite movies, yeah favorite zombie movies, the original one. I mean, the remake is really good too, but the original one, especially it's like these four people, like they have their problems and sure they argue, but they would have been just fine if the fucking biker gang hadn't ruined everything.
00:56:44
Speaker
Yeah. Fucking biker gangs. godammit You know, that's also in, um was Dawn of the Dead, was that 70s or 80s? Yeah, 70s.
00:56:55
Speaker
um My favorite of all the Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th part three. 3D. In 3D.
00:57:06
Speaker
Your favorite of the three you've seen, we should point out. I've seen four. ah four. Okay. Four. Yeah. um and More than me. To be real, really the second one's the best, but the third one's the stupidest, um which is why I love it.
00:57:20
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And- Well, hold on. Jason Takes Manhattan has to be stupider. I haven't haven't gotten there yet. We should watch it. We should watch We should watch it. We should definitely watch it.
00:57:31
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um Should we do Jason Takes Manhattan instead of our planned last movie in this series?
00:57:39
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Should just, like, fuck Sinners? We're going to watch Jason Takes Manhattan instead. Jason Takes Manhattan. Jason Takes Manhattan. Do you want to do that? I mean, I'm down. Sorry, guys.
00:57:50
Speaker
Yeah, I know. Everybody's seen Sinners. You don't need us talk about how sexy, what's-his-name-is. and Two Michael B. Jordans are. yeah Yeah, two Michael B. Jordans. Here's my review of Sinners.
00:58:02
Speaker
It's awesome. Go watch it Yeah, it's awesome. Instead, we're going to talk about Jason Takes Manhattan. Yes, Jason takes me to Manhattan. Fuck yeah. um I love this. um So it may take the place of Friday the 13th, Right, correct.
00:58:18
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But in that, there's also a biker gang. who also sucks it was more of a concern biker gang roving biker gangs were more of a concern in the 70s and 80s than they are now like right they had a big thing about against biker gangs and like drifters uh like that was what everyone was just like oh yeah it can't be your pedophile uncle it's definitely a drifter oh a drifter killed him yeah yeah yeah we'll blame on a drifter yeah should have given you more context No, I knew what she meant.
00:58:49
Speaker
Yeah. It definitely couldn't have been the weird ah soccer coach. it It definitely wasn't the weird soccer coach. It was a random drifter. Yeah.
00:59:00
Speaker
Maybe in a biker gang. A drifter and a biker gang. A drifting biker gang. Yeah, a drifting biker gang. Imagine the amount of murders.
00:59:13
Speaker
so uh it gets real sad now and um daddy um says goodbye to his daughter he's like you need to take care of pregnant lady yeah and stay with her and you'll be okay and uh i love you and he goes out onto the end of the train and his eyes start to turn and he has this flashback to when his daughter was born And then he's just smiling and then he jumps off the train, kills himself. Yep.
00:59:43
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Yep. He sacrifices himself for the greater good. Which is what I mean. And we have earlier where Sang-wa is talking to him about being a father and he says it's all about sacrifice. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And and, you know, like he does that. he He has like this amazing sort of arc where he thinks being a dad at the beginning of the movie is one thing.
01:00:01
Speaker
like financially supporting, financially providing for his daughter, financially, you know, sacrificing the relationship with your daughter for the greater good of being able to um give her everything.
01:00:12
Speaker
Yeah. But then learns throughout this movie that its it isn't about that. It's about, you know, the emotional relationship is yeah what your your love and your being a dad should be, um which is beautiful.
01:00:26
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um But yeah, and then you're like, great, we're home free. Like, cool, cool. No more stress. They have to stop the train because that the entrance to Busan, which they've heard Busan is safe. They've said, um you know, his military guy earlier tells him that the military has has held Busan.
01:00:45
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And so they're getting there and they get to, ah she has to stop the train because the tunnel is blocked. There's a blockade. There's some dead zombies there and they're going through the tunnel. Oh, oh, okay. So another thing, flashback.
01:01:00
Speaker
Early in the movie, his mom, also his mom dies on the phone with with him as real sad. It's sad. It's so sad. um And his mom says, you know, you missed her recital. And she took a video of Suan in her classroom yeah singing Aloha the Hawaiian song.
01:01:20
Speaker
ah Super random. Sure. Like Korea is not immune to um appropriating other cultures either. Yep. Aloha Aue. should not sing it.
01:01:32
Speaker
Well, you can sing it, but you know, it's not like you're dressed like a hula girl or anything. She didn't dress like a hula girl though. I know, I know, I know. I know, I know. Yeah. um But ah so, but she can't sing it. She stops and get everybody makes fun of her and the kids are all laughing and she gets him.
01:01:47
Speaker
She gets nervous and she tells him later, she goes, you know, I did that. I i memorized that song for you. i wanted you to see it. And the reason I stopped seeing singing is because you weren't there. um It's very sad.
01:02:00
Speaker
So yeah. So finally um they're going through the tunnel, the two of them, the pregnant woman and Sue on the only two survivors. And we cut to the snipers on the other end of the tunnel who are like two people approaching.
01:02:12
Speaker
And the commander on the other end is like, check for infection. Yep. And they're like, It's too dark. We can't tell if they're infected or not. Because they're backlit by the sun. So they're just – Yeah. And also they're like stumbling because she's pregnant and they're all like – They've been through a lot. And they're sad. And they're walking on train tracks. Yeah. she just Everybody's dead. She watched her husband and baby daddy die. She watched her daddy daddy die. Like there was a lot of daddy death.
01:02:38
Speaker
Yeah. So much daddy death. So much daddy death. um they're walking through the tunnel and they're about, at least the commander's like, kill them anyway. So you think it's going to be like the end of the Living Dead, which famously, like, the only survivor is the black man who gets shot by the police at the end, which is like, you know, in the 60s even, like, nothing's changed. I wish that they could have made it to where that would be remade and it would be different, but, um, I feel like, nope.
01:03:08
Speaker
That would be a lie, yeah. That would be a lie. That's almost how Get Out ended, and you know that, right? Oh, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah Yeah. But what's his name was like, matt that's too dark.
01:03:20
Speaker
That's a bummer, man. Let's yeah have... i think the point's been driven across. Yeah, a little Ray Howey smashed through in a stolen cop car. That's more fun. Right, right.
01:03:33
Speaker
Yes, so They're stumbling down. They're stumbling down. They're about to shoot them. And the little girl starts singing her song, Aloha, and that's how they know that they're... Aloha, and they go, no, no, it's people!
01:03:51
Speaker
Yeah. And that's the end. And then we black out credits. End of movie. Yeah. Yeah. It was fantastic. um The Charlie's Corner of it all. Charlie's Corner.
01:04:02
Speaker
Charlie's Corner. Charlie's Corner. I... Gov'n? um Charlie thought this was probably the best zombie movie he's ever seen. Like, he... And I'm... I always love it when we can... I really... We shouldn need to watch more foreign films because that boy and his fucking phone.
01:04:24
Speaker
ah I... I feel like he valued, and I mean, like, this is a great film, but also the benefit of it being in Korean with subtitles is the fact that he has to put down his phone and pay attention the entire time. That's right.
01:04:38
Speaker
You cannot look away. You have to pay attention. It's one of the things that I really enjoy, especially these days about foreign films, is that it really is. It's like going to the theater. You can't get your phone out. You cannot be distracted by anything.
01:04:49
Speaker
You just have to pay attention. Otherwise, you wasted your money and your time. Or you you know you'll you'll think that the sisters are a lesbian couple if you... Or you're Katie and you think the sisters are a lesbian couple even though they say, my sister!
01:05:07
Speaker
um A thousand times. um But yeah. And so like i I was curious to see what he thought. And he he thinks that it's one of the best zombie movies he's ever seen. He's just like he thinks that this is like this movie was so great. He really, really enjoyed it. And so I was pleasantly surprised.
01:05:21
Speaker
And I think that it it is a testament that um if your partner constantly gets easily distracted, has ADHD, make them watch a foreign film because they have to sit down and read.
01:05:34
Speaker
That's true. That's true. Strictly foreign films from now on. We're going be such douchebags by the end the year. Oh, no. like i don't i don't know if i want to agree with that.
01:05:47
Speaker
Did you not see that film from Italia? bunch of French rom-coms. Man, that'd be rough. ah So he really enjoyed it. And that's trying to pass on.
01:05:58
Speaker
That's Train to Busan. i what We already talked about what we're doing next time. Yeah, we so we shook things up. We're doing Jason Takes Manhattan, baby. You got to do campy, campy horror film, baby.
01:06:12
Speaker
here's the thing. Do I need, should I watch Friday the 13th?
01:06:17
Speaker
3, 4, 5, and 6 before I watch Jason Takes Manhattan. That's more of a you vibe. like I don't know if you need to... Let's see. Let's ask AI. Do I need... Jason Takes Manhattan is Friday the 13th Part 8, actually. So I would need to watch 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
01:06:36
Speaker
Do I need to watch any other Friday 13th movies? It's on Shudder. ah before Jason takes Manhattan.
01:06:55
Speaker
and do to do All right, let's see. Let's see. Let's see. I misspelled Manhattan. Sorry. Sorry, New York. I cannot spell for the life of me. It has 11% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yes. Are we sure we should watch this?
01:07:09
Speaker
So this, it it says, you don't strictly need to, but watching the previous Friday the 13th movies is recommended for the full story of Jason Voorhees. As each sequel picks up where the last left off.
01:07:21
Speaker
watch Is this Google ai What you're reading? Is this the AI?
Friday the 13th Series Overview
01:07:27
Speaker
And so Friday the 13th, final chapter is number four. Oh, maybe I haven't seen number four. The final chapter is number four. They only...
01:07:36
Speaker
he They only made six more after that. The fifth one is a new beginning. And then the sixth one is Jason lives. And then the seventh one is the new blood. And then Jason, Jason takes Manhattan. Yeah.
01:07:50
Speaker
So,
Outro and Audience Engagement
01:07:51
Speaker
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Speaker
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01:08:17
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