I absolutely love your channel!! ive been watching for a couple of months, and i think you would enjoy 28 days later, its a fast "zombie" film, and theyve also made a sequel which is actually good!
When I was in Army, they work on you to have better reaction because most people freeze/panic in chaos. It is so easy to say you would do better but trust if you don't practice navigating some sort of chaos...you will freeze/ panic. There are the rare people who are just better equipped. This is still one of my fav flicks, so well crafted.
Haha I laughed at the fact that Mary herself says if she wasn't directly responsible for taking care of someone, she'd just give up and let the zombies take her, but then just a couple minutes later, the old woman in the movie does exactly that and Mary scolds her like "you idiot, what's wrong with you, that's so silly." She gave up because she knows she's of no help. She's old and is having too much trouble getting around, so instead of being a burden and requiring others to keep trying to help her, she gave up (which was selfless, as her sister states).
it hurts when everyone who watch this movie keep trashing abt the old lady for stalling time inorder for all of them to get inside. She did it to save them
ok even if she didn't. She's old af. Do you know how hard it is to run even in your 40s if you're sedentary? she probably hadn't run or even speed walked in 20 years by then.
I feel like I'm the only one who never saw the main dad as bad or selfish. He was just working hard for his daughter (yes, I do agree and know that's not enough cause she needs emotional and love support as well) and his priority was his daughter and only her. He did everything to keep her safe!
Did you miss the parts where he closed the train door in front of big guy's family and the parts where he told his daughter to only think about herself and forget all other people?
@azazello - You mean the same door he opened immediately after to save them, despite everyone else panicking and shouting at him to shut it? Nope, didn’t miss that part, as well as the part where the world is going to hell around them and he chose to not burden a small child with the weight of that and risk her. Instead trying to get her to focus, because he’s the adult and making sure his daughter survives is his first priority as a father, regardless of her sentiment.
Wow! Somebody is used to toxic behavior. The dad is selfish and his daughter even told him so. He has no idea nor interest in raising a child. Not interested in her at all as u can see from the stack of random presents puked up in the corner of her room. Even his own mother criticizes him for his wife leaving. 🤦🏾♀️
The Netflix Korean high school zombie series 'All Of Us Are Dead' had a scene where the students are panicking 'What's going on?' and one says 'Its Train to Busan!' So this film taught Koreans about zombies.
@@Godzilla-tu2cd I wish I liked All of Us are Dead, but too many of the characters were too stupid or weak for me to get behind, especially the lead female character.
"What's that got to do with anything?" - Su-Ann mentioned her granny's knees always hurt because that was why she gave her seat up to the old lady ;) She was feeling empathy/compassion thinking of her own grandma. That's how it was related. ;) I love the moment when the zombie almost gets Su-Ann, and the husband of the pregnant lady intervenes and saves her - meaning that Su-Ann would almost certainly have been killed if her dad hadn't opened the door and let them in near the beginning. He didn't want to let them in - but it's because he did that his daughter survives.
The loss of the military troops at the train station makes sense if you realize that they didn't know what they were dealing with yet. By the time they realized what it was, the enemy could be among them already. If military people were facing an attack they would try to set up a perimeter and keep enemies out of it, but I feel like the whole thing happened before they even realized what was happening. And remember, soldiers are trained to go help their wounded comrades, so when they see some of their men go down, they would try to get them, which would be the worst thing to do. In contrast, the troops at Busan had set up a defense behind a chokepoint and they knew what they were dealing with, so they could hold off the zombies.
BTW, the actor who played the little girl's dad also appeared in "The Squid Game" as the smug, dapper gentleman who gave out the game cards at the beginning and at the end. Also, I believe the mother in Busan was likely okay as Busan was said to be free from infection, which is why the soldiers were there protecting it. I'm assuming the girl did reunite with the mother.
This was the first Korean film I watched before I studied abroad during college and it remains my favorite zombie movie. I’d strongly encourage Parasite if you haven’t already watched it.
Yes- Parasite won a Best Picture Oscar winner.; it is original and unique (the baseball player in this movie is in Parasite). Busan was safe, so the mother is likely alive and Su-Ann would be united with her mother; the meeting between them did NOT need to be shown. The movie shows the difference between the main character and the evil businessman. He could have evolved into the evil businessman if he survived, but his character shows he becomes a better person. A lot of reactors don't understand why people didn't do anything when the zombie first walked down the corridor. Being Asian, it is a cultural thing; people are often taught not to get involved, which may be hard for westerners to understand.
You probably weren't afraid because the two of you were having too much conversation. Anytime I watch a movie with family or friends and too many folks are constantly talking, most miss out on aspects of the movie. I've seen your solo reactions, and you're much more focused.
Usually, I would agree, but Train to Busan isn't scary in the slightest. No jump scares, happens in broad daylight...it's an action movie more than it is a horror movie.
Ma Dong-seok is frickin amazing in this movie. This was the first film I ever saw him in, and he was an instant standout! 🤯🤯🤯 He basically went full Captain America in this film, shield and all. And this movie led to him beings cast as Gilgamesh in the MCU’s Eternals!😊
He is Captain Korea! Ma Dong-seok is superb as actor, combined with his MMA knowledge. I recommend watching The Outlaws (2017) and The Roundup (2022) where Ma Dong-seok starred as main character. These 2 movies are based on true events, very violent, and Ma Dong-seok is such a fun character to watch. His acting is so convincing and the movies use humour really well.
the very end destroys me everytime that last breath she takes while crying, just says so much and its really hard to see from a small child, like I've lost so much and what is life moving forward now? We've all had moments like that as kids but prob not on this scale thankfully
The girl is hands-down the best actor/actress in the movie. From what I've heard, the girl didn't know that the father was going to die in the end. She was led to believe that he'd survive with them, and she was glad because they really got along. At the end, they told her that he was going to die which was the way they got her reaction to be so realistic. She really was very upset when she found out. It was mean, but it really paid off to make her reaction believable.
You brought up whether cultural differences had a part to play in how they reacted and I do think they very much did. In Korean society, there is a mind your own business approach when things happen in public which explains why nobody reacts to the woman in the beginning. Another aspect that differs from western culture is respect for elders and people in authority being taken very seriously in Korea and other SEA countries while the opinions of youth are pretty much ignored and this would influence who they were willing to listen to. This is especially visible in the scene where the girl is begging for her friend to be let into the train car and all of the older people surrounding her ignore her pleas and instead follow the older gentlemen's lead.
The women who played the two elderly sisters were actually old enough to be grandmothers. The one with the curly hair was 52 when they filmed this. The older one was 61. Many Asian people seem to age much slower than the rest of us. It makes judging their ages so difficult 🙂 Remember that the scene where the older sister went down was in slow motion. Up until now the zombies are VERY fast and they can barely keep ahead of them. she stayed there to slow them down so that they had time to shut the door. It looked like she had lots of time to us because it was in slowmo. Besides I suspect also that this is not the kind of world she wanted to live in as an old women.
I love that people still criticize movie characters actions in zombie movies after living through a global pandemic that a large amount of people thought was fake and kept doing everything they could to expose other people to being sick.
The lead actor was in Squid Game as well as other major kdramas Goblin and Coffee Prince come to mind. He's well known as is the big guy who has been in several movies and a drama that I'm aware of.
Such a gamechanger for the subgenre of zombie horror - well-cast and executed with emotional whallops til the bitter end. Safe passage to your gal pal - great watch ladies.
10:15 nope, cuz it's not the US 😂 Anf let's not forget that it's easier to make the right decisions while we sit in our cozy homes, and watching people suffer. In real life, when something that horrifying happens just couple of feet away from us, most of us would probably be just standing there in shock, not knowing what to do 😁
I think the dads business funded the biotech company which the virus started from so thats why the employee was saying it's there fault for the outbreak. The mom of the girl is probably safe since the army guarded the entrance to Busan as you saw at end, that's what I think is the answers to your two negatives of the movie. Love the reactions, keep up the great reactions. 😁👍🏻
girls - you are aussies so you should know already if this happened on an Australian train who would have a gun? Nobody! So why should South Korea be any different?
Genuinely the best zombie movie ever made. Kingdom (Netflix TV series) has the same style of zombies as the ones here but it's set in ancient Korea and its definitely worth checking out as well
Betcha you didn't think a zombie movie could ever make you cry like this, this was a good one here, and bought out so many different emotions. I just have to say, Mary, you truly are a very beautiful woman, and that smile of yours is amazing, lights up your whole face. I had a lot of fun watching his with you two, you both were great, and this is arguably one of the top 5 zombie movies ever made, don't bother with it's sequel thou, Peninsula, not at all comparable to this one here.
Hi Mary, I was waiting for this since you first posted that you were going to react to it, it's my favorite zombie movie! The cast was great, the child actress is incredible. Yhe scene with her father leaving because he was infected and her crying was heartbreaking, as was the ending scene of her singing the song, the lyrics were so fitting ! ✌
Busan was the only safe place from the infection so her mom was fine - the cause of the infection was a leak from a biotech firm. This was the first Zombie movie I watched & enjoyed. South Korean movies & Korean dramas are the best shows produced & have a GREAT storyline, as well as twists, in the world. Try reacting to Peninsula which is meant for b a followup to Train to Busan. Also react to All of us are Dead. Kdtama involving students & zombies - well worth a watch. Happy St Patrick's day 🎉🎉🎉
The South Korean movie industry is second only to Hollywood in the money they spend on films. And they aren't afraid to tell a good and sometimes heartbreaking story. They don't talk about the cause because that's not what the movie is focused on. Its a movie about survival and the terror and speed with which something like this could happen in a city with a population as massive as Seoul. You should take a vacation to South Korea, it beautiful and the food is amazing. I might be bias though because I was born there. Great reaction. I hope you react to more Korean movies like Parasite, The Man from Nowhere, Oldboy (there is an American remake of this that doesn't do the Korean one justice), The Handmaiden, I Saw the Devil, The Host.. my lord so many great movies...
You may have seen these three actors in the west with their other projects. Gong Yoo, the daughter's father, was in Squid Game as one of the game recruiters in the subway. Ma Dong-Seok, the father-to-be, is a South Korean and American who became a Korean star and made his first Hollywood film debut in The Eternals for the MCU. Choi Woo-Shik, baseball boy, is a Canadian Actor who starred in history-making first foreign film to win both the Best International Feature Film and The Best Picture Oscar-winning film Parasite as the brother, Kevin.
Another recent Korean zombie series, 'Happiness', this time about apartment complex dwellers barricaded in by the government. The twist to that story is the zombies are treated as ill people in need of medical attention who go in an out of their 'zombie' phase and can hide their symptoms.
I absolutely love this movie, it's a fresh take on my favourite genre of horror and one of the more unique zombie movies I've seen in a long time. Yon-suk (the business man) is my second most hated movie character of all time (#1 goes to a character in The Green Mile, if you've seen it you'll know who I mean). P.S. Zombies can talk in the Return of the Living Dead movie series.
I fell in love with South Korean fantasy/sci-fi/horrors since "The Host" (2006). Lately "Alive" (Netflix) got me - it's very well synced with the "Train To Busan" universe. If you didn't see these movies yet, trust me, you won't regret adding them to the list
(Dad gets bitten) Me: No!!! (My eyes start to water) (Daughter begs dad not to leave) Me: 😢😢😢 (Dad goes outside to the rail thing or whatever that's called) Me: 😰😰😰 (Shows flashback when the daughter was born) Me: Oh come on!!! I'm trying so hard not to cry right now!!! (Gives one last smile before falling to his death and sees daughter crying in the window) Me: That's it!!! I'm done!!! 😭😭😭
There is one zombie movie I know where the zombies can actually talk. It's Return of the Living Dead. It's an older one and it does show a bit, but it's definitely still a fun watch. It's also one of the apocalypse scenarios that are much more hopeless compared to other zombie movies. It's a very interesting take on zombies. Thank for Train to Busan! My fiance and I loved this movie.
The actress that you said was young playing old (Park Myung-sin) was actually 52 at the time. About 3 years younger than the character she was playing. She's just very youthful looking.
Such a good movie. So well done. Downside (not with the movie itself), there's a remake in the works with an 'American twist' - "Last train to New York". Which, if it goes the same way as The Eye, The RIng, or Shutter, it'll suck. As another recommendation from Asian cinema, you should add the following movies to your list: The Raid: Redemption. The Raid 2. The Witch: Subversion.
If you liked Train to Busan, you should check out All of us are Dead, as well as Kingdom Ashin of the North, and the series Kingdom, they made Ashin of the North after Kingdom, it`s a 2hr movie that shows what happened prior to Kingdom. Kingdom is set in the 15th century all three are really good.
mary think of people quite highly. saying how people would react when weird stuff is happening around them. in reality we got world wide pandemic and still get a challenge where we lick toilets.
This is a true masterpiece of film in every way literally!!🥺😢😭❤🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟👏🙌👌👍🎉also the both of you are so good together. You both should react to alot more in the very near future!!😊❤🎉
The crazy part about this movie that no one knows is that it’s almost entirely CGI. This entire movie was filmed on a single, fake, 3 sided train car with a green screen behind it and about 3 other actual preexisting sets (the airport, the tunnel, and the home). Every bit of acting from car to car was multiple takes of the one train car being used multiple times and pure CGI and god tier acting from everyone involved. It’s absolutely bonkers and the behind the scenes is insane
Soldiers in combat have the same reactions, some guys who are meek rise up and become badasses, some guys who are tough in training fall apart under fire. There really is no way to know, which is why they try to make training as realistic as possible, as it might provide some clue as to who will go which way. It's the same thing with people and wounds. Some people freeze when they see someone seriously hurt, some people just get to work. Training helps to prepare people. Untrained people, its kind of funny how some people are like shocked and can't think, and others are like. "Let's do this." Interesting thing about humanity.
The part that gets me about the group that refused to let them into that car, isn't that they made them leave, Its that they all decided to tie off the vestibule FIRST! with only POSSIBLE infected people INSTEAD of the zombie horde's door with ACTUAL danger behind it. It does alot about their state of mind but seriously!
Firearms are a very serious offense in Korea. Most gangs don't even carry them. Which is why I'm the hallway scene in Oldboy all the people were armed with melee weapons
I know a lot of people wonder why people weren't reacting on the train, but in today's society, many people are self absorbed on their phones. Also, it's piggyback rides aren't out of the ordinary, so people wouldn't think much of that. On top of that, no one on the train knew of an infection that created zombies. We, as viewers, know of zombies due to it being a part of culture, but if you saw a zombie in real life, would you believe that there were zombies? That guy who is selfish represents most people. Think of stampedes or crushes when large crowds are around. People's own desires or will to live generally supercede the safety of others. As for Su An's grandmother, she was removing the intestines and heads of dried anchovies, which are used as snacks or as a base for many soups or broths. The anchovies give soups a rich flavor. Another good South Korean horror film is The Wailing, which I highly recommend. I also recommend the Japanese horror film Audition (1999).
This is the best zombie film of all time. Everything you want in this genre. Korea just keeps improving on everything Japan is known for. Movies, music, and pretty women. Cars....not so much
She has not watched it before. We went through an entire list (streamed it live on twitch) before we found something horror that katie hasn’t watched. Purely because she’s such a horror buff 💪 😊
i was in a hostel once with my friend. we were alone in the room and some guy came to the door and started saying really creepy things and then the door started to open and i threw my whole body against the door and braced. it all turned out ok, but thats why i know my fight or flight response is immediately fight lol if you haven't watched Warm Bodies, it's a zombie movie that i think you would have fun with.
Remember when the irritating guy is saying "are you sure they're not infected?" And start shouting and other passengers shout as well when they reach the "safe cart" That moments alone shows what happens when people are scared. Remember when the covid starts globally, in a state of fear and panick they become so greedy with the facemask, tissues, and other supplies, and they're also scared to get in contact with other people. The train that came crashing is intentionally came from busan so they can prevent a train full of zombies coming to busan. The zombies is almost invincible like they fall from holding on a helicopter but gets up after a couple of seconds, they feel no pain, and a simple head bash doesn't kill them.
13:14 It could be like in the world of "the walking dead" where the idea of zombies doesn't exist in any form of media or storytelling so it made since that they didn't know anything and didn't call them zombies and called them "walkers" instead 🤷🏾♀️
@@MaryCherryOfficial Netflix- ‘My Name’, ‘the Glory’, ‘All of Us are Dead’ (violent) and ‘Alice in Borderland’(Very Violent). All these are amazing. Love ya Mary!
Fun fact, the actor of the father was very scared filming all the shots that involved zombies, he can't stand horror. Ever time he had a shot with zombies, it was a real response of fear every time.
This movie is so much better than I expected. Non-stop action after the first ten minutes and the ending 😭 BTW, I don't know about the character, but the actor that plays the Dad IS a Pisces 😂 Looked it up after you mentioned it 😁
Welcome to the most masterpiece movie I ever saw was not expecting this to be what it is I agree with Shaun of the dead's director all-time favorite train to Busan❤
Maryyyy you need to turn down the auto-ducking on your audio levels. It’s really jarring. And I can’t imagine what it’s like for headphones users, because with headphones when the auto-ducking is set to remove all audio underneath such a high dB, it makes it feel and sound like your ears go plugged momentarily and it’s maddening. You don’t need to have it set so high and completely remove. Lower the dB for the auto-duck, and don’t have it set to completely remove when it hits that. Just lower if needed but not completely. Please.
This is probably one of the best zombie movies. Apart from the incredible acting and the memorable characters, the thing that grabs me is the lack of firearms. A zombie movie where no one is blasting the Christ out of everything with all the guns, that is impressive. A very close second, and one you should try to get around to watching, is "The Cured". Another different twist on the zombie genre. A little less horror, more psychological. Fantastic, nonetheless.
21:48 - Ah, yes, because if there's one thing Korea is famous for, it's the ease with which you can travel between North and South and it's many land borders... 38:33 - And that was the story of how the Vendread outbreak started.
30:16 This scene is an important part of the movie. The original passengers on the train are blocking the doors of the main characters first, not the direction of the zombies. The director puts a lot of meaning into this scene. The old woman didn't just make the choice to open the door.
Since you mention it throughout the reaction, I will say, and I think westerners often don't realize this, but East Asian culture in general is much more focused on having "less emotion." Maybe call it emotional modesty. Sure, you could call it unhealthy because many times emotions are clearly being bottled up (and then let out in a larger outburst) but yes, in general, most of the time, East Asians promote a more emotionally-modest approach to life. You'd see it in quite a lot of the characters in Squid Game as well (and most other movies centered around East Asians). So whether it's the main character or his daughter or many of the passengers, it's pretty normal that they're not just immediately and quickly flailing around all emotionally. It fits the characters, it's not just bad acting or characters written to be too chill. And sure, this is all seemingly getting less and less true every generation as we get more and more accepting of being more emotional, lol.
