S05 | E10: Train to Busan (2016)

Have you ever found yourself on a speeding train on the way to take your daughter to see the parent she likes best forcing you to confront your general failings as a parent and while you’re on said train, it suddenly get taken over by zombies and you’re forced to fight for your life and become the parent you always needed to be? Yeah, neither have we but those on their way to Busan sure have. 

Join Katie and Grace for as we speed towards our destinies and confront our fight or flight response in the season 5 finale of The Unsolicited Film Critics with Train to Busan (2016).

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:23 An interlude on Elizabethtown
• 2:22 Train to Busan
• 5:55 Character traits & "phrases"
• 14:16 Hot "deadbeat" dads & did we actually get to Busan?
• 18:45 Snowpiercer meets The Walking Dead meets World War Z
• 23:37 Infection rate & The Walking Dead spoilers
• 28:35 Mob mentality at the end of the world
• 40:32 Family ties
• 46:59 An interlude on stretching & Pamela Anderson
• 49:28 Infrastructure loss & a waterfall of zombies
• 54:52 A study in zombie behavior & VFX/SFX
• 1:02:35 An interlude on Star Trek & the hive mind
• 1:04:28 Learning lessons the hard way
• 1:14:40 The power of song & critic reviews
• 1:18:50 Big business with a capital "B"
• 1:24:09 Q&A: Are we to blame and did we deserve it?
• 1:30:40 Rating & Review