American Train to Busan remake - because when hasn't hollywood fucked up remaking a foreign film?

[folly magnet]

Some remakes make sense because I can see how a lot of the cultural cues get lost for American audiences but this is a zombie movie with a very bare plot. People everywhere can relate with the themes. Another reason is a dialogue heavy movie where I can see execs giving it a go but again, this is a zombie movie, most of it is just running around. Anyway, this reminds me, I need to watch the sequel. I hear it's nowhere near as great but I'm a sucker for zombie horror.

 

[Product Placement]

Some remakes make sense because I can see how a lot of the cultural cues get lost for American audiences but this is a zombie movie with a very bare plot. People everywhere can relate with the themes. Another reason is a dialogue heavy movie where I can see execs giving it a go but again, this is a zombie movie, most of it is just running around. Anyway, this reminds me, I need to watch the sequel. I hear it's nowhere near as great but I'm a sucker for zombie horror.

A lot of people won't read subtitles, and they won't have heard of the original, even if it was a hit in its own country. If people were open to subtitles, they would open themselves up to many great movies.

But Hollywood isn't even the worse for pointless remakes. Bollywood is, hell lot of their remakes aren't even legal ones.

Some of the pointless Bollywood remakes
Reservoir Dogs
Oldboy
The Godfather
The Silence of the Lambs
The Miracle Worker (yes the Helene Keller movie)
Kramer vs Kramer
On the Waterfront
The Apartment
A Few Good Men
Philadelphia (changed from gay who gets aids, to a woman who gets aids)
Scarface
ET
Bonnie and Clyde

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

With every Hollywood film today you can neatly divide it into two distinct "genres" of boomer and zoomer. In the case of Train to Busan:
Boomer version: Chuck is a perfectly normal 50 year old man who's actually a massive badass with a past in top secret spec ops unit. Now he needs to protect his 18 year old daughter (who's dressed like a whore) from zombies all by himself.
Zoomer version: When a top secret corporate poison leaks after an evil white ceo ignores a female scientist. She needs to run away to safety with her adopted daughter who's estranged from her due to overwork. Together and with other lgbt and allied they will make it out to safety.
Both will miss the point by a country mile, maybe we'll have the adult story be the boomer version and the high school students story be the zoomer story.
Also regardless, the movie will suck the dick for the USA army.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

The original film left me in tears by the end.

No way any remake can recapture that.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

Was Busan the movie with the nerdy guy who shotgunned Zombies?

edit: no, I think that one was Japanese. nm

 

[feral cat #6385]

Just watch Train to Busan: Peninsula and you’ll probably have a better time.

Peninsula wasn't very good. The first movie was amazing and didn't need a sequel and certainly doesn't need a shitty, woke American remake.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

Peninsula wasn't very good. The first movie was amazing and didn't need a sequel and certainly doesn't need a shitty, woke American remake.

Here's my deal with it.
The original was a great, tense, proper zombie horror experience. The feels were real, the sacrifices felt on point, and it was a very well put together movie. It was one of my favorite films to come out that year and I highly recommend it.
Peninsula was a fun, bombastic, joyride through an apocalyptic city filled with raiders, thunderdomes, and hordes. Was it a great film? Fuck no. Was it a fun watch? I thought so, and I enjoyed it.

 

[feral cat #6385]

Here's my deal with it.
The original was a great, tense, proper zombie horror experience. The feels were real, the sacrifices felt on point, and it was a very well put together movie. Iw was one of my favorite films to come out this year and I highly recommend it.
Peninsula was a fun, bombastic, joyride through an apocalyptic city filled with raiders, thunderdomes, and hordes. Was it a great film? Fuck no. Was it a fun watch? I thought so, and I enjoyed it.

I didn't particularly care for Peninsula because of the change in tone from the original. Original was a touching little movie. Sequel was like some sort of Michael Bay movie. Would have been perfectly fine as a standalone but as a follow up I just couldn't get into it.

 

[Oats12345]

It won't be as good as the original. In fact it's going to suck because of wokeness

 

[Titos]

The Magnificent Seven, 12 Monkeys, Funny Games, and Vanilla Sky are the only good American remakes of foreign films. Everything else is shit. Haven't seen Train To Busan but hey, look on the bright side it can't be anywhere near as terrible as the Spike Lee version of Old Boy. That is one of the few remakes that actually viscerally offended me, fuck everything about that movie.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

Looks like James Wan and the director of the remake are taking to twitter to do damage control. I like Timo Tjahjanto's work on V/H/S 2 (which is getting a straight to streaming sequel on Shudder), May the Devil Take You and The Night Comes for Us. If anything, the script and casting are going to fuck it up. A lot of people hate reading subtitles or don't have the attention span to do so. They think dubs are cheesy, so they prefer a remake. As a teen, friends loved the weird movies I'd find but hated reading subtitles so much, they called them "fag-titles."

 

[Titos]

Looks like James Wan and the director of the remake are taking to twitter to do damage control. I like Timo Tjahjanto's work on V/H/S 2 (which is getting a straight to streaming sequel on Shudder), May the Devil Take You and The Night Comes for Us. If anything, the script and casting are going to fuck it up. A lot of people hate reading subtitles or don't have the attention span to do so. They think dubs are cheesy, so they prefer a remake. As a teen, friends loved the weird movies I'd find but hated reading subtitles so much, they called them "fag-titles."
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I didn't know James Wan was attached, it might not be total shit in that case. I'm still mad his partner Leigh Whannel has gone back to making boring horror films instead of making more action films after Upgrade proved he has a knack for creating sick as fuck fight scenes.

 

[Euler's identity]

Funny Games

Not having this. The original was perfect in its atmosphere of dread and a large part of that was due to the use of German language. I was disappointed Haneke remade it.

but hey, look on the bright side it can't be anywhere near as terrible as the Spike Lee version of Old Boy. That is one of the few remakes that actually viscerally offended me, fuck everything about that movie.

This I can get on board with. I'll never watch it due to my love of Park Chan-Wook's classic. No chance.

As a teen, friends loved the weird movies I'd find but hated reading subtitles so much, they called them "fag-titles."

My opinion of people severely diminishes when they say they don't watch tv or cinema that has subtitles. Retards.

 

[gaystoner]

"We need more asian represenation in media"

"We need to remake this asian movie"

...Fuck liberals.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Looks like James Wan and the director of the remake are taking to twitter to do damage control. I like Timo Tjahjanto's work on V/H/S 2 (which is getting a straight to streaming sequel on Shudder), May the Devil Take You and The Night Comes for Us. If anything, the script and casting are going to fuck it up. A lot of people hate reading subtitles or don't have the attention span to do so. They think dubs are cheesy, so they prefer a remake. As a teen, friends loved the weird movies I'd find but hated reading subtitles so much, they called them "fag-titles."
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The only thing I’m optimistic about is this guy seems more aware of the negative criticisms and is handling it professionally. So maybe this could have a chance to be good, but who knows

 

[Product Placement]

The Magnificent Seven, 12 Monkeys, Funny Games, and Vanilla Sky are the only good American remakes of foreign films. Everything else is shit. Haven't seen Train To Busan but hey, look on the bright side it can't be anywhere near as terrible as the Spike Lee version of Old Boy. That is one of the few remakes that actually viscerally offended me, fuck everything about that movie.

More good American remakes of foreign films than just those, but are rare beasts.
The Departed
Some Like It Hot
True Lies
Insomnia
The Talented Mr. Ripley
A Fistful of Dollars
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

 

[Dysnomia]

A lot of people won't read subtitles, and they won't have heard of the original, even if it was a hit in its own country. If people were open to subtitles, they would open themselves up to many great movies.

But Hollywood isn't even the worse for pointless remakes. Bollywood is, hell lot of their remakes aren't even legal ones.

Some of the pointless Bollywood remakes
Reservoir Dogs
Oldboy
The Godfather
The Silence of the Lambs
The Miracle Worker (yes the Helene Keller movie)
Kramer vs Kramer
On the Waterfront
The Apartment
A Few Good Men
Philadelphia (changed from gay who gets aids, to a woman who gets aids)
Scarface
ET
Bonnie and Clyde

Netflix tends to have dubs. I hate dubs though. Plus I always watch with subtitles even in English. That way I never miss anything.

Bollywood ET? He's cuter than the real ET anyway.



So another pointless remake that will likely be woke in some way.

 

[folly magnet]

Looks like James Wan and the director of the remake are taking to twitter to do damage control. I like Timo Tjahjanto's work on V/H/S 2 (which is getting a straight to streaming sequel on Shudder), May the Devil Take You and The Night Comes for Us. If anything, the script and casting are going to fuck it up. A lot of people hate reading subtitles or don't have the attention span to do so. They think dubs are cheesy, so they prefer a remake. As a teen, friends loved the weird movies I'd find but hated reading subtitles so much, they called them "fag-titles."
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On the dub issue, it wildly varies what the origin and target languages are I noticed. Korean to English is often atrocious but I don't know if it's due to the inherent linguistic differences or if they just hire poor quality translators. The best I've seen in live action (cartoons are more forgiving since the mouth movements rarely match even in the original language) is English to French but again, I don't know if it's just because they have a really good translation industry.


Thinking on it, I'd prefer a Korean American sequel focusing on the spread of the virus. Since there are US troops in SK, they already have their in right there and moviegoers only need to know that there is an outbreak if they haven't watched the original. Heck, at the end, the pregnant woman and the little girl reach the army. We could see what happens then.

 

[DerKryptid]

Train to bussy ft. Twitter trannies

 

[XYZpdq]

Netflix tends to have dubs. I hate dubs though. Plus I always watch with subtitles even in English. That way I never miss anything.

Bollywood ET? He's cuter than the real ET anyway.

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So another pointless remake that will likely be woke in some way.

superior ET knock off coming through

but yeah given the USA's general distaste for rail transit and THERE WAS ALREADY A PERFECTLY GOOD TRAIN TO BUSAN IT WAS TRAIN TO BUSAN YOU FUCKING FUCKS then I can see how this is doomed to shit
really though any region where life is looked on as a miserable burden that must be carried until the sweet release of death could handle it even if not exactly ROK