Ok... people seemed disappointed by this... let's see. Starting now.

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concedes, a "sequel," so much as a reframing of the inciting situation from the "incident" that occurred in TRAIN to the much larger world that PENINSULA attempts to posit. This is, in many ways, more of a spiritual sequel to films like ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) than to TRAIN, and with some of that expansion being made feels automatically unexpected, probably even unfamiliar. In fact, PENINSULA is something like: 1 part Resident Evil, 1 part Korean drama conventions, (cont. 2/X)..

#CoSoHorror (3/X)
another 1 part questionably animated vehicular stunt scenes, about 1/2 part each of a crime drama, an action thriller, and a hefty dash of characters and references to TRAIN... is essentially what makes up PENINSULA. So, it's kind of an odd duck, particularly, I suspect, for Western audiences. The hodgepodge of genres, while present in TRAIN feels much more scattered here. In fact the lack of a centrality of time, in PENINSULA might make it feel like a bit of a chore. (cont)...

#CoSoHorror (4/X)
This is to say, in more expedient terms, that PENINSULA comes across as something of a mess, especially when compared to its precursor. It actually reminds me more than a bit of Neil Marshall's DOOMSDAY (2008), not only due to the similar plot points, but it shares an overall dingy, sometimes unpleasant aesthetic along with humor that might feel a bit out-of-place, or kitschy.
And yet... there are also sequences that are beautifully shot and lit, some fine moments (cont.)...

#CoSoHorror (5/X)
of drama, and some of the best damn zombie parkour ever filmed. The fact that the tone comes across as so unsure is, I suspect, a direct result of the results of the film not meeting the scope that the filmmakers wanted to realize... It's an old and familiar cautionary tale, we think... Is it a failed experiment, then? A production disaster? I think it's kind of a flawed, but fascinating attempt to realize a world where, for one, children use day-glow RCAs to bait zombies(cont)

#CoSoHorror (6/7)
and every other candy-coated craziness Yeon Sang-ho could fit in... I think there is a great film with a tighter edit.. at 116 minutes it's definitely overlong, but it's also a pretty impressive display of "getting things done" because it hits so many different notes over 116 minutes... It's a hallmark of tearjerkers (which PENINSULA *is*) that you might feel a bit emotionally manipulated and drained by the end. Ummmm.... 4/5 bloody vials! 💉 💉 💉 💉 😆

#CoSoHorror (7/7)
Thank you for reading my weedy-headed ramblings on a movie that everyone already saw last year. 😆

Can you guys see the pic (of zombies) in the last toot I made prior to this one or was it hidden for you?

Is the picture in this toot hidden?

@Apocryphiliac is it real grim like this trailer? Part of why Busan was so good was the silliness..

@rokkinbobokkin It is, at times. It's so uneven. There are lots of instances of beautiful aerial photography, and there is a long part of the movie that takes place in Hong Kong and is beautifully lit with neon. There's also comedy, but... It's really a mixed bag.

@Apocryphiliac Hope you enjoy! Let us know if we should stream it or skip it! 😉

@HannahBanana I have.. a lot of thoughts on this one. 😂

@Apocryphiliac 🤭🤣 Oooo do tell!

@HannahBanana 😂🤣 This seven-toot-thread is just the *beginnings* of my reaction… this flick is like 5 movies rolled into one. 🤯😂

https://counter.social/@Apocryphiliac/108246544154951473

@HannahBanana if you take one thing away from my comments, I hope it’s that this is the movie with the best zombie parkour! 😂😉

@Apocryphiliac I loved these rambles! I actually didn't see Peninsula -- but I most certainly saw Train to Busan, and loved its use of what we'd call "melodramatic flashback" in the West but which is simply a normalized part of masculine representation in other cinemas. So I'll watch this'n too, and vibe with you on these observations soon! 🤗 Thanks for the @!

@MLClark That's cool, I didn't think about the melodramatic flashback so much in TRAIN, but it's so effective that the terminology didn't really come to mind, whereas PENINSULA is definitely loaded with melodrama. I guess they consider it as part of "raising the stakes," but it's a bit much, even for the sensibilities of myself, someone with at least *some* small bit of familiarity with recent Korean dramatic conventions.
Thank you for reading and responding! Look forward to more on this. 👍 👍

@Apocryphiliac look like trump supporters to me 😂

@Apocryphiliac I saw

@Apocryphiliac it says sensitive content but if you click it you see a photo

@djvjgrrl Thanks for confirming that. What about the picture with the zombies? That is NOT hidden, but the text from the toot IS, am I correct?

@Apocryphiliac the zombies photo same thing, sensitive content, but when clicked you can see. the text written above it says Zombies. Testing.

@djvjgrrl Oh REALLY? What about the toot with four pics in there? Same with that one too? Or do those show up without expanding the content warning?