Gage Davis - Comprehensive Babbling

This is an extension to my recent blog about #Alive, it is probably worthwhile to give that a read before this one. Train to Busan was released in 2016 and received critical acclaim from reviewers and audiences for its take on the zombie genre. It currently has a 7.6 on IMDB and an extremely impressive 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was written by Park Joo-suk and directed by Yeon-Sang-ho.  Train to Busan is much more similar to World War Z than #Alive , it follows a father, trying to save his family from hoards of zombies, however while World War Z paints the main character as the only option hero, not really delving into the mindset of each character. Train to Busan follows a more troubled character, Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) who can’t save the world, but may be able to save his daughter, during the process realising what it truly means to be a father. American zombie movies seem to need one hero, without care for their psyche, you just watch thoughtlessly knowing they will comple...

South Korean cinema has been rejuvenating the zombie genre with their recent films, starting with Train to Busan (2016) and now with #Alive (2020) that recently got its premiere on Netflix. These films have gone back to basics to completely shine above the US zombie films that are being released with insane budgets, for example Train to Busan had a budget of $8.5 Million and #Alive had a budget of around $10 Million, whereas World War Z the most recent US zombie film had a budget of $190-269 Million. I would personally rate both of these South Korean films above World War Z as I will always put an emotional thoughtful plot above CGI. It sounds counterintuitive, but the South Korean movies put zombies on the back burner, the films are about the humans, about emotion, Train to Busan focuses on an estranged father trying to connect with his daughter and #Alive focuses initially on the mental wellbeing of a secluded isolated gamer. Yes these actions are happening during a zombie apocaly...

"Is an arts degree useless?"                Pretty much.  I seem to see this question asked a lot, either to me personally or online and I always see a magnitude of answers, some who say its very useful and informative, but mostly I see 'lol of course its useless.' I kind of stand in the middle, I cant talk for all arts, but I have a Bachelors Degree in Film Production, and personally, I really enjoyed it. Would I opt into it again if I got to turn back time 4 years knowing what I know now? Probably not, but do I regret going? Not one bit.  I believe all art degrees are useless, the piece of paper does not mean anything to a fellow creative, if two people went to the owner of 'insert art related company here', one having a degree in that field, and one who had worked the last 3 years in the field, they would pick the person with 3 years experience, they do not care, for that piece of paper, without experience behind you. I took this in ...

Netflix released their most recent exclusive film The Old Guard a few weeks ago, whilst getting mixed reviews, including only 2 stars from 'The Guardians' Peter Bradshaw who called it a "dull film" its been somewhat popular with us average movie consumers. It's actual audience seemed to enjoy it, with an 8/10 on IMDB. In many ways this film has looked at how the film industry has been ran for decades and turned it on its head, from having mostly female led departments and the post production team being 85% female to shooting almost completely handheld, this film, this team have said f!ck the system and worked their own way to create this action fantasy. Helmed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, known most recently for ' Silver & Black ', The Old Guard follows Andy (Charlize Theron), an immortal in charge of a team of mercenary immortals including their newest recruit Sebastian (Matthias Schoenaerts) and the lovers  Nicky and Joe (Luca Marinelli) and...