Zombie and Action Flicks Revive South Korean Box Office
While U.S. movie theaters are largely shutdown, movie goers in South Korea are heading back to theaters:
With several exciting home-grown big-title releases, the South Korean box office is a bright spot amid the grim reality for the hard-hit film industry. Earlier this week, S&P Global Market intelligence and OPUSData numbers showed a 92% shrink in the Asian box office from January to June this year, compared to the first six months of 2019, as reported in Variety.
Invigorating South Korea’s box office at the end of June, zombie thriller #Alive burst onto screens with its timely (and strangely resonant) story of two characters trying to survive a mysterious virus infecting the city’s population. Distributed by Lotte Entertainment, the film starred Yoo Ah-in and Park Shin-hye, and was widely-credited for sparking the domestic box office back to life. It became the first film in South Korea to surpass the one-million admissions mark since February. It has since grossed $13.4 million.
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You can read more at the link, but the sequel to the zombie flick, Train to Busan, called Peninsula and a North Korea thriller, Steel Rain 2 have further brought the South Korean box office back to life this summer.
Live zombie coming to a neighborhood near you as an under tested vaccine gets rushed into production…life imitates art.
Flyingsword, I am reminded of the scene in one of those Resident Evil films of the government official, surrounded by people in white lab coats, tells the crowd they have nothing to fear…
Saw Train to Busan, it was.. ok… almost a perfect 5/6. Was neat to watch the Z-outbreak go through the motions in the RoK. Had the typical Korean stretched-out ending though, why can’t Koreawood make a movie that doesn’t kind of fall apart at the end?
For a laugh you can read the “reviews” on IMDB where tons gave it a 10 and claimed it was the best movie ever made and how they were waiting for Hollywood to rip it off. 🙂
For a really shit movie watch Flu (감기), movie was just stupid all around and chocked full of anti-US/anti-foreigner crap. Fun fact: Did you know that as per the SoFA, some State Department schlub can ignore/threaten/bully the Korean President? Flu says so…
Next a Parasite people summit movie is coming out.
FS. Vaccines caused the current zombie population to flourish. 59 vaccines administered from day-of-birth to age 18 are currently required IAW the US CDC vaccination schedule (which most states, schools, and municipalities mandate). And the list is growing: 200 new vaccines are currently in the pipeline. Where does it end? The day is coming when the next generation will have to get a shot for something every week.
Mcgeehee, have you seen THX1138?
I don’t grasp the anti-vaxxers.
I much prefer vaccines over smallpox… well… unless it is for eradicating infestations of pesky indigenous populations.
Nonetheless, imaginary quantum nano mind control smart particles aside, the occasional side effects of vaccines for a few people seem to be overshadowed by the vast number of people not dying a miserable death from the diseases they prevent.
However, with all this said, there is no way I am going to get poked with a shady rushjob WuFlu19 vaccine, promoted by creepy elites caroonishly rubbing their hands together in anticipation, until it has at least a solid decade of extensive testing on third world populations.
And even then… probably not… as Coke, Big Macs, and cigarettes kill far more people and nobody is suspiciously hot in the àss to eradicate those through mystery injections.
Please don’t bring up “Coke” or “Big Mac” in reference to arse injections. You might irritate fans of that failed Democrat Party candidate for Florida Governor they found laying in a puddle of his own vomitus surrounded by gay escorts and baggies full of drugs.
Actually, that was unfair. No one was killed in that episode.
CH. As an American, you should be allowed to buy all the vaccines you want. I, on the other hand, decided to opt out. I don’t oppose vaccines, I oppose the mandates.
Know vaccine manufacturers have blanket immunity from liability. You cannot sue a vaccine manufacturer over sickness, injury, or death caused by a vaccine.
Read those little product inserts … carefully. They’ll change your mind.
Ref smallpox. According to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a branch of the CDC that sets vaccine intervals, smallpox should be re-administered every 10 years. So, whatever jab you had in the 20th century hasn’t provided “protection” for a very long time. My guess, you’ll be in no hurry to get shot up again.
And your logic for not wanting a COVID vaccine is the same reason I don’t take ANY of them; on some level, they are all fast-tracked.
Set. Had never heard of it, but sounds right up my alley so I’ll check out the YouTube version.