The whole zombie genre though has become stale over the last decade.
Warm Bodies is to my mind a parody of it and a jab in the eye at the directors. I mean, what else is there to say? Here's how Zombie Apocalypse stuff works:
Plague goes down; either we get 28 Days Later where we don't know what happened or it unfolds so fast nothing can be done about it.
Then we have a little group of survivors that either falls apart (like NotLD, DotD or LotD), or is pulled apart by exterior forces because other survivors are dicks (Dawn of the Dead)*. If there's military or police involved they're violent fascists waiting for a chance to line the non-military types up against the wall and shoot the lot of them (DotD, The Crazies, 28DL, 28WL). If a core of survivors manage to make it through those crises we're given a "shock ending" where they all die or they wind up back in the same predicament as before (trapped somewhere, surrounded by the dead).
And that's it. That's really it. The HUMANS ARE THE
REAL MONSTERS! is drummed into our head at every turn with all the subtlety of an Michael Moore "documentary", THE END.
Shaun of the Dead is the sole exception to this, and it's a hoot
and it ends with Humanity winning out. How novel!
If Zombie Apocalypse is giving way to ZomRomCom, so be it. I'll watch it just because for God's sake let's
change gears already. If it brings fresh ideas, that's awesome.
You know what I'd like to see? A post-apocalypse story about people rebuilding. The zombies are gone, poof, rotted away finally, all walked into the sea, the virus went through so many iterations the zombies collapse,
whatever - a movie about a few million survivors around the world, shell-shocked but alive and grateful and now starting the process of rebuilding, not O-M-G ZOMBIE IN THE CLOSET!
That would be interesting to me.
Until then, if
Warm Bodies wants to spoof the genre a bit, fine, I'll watch it on rental.
...
*=
The Walking Dead has both things happen to the survivors on and off again.