Thus far I've been dismissing the "counterfactuals" according to the dictum, 90% of everything is crap. But at some point I must accept the genre's status quo, if only so I understand why other folks give me the side-eye when I say "I love/write post-apocalypse stories." Then I can hasten to add, "But not *those* post-apocalypse stories."
IMO, Zombieland was all surface, a crass exploitation of the genre by Hollywood, deployed with no heart. Shaun of the Dead, although a comedy, had depth to it. Shaun didn't default to an alpha-male stereotype to cope with the disaster. Also, we had a sense of who folks were *before* the disaster, which is what made their struggle worth watching and the sad parts actually sad.
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IMO, Zombieland was all surface, a crass exploitation of the genre by Hollywood, deployed with no heart. Shaun of the Dead, although a comedy, had depth to it. Shaun didn't default to an alpha-male stereotype to cope with the disaster. Also, we had a sense of who folks were *before* the disaster, which is what made their struggle worth watching and the sad parts actually sad.