Another Movie Needs to Step Up Like 28 Days Later in the Worst Way

And I mean Zombie movie.  Even though it wasn’t technically a zombie movie I suppose, but what is a zombie movie just where humanity turns on the killing switch and starts the apocalypse by consuming themselves.  Boyle flipped every Zombie convention on it’s head with that movie, and it made one of the most refreshing movie experiences of the last 15 years if you were a fan of the genre, or if you are just a fan of solid movies.  You just have so many films over the last few years using the same devices, the same plots, same stories, same twists, cliché after cliché.  Oh my daughter was bitten but I won’t kill her to put her out of her misery, wah wah wah. I thought Zombieland would be this, but it dissappointed.  Way to throw in that Woody Harrelson's kid died, that's what I want to see in a comedy, we already liked him, you didn't need this, but oh yeah now we know he's fighting for something, thanks. 

This goes back to the old movie vs new movie debate mentioned in dirty harry.  There are hardly any refreshing movies nowadays, which is what has made Danny Boyle a force, every movie that guy has done has been completely different from the one before.  Being refreshing is really the key to making a great movie, or doing anything whether it be making a mint julep, or cooking general tso chicken, don't have to be so new that no one really cares anyway to "understand" you.  Take established themes and give us a story we've never experienced before, use cinnamon. The Matrix was somewhat new in regards to storyline, but it was just shown in a completely unique way at that time.  Does it have to be perfect, no, just enough to be compelling, memorable, and different from the status quo.  You can't have a dr. seus machine spewing scripts from the same type set over and over again, unless your adam sandler.