I think his Dawn of the Dead remake is the only thing with a semblance of a likable character and the only one I liked or even watched to the end.

He makes great looking unwatchable films.

Even with that low bar, I totally agree with your assessment - this looks ill-conceived even for zack snyder to direct.

Snyder used to be "Michael Bay for people that dropped out of college". He is turning into "Michael Bay".

If I had to guess, he's trying to follow Romero's idea for how the Night of the Living Dead 'saga' would go (though he himself took different approaches of what that end looks like), that humanity would adapt around the fact that the dead rise now, and slowly, over time, the dead would become more organized and regain some of their intelligence. We sort of see the start of this in Land of the Dead.

Sounds like you're shitting on Omega Man, "friend".

The prevalence of zombie movies since the Korean war is a symptom of the dehumanizing of the enemies of America.

I mean specifically the soulless menacing horde that can only be solved by mass violence, not necessarily the oldschool voodoo zombies.

Funnily enough a lot of zombie movies tend to round the corner and end up re-humanizing them.

Note: I pulled this analysis right out of my asshole, don't take it too seriously.

The zombie looks like a man, walks like a man, eats and otherwise functions fully, yet is devoid of the spark. It represents the nagging doubt that lays deep in the heart of even the most zealous believer: behind all of your pretty songs and stained glass, this is what you really are. Shambling meat. Our true fear of the zombie was never that its bite
would turn us into one of them. Our fear is that we are already zombies.
-TBIFOS

Because Zack Snyder is a Libertarian this movie has to be about good people learning that (as stated in this trailer) saving other people isn't worth it.

Cooperation is only good when it's for selfish short term reasons between materially interested individuals, only Zombies cooperate long term for a shared common goal.

But the "good guys" are stealing from billionaire casino owners who made their fortune on merit and benefitting society!

welfare corpses in Cadillacs

Honestly these things are less zombie and more like undead humans with evil impulses now, that's it. Though it makes me wonder now if one of them is intelligent band organized does that mean the person who became a zombie is regaining their sense if self again or has that consciousness been dead and this is a new one bred from the virus and the body is merely a host to the conciousness the virus I guess is attaining?
I feel zombie films fall apart and lose all sense of being a zombie film once they are smart, can do martial arts, drive ect...

I'm just loving that you're all reading into this so hard. It's a stupid fucking zombie movie.

That's kind of our point, though. It's not a zombie movie in any meaningful way.

It's a stupid fucking ______ movie.

Jf. This is tiny text scanned in, but it is worth a read about zombies https://bit.ly/3TvNCI2

Cats is fucking terrifying.

The real answer lies in whether or not the zombies will have CGI assholes.

I'm assuming they're going for an Escape From New York scenario where the rest of the world is fine and this is an isolated pocket. Also, this movie will be dogshit.