10 Great Subplots In Bad Recent Movies

Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead is one of the year's most frustrating movies - an epic, visually ambitious zombie blockbuster that few will likely want to watch again given its absurdly excessive 148-minute runtime.

This is largely the result of its numerous bulky, suffocating subplots, but there's one among the lot that effortlessly steals the show.

Snyder's most intriguing idea sees him devoting time to explore the relationship between the movie's undead antagonists, the Alpha leader Zeus (Richard Cetrone) and his beloved Alpha Queen (Athena Perample).

Rather than simply have the heroes face off against an anonymous horde of zombies, a surprising amount of screen time is spent on the feral romance between Zeus and the Queen, particularly the revelation after the Queen's death that she was pregnant with their zombie baby.

This is an impressively creative riff on typical zombie movie tropes, so it's just a shame the film is so aggressively bloated out by a number of stilted, tedious melodramatic subplots.