Obviously, you've missed the point that lots of people don't think that Into Darkness is "shit".
Cold Fusion isn't cold.
Carol Marcus is a weapons expert who spends the entire movie not knowing anything about the one weapon in the movie.
Spock is mind melding with his former CO while he dies. He does nothing. Someone who Spock has spent more screen time with arguing with and beating up dies in a selfless act that is surprisingly logical, and he flips his shit.
Everything in the movie is resolved by dumb luck and violence.
-Deactivating the Torpedo? Just pull out a random bunch of wires!
- Fixing a Warp core? Kick the thing 7 times!
- Stopping a genetically engineered super-man who has proved impervious to physical harm and phasers? Beat him senseless with a hunk of metal!
-Need to revive the main character you killed off 7 minutes ago?
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I really think thats the most heinous thing the movie does - have zero interest in promoting critical thinking. Shit, even Iron Man celebrates the fact Tony Stark is a genius - why can't Spock think his way out of the situation? Or the Weapons expert BE an expert? You can get the same results out of these scenes if you just show the characters be competent, yet the movie only does this in one scene - with Sulu in the Captains chair threatening Khan. That's the only scene in the entire movie where a character rises to the occasion in a way that shows off any kind of skill or tact. I'm not saying we need the fucking sulphur/salt peter/carbon/gunpowder crap from TOS - just make the characters smart in the most modest of ways. Have them be competent! Thats how they were at the end of '09. What was wrong with that then?
