Gee....I liked Contact and Prometheus.
I appreciate the Original Series and even TNG.
Sometimes, this stuff is just entertainment. The entertainment comes from the writing, the effects, and the music.
As someone wrote, this is not Shakespeare. And to be honest, some of his plays sucked too.
They are just movies. If you are not involved in movie production, and if you are a “normal” viewer (not stopping and starting to see errors in the background) all of these are a decent way to spend an hour or two in fantasy land.
The only time in movies that really usually make me laugh are the gunfights (they shoot everywhere, on auto, without worrying about what they it), the fistfights (every fight I’ve been in and seen in person lasted about two punches and then someone hit the ground. Average people are not boxers!), and the way they portray journalists and photographers (my profession).
You had me till you mentioned journalists. And I look at all the destruction of America caused by so called journalists. You might have well said lawyers.
Anyway it is all escapism. I dont take any of it extremely serious. If I’m entertained it’s all good. Gunfights are phony as are fist fights. I am entertained by some and some just go too far and I lose my ability to suspend reality.