The thing about JJ’s ST movies is that while they were terrible Star Trek, destroying the whole known timeline, and in the case of the second one, blatantly reusing much of the plot (and even some of the dialog) from ST:TWOK, I thought they were half-decent action movies - entertaining, funny, spectacular. Sure, they were full of stupid plot holes, and too much lens flare, but generally enjoyable.
Apparently JJ has seen the error of his ways w.r.t. lens flare, and there’s really nothing he could do to wreck the franchise worse than Lucas’s meddling with Eps 4, 5, and 6, and the mostly execrable prequels. I’m not really excited about or looking forward to them, though. I do think I’ll have to see the new Mad Max movie.
Mad Max seems to be getting great reviews.