I'm with you.
I think it had a lot of incredible widescreen shots, like when the shuttles were leaving the abandoned ship in the beginning of the film and when the shuttles were heading to the fleet from Earth.
But...
I thought the plot was weak. Captain Nero's revenge was insanely implausible and unjustified. So Spock volunteers to try to help save Romulus with an unproven red matter technology (That apparently you need a giant red sphere of, when a tiny drop will do the trick) and unfortunately fails to help? I don't understand why Nero blames Spock. Spock didn't create the supernova, I didn't see anybody else step up to the plate to try to help. If Spock hadn't tried to help, Romulus would have got destroyed all the same. It would have made more sense for Nero to fly his mining ship to Romulus in the past and warn them about the future. Of course there wouldn't have been a movie then. The whole thing made very little sense.
Does anybody else have a problem with this? Should the audience ignore obvious plot holes for the sake of a fun movie that is created as a result of the plot holes?
First of all, there is a 4 issue comic book series(Count Down) that sets up the movie(
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Star_Trek:_Countdown).. All is explained there...
While the movie does not necessitate reading these to know what's going on, certain things make better sense after reading them.... Certain scenes of the film were also cut
to make it stay under 2.5 hours (they'll be included on the DVD as extra scenes or whatever).. Anyhow, there's a fairly good synopsis of the entire 4 issues at the link I provided..
Hopefully it will make a little more sense after reading, but I'm sure there will still be questions..
