Earle,
Transformers has potential if you have a 400 million dollar budget. I keep saying this but a real live action transformers film is pretty impossible if the bots are the stars the human are truly secondary.
Just too expensive. Not excuse Bay for what happened in Revenge of the Fallen but I can understand why he has to pick and choose his spots when it comes to fully utilizing the bots in the films.
And the Star Trek script would've been better had they just come up with a natural way for the characters to get together. I mean, did Spock really have to program the Kobayoshi Maru during the time when Kirk was the first to beat? Did Kirk really have to end up on the same planet where Old Spock and Scotty just happen to be at?
Again, it's a much, much better film than it should've been. But, there are just way too many parts where the coming together of the characters was too coincidental for my liking. The Dark Knight didn't nearly have as much as you're saying.