"Pretty, disjointed" is to me a problem synonymous with the vast majority of action films these days.
I might get strung up for saying it, but to hark back to your example of escapism I thought Skyfall made absolutely no sense and felt like a committee of ten different scriptwriters had each come back from the Ideas tombola with their own idea of A Cool Scene With Protagonist In It (known in the industry as an ACSWPII, pro-nounced axe-wee-pie) and it was up to the summer intern to link them together. Transformers is perhaps the ultimate example of taking such an incoherent script and putting it in the hands of an even more incoherent director that keeps getting distracted by tits in a wind tunnel raining racial stereotypes.
That said, I appear to have given up on most superhero films altogether so I don't really know if they've got any better in the last few years, and indeed much of the big-budget cinema-fillers. Too much hype means it's usually out of the cinema by the time I've come to finding reviews that I trust... only saw the Mad Max rehooglination at the request of a mate and was very glad I did... served as an excellent example on how to make coherent chaos out of one long series of explosions.
Waiting for Hollywood to announce a new series of films chronicling The Boys series of comics... would be well worth the big screen treatment and is probably the only series in existence to feature a Tenpole Tudor reference.
> Angst is always internal, anon!
Spoken like a chap with absolutely zero academic interest or knowledge of the psyche of Nepalese goats and their symbiotic artistic melange with 1920's german expressionism and The Bay City Rollers. I weep for you and your family, you have no idea what you're missing!
On the other hand, is there a kickstarter or something for Angst Man vs Dr Žižek?