Saw 'Oz the great and Powerful' yesterday. Looks amazing, well acted, charming characters but the script is a train wreck. It has vast lazy plot holes that the characters actually just reference out loud!

i.e. Entire plot structure hinges on one character not talking to another at that exact moment. So the first character just says out load "Shame I don't have time to talk to her before I leave!"... cuts to leaving?!?!

Other recent huge blockbuster films like 'Star Trek Into Darkness', 'The Dark Knight Rises', 'Skyfall' and worst of all 'Iron Man 3' have similar swiss-cheese scripts. That had great drama, well written characters and snappy dialogue but with nonsense filled plots. Makes me wonder if Hollywood writers care anymore, given that ticket reciepts suggest the audience seems not to?

This trend makes me very worried for the new Star Wars films.