Obviously I frequent Midnight's Edge way too much. Their commenters have an absolutely vicious loathing for J. J. Abrams, so that gives me the impression practically no on likes his Trek films. Then I got check the comments sections for YouTube videos about Abrams Trek or just Abrams in general and lots of people say they like them. To be fair it doesn't help that Roger Ebert gave a mixed 2.5-star review to the first Abrams Trek film (he never lived to see Into Darkness).
From what I can tell most of the reason Into Darkness carries such a notorious reputation is because it's essentially a remake of one of the most well-known Star Trek stories. I guess part of the problem is that Alex Kurtzman, one of the co-writes of the Abrams Trek films, went on to be the showrunner for the massively-contested series Discovery and Picard which were generally well-received by critics just like the Abrams Trek films. Also to a lesser extent Kurtzman's one attempt at directing a movie on his own was The Mummy with Tom Cruise which might have worsened his reputation even more. Oh and I forgot he has writing credits on Michael Bay's first two Transformers flicks and the notorious franchise non-starter The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Andre from Midnight's Edge seriously said he thought the state of Star Trek is at an all-time low. I don't know Trek well enough (for new Trek, I saw the 2009 one in 2010 and flat-out haven't seen its follow-ups), but that sounds a bit radical.
