reign of neverending plot holes

Boy and I went out on a Date(tm) on Friday night. We never go a movie on a weekend night, so it was a Date(tm). And we went to see Reign of Fire, which had the most gorgeous, excellent, wonderful dragons I have ever seen, anywhere. Which makes it so terrible that the rest of the movie blew big hairy donkey ... you get the picture.

( spoilers and warnings ahead )