[scarface_74]

Not as a film analyst. Just as someone who has seen any of the popular movies that have been released recently. Which ones have had a plot that you walked out of in amazement and didn’t just employ the standard tropes?

But that’s Sturgeons Law in a nutshell I guess

[Kye]

My or your subjective perception of quality aren't really the topic here, are they? You swapped out the subject while you thought no one was looking.

Bringing it back to the point: the movies are popular. You can't make a popular movie from a list of plots in one book built on one guy's subjective analysis. Anyone who's tried to hew too close to any plot formula finds this out. No actual plot out in the real world with any success has a plot that looks like any other. They're unique even if you can boil it down to some list of common plot beats by tossing what makes them unique.

Doing that is fine for teaching a writing class to people who know nothing about writing yet and just need to get started. It won't produce anything good. Real plots branch and loop and evolve.

[scarface_74]

Have you compared the plot of every single block buster superhero origin story?

The standard “heroes chase after the MacGuffin device” story?

They are called “tropes” for a reason. If you know the tropes you can pick them out very easily from almost any movie.

Every transformers movie plot is basically the same as is every James Bond movie and Mission Impossible movie play to same story.