xhonzi said:
I read an article somewhere that defended this, saying that women liked the comfort of knowing the formula and didn't really want any surprises or unexpected twists and turns.
This is my experience as well. The gal I was with last weekend really got unnerved when the movie we were watching seemed to be veering off of the formula (t was almost as if Fink was the director), but things got back to normal after a while.