That stuff is formulaic, absolutely, which is why you don't watch movies for that stuff, right?

That stuff just becomes background noise for the contained art: be that art acting, cinematography, art direction, dialogue writing, etc.

Which is what we read for too, right? The poetry in the prose, the setting, the interesting facts sprinkled in the story, the art of the dialogue -- the story is background to the art of novel writing, it seems to me, the same way that plot is background to film.