Some people like the predictability and being able to guess what's coming, guess they enjoy that "superpower"? Or maybe just feel safe when their expectations are met, as i've known people who were enraged when a movie surprised them, not because it was badly done but because it didn't meet their expectations (I don't know what they're like now but way back in uni days some of them were generally difficult to get on with at the best of times).

I otherwise think I understand your mood there, I remember a time when I enjoyed watching movies and then I got incredibly bored because it seemed like everyone my age who got into movies decided to make very expensive fan films and everyone that had been in movies for longer became ultra conservative and decided to cling to a formula that was proven to make money and not risk trying anything else in case it failed. I don't even mind things being predictable or "done" as long as it was done well, but things were just boring.

But yes everything is someone's baby and I hope they at least had fun making it regardless of how it turned out and whether or not other people liked it or not XD

I prefer character driven stories personally. If the characters are done really well I don't even care if the plot is the most boring and bland thing in the history of all plots.

_{Or maybe I'm just saying that because I'm heavily relying on my characters to carry a boring plot XD}

You should probably write first and lose it afterwards, and then fix what you wrote ;D