I admire a tightly-constructed narrative, but I'm not sure they're particularly important

My wife has grown very familiar with my habit of checking my watch during all the major plot-points of movies. I'm sure it gives the impression that I'm bored, but she knows what I'm actually doing is noting where we are right now in the three-act structure. I'm like, "Wait the couple is finally having sex? Yep, here we are at the midpoint."

Hollywood fi…