I've seen a lot of movies. I used to work at a movie theater, so I got tickets for free. In fact, I've probably seen every major movie released between 2011-2015.
The problem with movies as opposed to other mediums of storytelling is that there are so MANY people trying to tell various versions of the same story.
In the simplest form, you have the scriptwriter, who for all intents created the story. You have the director, who usually will veto parts of the script he or she doesn't like (and will ultimately get all the credit for the film). You have a team of editors, who take EVERY scene and cut it down to be an appropriate length and style.
Generally, this means that the end product only appears to be a single cohesive story if you don't examine the story closely. For example, Iron Man 3 (while it does a great job depicting Tony Stark suffering some severe PTSD) doesn't make a whole lot of sense, plotwise.
So I think I have to award the best movie plot to the 1977 Star Wars movie. The fact that it makes any sense at all is a remarkable feat, because George Lucas wrote and filmed a whole lot of nonsense that didn't make any sense, and it's only because of his wife, who was the head editor that it was salvaged, and the plot holds up extremely well (even if the graphics don't)
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