In reply to Bruce Hooker:
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> Funny, they're the things I go, or used to go, to the cinema for!
Then you are narrow minded.
I sometimes go to the cinema for these things. I sometimes go for other things.
Gordon mentioned Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine" higher up in this thread. I saw that a few weeks ago and liked it, but I was not watching for plot or suspense. I was watching it for acting, dialogue and characterisation.
Prior to that I watched "Prisoners" which I did watch for plot and suspense.
Prior to that I watched the strange documentary "The Art of Killing" which is not about plot, suspense or action but is one of the best releases of 2013.
Last year saw "Dredd 3D" for the sake of spectacle and escapism. There is no characterisation at all in that film and it's all the better for it.
Cinema is about far more than plot, suspense and action. If that's all you ever want, just get a load of Hitchcock films and sit around slating everything else, whilst we have fun enjoying everything from Terminator 2 to Jessica Hausner's "Lourdes"