Don't be presumptuous. Movies are written at three stages: pre-production, principal photography, and post-production. It's not uncommon for the actual screenplays (at least not the credited ones) to be M.I.A. from the latter two stages, not by choice either. In other words, don't blame the writers, blame the producers, directors, and even sometimes the editors.
To be fair, there is a major difference between plot and story. Fight Club doesn't really have a plot until the last act. Up until then, it is character beats and tiny subplots. The Dark Knight is mostly character beats, subplots, and short-term story beats, all "randomly thrown in as they go." Plot is nothing more than another word for a longline. It's the crap you read at the back of a DVD box.
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