![]() ![]() Absurdly Long Wait: Due to their distance from Earth, Jim has to wait for 55 years for a reply to the Distress Call he sent back.20 Minutes into the Future: The date of the setting is not specified, but apart from the development of interstellar travel and highly advanced holographic user interfaces, the civilization does not seem to have changed that much: the clothing has not changed, the bars still have the same look (but the bartender is an android), the Pulitzer Prize is still awarded, etc.In the depths of his despair, Jim stumbles across a woman in her pod, Aurora Lane (Lawrence), and becomes smitten with her to the extent of contemplating an unthinkable decision: whether or not to consciously awaken Aurora from her pod to share his fate. The prospect of what will become of the remaining 90 years between him and his destination is a crippling one for him to come to terms with, and loneliness sets in hard shortly after. ![]() Due to a ship malfunction, one of the passengers aboard - engineer Jim Preston (Pratt) - is accidentally awoken 30 years into the trip, and try as he might, he is unable to re-hibernate himself. The Avalon is a Sleeper Starship on a 120-year trip from Earth to Homestead II, a colonized planet in distant outer space. ![]() It's still messed up-but at least a better story that doesn't make Pratt the good guy.Passengers is a 2016 Science Fiction romance film directed by Morten Tyldum ( Headhunters, The Imitation Game), written by Jon Spaihts ( Doctor Strange), and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, with Michael Sheen and Laurence Fishburne in supporting roles. Instead of opening with 30 minutes of getting to know Pratt as if he's the hero, you jump right into the middle of the film and watch the awkward romance play out until you find out that he's actually the villain. Basically, begin the movie with Jennifer Lawrence waking up from her deep sleep let it tell the story from her perspective. Not sorry for the spoilers.īad as it is, there's a somewhat interesting story lurking underneath, as YouTube user Nerdwriter notes. It's a morally bankrupt rom-com with light sexual themes and mild tension. Problematic!Īnyway, they fall in love, he tells her what he did, she gets (rightfully) pissed off, and then the dumb ship screws up for real, he sacrifices himself to save her, lives anyway, and they fall in love for real (because he's an attractive white dude who gets anything he wants). The asshole doesn't tell her that he doomed her to live out the rest of her life with him alone on some piece of shit spacecraft. The damn ship fucks up and Pratt wake up early, but then he gets lonely and wakes up Jennifer Lawrence, too, on whom he's been projecting his feelings. It's going to take a long time to get there, so all of the people on the ship are in science sleep. The movie is basically about Chris Pratt on some crappy ship flying to some planet. It has been called " disappointing at best, problematic at worst," " cold and creepy," and " another mediocre thrill ride." But some critics, like Time's Stephanie Zacharek and Rolling Stone's Peter Travers noted that there could have been a better-and darker-movie hidden somewhere inside Passengers. Just browse the Rotten Tomatoes reviews, which gave it an aggregated 31 percent rating. You don't need me to tell you that Passengers was an objectively bad movie. ![]()
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