Passengers

What bothers me about the reviews for this is how fucking much they whine about Pratt waking up J-Law, as if the film portrays him as a hero for doing so. It doesn't, the whole point is that he made a selfish choice. I especially like the part where he's trying to justify himself by forcing her to listen to him over the PA thing and she screams that she doesn't care, because the fact is he was thinking only about himself.

But the critics have their heads up their asses and whine about "toxic masculinity" or some shit. I'm not saying the movie doesn't have flaws, but it's just like Iron Fist where they exaggerate the wrong flaws, out of... I don't know, political correctness? It's another case of them bombing the RT average for political reasons instead of giving the film a fair shake.

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The movie was kino up until Pratt shaved his beard
I'm just imagining how much better, or worse, the movie would've been with different leads

>reading reviews
wtf is wrong with you?

No, Pratt waking up J-Law was the right thing to complain about. This was like Marooned in Realtime in realtime. That is the exact thing that would be right to complain about. Toxic masculinity isn't real but anti-PC PC police are becoming a thing and it's saddening.

Apparently they were considering Keanu Reeves and Emily Blunt at one point, which could have been neat.

I didn't want to, but when I was pulling up the page the other day I couldn't help but have it shoved in my face because apparently someone JUST made a video about "fixing" the movie and I was like "What the heck was even wrong with it?"

>keanu reeves in anything that requires the character to show emotion
'no'

Maybe the Keanu Reeves version could have been a horror movie.

It was a central theme of the film that what he did was not morally right. How is that the right thing to complain about?

Better things to complain about were the fact that they resolved the matter by taking the plot in a "the ship is going to blow up and we gotta save it" direction, or the fact that they gave it a Hollywood ending where they lived happily ever after.

I honestly don't understand third wave feminism at all but what Chris Pratt's character did to J-Law was wrong. That's all I wanted to say.

Yes, it was wrong, but that's the POINT of the film. It's like criticizing The Shining for "Oh god he went on a murderous rampage, this is the problem with men!"

it wouldve been fine if the robot wasnt retarded

I feel like you're raping me right now. I just expressed an opinion and now you're bearing down on me with the intention of defeating me.

I get it, you're a male, this is how you interact with the world. But maybe you could just let others express their views without being so oppressive once in a while? Just a thought.

Oh, sorry, I didn't realize you were shitposting.

And now we're using the r-word.

Okay, I'm out.

bye nerd

Next time it would be nice if you didn't have to resort to this ironic posting. For the first couple posts I thought you were actually interested in having a discussion with me.

>the whole point is that he made a selfish choice.

Which the film tries to walk back by having Laurence Fishburne tell J-Law to basically "look at it from his point of view," and then having J-Law forgive Pratt so they could tack on a happy ending. At no time is Pratt ever really seen as the bad guy, he's always a good guy who made a mistake and the film expects you to at least understand his actions if not outright sympathize with him. It was a shit film and deserves all the criticism it received.

Woulda been better if he died and 5 years of isolation drove her to do a similar thing to another passenger, show how crushing loneliness can drive anyone insane.

Instead she just embraces him in the end and says she really loves him, his ripping her from stasis and thus her life was reduced to a romcom mishap like making out with the heroine's mother by mistake or choosing the big job in the city instead of marrying right away.

Morpheus described "his point of view" as that of a drowning man trying to take someone down with him. In no way does that justify it.

>In no way does that justify it.

It certainly seemed to work for J-Law.

I non-ironically disagree with use of the r-word, and also, your entire premise is still wrong even though I refuse to argue with you anymore. Good day.

j law went full retard at the end by not going back into hibernation. she literally said what he did to her was murder and then didnt take the chance at respawning

That is clearly not what convinced her to fall back in love with him. It was listening to the advice from her friend that caused her to reconsider her feelings.

No, seriously, your first couple posts made you sound at least somewhat rational and then you became an r-word.

It was incredibly stupid either way and doesn't change my point that the movie is still way too kind to Pratt.

Thanks.

The guy was sentenced to 90 years of isolation because of some space rocks. He deserves a bit of forgiveness.

bump, literally a dozen really bad threads just got made

Oh? What are they about?

sure

he then dooms another person

Movie was neat til he woke her up.

not sure, i hide shit threads if they manage to bypass my filters and im not going to look at hidden threads to answer your question so hey that's that

anyboday else here think the movie should have just been 160 unadultered minutes of chris pratts enormously gorgeous pale moonlit ass because 160 minutes of chris pratts enormously gorgeous ass would be something id pay VIP access to watch

can you lend me your filters?

And the whole ship would have been doomed if he hadn't woken her up.

True, he didn't know this, but this just shows that it was apparently fated to happen. The reason people don't like this movie is because they're edgy atheists who don't believe in fate.

if theres ever a pornographic film adaptation it could be called "Assengers"

YOU STOLE THIS FROM MY THREAD.

i do not like posting my filters because exposure allows shitposters to know what they have to do to evade being filtered, sorry.

except for how larry fishburn wakes up for no reason.

if you get woken up in that situation do you just assume that whatever fucked up will eventually happen to someone else, like it did with the captain?

Also fate.

I doubt shitposters are watching a Passengers thread, but it's probably stuff like capeshit, dcuck, mcuck, quips, bazinga, etc.

come on mane, shitposters are too busy resetting their routers and making more BLACKED webms to mind your list

Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE would have done what Pratt did. The insane moralfaggotry surrounding this thing is fucking hilarious.

I thought they did their best not to make him look like an asshole.

Irl, that fucker wouldn't have looked at a pod and fallen in love. He would have checked every single one and woken up the hottest most low Iq bitch they had like a futuristic comatose version of tinder.

They had him do it out of a crush rather than crippling loneliness.

I still dont get the tragedy for her, she got to spend the rest of her life on vacations, without having to work and with a handsome love interest.... Am I psychopatic?

i've been shitposting nonstop itt, it takes one to know one

My only problem with this movie is that the ship had literally no backup systems apparently. No programming for "Just in case" scenarios. Which any decent setup would have.

I guess it's because she's one of those crazy people who actually wants to work and achieve things.

Fucking this. I would wake up the sexiest chick on the ship within a couple of days. Kill her and throw her body into space if she figures out what I did. Repeat as needed.

I saw a pretty good idea in one thread, he could have woken up children and groomed them and nobody would have been able to do anything about it.

SJWs who complain about movies don't actually watch them, they are just copying what their friends say on social media to fit in

for example everyone dogpiled on the angry video game nerd for saying he won't watch ghostbusters literally just because the name of his character makes people presume he must be sexist when he didn't mention gender at all and is just was tired of remakes of 80s movies, no one watched his 10 minutes video

and even if they watched the movie and saw that it was a conflicted issue, which they wont, it doesnt matter, like that thing with X-Men, also featuring JLAW, where Apocalypse chokes her, it is fucking obvious that if a villain called Apocalypse is choking someone trying to stop him from ending the world he is in the wrong, but SJWs will still say it promotes violence against women

theres no logic to any of it other than what the latest meme issue is on twitter

You realize "fate" in a fictional work is just plot convenience, right?

The Nerd Writer just recently explained how the movies would have been leagues better if it was told from the point of Jennifer Lawrence's character.

youtube.com/watch?v=Gksxu-yeWcU

Did not read one word of your post past "SJWs".

I really didn't!

This honestly. The whole "it's impossible to be awake" thing ruins the suspension of disbelief. Any real ship like that would have SOME kind of backup.

In fact, I take that back, he wouldn't even need to wake up a sleeping child. Apparently, in the original ending for the film it was revealed that the ship had the sperm/eggs/etc. of the passengers so he would have been able to make his own kids without needing to wake anyone up.

Convenient things happen all the time in real life, I think it's perfectly realistic for them to happen in a fictional work.

so you're willing to excuse any and every contrivance because life works that way too?

titanic didnt bring enough lifeboats, right?

"Sometimes truth is stranger than fictioooon" - Bad Religion

It varies from situation to situation but in this case I find it excusable.

If he put her back to sleep in the med pod and then pozzed up some kids with her eggs then people would've whined too cause he'd be sentencing a bunch of children to live all their lives in a space jail.
There's no way out.

This isn't about what people would have complained about, it's about discussing what would be a pretty fucking good idea in that situation if you ask me. We're talking loli paradise here, buddy.

sure pedo

Yeah, as if no one would react like the 2 characters do in the ship.

People don't realize how fucking long they stayed awake in that ship, despite making it clear it's several years, because its still a movie you get to think about their interaction within a very short time, while the characters actually go through months of boring leisure daily life.

And then there is all the period after the movie where they spend like I don't remember how many years living together, who knows what happened then.

Hey. Reddit's that way. *jerks thumb*

at this point it seems you just want me to list all the plot contrivances in passengers

how nice of you to show yourself out, remember to take the r/Sup Forums exit

whats the point of a loli paradise if no one knows about it and isn't super offended?

She didnt need to be on another planet to be a "writer". She was just a spoiled brat.

Please do so

Exactly, I find nothing wrong with that plot point because they made it clear that they got so overconfident from all the successful voyages that they were sure nothing could possibly go wrong and decided to cut corners on their ship. It's one of those situations where the company in charge got greedy and decided to save some money. Especially since if something did go wrong it would be very easy to just sweep it under the rug.

this could be the shining in space, but no, they had to make the 2 hot moviestars to fell in love and save the day. the end was ridiculous

Well good thing he woke that brat up and jerked her out of it, huh?

wouldn't be posting anything that hasn't been posting a hundred times in every passenger's thread.

You're broken. The movie was flawed but what you've stated isn't the flaw.

I thought you said you were done posting in this thread.

>j law went full retard at the end by not going back into hibernation. she literally said what he did to her was murder and then didnt take the chance at respawning

This. The movie would have been fine if it didn't try to have it's cake and eat it.

Either don't hand wave away what a terrible thing he did so you can have a happy ending, or make it so that she woke up by accident so you don't have to face that problem. You can't have it both ways.

KYS "SENPAI"

>Heh I could totally list all the problems with this film
>Okay, do it.
>N-no, I don't want to have to back up my claims with evidence.

I haven't seen many Passengers threads lately and don't monitor archives. If you have something to say, please say it!

there's a difference between cutting corners and just being idiotic.

Fair cop, I've made 17 posts since then

the movie is a network of contrivances that clearly only exist to justify the existence of the movie.

It's weird because they made a point of referencing The Shining all over the place and everything.

I have to assume they stayed away from doing it because they were worried people would just complain it's a knockoff of The Shining. Instead they ended up bombarding it with negative reviews for a different reason.

you think this movie originally didnt have a cheesy happy ending but producers forced the change?

SO ARE YOU

Unfortunately, no. It was even cheesier and actually somewhat horrifying.
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i hated they made a red herring about the barbot being the one who fuck up the ship

Why do you people get so mad at the truth?

Yikes. That's a mess.

you mean how they showed the barbot breaking down?

...

Make it into a horror where he wakes up and goes insane from being isolated for so long.

He wakes people up and rapes them or tortures them and then the twist to the movie is that he figures out a way to go back to sleep after killing the majority of the people and then he wakes up with the other survivors pretending that nothing happened

*cough*titanic was a real event*cough*

the first scene in the movie shows what caused the ship to fuck up

I don't mind romantic movies, but I hate that it suddenly turned to that after being billed as a scifi space station thing

Is it ever even posited as a cutting corners thing?

The ship basically had an omnipotent super computer running it that could self-repair and maintain everything the ship did

They just didn't account for something both getting through the shields and compromising that super computer. And even then, they ship compensated for the damage for what, two years before it reached a critical point?

Movie had a misleading trailer where people would have liked it if it was just the movie the trailer pretended it was