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.
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
Asher Davis
>reading reviews wtf is wrong with you?
Ethan Clark
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.
Jordan Sanchez
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?"
Luis Butler
>keanu reeves in anything that requires the character to show emotion 'no'
Blake Ward
Maybe the Keanu Reeves version could have been a horror movie.
Zachary Brooks
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.
Noah Diaz
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.
Zachary Perez
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!"
Elijah Collins
it wouldve been fine if the robot wasnt retarded
Cooper Bennett
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.
Isaiah Ward
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize you were shitposting.
Justin Robinson
And now we're using the r-word.
Okay, I'm out.
Gavin Gray
bye nerd
Grayson Price
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.
Jonathan Green
>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.
Daniel Harris
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.
Logan Myers
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.
Chase Adams
>In no way does that justify it.
It certainly seemed to work for J-Law.
Charles Adams
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.
Parker Kelly
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
Parker Jackson
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.
Jacob Parker
No, seriously, your first couple posts made you sound at least somewhat rational and then you became an r-word.
Leo Cook
It was incredibly stupid either way and doesn't change my point that the movie is still way too kind to Pratt.
David Scott
Thanks.
Jeremiah Sanders
The guy was sentenced to 90 years of isolation because of some space rocks. He deserves a bit of forgiveness.
Xavier James
bump, literally a dozen really bad threads just got made
Levi Davis
Oh? What are they about?
Parker Walker
sure
he then dooms another person
Tyler Wilson
Movie was neat til he woke her up.
Carson Gutierrez
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
Jace Collins
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
Luis Gutierrez
can you lend me your filters?
Luke Hall
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.
Tyler Brooks
if theres ever a pornographic film adaptation it could be called "Assengers"
Dominic Russell
YOU STOLE THIS FROM MY THREAD.
Angel Sanchez
i do not like posting my filters because exposure allows shitposters to know what they have to do to evade being filtered, sorry.
Oliver Kelly
except for how larry fishburn wakes up for no reason.
Evan Rivera
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?
Liam Martinez
Also fate.
Michael Thompson
I doubt shitposters are watching a Passengers thread, but it's probably stuff like capeshit, dcuck, mcuck, quips, bazinga, etc.
Benjamin Hernandez
come on mane, shitposters are too busy resetting their routers and making more BLACKED webms to mind your list
Ayden Watson
Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE would have done what Pratt did. The insane moralfaggotry surrounding this thing is fucking hilarious.
Eli Gomez
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.
Jose Reed
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?
Levi Walker
i've been shitposting nonstop itt, it takes one to know one
Brayden Peterson
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.
Christian Barnes
I guess it's because she's one of those crazy people who actually wants to work and achieve things.
Elijah Reyes
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.
Thomas Ortiz
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.
Hudson King
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
Eli Lopez
You realize "fate" in a fictional work is just plot convenience, right?
Hunter Perez
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.
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.
Zachary Cooper
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.
Luke Smith
Convenient things happen all the time in real life, I think it's perfectly realistic for them to happen in a fictional work.
Aaron Bailey
so you're willing to excuse any and every contrivance because life works that way too?
Jaxson Harris
titanic didnt bring enough lifeboats, right?
Nicholas White
"Sometimes truth is stranger than fictioooon" - Bad Religion
Ryan Martin
It varies from situation to situation but in this case I find it excusable.
Ian Ross
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.
Jaxon Stewart
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.
Parker Brooks
sure pedo
Carter Russell
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.
Nicholas Baker
Hey. Reddit's that way. *jerks thumb*
Liam Lopez
at this point it seems you just want me to list all the plot contrivances in passengers
Isaiah Williams
how nice of you to show yourself out, remember to take the r/Sup Forums exit
Ian Diaz
whats the point of a loli paradise if no one knows about it and isn't super offended?
James Murphy
She didnt need to be on another planet to be a "writer". She was just a spoiled brat.
Tyler Campbell
Please do so
Luke Parker
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.
Daniel Clark
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
Asher Stewart
Well good thing he woke that brat up and jerked her out of it, huh?
Tyler Morris
wouldn't be posting anything that hasn't been posting a hundred times in every passenger's thread.
David Ward
You're broken. The movie was flawed but what you've stated isn't the flaw.
Jaxon Hill
I thought you said you were done posting in this thread.
Adam Lopez
>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.
Robert Diaz
KYS "SENPAI"
Isaiah Parker
>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.
Julian Collins
I haven't seen many Passengers threads lately and don't monitor archives. If you have something to say, please say it!
Xavier Taylor
there's a difference between cutting corners and just being idiotic.
Jayden Jenkins
Fair cop, I've made 17 posts since then
Oliver Edwards
the movie is a network of contrivances that clearly only exist to justify the existence of the movie.
Connor Foster
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.
Cooper Cruz
you think this movie originally didnt have a cheesy happy ending but producers forced the change?
i hated they made a red herring about the barbot being the one who fuck up the ship
Christopher Garcia
Why do you people get so mad at the truth?
Zachary Diaz
Yikes. That's a mess.
Nolan Bell
you mean how they showed the barbot breaking down?
Aiden Ross
...
Dylan Clark
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
Isaiah Price
*cough*titanic was a real event*cough*
Cameron Barnes
the first scene in the movie shows what caused the ship to fuck up
Isaiah Rivera
I don't mind romantic movies, but I hate that it suddenly turned to that after being billed as a scifi space station thing
Jonathan Davis
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?
Luis Myers
Movie had a misleading trailer where people would have liked it if it was just the movie the trailer pretended it was