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Passengers is a terrible movie, but it could have been much better if they had only made 1 small change.
SPOILERS: (But the movie sucks so you may as well read this part anyway)
Passengers is about a guy named Jim (Chris Pratt) who wakes up out of super-sleep on a spaceship half-way to its destination. All of the other thousands of people are still asleep, and the ship isn't expected to arrive at its destination for another 80 years or so.
So far, so good.
We see him roam around, do some shit, get bored and lonely. So he decides to crack open another sleep pod out of lonleyness and awake a woman named Aurora played by Jennifer Lawrence.
She's freaked out at first, but friendship, love, adventure and danger happens, all typical stuff. Then she finds out what happened, she's sad for a while, but then love continues, and then Andy Garcia shows up at the end of the movie and it ends.
Dumb! Boring! Pointless! And a wierd cameo at the end that makes no sense at all.
What they should have done instead is this:
Start the movie from Aurora's point of view. Have her wake up, alone and confused, meet Jim, become friends, fall in love have adventures etc and THEN reveal the fact that it was Psycho Jim who woke her up. Instead of him being the perfect guy, reveal him to be the lonely selfish psycho. Put a whole twilight zone-spin on that movie, and cut out Andy Garcia's pointless cameo.
The movie looks beautiful with top-shelf VFX, and Jennifer Lawrence is yummy. They obviously spent $100M on this movie but they had to have viewed the final product and realized that this dud could have been fixed in the edit.
Strangely enough, the trailer for the movie actually hints that they wake up at the same time. I wonder if the original version is with psycho Jim, but a last-minute decision made them re-edit it into a romantic mush movie...
Also sadly, it doesn't even have any Jennifer boobies.
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