Jim's not a coder
 

Yesterday just watched Passengers of 2016, and yes, I'm slow :)

It proves that coders have a slightly different way of thinking than normal people, because we always look for the most rational solution.

1) Not to mention that waking up an unknown woman just because you're bored is selfish and stupid. But the moment it became clear that the ship was in distress, the first thing to do was to wake up ALL the crew members. That's their job. That's what they're paid for. They're the only ones who can solve this problem, and in fact, it's their responsibility. If you don't wake up the crew, everybody dies, including themselves.

2) The door that Jim used as a shield, should have been used as a blocker for the airlock from which they wanted to release the heat. The algorithm: open the airlock, block its closure with the door, and run.

3) At the end, when they were deciding who would lie down in the capsule to resume hibernation, the right solution there is: get both of you in there. It's okay, squeeze in a little, you slept naked in the same bed, why should you be shy?

Your solution to #3 is not very programmer-ish... there is other reasons why hibernation pod might not work for two people besides just physically fitting.
Also #1 he couldn't get into the crew quarters. He spent some time trying to break down the door.

All I've heard is that is one god-awful movie . . .

Probably, then it depends on its functionality. If it hibernates humans one by one, so the algorithm is: hibernate her first and put her in her own capsule, then give a computer a command to hibernate you right there.

By the way, he was only able to find the hibernation device after being awakened for more than a year? He's definitely not a coder...

No. He found out when one member was already awake (Morpheus has actually explained that situation), so they all had access to the room. There was no time for stupid talks and for "I'm going to sleep for a while" - just wake them up immediately.

P.S. Jim said the ship's cargo was full of various seeds, and... no weed? The supplying company was a mutilator :( Your class of service doesn't let you eat bacon and muffins for breakfast, but 12 year old whiskey is available 24/7. Such an original all-inclusive system...

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.

Google is your friend :winkwink: Seriously, I liked the movie. Not the plot. I watched it to fall asleep and liked the sci-fi atmosphere. At least it doesn't look cheap :2 cents:

Wasn't a fan of this movie either.