Passengers 2016 Movie Review (HALF SPOILERS)

Passengers Movie Review today! Beyond The Trailer's reaction & review of Passengers 2016! Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt!

Passengers Movie Review today! Beyond The Trailer host Grace Randolph's reaction & review of Passengers 2016 starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt! How bad is the twist aka Chris Pratt waking up Jennifer Lawrence?! Why the bad reviews? Second half of the movie review has spoilers. Should you see the full movie? Enjoy Passengers in 2016, and make Beyond The Trailer your first stop for movie news, trailer and review on YouTube today!

CHAPTER TIMES
Intro - 00:00
Put Down by Critics - 00:23
The Avalon - 1:18
Lawrence & Pratt - 2:14
Miscast - 3:46
Bartender Advice - 5:56
Lazy Movie - 6:22
SPOILERS
Pratt's Action - 7:00
Fishburne - 9:08
Safety Features - 9:53
Why I can't recommend - 11:18

Interact with host & creator Grace Randolph!

[keybladechosn]

You know what would have been cool. If Pratt did what he did, and he Jlaw live their lives together on the ship for a year or two. But then at some point Jlaw realizes that Pratt woke her up and swears she will never talk to him again. Then Pratt becomes super angry and creepy, slowly revealing that he went crazy during that period of loneliness and then he becomes a staulker Shinning type character, and Jlaw has to escape him.

Then she has no choice but to kill him because he's all "If I can't have you no one can". So she kills him and decides to live alone on the ship until she too is driven mad with loneliness then she wakes someone up, and process starts all over again. Cut to Black. Now that's a movie

[midwest]

"Not the sensual butt that one would expect."- Grace Randolph

[JoseLuisHaro]

Many times in the movie i thought that if you changed the music for a creepy one, this could be a horror thriller.

[IzayaV]

I highly disagree on Seth and Anne fan casting, i'm sick of Hollywood casting a typically unattractive and sometimes downright ugly man with a beautiful woman. Seriously, its dumb. The only time you see an attractive guy with a typically unattractive girl is if it's played for jokes or if in the end they turn her hot with some makeover. Overall I really agree with your review though, I loved your ending opinion about their relationship.

[mkrfc]

I don't get the hate this movie is getting, saw it a few hours ago and it was actually pretty decent

[JeaneAdix]

I actually disagree. I loved that film. I think the part that people don't understand is that how the way they want the world to be and how the world really is are oftentimes different, and I think that acknowledgement of the latter is oftentimes more powerful than the former. A man alone in space for a whole year is going to wake a female up. I don't care what you think your morals are sitting around in present day life, but the isolation and the mental anguish you will feel and the actions that will result from that are part of your human nature.

[staredwards]

That opening line tho. Another Grace switcheroo.

[seahawk]

I'm sorry but you are so wrong.
**Spoilers**



First of all you say they were miscast I disagree. They are opposites. First Aurora is a famous author's daughter, Jim is a mechanical engineer. Two she has the Gold membership with gourmet food while he just has the basic food and drink privileges.Rich vs Poor. Next topic him waking her up. One. He was awake a entire year by himself before he even saw her. Just after he couldn't bring himself to go along the suicide attempt. he finds her.Two After he researched her for what look like months, to find who she was, reading her stories falling in love with her personalty, not just her looks. If that was the case he just would've woken any hot women up on the ship. After all that research thinking hard and consulting with Arthur he finally goes along with it. After he does it, he immediately regrets it. Like you said he just sign her death warrant. The critics don't see the real question of the film. Would you sacrifice someone else's life so that you won't die alone. Ultimately what he did was wrong but most of the critics feel that being in that situation you wouldn't even think about that or be driven to waking someone up. I find absolute bullcrap. 60+ years by yourself or just committing suicide were the only other options. Also At the end he does give her a chance to go back to sleep if she wants to, but after all that they endured together she declines. Is the movie perfect? No way but the fact that it has 32% is a joke. The Acting is spectacular, the Visuals are phenomenal. Just on those alone the movie deserves at least 65% and above. I love that the story was unique in that it made you think of the feelings that Jim felt early on and what Aurora felt after she found out. I wouldn't have blamed her for killing Jim. Anyway I feel that movie did great for what was giving and I rate it 7.5 or 8 out of 10. When it comes out I'll buy it.

[zacroper]

Grace you do realise this movie took 12 years to make right? that automatically means it's a masterpiece.

[OfficialAndies]

I loved this screenplay when I read years back, I think it would have been better with Keanu and Rachel McAdams

[MyplayListsYY]

I disagree with the critics. The decision Pratt's character faces is the whole point of the movie! To get people thinking about what they would do in such a circumstance.
I don't think most people understand the psychological devastation isolation can wreak on the human psyche. Humans are social creatures by nature.
Another film that tackled this was "Castaway" with Tom Hanks. Hanks' character took to anthropomorphizing a volley ball, carrying out entire conversations with it.

[JCPRuckus]

This way be spoilers...

Your alternate casting makes no sense, because "Be happy with what you have" is not the overarching theme of the movie. The theme is more like "If you're lucky enough to find someone who you're truly happy with, you have to hold onto that... Maybe even if they don't deserve it".

They aren't supposed to be a mismatched pair. These two are perfect for each other, which is what makes it so tragic (thematically) that their relationship only came about due to an unforgivable act by Chris Pratt.

The critical pieces of thematic dialog aren't Michael Sheen's. They belong to Jennifer Lawrence's friend from the video... "You didn't need to leave, but nothing is ever enough for you. So my one wish is for you to finally find something/someone who can truly make you happy"... And to Laurence Fishburne... "The drowning man is always going to try to drag someone down with him. That don't make it right!... But he's drowning!"

So in the end Aurora (Lawrence) has to wiegh the fact that Jim (Pratt) did something unfathomably horrible against the fact that he was otherwise a great guy (up to and including his shining moment of self-sacrifice and heroism) who was the first thing that ever made her feel happy and fulfilled. Sure, it's easy to do some simplistic moralizing as a third party, but logically is it really more important that she punish him than that she has the thing that makes her happy? Is cutting off your own nose to spite your face really a price worth paying for that "justice"?

This interpretation also answers why he woke her instead of someone more theoretically useful... He had decided she was his perfect partner... Remember, he had already given up on fixing the problem. So if you were looking forward to 90 years with only one other person for company, would you pick someone who "might" figure out how to do something you thought was impossible (Because going back to sleep is the only solution. Waking the crew solves nothing.), or do you pick someone you've fallen in love with (admittedly, in absentia)? Seems like the latter is the obvious choice.

TL: DR - Many of your criticisms don't make sense, because your thematic reading is incorrect. Anyway, it's a perfectly fine movie. Nothing special... Just a nice way to spend 2 hours of your time.

[rurutuM]

Hollywood still spending their monies on the wrong thing. YOU NEED BETTER STORIES NOT JUST STARS AND CGI TO SELL TICKETS.

[oscarmike]

"drive by butt" vs "sensual butt"...gems like that is why I'm subscribed lol

[MrHale]

I feel like she didn't even watch the second half of the movie. Or she just didn't get few of the points and missed a lot of information. First of all, they've done this thousands of times already, like they said in the movie. So they haven't had a situation like this and they've done all that "AI controlling the ship" thing multiple times over the years. Second of all, he didn't want to wake anyone, so he wasn't looking for a hacker. He was going to kill himself, tripped and saw her. Started to learn about her and fell in love.

[FPietros]

...

So, am I the only one who *found this movie one of the best science fiction tales he's ever seen?*

[randidorrenbacher]

Okay, saw the movie today. The way you talk about the character "Jim", deciding to wake the character "Aurora" is a bit misleading. You make it sound as if was an "oh what the hell, why not" decision. Jim was slowly sliding into insanity & had almost flushed himself out an airlock just moments before he saw Aurora for the first time. He, for lack of a better word "imprinted" on Aurora. He watched her passenger interview, read her books/articles. His deciding to wake her was not instantaneous or even quick. Was it morally unethical? Yes, but if any of us had been sentenced to what was basically solitary confinement (albeit a luxurious one) for the next 50/60 years? There are reasons they're trying to end the practice in prisons. Humans NEED human contact, without it babies don't thrive, adults get depressed, become psychotic, develope obsessions, turn suicidal. Could they have explored this a bit more? Probably.
On a lesser note: I didn't have a problem with the casting. I thought all of them did a good job. Yeah, the ship needed some more safety features but the movie made quite a point that the company operating them had been so successful for so long they most likely bought into thier own advertising.

[motuloatoevai]

Maybe you could review the actual movie not what it could have been. It's like you're reviewing a movie that wasn't made.

[alexi]

Seth rogen isn't sexy. Why do guys get away with being ugly, but the chick always has to be hot. Where's Clint eastwoods son when you need him?

[m.i.a]

Spoilers below man,

I think that most of us, if we had the choice, would have done what Chris’s character do. We’re lying to ourselves if we’re saying that we won’t. And I think also that Jen’s character understands that the moment he walks out [of the ship] and may not come back, she understands that, knowing she will be alone on the ship. She completely understands why he did that. It was a great movie with an awesome message to end a pretty bad year.