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Did you know that Chris Pine and Chris Pratt are two completely different actors? Because I didn't, and so spent most of the movie enjoying how the main character is named "Jim" in both this movie and Star Trek. It was a really good movie, though. Solid sci fi in the classic tradition you almost never see anymore. According to Wikipedia the movie drew some criticism because the main character was portrayed sympathetically even though he was a creepy stalker. This is perfectly true but since when do protagonists always have to be neatly pigeonholed into "good people" and "bad people?" Jim's character acted true to life and it's a testament to what a good person he is that he just woke someone else up to alleviate his crippling loneliness instead of smashing the other cryo pods in a fit of pique.
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Is there a montage of him checking all the other passengers and skipping over the fatties and uggos?
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Mar 13, 2017 11:56
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I was with you till the word piqued
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Mar 13, 2017 11:57
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I just randomly watched Event Horizon. its still dumb, but good, like hellraiser in space.
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Mar 13, 2017 12:04
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Drunken Baker posted:Is there a montage of him checking all the other passengers and skipping over the fatties and uggos? I think we're supposed to just assume that.
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Mar 13, 2017 12:12
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staberind posted:I just randomly watched Event Horizon. I thought Event Horizon should have been much better than it was. Based on the trailers I was expecting something more like 1408 in space. Or I would have expected that if 1408 had been released at that time.
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Mar 13, 2017 12:13
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yeah i was expecting a LOT more creepy rape poo poo based on the grumblings i came across but after I illegally downloaded it it was actually pretty bulletproof lol. You'd have to really be trying to be a hateful rear end in a top hat to get too concerned about it, outside of the intentional squirm factor of condemning jennifer lawrence to be your sole gently caress mate in solitude for the rest of your lives on a 5 star luxury super space cruise ship
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Mar 13, 2017 12:19
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1gnoirents posted:yeah i was expecting a LOT more creepy rape poo poo based on the grumblings i came across but after I illegally downloaded it it was actually pretty bulletproof lol. You'd have to really be trying to be a hateful rear end in a top hat to get too concerned about it, outside of the intentional squirm factor of condemning jennifer lawrence to be your sole gently caress mate in solitude for the rest of your lives on a 5 star luxury super space cruise ship I dunno man he was basically kidnapping her because he liked her and then loving her under false pretenses that's pretty skeevy.
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Mar 13, 2017 12:22
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My only moral objection to passengers is that it was bad and boring
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Mar 13, 2017 12:23
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Applewhite posted:I thought Event Horizon should have been much better than it was. Based on the trailers I was expecting something more like 1408 in space. It was a minimalist film with a maximalist set.
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Mar 13, 2017 12:26
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Change Chris Pratt into Chris Farley and make it a horror comedy as a young girl tries to avoid to ongoing advances of a disgusting fatty.
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Mar 13, 2017 12:26
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1gnoirents posted:outside of the intentional squirm factor of condemning jennifer lawrence to be your sole gently caress mate in solitude for the rest of your lives on a 5 star luxury super space cruise ship Couldn't she have gotten in the one person medic bay and refrozen herself? realbez posted:My only moral objection to passengers is that it was bad and boring 
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Mar 13, 2017 14:36
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Any movie with a poster of their stars just staring at the viewer is bound to have not much else going for it
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Mar 13, 2017 14:56
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Elman posted:I dunno man he was basically kidnapping her because he liked her and then loving her under false pretenses that's pretty skeevy. well yes that is the premise of the entire movie lol, but luckily he turned out to be a charming kidnapper who looked like chris pratt rather than what you'd expect someone to be like who'd do that. Woden posted:Couldn't she have gotten in the one person medic bay and refrozen herself? yes ... but she chose not to, instead opted to pity gently caress chris pratt for the rest of their lives or something i guess they actually liked each other in the end i dunno. it was hard to stomach after the fire breathing death anus part
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Mar 13, 2017 15:00
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wow applewhite has another poorly thought opinions on another lovely movie.
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Mar 13, 2017 15:00
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Passengers was better than I expected but it's basically a skin flick for Pratt and Lawrence and there's not much substance beyond that. The film has no moral or message--it teases at a few deeper concepts but never explores them. It's a very visual movie with a script that seems vestigial. I'd say it's fun to watch on a big screen but you'll forget it almost as soon as you've seen it.
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Mar 13, 2017 15:25
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Toadvine posted:Any movie with a poster of their stars just staring at the viewer is bound to have not much else going for it They should have gotten Jared Leto to play every role.
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Mar 13, 2017 15:25
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There is another movie called Passengers from 2008 with Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson. It is OK. The ending scene from Alan Parker's 1984 movie Birdy is re-enacted in it. Watch for it!
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Mar 13, 2017 15:54
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We need a remake of Passenger 57. I need more Wesley Snipes in my life.
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Mar 13, 2017 15:57
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I liked that people could hook themselves to a flimsy wire and dick around in space with 0 supervision. Did the movie hint as to why the rear end in a top hat robot tells the girl about chris pratt waking her on purpose ?
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Mar 13, 2017 16:04
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unpacked robinhood posted:I liked that people could hook themselves to a flimsy wire and dick around in space with 0 supervision. Yeah the robot misunderstood something Chris said to mean that they had already had the conversation
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Mar 13, 2017 16:22
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Like 5 seconds before he hosed up and told her
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Mar 13, 2017 16:24
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OP I just watched it last night also and agree with you. However it is a bit crazy that jlaw wouldn't take the choice given to her at the end. Guess andy has a some good d
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Mar 13, 2017 16:24
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Movie and tv threads make me think everyone only watches things out of the corner of their eye while texting or playing tinder crush or something with the amount of basic poo poo goons misinterpret or miss
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Mar 13, 2017 16:27
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Is this a prequel to Pandorum? The film where stasis pods open a million years before they reach the new Earth and everyone evolves into monsters and eats each other like in the Descent?
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Mar 13, 2017 16:28
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The Walrus posted:OP I just watched it last night also and agree with you. However it is a bit crazy that jlaw wouldn't take the choice given to her at the end. Guess andy has a some good d She chose to stay because even if the circumstances of their meeting were fake, their love was real.
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Mar 13, 2017 16:33
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is this the prequel 2 la la land, before the genetic disorders set in
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Mar 13, 2017 16:34
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Applewhite posted:She chose to stay because even if the circumstances of their meeting were fake, their love was real. yeah but I'm not an 18th century victorian woman who believes in pure true forever love so I would think that living out the rest of your life with other people would be better than 70 years in isolation with some dude. I mean I guess you could make the argument she already gave up her old life, but it still is a bit sappy.
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Mar 13, 2017 16:35
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whoah i didn't know this movie had actor i loe and actress i love haha bet there's some real moments
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Mar 13, 2017 16:35
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Toadvine posted:Any movie with a poster of their stars just staring at the viewer is bound to have not much else going for it It has that Morse Code "SOS" there in the middle, so you know it's a film for smart people.
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Mar 13, 2017 16:37
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That is a seriously terrible poster. I didn't even realize it was a sci fi film until I caught the trailer by chance on one of the few occasions I watch network television. I thought it was just a movie with those two people on a boat or something.
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Mar 13, 2017 16:41
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my favourite part of the movie is how over decades and decades two people slowly depleted the ships food stocks, so when the rest of the passengers woke up with 4 months remaining in their journey they all starved to death
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Mar 13, 2017 16:42
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The Walrus posted:my favourite part of the movie is how over decades and decades two people slowly depleted the ships food stocks, so when the rest of the passengers woke up with 4 months remaining in their journey they all starved to death I thought of that, too. If someone did the math on how big a dent two people could make on a 4month food supply for 5000+ people over the course of 50-70 years I'd be interested to see it. I was also lolling at when Chris brought her the roses. I was like "yeah the colonists won't be able to grow roses anymore because I opened up their only genetic sample but here you go." It looked like they started a farm or something on the ledo deck to sustain themselves so maybe the other colonists won't starve to death on the trip, their colony will just fail because all their livestock and crops have been opened up early.
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Mar 13, 2017 16:47
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So the entire movie is Chris Pratt destroying humanity's future to gently caress jlaw? Seems legit.
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Mar 13, 2017 16:54
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Applewhite posted:I thought of that, too. If someone did the math on how big a dent two people could make on a 4month food supply for 5000+ people over the course of 50-70 years I'd be interested to see it. oh for f 4*30*3*5000 = 1,800,000 meals 70*365*3*2 = 153,300 meals 1,800,000 - 153,300 = still a fuckload of meals uh oh better ration to two meals a day once a week boooohooo
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1gnoirents posted:You'd have to really be trying to be a hateful rear end in a top hat to get too concerned about condemning jennifer lawrence to be your sole gently caress mate in solitude for the rest of your lives I've always wondered if we'd think villains in movies were as evil if 'evil music' didn't play when they're on screen. Passengers answered that for me I guess.
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Mar 13, 2017 16:59
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Hardawn posted:I was with you till the word piqued Would you prefer "pricked"
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Traveling through space to colonize another world is always an interesting subject due to the time and distance factors. I remember reading a short story once, not sure where, that involved humans building a giant spaceship to take millions of their best and brightest people to go start a colony on another Earth-like planet. So the colonists freeze themselves, make the journey which takes 100's of years, and land on their new planet only to find it already colonized by huge cities filled with humans more advanced than they were. Eventually they figure out what happened. Turns out that while they were sleeping, the people back on Earth kept on inventing new poo poo and eventually created another giant spaceship with engines that were faster as the first one they built. So they sent out another group of colonists that actually beat the first group to the planet by like 50+ years. So the story involved a group of now minority people who were way behind both technically and intellectually and were basically treated as dirty, dumb immigrants.
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Mar 13, 2017 17:11
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I think the ending of the movie should have been Chris Pratt dies saving the ship and Jlaw would be faced with the same choice to wake up someone up for companionship or spend the rest of her life alone and have the movie close with her looking at another capsule.
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Hahah. That story sounds great.
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