I do, but they're all women talking about how it perpetuates rape culture, and many people are wondering how tine deaf you have to be to make a movie with this plot in 2016. It's going to flop, and the backlash is going to be massive once it hits wide release.
Pratt has his franchises to fall back on. With Hunger Games and XMEN over with JLAW is in trouble, as women are going to take some convicing before coming out to support her again after co-signing this. I bet by next summer she's throwing everyone under the bus for it.
I just came back from it and I while I think the movie made some poor decisions in its storytelling, it's also a big example of how in today's culture everything has to be put under a magnifying glass by social justice warriors.
To explain with a spoiler that is not so much a spoiler because it's how the movie opens and it's the marketing that deceives us:
The movie opens with Pratt being the sole passenger awakened by a malfunctioning pod. Spending a full year by himself, trying to get himself back to sleep, gain access to the crew's quarters, driven mad by loneliness to the point he contemplates suicide, he becomes intrigued with a sleeping female passenger (Lawrence). After endless contemplation and internal conflict of exposing her to the same fate as him for his own benefit, he gives in and wakes her up. While I think the movie could've done a better job explaining how he became enamored with her specifically (he shows zero interest in the other passengers which makes his interest in her alone a lot creepier than it needs to be), the movie does not make light of the ethical dilemma in waking her up. Why some people act like the movie promotes the idea that it's alright for a man to take advantage of a woman with no repercussions is beyond me. The man is clearly shown to be suffering under the weight of even considering it, let alone actually doing it. The movie could do more to explore this but it certainly doesn't skim over it.
The bigger problem here is that from that point on, the movie (or more likely the studio) seemingly does become more interested in giving us Space Titanic, creating a romance that doesn't feel earned enough given the conflict at hand, and loses track completely when the plot goes into a ridiculous third act overdrive that feels utterly artificial.
Lawrence Fishburne's character is almost literally a walking plot device, appearing for roughly ten minutes for no other reason than to drop a shytload of plot exposition so the story can movie into its ridiculous third act overdrive. As quickly and sudden as he appears, he dies, and not a single moment in his appearance feels it belongs here.
I did enjoy the setting of the essentially futuristic cruise ship which is sold very well due to the careful attention to details by director Morten Tyldum. It's nothing too groundbreaking but every part of it feels thought out enough to make the whole thing convincing.
Anyway, I don't know how much was rewritten/reshot from the original story, but it really feels as if they had a somewhat intriguing space drama at hand that became lost in their attempts to create a star driven attraction. And honestly none of the blame goes to Pratt or Lawrence. Both of them prove they are leading role material here (if there was ever any doubt), carrying the movie convincingly on their backs despite all the story mishaps. Folks know I hold Pratt in high regard as a movie star and while some may doubt his draw at the box office, the man really is the closest thing we have to the movie stars of "old". And I know it's popular nowadays to hate on Lawrence but she really does some of this shyt so effortlessly it's a sight to behold. This movie might not end up as more than a footnote on their careers, but it's not for lack of their input.
I just came back from it and I while I think the movie made some poor decisions in its storytelling, it's also a big example of how in today's culture everything has to be put under a magnifying glass by social justice warriors.
To explain with a spoiler that is not so much a spoiler because it's how the movie opens and it's the marketing that deceives us:
The movie opens with Pratt being the sole passenger awakened by a malfunctioning pod. Spending a full year by himself, trying to get himself back to sleep, gain access to the crew's quarters, driven mad by loneliness to the point he contemplates suicide, he becomes intrigued with a sleeping female passenger (Lawrence). After endless contemplation and internal conflict of exposing her to the same fate as him for his own benefit, he gives in and wakes her up. While I think the movie could've done a better job explaining how he became enamored with her specifically (he shows zero interest in the other passengers which makes his interest in her alone a lot creepier than it needs to be), the movie does not make light of the ethical dilemma in waking her up. Why some people act like the movie promotes the idea that it's alright for a man to take advantage of a woman with no repercussions is beyond me. The man is clearly shown to be suffering under the weight of even considering it, let alone actually doing it. The movie could do more to explore this but it certainly doesn't skim over it.
The bigger problem here is that from that point on, the movie (or more likely the studio) seemingly does become more interested in giving us Space Titanic, creating a romance that doesn't feel earned enough given the conflict at hand, and loses track completely when the plot goes into a ridiculous third act overdrive that feels utterly artificial.
Lawrence Fishburne's character is almost literally a walking plot device, appearing for roughly ten minutes for no other reason than to drop a shytload of plot exposition so the story can movie into its ridiculous third act overdrive. As quickly and sudden as he appears, he dies, and not a single moment in his appearance feels it belongs here.
I did enjoy the setting of the essentially futuristic cruise ship which is sold very well due to the careful attention to details by director Morten Tyldum. It's nothing too groundbreaking but every part of it feels thought out enough to make the whole thing convincing.
Anyway, I don't know how much was rewritten/reshot from the original story, but it really feels as if they had a somewhat intriguing space drama at hand that became lost in their attempts to create a star driven attraction. And honestly none of the blame goes to Pratt or Lawrence. Both of them prove they are leading role material here (if there was ever any doubt), carrying the movie convincingly on their backs despite all the story mishaps. Folks know I hold Pratt in high regard as a movie star and while some may doubt his draw at the box office, the man really is the closest thing we have to the movie stars of "old". And I know it's popular nowadays to hate on Lawrence but she really does some of this shyt so effortlessly it's a sight to behold. This movie might not end up as more than a footnote on their careers, but it's not for lack of their input.
Throughout the movie there are minor malfunctions on the ship. When Lawrence Fishburne (a crew member) wakes up, he finds out those minor malfunctions are the result of all systems overloading to compensate for a "bigger problem". He dies and Pratt and Lawrence find out that for two years the reactor has been exposed due to a meteor strike, and out of nowhere this "slow" build-up of reactor failure is about to blow up the entire spaceship. So basically the situation goes from 0 to 100 and all drama is thrown out of the window for a rescue/fix attempt where Pratt risks his own life to save the entire ship. He "dies" in outer space, Lawrence brings him back and manages to revive him just in time. They live happily ever after and 90 years later the spaceship arrives intact at its destination, overgrown by plants much to the crew's surprise as Pratt and Lawrence have cultivated a small green place in the ship in their time there.
They are dead, but she has written down her story. You don't get to see the planet, it's an earth like colony meant for expansion of the human race. That's it.
Friend told me about this. Laid an outline about the film and it didn't interest me. Decided to watch the trailer to make a judgment call and it still didn't interest me.
fukk I wanna see 2 people dealing with their emotions and a robot on a ship for?
Now I'm reading some of these posts like
shyt looks like a "have nothing else to do or watch" flick and it is.
Friend told me about this. Laid an outline about the film and it didn't interest me. Decided to watch the trailer to make a judgment call and it still didn't interest me.
fukk I wanna see 2 people dealing with their emotions and a robot on a ship for?
Now I'm reading some of these posts like
shyt looks like a "have nothing else to do or watch" flick and it is.
That is actually the heart of the movie though. The problem with the movie is that they tried to make it into some kind of semi-blockbuster at the end and utterly shyt the bed on everything.
This wasn't bad but I knew as soon as them reviewers weren't happy, there would be problems. This will do well as a romcom on TV for years later on. I think Chris Pratt should try again.
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