Passengers

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Written yesterday:

Today I'm going to watch the movie Passengers. I wish my wife were here with me too, but here I am alone still. Got here early, so I'd have time to eat and drink before the movie. It's sad to think that our last movie together was the piece of crap that was Into The Woods, with people betraying and leaving each other, and I think that was on March 22nd 2015, the day Jackie called her brother to arrange "babysitting", aka abandoning me. :'( It's difficult to forgive her when I think back on crap she did like this, like her calling her brother was probably what she was doing when she spent an hour and thirty five minutes in the restroom after the movie. IDK. I still love Jackie, but good grief was that annoying. Still, I love her even though she betrayed me and I want us back like we used to be. It's better no to think of how shehurt me, because I truly do want us reconciled. This is just what going to the theater for the first time since Jackie last went with me reminded me of.

Something I find interesting about Passengers, like regarding Adam and Eve, is that they had no one else as an "option", so they were "stuck" with each other for life and all the faults and failures, tantrums and whinefests, they had to get the heck over and learn to be adults rather than children in adult bodies as most humans today are. Via Mark 10:1-12, Luke 16:18, and simple logic using those as axioms, there is nobody for me except Jackie and vice versa Biblically even though false options may present themselves they are false and to be ignored.

Before seeing this movie, I've read the snobbish critic reviews and yet they seem full of false hatred mixed with yuppy downlooking. Considering how critics hated both the 1982 and 2011 movies titled The Thing, I'm actually looking forward to Passengers being a better film than those brats give it credit for.

Thus ends my thoughts regarding Passengers before seeing the movie.

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After seeing the movie, I do like how they handled the issue about Jim awaking Aurora. Having been virtually alone for almost a Martian year now, I know how loneliness can affect me. Being nearly suicidal and then having a reason to live Jim's reasons are clear and it's cool how Aurora ultimately chose to remain awake with Jim.

Regarding the ship design, I don't see why the power being offline would affect the centrifugal force, but I do find it a funny reference to Event Horizon that the gravity drive activated (as well as the water falling effects, similar to the coolant falling when gravity was restored aboard the Event Horizon). Unlike the ship that went to Hell, the Avalon is a far more beautiful ship. It is sad that Captain Miller died again though, but it is cool that he helped accelerate Aurora and Jim's reconciliation.

It is also cool that when the crew awakes they find the ship looking like the garden of Eden just about, a result of decades of boredom mixed with creativity for Jim and Aurora. It would not be surprising if they had children and grandchildren wandering about. Also cool were the birds flying about. They probably didn't calculate it, but I've always wondered how birds might fly about in a centrifugal gravity environment.

I noticed the projection wallpaper of the northern lights in Jim's room when the gravity was offline, and that was a cool touch showing how Jim still cared for Aurora even after she left him temporarily (though permanently in her mind at the time because she was really upset at the moment when she found out Jim awoke her, giving him the silent treatment and otherwise being mean.)

It could have done without so much nakedness, good grief, but thankfully it was brief. I would hate to be an actor nowadays. That is unnecessary.

Anyways, this film was mostly good in my opinion, though admittedly I was biased in favor of it just to spite the snobbish critics who always look down on everyone and everything. Still, despite the unnecessary bits, it was a fairly good film and it was cool that Aurora and Jim reconciled.

That is the "until parted by death" element of traditional marriage vows, and I agree with you.

Cool. It's so sad that at least half of married couples don't anymore. Then, worse, they treat their divorce as a stronger commitment than their LIFELONG vows of marriage.

Anyway, I think Passengers sort of illustrates what it might have been like for Adam & Eve in a few ways at least.

I actually quite liked it, my personal opinion kind of based that I tend to have this fascination of things like the world of a horror movie filled with little details where the little sci-fi bits are all over the place. Maybe that doesn't make sense? It kind of makes me think of the video game world of Dead Space, where it has that just in the future technology that makes me want to watch the setting without so much of monster horror element, and that was kind of what I got out of Passengers.

I don’t get why people complain like the movie condones what Pratt’s character did, like he earned to get the girl just because he did something right at the end. He was instead saying that she should totally be put into suspended animation, that what he did was wrong. It was her choice whether she wanted continue her plan of story hopping looking for something, and in doing so leave him to a fate completely alone. Just because he did something wrong did not make him a completely bad guy, and does not mean she could not like him despite that.

I think people take the obvious wrong doing that is highlighted by the movie as something wrong with the movie as a whole, when really that should be case if the movie never tried to highlight it and instead said “isn’t the romance nice”. Instead it is pretty much like a horror in that aspect, that we understand the maddening effect of isolation, and it is meant to come across as super creepy with some of the things he does later. What would be worse should be a movie where a love interest does something and it never admits that one character was essentially stalking the other, and people find it unsettling because the movie highlighted that?