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- Critics may not love the movie, but it's very popular on Prime Video and gets funny comments from users on Letterboxd.
- Despite mixed reviews, Passengers was nominated for an Academy Award. Lawrence laments the influence of big-budget films on her creativity.
- Users on Letterboxd have mixed feelings about Passengers, from humorous criticism to acknowledgment of the chemistry between the leads.
It is widely considered Jennifer LawrenceWorst movie Passengers Surprisingly, this movie is one of the most popular on Prime Video right now — and is receiving a ton of hilarious comments from users on Letterboxd. While many reviewers on the social platform have given it a one-star rating, The film has a 30% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes based on over 200 reviews. The film also has a rating of 41 out of 100 on Metacritic based on reviews from 48 critics..
Passengers
- release date
- December 21, 2016
- Runtime
- 116
Released in 2016, Passengers The film was directed by Morten Tyldum and written by John Spaights. Jennifer Lawrence stars alongside Chris PrattMichael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia.
Passengers The film takes place in a futuristic world on a sleeper ship transporting 5,000 colonists in hibernation pods to the planet Homestead 2. Due to the collapse of Earth's biosphere, the passengers must make a 120-year journey to a new planet to save humanity. However, things quickly go awry just 30 years into the journey when an asteroid impact damages the ship, causing a malfunction that awakens passenger Jim Preston (Pratt).
Feeling sad that he will have to spend the rest of his life on the ship, Jim decides to wake up a beautiful woman named Aurora Lane (Lawrence) to be his companion. Instead of telling her the truth, he lies to her and tells her that she was also awakened by a malfunction. However, it is not long before Aurora discovers the real truth.
Although initially upset, she and Jim manage to make the best of the situation and begin to fall in love. Aurora is a writer and journalist who chronicles her life story on Avalon The ship, leaving a legacy for the other passengers to discover after waking up.
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Despite largely negative reviews from critics, Passengers It was nominated for Best Production Design and Best Original Score at the 89th Academy Awards. Lawrence has since said that she He regrets participating in big budget films like Passengers and hunger games.
“It was all a reverberation effect. I was reacting, not just acting,” Lawrence said. New York TimesShe also added that big-budget films like Passengers It made her feel like her creativity and imagination had been “cut off.”
Passengers still receive negative reviews eight years later
since There are a lot of people watching. Passengers nowWe decided to take a look at Letterboxd reviews to see what they thought of this 2016 flop. One user sums up the film as follows: “Me and my girlfriend are on a space trip (she doesn’t know I ruined her life because I was bored and she looked so cute in her hibernation pod).” Another writes, “Go to hell, Timo’s spaceship. Are you telling me there’s no protocol in place for when someone’s pod malfunctions?”
In contrast to the one-star reviews, another user offered constructive criticism and said, “The film has a strong first half and amazing chemistry, but the lackluster ending drags it down.”
