"Passengers" - Sci-fi drama starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence

[pixen]

Overrated doesn't mean she's not rated in Hollywood acclaimed circles. Pratt is just a funny man as of now.

Yeah but just because you won one Academy award doesn't mean you are the best actress. She has talent but I haven't really seen her act a whole lot. She just plays variations of herself. I'm not saying she isn't talented. She just doesn't really push herself with the roles she is taking on.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Yeah but just because you won one Academy award doesn't mean you are the best actress. She has talent but I haven't really seen her act a whole lot. She just plays variations of herself. I'm not saying she isn't talented. She just doesn't really push herself with the roles she is taking on.

Isn't that why people bring up the fact that she has 3 more Oscar nominations? She won one, and she keeps getting nominated.

I don't think she is the best, but she is a fine actress who has proven it plenty of times already.

 

[redhawk23]

She's also proven several times over that she's willing to take on big roles and completely phone it in.

 

[Serpico Jones]

As much as I don't like Devin Faraci his points about Jennifer Lawrence in X-Men Apocalypse were hilarious and dead on. He wrote that she acted in that movie with one eye on her paycheck and the other eye looking at craft services.

 

[moonclaw]

yo it's crazy how people are starting to turn against Jlaw.

 

[Loki882]

Not really. Online fandom tends to turn on anyone who gets "too famous" or successful. And it's not just film fandom.

Seen it happen over and over and over and over and over again.

 

[dark_b]

Jl is IMO the same actress that she was. qualitatively speaking. She can give a good performance and not always play herself. What changed is how she presents herself during promotion and that she can not give a decent ''paycheck'' performance. Theron IMO did the Snow White movie only for money. She acted during interviews and gave a good fake smile and she also gave blockbuster movie star performance in Snow White.
What JL did in Apocalypse is not acting. Its as lazy as you can get. There was nothing.

 

[Loki882]

And so what? I don't give a crap about how actors interview, unless they say something offensively bad.

 

[dark_b]

IMO thats the reason for some backlash. Those actors are getting so big paychecks because they are popular inside movies and outside for intervies. General Public wants their movie stars to be exactly like in the movie

 

[scarlet-witch]

yo it's crazy how people are starting to turn against Jlaw.

Well if she wouldn't try so hard to be "goofy" and "likable" she'd continue to have a ton of fans and not be insufferable.

 

[Jekecy]

Just got out of it and I definitely enjoyed my time with it. This was one of my most anticipated films which got dampened by reviews. But I'm glad I went anyway.

3rd act definitely suffers because it threw all the steady pacing and character study out the window, but both Pratt and Lawrence pulled their weight enough to salvage the whole experience.

Not sure what the hooplah was about this film not being what was advertised, it's almost exactly what I expected going into it. No real major twists in the narrative.

 

[MbJ]

The consensus I'm seeing is that the movie was dreadfully miscast. They should not have tried to make the male lead a likable funny guy like Pratt. He's a fine actor but the character should not have been like him.

 

[scarlet-witch]

The consensus I'm seeing is that the movie was dreadfully miscast. They should not have tried to make the male lead a likable funny guy like Pratt. He's a fine actor but the character should not have been like him.

Actually, I think this part needed a likable looking dude because there's no way they would've been able to sell it if a dude like Michael Pitt was playing him. Wouldn't everyone hate it even more if they couldn't try to justify Pratt in it?

 

[Farren]

I haven't seen the film but it sounds like Pratt's casting was bad in the sense that the filmmakers may have been relying on his "funny nice guy" persona to cover the awfulness of what he did to Aurora instead of actually addressing/resolving the issue in a serious and thoughtful manner. It also sounds like it had the effect of exacerbating the problem by excusing it by giving the impression of the tired "A man deserves to have a woman just by being nice to her" attitude. But whoever they cast wouldn't have been able to cover up what was lacking in the material and the approach to it.

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

yo it's crazy how people are starting to turn against Jlaw.

In a culture of hate, everyone will go against what is famous.
In the 21st century, is cool to hate.

Personally, i adore Jennifer Lawrence.
Both as a woman and as an actress.

 

[Jekecy]

I haven't seen the film but it sounds like Pratt's casting was bad in the sense that the filmmakers may have been relying on his "funny nice guy" persona to cover the awfulness of what he did to Aurora instead of actually addressing/resolving the issue in a serious and thoughtful manner. It also sounds like it had the effect of exacerbating the problem by excusing it by giving the impression of the tired "A man deserves to have a woman just by being nice to her" attitude. But whoever they cast wouldn't have been able to cover up what was lacking in the material and the approach to it.

It could've been delved into more, but they addressed it early. It was one of the first things Pratt's character brought up (to himself). They hardly excused it either, they spent a fairly long time showing the repercussions of it.

 

[CaptainWagner]

It's not just Lawrence. I've seen people attacking Pratt, too. It's like if too many people like something, certain corners of the interwebs start attacking it.

 

[MadVillainy]

In a culture of hate, everyone will go against what is famous.
In the 21st century, is cool to hate.

Personally, i adore Jennifer Lawrence.
Both as a woman and as an actress.

No it's called having an opinion

Not everyone is going to like everything. Some people need to understand that and keep it moving. I don't get this thing of whining that people don't like something

 

[Schlosser85]

I'm not always the biggest JLaw fan, but she was good in this. Definitely put a lot more acting effort into it than X-Men.

 

[MydnightPhoenix]

yo it's crazy how people are starting to turn against Jlaw.

Yeah it's quite sad really. I was never under her spell but seeing people love her then turn against her for no reason is sad.

 

[Kane52630]

My review

Spoiler

It's another movie where there's two ideas fighting each other and one side lost really bad. I thought the first half of this movie was really well done. You spend most of that time seeing Chris Pratt trying to survive alone in desperation. It raises a lot of moral and ethical questions and when Jennifer Lawrence shows up it becomes even more interesting to see the dynamic as it evolves. I have no problems with any of it. What really messed this movie up was the 2nd half. It's when the movie went through the studio safe test screening and made sure they didn't upset anyone with a darker film. It's right when Laurence Fishburne's character shows up where it just becomes dumb. It undos everything that they set up earlier and actually made it worse. All the uproar against this movie is sorta justified if we're talking about the 2nd half of the movie. A side note, I will say I thought Michael Sheen was the best part about this movie from start to finish. Overall, it's a mixbag.

6/10

 

[MydnightPhoenix]

http://imgur.com/a/OQUaA

Jennifer is the more bankable star, why is this even a discussion.

 

[dark_b]

that idiot spend time in photoshop for that image. i wonder why

 

[Fallen Angel]

I haven't seen the film but it sounds like Pratt's casting was bad in the sense that the filmmakers may have been relying on his "funny nice guy" persona to cover the awfulness of what he did to Aurora instead of actually addressing/resolving the issue in a serious and thoughtful manner. It also sounds like it had the effect of exacerbating the problem by excusing it by giving the impression of the tired "A man deserves to have a woman just by being nice to her" attitude. But whoever they cast wouldn't have been able to cover up what was lacking in the material and the approach to it.

Has been said many times by me and a few others who read the initial script, It really needed a funny man like Pratt otherwise it would've caused bigger problems than it has. Remember Keanu Reeves was going to play this role a few years back. He and Pratt aren't the same kind of actors. It would've certainly been a darker take. Rachel McAdams was going to play Aurora too.

But they needed a funny man for that role or it would've been even worse.

 

[TheVileOne]

It's a discussion because some ******** men are upset that Jennifer Lawrence spoke out against a gap in gender pay, and she got paid more than Chris Pratt, who is in the movie more.