That’s what I thought. A film doesn’t go through development hell for nearly a decade unless it’s struggling to find a tone. Cool start off point, cheap love story in the end. Needed more. Frankly, as I said to another guy, I think Lawrence and Pratt’s involvement was a cheap selling point and their involvement ultimately ruined the potential of the story in a rewrite. Lawrence tends to pick this same story A LOT. This story about her being this desired female who some guy picks out of desperation or lust and it all goes to crap. LOL “Serene” was just like this story but backwards and less optimistic. “Silver Linings Playbook” used it’s dramedy atmosphere to distort the fact a woman was manipulating a bi-polar man and his family was a bunch of lying crooks (Apparently sports fans that didn’t know that “Excelsior” was the motto of their team’s rivals yet are wholly superstitious). Frankly you need more grit in Hollywood. People willing to work on one good project instead of 10 a year and make a one amazing film instead of 10 mediocre to crappy films. Hollywood moves too fast for it’s own good. A few months of rewriting this puppy…could have been an epic space adventure.

It’s kind of ironic because essentially “Passengers” is what Lawrence has done in multiple films with Bradley Cooper. In both “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Serene”, Lawrence’s character manipulates the male lead out of a competitiveness with a woman from the man’s past. Frankly, it only worked in SLP because it was dramedy so that atmosphere distorts the fact a woman is manipulating a bi-polar man. LOL But both movies don’t really follow through with the obsession. “Serene” ends with the guy dying from some other crap not related to her and in SLP the guy figures he just loves her (There really isn’t a reason why he does so he uses the cop out line “I’ve loved you since the day I met you). Fact is you mention “The Shining” and most big movies won’t take that dark and realistic approach where dark elements are explored. There isn’t enough grit in Hollywood. Although funny you mention Lawrence and Pratt. Frankly their involvement I think is what botched this project. I guess the script actually didn’t have her character showing up till like halfway through the film but they sped it up because “It’s Jennifer Lawrence”. She basically took the film because I think she knew no one was going to pick it up (A film doesn’t go through development hell for years unless a director can’t figure out what to do with it) and she saw this as a way to get a payday because “Oh hey, I’m a big deal and Sony is desperate.”. Not a fan of hers but the films she personally funds and pushes forward like “Serene” and “Passengers” shows a bad taste for storytelling. LOL While we saw this concept in films like “Pandorum” and even, on a comedic level, the Disney film “Rocket Man”, both films side stepped also for the sake of thrills and, in “Passengers” case, sex. I’m tired of the whole “existential question’ storylines though. I just want a good, conclusive one-off that doesn’t try to be clever. LOL

Super cool

that was great ! 🙂

If you are going to make a movie about one character willfully stripping agency from another character, you have more than enough conflict to fill a movie…unless you don’t have the courage to actually tell that story. Spaiht’s was unwilling to follow his premise to its darker implications and attempted to distract with a third act set piece involving a meteor. He gambled that the audience wouldn’t notice.

Nice try.