True - but the costuming, especially the armor, as I remember it, was pretty Elizabethan.

That’s not what made it dumb. That was actually clever. The rest was dumb.

And here I thought you were going to say Ralph Maccio.

That Joan of Arc movie is really pretty great.

8mm is the only movie on your list that qualifies as dumb

What’s not to get? The premise seems pretty simple - “hot guy jousts.”

Anything with Meredith Salenger.

It was his American debut. Go watch Romper Stomper - American History X meets A Clockwork Orange.

“Ol’ Dead-eyes,” I call him.

It can be both.

Never went to summer camp as a kid. Why is this sold out?

Totally agree. It sounds like Passengers was a big missed opportunity and the result of stupid studio heads making pedestrian choices, and I’m better off not having seen it.

You’re right - you’ve seen the movie and I haven’t. I don’t necessarily disagree with your view of the Hollywood rom-com formula. One could make (and many have made) the same criticism about Beauty and the Beast.

What hostility?

Um, okay. Sounds like your analysis is coming from a pretty specific perspective. Not sure if the hostility was merited. Good luck.

Tom Hanks starts out Castaway as kinda shallow, and grows from his experience. From what you’re saying, I’m guessing that Passengers doesn’t afford Pratt the same kind of growth, huh? Sounds like they had an interesting opportunity to tell a compelling story and missed the mark.

a movie about a man condemning a strange woman to death because he’s lonely

Mel Gibson, Woody Allen, and Roman Polanski, among scores of others, have all been granted the luxury of having their work separated from their flawed manhood

The people that love this movie all seem to be about the same age: they were right about in high school when it came out, and it was maybe their first exposure to this type of storytelling. Someone else in the comments mentions that it was as catalyst for his/her development as a person.

It seems like the end result you’re looking for is that the rich kids learn something about altruism, and that’s great. Maybe that’ll happen, maybe it won’t.