So before the 4th wall break you knew that the dad was totally anal about his lego sets and was gluing them all together? Gee, you are pretty smart.

I am also a white, 37-year-old male American and no movies really represent me. I want to see a guy in a movie go to work every day, pick up his kids from daycare and school, and come home and have a discussion with his wife about what they’re going to have for dinner that night because neither one really planned it.…

Just because the movie is written that way doesn’t mean it makes sense. “The pod has never malfunctioned” is lazy writing, it creates a wall where none should exist. Nothing never malfunctions, and the movie spending time to justify that point is insane. There were definitely ways to make Passengers work as a film,…

Except, as far as the movie repeatedly explains over and over and over again, this kind of pod has never malfunctioned.

Everything malfunctions. Everything. There is no way they’ve never had any pods in the past not malfunction.

But they didn’t do an amazing job of it. If they had, the movie would have been a success and this article wouldn’t exist

That was my thinking exactly! Even putting aside the extremely ridiculous notion that there was only a single med pod for all of the passengers and crew, there is a huge plot hole for me: Jim goes out of his way to point out that there are spare parts for EVERYTHING in the ship, which is how they save the day, yet…

Yeah, but most movies are kinda stupid anyway. An SF premise shouldn’t be a get out of jail card for bad writing. If anything it should force writers to check their premises with even greater scrutiny.

Yeah, that was 115 years ago. Nowadays cruise ships do have enough lifeboats for everybody on board.

Ask the engineers of the Titanic....

How would you uaveended up with crew death? The crew would have seen the problem once it happened, without it getting worse. They would have put Pratt back to sleep and Fishburne would have never awakened.

Yeah, but nobody would ever design a ship of that complexity without some sort of redundancy. Just because something has a 100% efficiency rate doesn’t mean it can’t or won’t break down at some point. When you’re tens of trillions of miles out in space it’s not like you can call AAA.

Again, why would you design it that way? Like a ship with thousands of pods isn’t going to have a handful of malfunctions.

Nah, Rey just gave Chewie 5-stars and sent him and the Falcon on their way.

“You know the movie trilogy that Disney can’t delete, but is doing their damnest to pretend never happened.”

Agreed. His little detective storyline in Attack of the Clones was the only thing interesting in the movie, and even that was a terrible storyline made watchable through Ewan’s performance.

Is Disney really, though? They have no problem with Lucasfilm bringing back actors from the prequels. Neither Jimmy Smits nor Genevieve O’Reilly were absolutely necessary in Rogue One. Those story beats could have been handled with other characters just as easily. I’m not saying they’re going out of their way to make…

Ewan McGregor was the only thing that made the prequels remotely watchable. The only downside was that he so thoroughly acted the pants off of Christensen and Portmann that they looked terrible by comparison.