MovieChat Forums > Jennifer Lawrence Discussion > regrets doing passengers

Funny, that's probably the movie she will be best remembered for. At least it is the best movie from her so far (that I've seen).

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The more she talks the less and less I think of her. She's a talented actress, and I really like a number of her movies. Was very impressed with her in "Winter's Bone".

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I kind agree. Passengers wasn't all that good. The love relation was based on a lie, the male lead was a doofus, but the visuals were well done. Mother I liked her in.

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Probably because it wasn't well received. I thought it was good though.

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Passengers is a good movie. They marketed it wrong. It should have been promoted as a survival movie in space, putting attention on the fact they they are trapped in that space ship and must figure out what to do.

Instead they marketed it as a boring romantic movie with 2 lead actors that had no real chemistry as Jennifer Lawrence can’t really have chemistry with anyone. And Chris Pratt is not a romantic lead too.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw the zero chemistry between the two actors. Chris Pratt comes off as too doofy.

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Strange. I thought they'd be a good fit. Then again, maybe their personalities are too similar, (they both have an unaffected man/woman-of-the-people extroverted vibe about them) and opposites are better able to generate the requisite spark.

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They hold good conversation and play a joker persona very good in real life. But the movie relations was just trash. He comes off as the same blundering goof as he does in most of his movies. I almost saw him as an unwilling antagonist like Adrian Brody's character from the Village. Jennifer Lawrence does her best in this so I don't hold much blame with her. Her only flaw is that she has this harpy tone in her voice when she gets mad. Maybe it's the script?
But there's one scene I remember when I couldn't find Pratt's character sympathetic in anyway, Lawrence's character has no passion or reason to like him, Chris Pratt goes "you intoxicate me". She then jumps on him like a wild jungle cat. Meanwhile I'm sitting there shaking my head and rolling my eyes going "whatever....".

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I think it's one of her better films, but a lot of people turned against it, because it forced them to ask some difficult questions, and in the era of Trump and 'woke,' no-one is prepared to grabble with anything that can't be sorted into simple good versus bad binaries.

I think they fudged the ending somewhat, so that it turns out that Pratt's character *conveniently* did the right thing in hindsight by sabotaging J-Law's pod and condemning her to a life she never asked for, and perhaps the smart thing to do would have been for him to sabotage *lots* of pods, so that he and the others could work together as a team to correct the wrong that was done to *him* (with respect to the faulty pod). But whilst I like to think that I'm the type of person who *wouldn't* have dragged another person down with me, especially not on the basis I fancied them, by sabotaging a single pod, I suspect many people *would* have at least considered that option (and are avoiding asking themselves that difficult question).

As an aside, the latest Guardians of the Galaxy film is an interesting example of how values have (quite rightly) changed in the years since Passengers. Circa Passengers, filmmakers would do everything they could to get the male and female leads together, no matter how shitty one of them (usually the male) had been, as if they were entitled to the other's affection, but GOTG Vol 3 showed a new maturity, and in this instance SPOILER Chris Pratt's character *does not* end up with the object of his affections simply because he's the male lead and we feel for his circumstances.

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I'm glad she doesn't regret the cumshot video. It was her best work.

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She is distancing herself from “The White Passengers” a film that is now deemed outdated and racist.

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Is that what the woketards are saying?

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But the deck chief was black and the captain was hispanic. And don't forget the robot. Artificial Americans need more representation in Hollywood is what I always say.

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It’s still deemed a white racist movie ! It’s deemed tasteless. A white woman and negro male would be appropriate.

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