Thoughts on movies, comic books, life, and other nonsense, by someone who should know better
Three people told me the same thing about this movie. It’s super weird, and I wouldn’t like it. Now, I’m the guy who devoured the recent Twin Peaks and enjoy things like Bottom Of The World (though admittedly, Jena Malone was the main reason I watched it!), so weird … kinda my thing, right? I could never get a straight answer to why, though. The other thing they told me: you need to go and see it! So I did, partly to recover from the system shock of Kingsman: The Golden Circle!
Chances are, if you went to see Passengers based on the previews alone, you’d have gone in expecting a sci-fi thriller with a solvable mystery at its core. The movie, which stars fan favourites Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games trilogy) and Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World) certainly looks that way from the minute or so of carefully edited clips that you get. The giant, somewhat dark looking spaceship in deep space, the two leads running around while things go to hell – and why are they the only two to wake up?! So, yeah, if that was what you were expecting, I bet like me, you came out of the theater disappointed.
AT THE FOOTHILLS OF MADNESS 