The Most Controversial Movie Endings Of All Time
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- Have you ever watched a movie that takes you on a captivating journey and keeps you invested throughout its duration only to leave you devastated because of its lackluster ending?
Yes, there are many movies with controversial endings. A director can’t please everyone and they have no control over how audiences react to their movie. However, there are also directors who are known to intentionally end their movies a certain way to make a point.
The third act is usually the crescendo that brings it all together but here are the most controversial movie endings of all time.
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Monty Python's Life of Brian | 0:00
Titanic | 1:27
Blade Runner | 2:13
The Mist | 3:18
Watchmen | 4:09
The Dark Knight Rises | 5:27
The Grey | 6:38
Snowpiercer | 7:31
Passengers | 8:43
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Looper what about the original Old Boy, Dae-su Oh fucked his own daughter......HIS DAUGHTER! If that's not controversial, I don't know what is??? Oh Looper, you sure know how to disappoint 👎
Joshua Smith agreed a grim but excellent film. Not as shocking but similar themes is Sympathy for Mr Vengeance.
Looper Kevin
Aurora did not die in passengers she lives you can see her go in the pod and end the movie
The Grey has a end credit scene
I was shocked by Titanic's ending. I never expected the ship to sink.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 me too
😆😆😂😂
Lmao
Yeah that was the most depressing surprise !!
The ship sank?
I was fine with Jack's death in Titanic. Her throwing the priceless gem into the ocean instead of giving it to her granddaughter is what pissed me off.
You missed the point of the movie.
Having been blessed with monetarily rewarding investing, I choose to live a simple life that makes me happy. Sadly, word got out to a materialistic stepson. After a series of events where he wanted my money, I was confronted by him, drunk, with threats of violence.
In my opinion, the grandmother did her granddaughter a favor.
Wealth is not a joy, its a burden.
@@DougAlesUSA Not nearly as much a burden as poverty.
Pmsl!
“Wealth is a burden” said by poor people never!
@@DougAlesUSA You have obviously never experienced a welfare Christmas. Anyone who believes money is the root of all evil never has.
People seem to have missed a critical element in the plot of "Passengers". Aurora and Jim's characters saved the ship together in a way Jim could never have done by himself. If he hadn't woken her, Lawrence's character and everyone else aboard would have perished on that fatally malfunctioning vessel. Pratt's character did something unethical out of selfishness but, as it turns out, he didn't rob Aurora of anything but dying prematurely in hibernation.
Okay, but it was still a bad movie. That's why it tanked. It's just not enjoyable to watch and her acting in atrocious.
@Alex B. I agree. I put it down as fate that drove him to do it, more than his own personal need.
FLdancer00 stop it. There was nothing wrong with that movie.
@@armanilafond44 That is highly debatable. The concept was great, the execution was poor.
@@FLdancer00 funny that pigs think their opinions matter.
JL has an oscar and her performance in passengers deserve one too
Passengers was not a bad movie. Good acting, and good dialogue.
A better ending for Passengers would have been for Aurora to be so overcome with rage and hate for Jim that she eventually kills him. Then, after months of being alone, she starts looking at those pods, finds a man she finds interesting, and it starts all over again. It could end with her just making a facial expression at a pod as she finally sees things from Jim's point of view and realizes she was wrong to kill him.
Somewhere, that's what is happening : she almost about to kill him and when Jim goes out the spatial ship for may be no returning, she reveals she won't be able to live alone without him. So, the script not consider she will make up someone if Jim dies, but the idea is quite the same.
And Jim died, which mechanic would have repair critical damages ?^^
Pokerface .....interesting.
I absolutely love that idea
I loved Passengers. The fact she chose to save his life 'waking HIM' up, so she wouldn't be alone for 90 years - plus she apparently had fallen in love with him as he had fallen in love with her, it was poetic.
She understood the feeling that Jim must have felt - and that is the point.
The trees and all that in the main deck - just wonderful... but... where were their children???
Did you get this idea from NerdWriters video on rearranging the film 🤔🤔
Actually, my fave observation about the ending of Titanic is that Jack dying was the most romantic way to culminate his relationship with Rose: At film's end, he lives on in her mind as a kind of mythic, eternally perfect lover. If he'd lived, he'd have disappointed her, eventually.
Ron Zajac She also went on to have a good life with someone else, which is what Jack wanted for her. Would have been depressing if not done as a flashback and ended like that. But, was a romantic memory of someone who loved her enough to die to save her.
Rose was over-priveladged. She would've gotten really tired of being poor a week into that Relationship. Jack should've known better and let her die so he didn't eventually disappoint her...
lol
Ron Zajac+ I know you are right. I've been married for 48 yrs.
The argument I've always made about that ending is that Rose is actually telling the story to the research vessel crew like 80 years after it happened so much of it could be a lie. She might have left Jack back on the ship at some point or fought him off out of fear of freezing to death.
Passengers was good after seeing it I immediately rewatched it with my wife and she also loved it. Prat's decision was selfish but relatable.
I liked it to.
The irony is... if he didn't wake her all would have died including her.
I thought it was interesting that he could only wait a year before he just had to wake her up & ruine her life. One year! Really?
I loved Passengers. It showed a pretty wide range of humanity, from ugly to beautiful, and did well balancing realism with idealism.
Stephen Kings The Mist was the most fucked up ending I've ever seen.
James Deal I was so pissed at the end.
James Deal i know right
James Deal sorry, but I liked the twisted ending. It would have been good to have had it not alien, but a mind-altering thing, done by the army. So they would have hallucinated it all.
Am I the only one that saw through the twist. It wasn't surprising at all, completely predictable. The moment he decided to kill everyone I knew he was going to survive somehow.
It was fucking great, wasn't it?! :D
Ending of "The Mist" was devastatingly brilliant. Makes you feel just like he does with that haunting scream
Something Clever Yep, that's the only movie on the List that was a Great Ending because it was the most Rational thing to do. I probably would've done the same thing...
I'll never forget the first time I saw it. Blew my mind.
I prefer the ending they didn't show, guess its an alternate ending where they all live
Raven24 I think that's how the book ends but I've heard Steven King say he loved the end to the movie so, high praise from the guy that wrote the story. I give the Director credit for doing something different.
Thomas Jane's scream actually almost ruins it for me. Everything else is perfect though.
I remember being soooo impressed with “The Mist”. I saw it soon after it released and at that point in time, I had never seen any scene in film that I felt so deeply. I have always praised the ending as Brilliant and Genius writing. Fantastic film.
Passengers is one of my favorite movies. Think about it...a VERY complex machine, full of autonomous computers is hit by a boloid that cripples a main system. What does this thinking machine do, it wakes the one man who can fix it. A mechanic. What this mechanic does then is awaken another. Good or Bad who cares. Then at another critical point it wakes a deck officer, who can provide acces to the place that needs fixing. The hero of this movie is the spaceship !!! It saved 5000 plus people, maybe in a cold hearted way, but it does. Great movie. Great sub-plot LOVED IT.
David Bires Damn never thought of it that way
Indeed! :)
You're thinking way too much and giving this movie way too much credit. It was a bad rom com with subpar acting.
I love passengers also. Who cares what other people think. Its a different kind of love story and like most love story's they all have a down side but end up right anyway. I also like that the droid bartender that has played P.M. Tony Blair in two other movie ends up doing this movie.
@@FLdancer00 fuckin fat pig at it again
I’ll never forget watching The Mist and literally letting out a scream of despair when the army guys showed up 😩
I was shook af 😂
The whole reason why my wife hates it and gets angry when i say hey honey the mist is on.
Army guys = soldiers
I had to pick up my jaw off the floor. I read the novella, expected that ending. I could not believe it
@pan af well good for you, but this is just a film dude. Fantasy.
"The script says Jack dies." Fucking awesome honesty. James Cameron rocks. Rian Johnson could learn a lesson from him.
Directors change the scripts all the time. He should have shot an extra ending with Jack surviving. Maybe future CGI can come to Jack's rescue.
Yes, It's like 3/4 of the way through. I wonder if they watched the movies.
Snowpiercer: Polar bear spots hot meals in frozen wasteland.
Polar Bear: " ..there is hope after all!"
Polar bear 2 hours later, with bones and fur coats lying around...
BUUURP
The author really needs to pull out a dictionary and look up the word Hope. Or take a biology class and learn to calculate the odds of repopulating the world from two children that are basically bear food if they're lucky. Slowly freezing/starving if they're not.
As you say. The bear is the only winner here.
Why the hell is everyone just ignores the worldwide gross of movies and just taking into consideration the domestic one? I mean Passengers made 200m worldwide on top of the 100m domestically.With a production budget of 110m I wouldn't consider this a flop.
That's still a flop by Hollywood standards. Between production budget, promotional expenses (which can be $100 million), and miscellaneous expenses, the profit gets eaten up. A movie of $110 million probably has to make $500 globally to be a seen as a good investment.
I mean, it wasn't really a huge flop, but I think Sony was expecting it to make a lot more. It was marketed as being this really mysterious/dystopian sci-fi film.
Studios gets 60 to 70% of domestic income and somewhere between 35 and 50% on foreing markets (but only 25% on the chinese market, which is the second biggest income for this kind of movies), which translates to roughly 50-55% of the worldwide income. On top of that, as other people already pointed out, you have to add marketing costs (which *generally* are about 100 mil or so but, as an example, in the case of _Star Wars - The Force Awakens_ were up to 250 mil), distribution and, of course, taxes :-)
Do the math and you'll see that - by any possible measures - _Passengers_ flopped (as it should have).
999SickBoy666 as i said before i'm pretty sure that marketing was inside the 110m budget, but as you put it in percentages it makes way more sense why is this considered a flop
110m is the production budget as reported by both BoxOfficeMojo/IMDb and Wikipedia - marketing budget are never included under "production". Sometimes - like in the case of _The Force Awakens_ - marketing budget are revealed or leaked, but they are an entirly different item (and, yes, as a reference: this means that, overall, a movie like _The Force Awakens_ cost [production+marketing] in the neighborhood of 500m).
Anyway, glad if I was of any help in clearing things up a bit :-)
There was also the ending to _A.I.: Artificial Intelligence_ .
That was a sad SAD ending. Alien using dna and the child memory to recreate tthe mother for just a day
That movie just didn't know what it wanted to be. The problem is Spielberg tried straddling the line between his often optimistic film style with Kubrick's often bleak styling. Considering Kubrick died before being able to make the film Spielberg should have just made the film exactly how he would normally go about filming. It probably would have turned out much better.
Steven Puckitt That's the thing, the ending was Kubrick's idea.
Le Quasar You've reminded me now of the bear.
The lovely bear, teddy :D . He Is the one that kept all along The mother's hair that alien use to exctract dna.
Passengers was one of my all time favorite movies. Too bad it got bad reviews from critics who could not acknowledge that a fairly high percentage of people would've done the same thing the Chris Pratt character did eventually.
The ending of Shutter Island was an ending I just couldn't wrap my head around.
Yes, the guy was a detective and yet we are supposed to believe he could be drawn into such a delusion with a corny fake gun and other props.
Passengers dealt with the fundamental human need for companionship. It showed how much we are willing to forgive to not be alone.
In the Death of Superman episode, it shows Vandal Savage who is an immortal bad guys who finally managed to destroy all humanity. The problem is he lives alone for long time and finally he met with Superman who got transport to the future.
The entire episode show even the most evil villain can't live alone and with enough time, he even dine with his enemy and willing to change to past so he couldn't be alone anymore.
I liked passengers, was a good movie but the end did piss me off haha
It tried
Except it has Jennifer Lawrence. So the movie was bound to fail
Justin I actually enjoyed that film. It was scary as a kid watching it but well acted
You have to watch the entire movie so you can talk about the finale when it comes to "Passengers". She was more than furious when she found out that he was the one who woke her up and even almost killed him, but when they realize that it's the two of them who have to save the entire spaceship - things change. He in the end forces her to go back to sleep, but, because only one of them can - she refuses, and decides to spend the rest of her life with him. That's a great ending!
Ian Meadows
That would actually have been a good way to go. Especially if he does with her hating him until she came to the realisation that she was now stuck with the same choice.
Overall I felt that JL's character was underdeveloped. There was a great deal of time spent on Chris Pratt's character but hers felt rushed.
I agree the ending was great. That was one of my fav movies last year. there were so many lessons to get out of it.
She didn't live her life with him, she went to sleep in the pod, then later wrote about everything when they were established after the ship landed
I agree with the POV choice, although I think they focused on Chris Pratt's character to make him more sympathetic to the audience. Seeing how depressed he was and how long he resisted waking her up makes him easier to empathize with. It works better with the happy ending of them ending up together. Perhaps if they had started with her POV and then flash backed to his when he woke up throughout the film.
she only stayed with him because of the...."implication"
In “ The Passengers” I thought they would have some kids, who would be old but Alive when the rest of the crew woke up.
The first time I watched it I thought the same thing
They probably did, but they didnz show them hehe
That was my thought too. In fact, in that amount of time there would have been grandchildren.
Well, we clearly see at the end that stuff is still in good shape, moving around, etc. So, I think the intent was to give the impression that someone was still alive on board. If it wasn't them then it was probably their kids.
It would have been very selfish for them to have had children, or a child. When they were gone, the child would have been in Jim's position and would have been alone for the remainder of their life or the trip.
the mist was so horrifyingly heartbreaking omgggg
"Passengers" is a movie designed to make the audience face the idea: what would you be willing to do if you were stranded alone for the rest of your life?
The answer in the movie isn't advocating that course of action - it's presenting it for commentary. Do folks who dislike the movie because of what he did also hate on "American Beauty" thinking it advocated sex with teen girls and homophobic murder?
Also: if someone is stranded on a desert island and they strand you with them for the rest of both your lives, would you really just ignore them for decades? There's no "right" answer - you're supposed to turn it over in your mind and savor it.
The movie is designed to make you think, which leads me to believe that the people who hate on it simply aren't.
Philo Janus Exactly! I really like the film! And I don't believe she had Stockholm Syndrome at all ( like someone suggested above).
She didn't know he had woken him when she fell in love with him. She then finds out. And yes she's rightfully furious, but she did love him. She said so in the book she's writing. She watches her friends goodbye video and the friend talks about her falling in love.
Then she saves him because 1) she loved him and 2) didn't want to be alone. Maybe at that point realizing how he felt at the thought of living alone. But she still loved him.
I enjoyed it and Jim did find out that he could save Aurora but she chose to stay with him.
"There's no "right" answer " Lmao except yours apparently, how did you miss the irony of your own comment? Lol.
This movie only makes you think "Should I watch until the end? Or is the story that predictable?" And it was and I shouldn't have. Personally as a custom fabricator, Sound engineer and musician who has to think A LOT in order to pay bills and eat, I did not find this movie thought provoking.
fully my opinion though, my brother loved it and he's a jive cat. But he did like Twilight and I did got one hell of a Twilight vibe from this movie. Any Teen in high school could write this one.
this movie was a boring as a potato and had not thinking required to watch it. It doesn't have a story or moral. Its was just a cra^y boring movie
It would have been more believable if she had taken his offer to go back to sleep. Otherwise, it feels like she gives in to Stockholm Syndrome.
"So I resisted the idea of being a Replicant, as, I suppose, a Replicant would."
Hahaha, yeah, gotta love Harrison Ford.
I was just annoyed that the narrator kept calling replicants robots. They are not robots, they are artificially created humans, clones basically.
I think the true answer lies in "Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep"
@@WorgenGrrl Actually, the original book on which Blade Runner is roughly based is titled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". (I am holding a copy in my hand) However they are radically different from each other. About the only thing they have in common is the hero's name "Rick Deckard". ;-)
Interesting how different US and German critics reacted to Passengers. While I agree that they could have tackled the issue of Jim waking up Aurora in more depth, critics over here still called it one of the best SciFis ever. And I'd agree. Because honestly, I would think about waking somebody up, too. Nobody can expect anyone to stay alone for the rest of his/her life when he/she can help it.
And in the end her decision was logical. She couldn't go back into her pod, and there was only one person around to spend her life with. And while he may have been selfish in waking her up, he kinda saved her life and all others on the ship. Unknowingly first, sure, but in the end the result matters, doesn't it? So sure, it's a moral grey, but that US critics hated it that much to me means that they never made that thought experiment of putting themselves into Jim's place and thinking about how they would have reacted. Because Jim acted just like a human being. We are selfish idiots. Hating ourselves for it won't make that go away.
Germany is not in the U.K. my friend
@@buffseven I live in the US and agree with him. Not you. Given the fact that he was human and not machine, it's not surprising that he woke her up. It's human nature to want to be with someone, to be with someone you feel you will have chemistry with and to try to make a life.
@@bethjones1116 and not forgetting that he first "meet" her just after trying to kill himself in the sas.
I still contend that people hated it because it was a bad movie, not because Aurora ended up going back to him.
Movies in America are held to a higher standard because Americans pump out the highest volume of quality movies than every other countries.
Sorry dude... you missed it with Watchmen.
I think that the biggest and most controversial ending, was when Dr. Manhattan killed Rorschach
Let us Reason but that happened in the graphic novel it’s not controversial if it wasn’t changed
I didn't like the ending but it was logical which is the only way Dr. Manhattan could see things. If he had known that Rorschach had left his notebook at the newspaper, it may have been different.
Thank you
For sure
do it
jesus fucking christ
am i the only one who remembers that when jack tried to climb onto the door it kept tipping over?
THANK THE LORD
Finally someone who isn't a braindead fish actually
*WATCHED THE FUCKING SCENE PROPERLY*
And people still call it a plot hole smh
They alluded to that point. They said mythbusters tested the theory and for them both to get on the raft she would have had to have taken off her life vest and put it under the bottom of the door. It isn't a huge stretch to think that two adults in a life and death situation could think of this solution.
Oh, so Mythbusters used heavy coats like the one Rose wore? Did they really try it in freezing cold water, with clothes soaked with water?
Pavel Drotár myth busters used two grown men, who weight far more together than a lady and Leonardo Decaprio. The thickness of the coats and the water temp have nothing to do with boyancy.
Mr Man v
"You gotta watch the movie with your brain sometimes not just your eyes"
-Me
I loved Passengers for a lot of reasons. Mainly, I have always had an interest in last man on earth or dystopian stories. I thought this was well written and well acted. The cinematography was also great. As for the story the main question the reader or watcher must answer is: what would you do if you were in this situation? Many forget that Jim too was a victim. He was brought out off his sleep pod early. He is a good man that was forced to make a terrible choice.although we recognize he is lonely, he isn’t his only concern. He has to look after the other passengers. Ship procedures prevented him from accessing the bridge and actual crew. So those resources were not available to help. Yet he still waited over a year to make the call. As a mechanic he knew something was wrong and could diagnose it with the currently available resources and what would happen if another issue occurred and Jim was here alone to solve it. He needed back up and selfishly, he needed company to share this burden.
His choice was made for him. He selected a passenger who he thought he would get along with. They connected. Sure she had a natural reaction to the turn of events, but realized at a point when Jim was almost lost that she would have made a similar choice if the roles were reversed. The story makes you think. But in the end they saved the ship and hundreds of passengers owe them their lives. But why no kids?
It definitely was about the lack of kids 🤣 I love this movie 🍿
Passangers is a great ending, really think it is an under appreciated film.
Meh. Maybe if Jim had been healing in the Autodoc for a week or so leaving Aurora alone. Still, it was sold as a sci-fi love story, and we got a stalker-rapist story.
I don't know if it was controversial, but after finishing Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it left me in a stunned silence.
Daenerys it was just following the book, which is fucking sad as shit. If you enjoy a good read you should read it. It had to cut a lot of scenes and they really make the ending hit harder.
I was crying too much to be stunned. Left me quite morbid for days.
I watched it as a 10 year old kid, I was crying and wouldn't believe it. My parents then told me he survived.
Good old times
I hate to admit it, but it left me rather 'satisfied' that the father finally feels what he puts others through.
I finished the book in a class, had to step out for a walk cause of the ending.
Man, movie critics are THE LAST people i listen to about films!!
In Passangers it took months and Jim almost sacrificing himself for Aurora to forgive him and he gave her the option of going into a medically induce coma the fiture.
I thought Passengers was a good film. It seemed realistic and it basically had a good ending.
I think passengers would have been more interesting if she found out that she was one of many women he had woken up, and later killed when they found out and the "relationship" fell apart, the isolation for him drove him insane, and he had been waking up women hoping for the fairybook ending. then after she kills him, you cut to 3 years later and see her standing over a guys cryo tube. Movie ends.
I liked Passengers, but I gotta admit, if done right, that could have been really interesting. Especially if the movie had played it exactly the same as it is now, straight, with no hints or foreshadowing, and save that as a complete reveal in the last 20 minutes. Maybe Morpheus finds the bodies while he's looking for the problem that's about to destroy the ship. Jennifer could have been woken up 10 or maybe even 15 years after Chris and he might not have aged enough for us to notice.
Even just making her the only girl, but not letting the audience in on it, would have made it better. They could let the romance grow, and everyone is rooting for it, then it's revealed not just to Aurora, but also the audience, that he deliberately woke her. It makes it infinitely more creepy and changes the character focus from what is essentially the villain, in attempt to make him sympathetic, and rightly puts the POV with the victim. Now she's isolated on a ship with someone who's been lying and manipulating her and the plot tension would properly match that. Instead we got a film that doesn't properly address Stockholm syndrome in favor for a 'save the world' plot. The movie undermines what made the whole idea appealing in the first place.
53rdcards that sounds amazing. I would have loved that twist.
+Steven Puckitt ~ Well since it wasn't "Stockholm Syndrome" the way feminists would like you to believe, there was no need to address anything. While there are indeed genuine cases of SS (like western women embracing ISIS), the armchair diagnosis is thrown around way too much, it treats women as weak-willed and takes away their personal agency. Way to go, feminism! /s
duuuuude
I still remember being in the theater at the end of The Mist thinking "welp....guess I'll go kill myself 😐"
StephenRahrig that ending just is embedded in my mind's eye.
I am NEVER gonna watch that movie.
The Mist ending was indeed horrible. So-called "artists" that exploit the suffering of children for entertainment are scum, pure and simple. It's so cheap and easy and juvenile. The ending ruined an otherwise enjoyable B movie.
He run out of bullets
exploiting the suffering of children for entertainment? He didn't *really* shoot that kid, you know that right?
Arlington Road is probably one of the most disturbing ending I have seen in a Hollywood production. Lovely Bones too.
Here's another shocker,Titanic didn't end with Jack's death.
Passengers was one of my favorite movies. A real shame people didn't like it.
Keplergamer I liked Passengers. I didn't see his actions as murder, per se. So I found Chris Pratt to be a more sympathetic character. They did a pretty decent job of showing him going slightly crazy before he resorts to the course of action he ultimately takes. They also do a nice job with the 'drowning' metaphor which I believe is the actual reason that she forgives him without having to kill him to understand how she would feel on his place.
They could still do a sequel; just say it was a sister-ship but this time have a female passenger wake up first. Then we would see the dilemma from the opposite perspective. The REAL difference would be to leave out the "ship might explode ex-machina" to see how long it would take before they either fell in love or murdered each other.
I just hated it. Because it is a romantic-comedy-scifi thingy, which doesn't mesh well with me. And if you're wondering why I watched it I was forced to. Eh, atleast the acting was nice. And Morpheus.
@@deborahhanna6640 I liked it too and you stated the reasons very well :)
I actually really liked passengers, but there is better. Still better than that terrible 2016 ghostbusters remake. If it weren't for Chris Hemsworth, I would've skipped that movie.
Favorite?! Really?! I thought it was garbage, but I could understand if you said you LIKED it. But favorite?!
That scene with Jack & Rose is not the "ending".
Jack Thompson yes it is. For them
No, the actual ending is even worse
I think "Passengers" might be interesting if it explored that pod they found in the end that allowed one person to hibernate. I think they could have had a child together and let that child sleep in the pod
The only catch would be they couldn't use the Autodoc once there's a kid, teen, or adult in it.
"I resisted the idea of being a replicant, as a replicant would." Sounds to me like Ford did not disagree with Scott's take on things, merely he presented the character as not being a replicant, which is exactly how a replicant would act.
In the book, Decker was human and was married. He was having a breakdown of sorts and his wife was trying to help him from going off the deep end.
re: Passengers
To be honest, at the end I was half expecting to see Jim and Aurora's offspring manning the ship waiting for the rest of the crew to wake from hibernation, going "Boy, do we have a story for you!"
Passengers is one of my favourite movies for the sole reason that it didn't go the traditional route and involved evaluating your own psychology and making you wonder what you would've done if you were in the same situation. That movie had me thinking about that question for the next week after seeing it in theatres!
the plot of Passengers was misunderstood.
While, yes, Jim did wake her up, but he did it under duress, with absolute desperation. There's no saying what any one of us would have done in the same position. And Aurora fell in love with him again, after she forgave him, because she understood why he did it.
I went and saw Passengers in the theaters six times before I came on video. I even wrote a fan fiction novelization of it online
Life of Brian WTF. The ending is universally ADORED. #1 requested song to be played at funeral in UK. The whole movie has a smear campaign by nut jobs but the ending was hardly the main issue for those tiny few religious protesters. Ugh.
The very fact that the Roman Catholic church "condemned" it makes it all the more worth watching, and funny.
They really should have had a trigger warning for the Latin lesson though, it gave me high school flashbacks.
I will forever be traumitized by the ending of The Mist. That shit is so fucked up, if he had waited just a few more minutes...
And so think/say we all... One of those "Crap. Crap! CRAP!!!" moments
I was very upset when I watched the movie "My Sister's Keeper", and the director CHANGED the ending and someone else dies instead of the person in the book. That was a TOTAL change of what the author intended!!!
With passengers I always say to people who hate it, what would you do in Jim’s place? Aurora never saw what Jim did from his perspective and why until the moment that she might have been left in the position that he was if he died. Just those fleeting moments of realisation of loneliness that Aurora faced when Jim was technically dead made her realise that she might well have done the same and was able to come to terms with what he had done to her! Plus what everyone forgets is that when they got Gus’s ID and security bracelet Jim could put Aurora back in to stasis in the autodoc, she didn’t have to die on the ship. All those feelings Aurora had for Jim returned and the hate disappeared.
The one thing everyone misses in the Passenger is that if he had not woken someone, everyone would have died. It took two people to correct the issue with the ship and if not for his initial self serving act everyone would have perished in transit. According to Spock "the good of the many out weigh the good of the one"
I saw Passengers the other night and I really liked it. Chris Pratt's move was kind of dickish but ultimately all 5000 people on the ship would have died if he hadn't have done it.
He did not know he was going to need a second person to pull that off when he fucked up her life. And even if he had known he would need help, if he was really anything other than a selfish creep, he would have picked a crew member or someone more technically skilled. The asshole picked the attractive blonde... and he did not do that to save the ship. I thought the movie was quite good, fun and visually stunning, but the ending was... disgusting.
how was it disgusting lol, what they suppost to do, commit suicide? lol
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Did you miss the part where all of the crew were sealed away by an impenetrable door that the main character spent a good chunk of time trying to get through as one of his first acts?
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Jeremy When I first saw the previews, I was excited to see this film. Then, I realized that he purposefully woke her up and that pissed me off. I still don't know why people would be upset for her falling in love with him though. What else was she going to do? Lol.
That being said, you make me feel like I should give this movie a shot.
So, the moral to this story is, Sharing Your Opinion Online CAN Make a Difference!!
Well played, Internet. Well played.
The end of The Mist made me feel dead inside
I have always preferred the novella ending. It's bleak yet slightly hopeful.
I just can't believe some people have finished watching SnowPiercer...
Uhh what?
Awful movie.
its awesome though
yeah it was just a freak show
I recommended The Mist to my youngest sister because she wanted to watch movie with shocking twist ending. 2 hours later she stormed to my room, her eyes were bawling with tears, and she punched me several time while saying, "Never do that again to me! Don't you ever recommend a movie with that kind of ending to me! Ever! How dare you making me ugly cry like this!" Well Sis, you asked for it 😂
I love that ending, really didn't expect it. Makes me think twice about shooting the people around me next time, i'll take the chance of them being eaten alive lol. That movie was so good in showing the worst of people despite even having a common enemy.
@@humanshieldz it's just like people who are stuck on a raft, and want to kill themselves or each other, but then the next day, a sailing ship spots them.
Passengers was a story that was fundamentally centred on one very controversial moral dilemma. So controversial, in fact, that all other aspects of the movie and even the conclusions the movie draws about this moral dilemma were completely overshadowed by the offence - yes, OFFENCE - of supposedly mature, adult film critics. If the actions of Chris Pratt's character in this movie were truly so reprehensible as they were made out to be, I would have hoped for a public condemnation of all serious dramatic films to ever exist due to their depiction of murder, rape, sexual assault, racism, classism, oppression, crime, war and violence. But of course that won't happen, because the critics who legitimately found fault with Passengers because of the actions of a character in the film they happened to disagree with are not intellectually capable of understanding context or nuance.
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt were great in their roles. All of their actions were understandable and justifiable. It takes a serious inability to put oneself in another's shoes to think otherwise. I would ask everyone who criticised Chris' character's decision to awaken Aurora to isolate themselves from all other human contact for 1 month, let alone 1 year, and see how their mental health copes. Humans are a social species and almost all of us require regular interaction with other people to remain psychologically healthy. Had Jim not woken up Aurora, he eventually would have killed himself, which would have been after more than a year of isolation, a length of time extremely impressive and a testament to his willpower in holding off his urges for a greater moral purpose. Not only that, if he had died then, everyone on board the ship would have died - not just Aurora.
People also complain about Aurora suddenly bursting into Jim's room in a violent meltdown. I think the way in which that was depicted held very true, considering the reality of sudden psychological depletion when forced into isolation and captivity, and the intense anger one would harbour against someone who gave them a death sentence - to be carried out completely alone with no greater meaning ever being able to be achieved.
Despite this, Aurora is very firmly placed in Jim's earlier position when she fears he has died trying to fix the ship. In that moment she foresees what a life alone on the ship would be like, and realises that what she feels in that moment is what Jim had felt for a YEAR. Because of this, she forgives him, and her earlier love for him re-emerges.
Critics and audience who missed this and dislike the movie because of it are very superficial.
This is probably the best summary of the thesis of the movie in a few paragraphs. Movie critics be damned, but this was a good movie to examine how we all might act if put in Jim's position.
Actually I think the whole plot is wrong. They should have woke up at the same time. The story of beeing strandet in a space ship is IMO story enough. I don't need the moral drama. The film did need more aliens and other mystery stuff. The trailer WAS toally misleading and it promised a much better movie.
Ruben I completely agree with you
If the movie is really about his choice as you say, then she choice needs to be just as interesting and drawn out and it isn't. It's a pat answer. Also, if it's about his choice then why do we need an action adventure ending?
The movie is deeply flawed. It's not terrible, but it's not a good movie and she's there just as a plot device for his choice, not as a fully fleshed out character.
Finally someone who understood the movie. I dont get why ppl judged Jim so hard, I believe they just dont want to put in his situation. Also, both critics and audience have to admit that the situation presented in the movie is the luckiest posibility out of all. Without Jim and Aurora awake, they would have all died, and also, it turns out that Jim and Aurora had a wonderful and long life together. I really liked the plot and the concept and I'm disappointed that so many people didnt got the idea. This movie is about how humans react when they have to make capital decisions in their lifes (I loved that in the end they let Aurora the posibility to go back to hibernation, so in this way Jim's initial decision to wake her up can be changed, but she decides to go for love, following the advice recieved from her friends from Earth)
The ending of Life Of Brian wasn't the bit that was controversial though was it.
Chris Norman what was? I've never watched it
The most controversial part of it was the implication that Jesus was just another street prophet who was taken more seriously than others and that his status as son of God was a rationalization by the masses looking for something to believe. It was saying religion was a mass psychosis rather than true belief.
What's controversial about that? Makes perfect sense.
That's what religions generally despise the most - when non-divine things make perfect sense. Scariest thing for a church, really.
Imagine if people in the church would see that things with god make zero sense while things without god make perfect sense - how would the church justify its existence?
Religion (whatever) having no sense of humor doesn't mean God (whatever) doesn't have one. All Monty Python movies are just great; I guess it would look weird to some people if you saw just the one.
Ending should have been save the ship, Aurora never forgive Jim, kills him, gets lonely, awakes another passenger, that passenger kills her for awakening her, then that passenger gets lonely and awakens another passenger and the pattern gets repeating itself
I'm so glad you mentioned the grey!
"The Passengers" went deep into Chris Pratt's doubts and guilt about condemning Jennifer's charactor to live out a sole existence with just him...I thought it was a actually pretty darn good story line for a movie that wasn't your average space adventure movie...
The mist ending though.....😓😔
The fan edits where the Passengers movie starts with Aurora waking up and then Jim's story is interspersed into what would have been Act 2 was a thing of beauty, and would have had people going back to see the movie over & over to piece together the whole story. A simple editing change could have made that movie a billion $$$.
By FAR the most controversial scene I have ever witnessed in a theater is the baby scene in Mother. Holy poop! I have never seen so many people express anger and immediately walk out of a theater before.
Listening to critics will get you to miss out on a lot of good movies. I loved Passengers and she didn't fall in love after she found out what he did. She fell in love before she found out. When she found out, she hated him for years. Ignored him, beat him up. She reluctantly worked with him to save the ship. I think the ending was fine because you can't just turn off love like that.
Arizona Roadcam It would have been more romantic and less creepy if they just had both of their pods malfunction simultaneously instead of him waking her up on purpose so he wouldn't have to be alone for 90 years. Hollywood essentially forced us to see an obsessed hermit as the hero, and that movie is the epitome of misery loves company.
People want their heroes and villains to be all good and all evil. The reality is that people are too complex to be so polarized. Life, fate, destiny, whatever... makes good people act badly and bad people do good things, sometimes for the wrong reason.
He "sentences her to death" but redeems himself while trying to save the rest of the passengers. She realizes that she might be required to live alone (facing the same bleak existence which drove him to "kill" her) so she saves him rather than face 90 years alone.
I love the juxtaposition.
The movie was so bad that they had to trick us into watching this movie in the previews.
what the guy did was just wrong in all ways
it wasnt years dude it was like a month or two
$300 million worldwide gross against a $110 million dollar budget is not a flop. By any means.
Hollywood films don't have to be good (which Passengers was) they just have to make money, a lot of it.
There are other costs on top of that budget that us regular folk don't know about which factor in. Things such as marketing costs, overhead, home video production, residuals, etc. Each expense can cost 50 million a piece (give or take). Do the math and profits for making the film will sink into the negatives.
I'm sure it ended in the black (more likely than not) given international and DVD sales...But overall they were probably expecting a much huger return...If they made $20 million in the end however? I'm not crying for them, and neither should anyone else
I believe the Hollywood math is more than 3x the budget to be successful.
Loved the movie recaps, I small piece of information missing in regards to The Grey. There is an after credit scene of the Alpha wolf badly injured and dying; while there is no scene of Neeson getting away it does allow you to believe the ending you want.
I saw all these films and loved all the endings. Good video.
I really enjoyed Passengers. They acted perfectly and the story was nice too. I didn't know it was a flop.. Sad..
watchmen movie ending > novel ending
Evil Nick I agree for the movie not for the comic
Zach Snider is a hack though... so... yeah
I thought passengers was great....it had a timeless moral to it....pratt gave lawrence a choice...to be put back into deep sleep so she could finish the trip to a new planetary home or to stay awake with him feeling she already has found the happiness she seeks...it was a gamble for her.
Dark Knight Rises ending is real. Alfred had told Bruce what he'd dreamed about. So Bruce simply arranged for that dream to come true.
Exactly, and they foreshadowed it by having Morgan Freeman mention he'd fixed the function to fly the ship remotely - and recreating Alfred's dream was a nod from Bruce to Alfred :)
I actually enjoyed Passengers. The so-called misleading previews was a good thing. I preferred the story they gave us.
In the original screenplay, all of the passengers end up being woken near the end, and the ship lands on the new planet with generations of people on board. It's something I missed in the film.
If he hadn't woken her up, everyone on the ship would have died. It's not kidnapping if she foregone the option of going back into cryosleep, which she did have that option. This review reflects that the story must have been misunderstood. I really enjoyed the movie as a very well acted good story. Didn't realize there was upset. Two thumb down on this video.
I liked Passengers. If they had both woken together, it would have been far more sugary - the film was a steak with all the trimmings, not a gateau...
I also really enjoyed Passengers. they can say what they want but it was different.
How very strange - comments on youtube agreeing with each other (a statement that's going to lead to someone disagreeing just to be difficult). For my penny's worth, I also though it was very good when I saw it by chance at the cinema, so much so that's it's one of the few Blu-rays I got on initial release.
I understand the part about Titanic and why the decision was made for Jack to die and not let him live. We remember that Titanic is movie based on a real life tragedy. The characters of Jack and Rose were created with the intent to convey and spread this message of tragedy.
It is *not* easy when you make a movie about an enormous tragedy where over 1500 people died in the freezing water of the Atlantic Ocean and striking a balance to be inspirational without diminishing the loss of life. This is the exact reason why the decision was made for Jack to die and Rose to live. It's all in the main theme song too with My Heart Will Go On.
Of course the decision could have easily been made to let Jack live, see the two of them arrive in New York Harbour and see them begin their new lives, but it would not have done any justice to the tragedy of the Titanic at all, which was the most important message James Cameron wanted to spread.
Ohhh very very good point!!
Why are you the only person pointing this out???....this only proves humans are really dumb and don’t pay attention to shit.
dvchel they made jack die because he always said ‘live today like its your last’ thats really the only reason the director said it
Still, the emotion in the ending really died for me since i now know that jack could've lived and that his sacrifice could've been avoided
The controversial end of Titanic, the ship sank!
There was definitely an after credits scene for The Grey that showed the results of the fight, but I also really liked how it cut away from the fight at that moment at the end!
In Titanic they obviously wanted Jack to die, so they didn't give a sh*t about figuring out what Rose could have done to save him.
I saw Titanic once. If she had just gotten on the boat to start with, he would have survived and they could have met up again in New York.
There’s no prof that he would have survived. Also Cal would not have just let her go.
I say use CGI and make another ending with Jack finding his own door to lay on next to her.
moviegoers should follow their hearts not these critics
Really good background music.
Thank you.
"A Clockwork Orange" with it's wonderfully cynical "I was cured alright" should be near, if not at, the top of this list.
The Passengers were a great film that was centered on a such hard dilemma. It seems critics didn't saw that. She had two choices: Live the rest of her life hating him or say fuck it. I'll be happy. Yes, what he did was wrong. He knew that. He saw that. And he felt that. But she found a way to forgive him.
GidDragon It would have been more romantic and less creepy if they just had both of their pods malfunction simultaneously instead of him waking her up on purpose so he wouldn't have to be alone for 90 years. Hollywood essentially forced us to see an obsessed hermit as the hero, and that movie is the epitome of misery loves company.
There was no need for a cliche action sequence with the ship malfunctioning for that to happen though, it cheapened the whole plot
GidDragon It was a great film
it was basically a recycled love boat plot, perfect for the hallmark channel.
It was just a sci-fi adaptation of Sleeping Beauty. They even kept her name as Aurora...
As someone who only ever watches movie online (Netflix, Amazon etc) I had no idea Passengers was a flop at the movies, which I find really surprising as it was a great movie, incredibly well acted and written, and to hear the movie critics completely missed the whole point that if Jim hadden't awakened Aurora, she and everybody else on the ship would have died, so in fact he hadn't imprisoned her, he had saved her, and to top it all off he even found a way to use the auto-doc pod to place her back into hibernation, but she chose to stay with the man who saver her and everybody else's life, just confirms what I've always suspected about critics, they aren't anywhere near as clever as they think they are :)
Still not sure why Michael Sheen dobbed him in though.
@@casinodelonge Because at the bar Aurora said "Besides there are no secrets between me and Jim." To which Arthur looked at Jim who had told him never to tell Aurora he had woken her up, and asked Jim "Is that so?" to which Jim said "You heard the lady." Thus informing Arthur's AI that there were no longer ANY restricted information from Aurora. And that's the problem with dealing with AI's, they just don't understand the human necessity for deception in harmonious relationships eg "No darling that dress doesn't make your bum look big." ;)
“The grey” if I remember correctly you watched pass the credits you hear breathing or panting. From human or wolf? 😄 the mid shocked me the first time I watched it I think I cried.
That part was repeating what happened in the beginning of the movie when he killed the wolf. So it was saying the character lived. I don't think the narrator knew what he was talking about.
@@starmangreg no, it's strongly implied the character dies, but it's not repeating anything that means he lived. that's the whole point of the film
What about Remember Me? That ending was tasteless as hell
for Passengers I think after they fixed the ship, Aurora and Jim would have came to the conclusion that they would have both been dead had Jim not woken her up. The final conflict called for 2 people to fix the ship as it couldn't have been done with only one person. so that kind of makes up for what Jim did
If somone kidnaps you and makes you live on the woods for years, and then you find out in your city there was a huge earthquake that killed everyone, would you then love your kidnapper?
Grman Rodriguez Umm. Not sure holding someone against their will compares
Grman Rodriguez If you remember, Jim gives Aurora the opportunity to go back to sleep, and she refuses. That means she is no longer a victim of kidnapping or murdering. Jim is now free of such crimes.
Chibi Lychee That's not how it works
Jim tried to rectify what he did to Aurora, and she turned it down. That means she accepted dying earlier than expected when she could have easily chose not to. By choosing not to go back to sleep, she basically forgave Jim and choose to live the life/fate Jim gave her. She is no longer a victim.
With "The Grey" you had to wait until after the credits rolled to see that there was a chance the hero survived. I guess Looper didn't bother.
I really liked this. I've been looking for it for a while now.
The critics are wrong about Passengers. That's all I'm saying.
April Morris It would have been more romantic and less creepy if they just had both of their pods malfunction simultaneously instead of him waking her up on purpose so he wouldn't have to be alone for 90 years. Hollywood essentially forced us to see an obsessed hermit as the hero, and that movie is the epitome of misery loves company.
40 XDDD I guess I understood his desperation better than some. I know that I could not survive alone even as long as he did. And I also understood how much he agonized over that choice. And how she finally understood when she almost died herself! So I disagree with you.
Agreed.
The previews had to trick us into watching this movie. That's how bad it is.
If he not woken her, not that it was a good thing, everyone would have died. The ship was malfunctioning and he fixed it only with her help.
Well seems that in Passengers the audience which kept away from the theatres didn´t really get it. The woman hates him for having woken her up first. But then it just so happens that they are rescuing the whole ship while he is willing to sacrifice himself for the lifes of all passengers and crew. After he is brought back to life by her he even offers her a way to go back to hyper-sleep. Only then she makes the decision to spend her life with him. If it wasn´t for him all would have died. What is wrong with that idea? One of the best space movies in a long time. Except for Prometheus and Alien Covenant of course.
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I agree with your Passengers review/opinion, but did you just say that Prometheus and Alien Covenant were good??? In NO way, not in a world with common sense and survivalist instincts. I am an Alien fan, btw, and a huge horror fan. The only saving grace for Prometheus was the ending, and AC was just plain horrible and painful to watch. I was actually really shocked with Rotten Tomatoes on that one because I'd have given it less than 30% at most. I was literally face palming so hard I had to walk out before I yelled at the screen, haha.
Machete Desperados I really like Prometheus AND Alien Covenant...I guess I could just be happy for any addition whatsoever to the Alien Universe, they'd have to f*** it up royally for me to dislike it...Prometheus was def better than Covenant, but I still enjoyed both and have watched both about 27 times apiece
Prometheus was genius
The odd thing is that I had heard people didn’t like the movie, there was some controversy etc. before I saw it, but I watched it and I kept thinking that things would end horribly, but I actually really enjoyed the movie and liked the ending. I get why people would initially be upset that Jim woke Aurora up, just as she was angry and devastated by what he did, but when she thinks that he is going to die, she literally says she can’t live without him and seems to understand in that moment why he woke her up. Also, if people think he woke her just because she’s a pretty face, that wasn’t the reason either. After almost killing himself, he sees her and is drawn in but then he looks into her bio, watches videos of her, reads her books and it is after all of that, while still agonizing over his choice, Jim wakes her up. I think most rational people would give him a break if they put themselves in his shoes, especially after realizing that he has exhausted all other options, and has been alone for over a year, so what would you do in his shoes?
I absolutely loved Passengers. The point of her falling in love is that she already had before findin out the truth and well, forgiveness is a real thing. She had very strong feelings for him and knew had the journey gone smoothly, they likely would never have met as she wasn't staying, she was meant to fly back to Earth to sell her story and become a published author, the first to essentially travel through time given that everyone she knew on Earth would be long gone when she returned. Jeez, I'm not a soppy git at all so if I can get it....
In the end credit of grey he did survive
@Rob T after the end credits there's a scene you should see
It's unconfirmed, it could still be the wolf breathing plus he probably bled out
The thing with the grey is the wolf howls are grammatically wrong...
At bit like having people replicating Chinese by making offensive racial stereotype noises
Isn't it weird that in a world where so many women are cheated on or domestically abused and still forgive their spouses, movie goers AND critics find it so incomprehensible that Jennifer Lawrence's character could forgive Chris Pratt's character?
Pavel Drotár YEP!
Pavel Drotár I had literally NO problem with the movie. I just hated the "the ship's going to blow up right now" part JUST as Laurence Fishburne wakes up.
Well....I suppose the deep, psychological answer to that, coming from a woman's perspective, is that we hate the fact that we allow our emotions to lead us back again and again to people we keep hoping will love us each time instead of putting our foot down and saying no, love is not about mental or physical abuse. We hate it so much that when we see it in a movie we want to see a role model; someone who does stand up and say no, this is wrong and what you did to me is wrong.
There's a reason why every single country on earth, (except the U.S.) consider solitary confinement torture. It will without fail drive literally every single human that ever lived irrevocably insane. I don't believe every issue is morally gray, but not everyone would commit suicide rather than consider the option he chose.
I see where you're coming from but I think they recognise that they were stuck with each other until they die so yeah.
And it was a movie chuck all logic out the window
I quite liked Passengers and its ending. I guess I'm just a sucker for schmaltz.
Ian Meadows is right. By putting Pratt's character in the foreground we're expected to empathize with him even though what he did was very wrong. So it's already assuming that either our moral compasses are very broken or that we're gonna fall for his shtick at some point during the show and ignore the fact that what he did was super rapey. However if we see things through her eyes not only do we get a better story in general, we are left to explore his character on our own, instead of having this pressure to empathize with him, we are given that option but not forced into it and can then come to terms on our own. If the ending was a bit more ambiguous it would've been better. Like if the audience could decide if/when he was redeemed and not be force-fed this insulting cliche 'love conquers all' type romantic ending. Edit: Also I remember reading that exact suggestion elsewhere, ages ago, in a different analysis of the film. you might want to credit your sources.
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The premise is painfully dumb. Ship cannot repair itself, does not wake the crew up, no ability to put people/crew members back to sleep after fixing the ship if need be. The ENTIRE human society cannot comprehend a possibility of a pod failure which is reflected in ship's AI being unable to answer simple questions.
LOL
I love/hate the movie cuz it had sooo much potential that got wasted.
It examines the moral dilemmas of the 2 main characters and to a lesser degree of the engineer who must choose duty over making judgements.
The plot demonstrates that had Jim not awakened Aurora, the entire ship would have been lost. Jim further redeems himself by offering to put Aurora in the Auto-doc pod, which would both save her and condemn him to again live alone.
The ship's computer was damaged by the meteor strike, which would explain the delay in waking Engineer Gus Mancuso. Seriously, though, what are the odds that Gus being awakened is an accident?
The shipping company knew that pod failures sometimes occur and mutinies are possible, which explains why the crew area is hardened against intrusion and why it is necessary to travel in an elevator to get from the pod areas to the main hull.
Since no human passenger and only crew members had ever returned from a trip, the fact of occasional pod failures would have been hidden by the shipping company. Propaganda and effective 'gas-lighting' would make a pod failure seem as improbable as being struck by lightning. Think about it for a moment. You are far more likely to be struck by lightning than to win the Mega Millions lottery, but people still play the lottery and ignore lightning storms.
I think I'm the only one who liked the original Blade Runner release best (including the narration parts).
People always talk about the door in titanic. The first thing I thought when I left the cinema was, if rose wouldn't have jumped out of the life boat to be with jack he would have had the door all by himself. Strange people never see that option.
I never understood the hate for Passengers. It is true the movie was nothing like what the trailers implied, but it was still pretty good. And J Law was goddess like beautiful in that movie.
Her bullshit about getting paid the same when she was much less in the movie and was clearly not the main character was just that, bullshit, though.
@3D, actually no. Her tirade that did it was her making a big public announcement that she didn't want anyone who had voted for our current President to go to any movie of hers. Not only were Republicans happy to accommodate her, but many people who were/are tired of Hollywood's political soapbox, and then even more people when she made insane remarks claiming he had actually caused the hurricanes.
That would be an entirely different load of bullshit she peddled; people can be dumb enough to shovel out multiple loads.
Batman's ending was good for it's setting. It matching Alfred's dream for Bruce was just Bruce giving Alfred the hope he wanted. It was perfect for them both. :) The 3rd movie still needed work though :p
Passengers needed work, but he never murdered her. He woke her up. She'll live a life she may not have seen coming, but that's just called life. :p And kidnap? She's on the same ship she willingly went on. What he did, was wake her up when she shouldn't have. Dick move maybe, but not kidnap or murder. :p
The version of passengers I saw had Aurora go back to sleep in some medical pod, so there's that too.
Furthermore, if he didn't wake her up, the ship would have been doomed - fixing the problems required their cooperation.
Pavel Drotár OMG! thank you for catching on to that! i been thinking the same thing. It would have been almost impossible for him to fix the ship himself.
Brand X
Maybe not murder but is kidnapping. She went into the ship to travel to another planet, not to be stranded all her life in it with a random guy she didnt knew and that condemed her to that life without asking... That or to be alone just like he was as much time as she could resist.
But yes, the script needed work, i didnt "hate" the ending, i was just like "whaaaaat???????" I think the ending could be better, not that "alright, i love you now, lets spend all our lifes in the ship... The end"
Actually, i remember i guy who said that if they were spare parts for anything they could build another (a second) medical pod, hibernate both and awake with everyone else. Then, in the new planet they could try to pursue the relantionship to find if it was true love
He woke her up early. She's still where she put herself. That's not kidnapping.
What he did was a dick move. That's all.
As for the ending, I didn't have a problem with it. The movie at that point was fine. The problem was somewhere in the middle (I believe, right after she finds out) that the movie just felt like it was dragging.
The suggestion I've seen, that to start the movie after he woke her up and then see his waking up in flashbacks, may have gotten rid of the boring middle part, I don't know, but the ending itself, I was okay with.
What’s truly sad about the ending of Titanic is not that Jack died but that when Rose did she went back to him in the “after-life”...the guy she knew for like 3 days...and not to the family she had after she arrived to America. Bit of a slap in the face to them....
she an old grandma, she had dementia, probably thought it was the bath tub
Exactly why I never cared for this movie...
On Passengers he left out that everyone would have died if Jim hadn’t woken Aurora. They saved the ship.