Engineer at the Movies: reviews... Passengers (2016)

RE: Engineer at the Movies: reviews... Passengers (2016)

KRTurk — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:42:44 GMT

The reason that Jim didn't immediately awaken another engineer was because the repeated accidents didn't start happening until after he awakened Aurora. I think the idea was that two people using the systems caused the deterioration to happen faster.

The idea that they needed special equipment to put people back to sleep and didn't carry it on board was a pretty cheap plot trick, however.

I would have changed the ending by having them put Gus in the medical stasis pod so that he could be cured in a hospital when they arrived. That would solve the problem of both the "disposable third character" and also why Aurora didn't accept the pod for herself.

But I agree, this ship was too stupid to fly. The passengers should all sock the company with a class action lawsuit for being put in such unnecessary danger.

RE: Engineer at the Movies: reviews... Passengers (2016)

johnnny — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 11:45:17 GMT

For me, the worst part is the end of this movie. They're saying there're spare parts to build basically everything on the ship from scratch all the time. So why not build a second autodoc, hibernate both of them and make a bit better ending of this story, than showing a girl with weird kind of stockholm syndrome, sacrificing her life to keep company to a guy that woke her up then!?

RE: Engineer at the Movies: reviews... Passengers (2016)

bmaggot — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:36:21 GMT

Author of this article wasn't very attentive when watching the movie so I stopped reading without reaching the middle of the text.