re: Why does Passengers get so much hate?

if you glossed over the absurdity of all the fluff they added to the movie, the moral dilemma presented in the movie was quite interesting

but they had to completely frick it up with the ship slowly "dying", the convenience of the engineer waking up and dying at the right time, the utter absurdity of the end with Pratt living, etc

it's cool to hate

I thought it was not as good as it could have been but much better than the reaction it got.

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There was no chance J-Law was going to stay mad at him and there was zero chance she'd never find out what Chris Pratt did.

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I agree, but there was never an explanation of why the robot bartender told her?

I was hoping for a twist at the end, that it was some type of social experiment the company was doing or something cheesy like a reality show.

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. Out of all technological advancements on that ship and the builders never thought that might happen once?
It's pretty consistent with the confidence/arrogance of engineers. There are a lot of "brilliant" people who have no interest in fail-safes or backup plans.

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Yep. Think re-telling of the Titanic.

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I agree, but there was never an explanation of why the robot bartender told her?

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Jim told the barkeep "there are no secrets between us" before going to the bathroom.

That said, this movie sucks. Cliche after cliche after trope after tripe.

Only thing that could have saved it would have been unsimulated xxx masturbation scene for JLaw.

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I almost turned it off when I knew he was going to wake up JLaw because it was such a poor decision that I don't think he would have actually made based on his character. Even after a year of mostly isolation, I can't see him becoming selfish/crazy enough to do that.

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I don't know... complete isolation from any sentient companionship at all, no avenue of rescue (so not like being on a desert island, where there's at least the slight possibility you might be found), knowing you are going to die completely alone. You have to wait, what, 30 years to even get a response to the call you sent out to the home base. And hell, you can't even into half of the ship, and you can't eat decent meals when you can see them on the menu (you can have cheerios but no eggs, forever).

And yet, there's a thousand or more people right there in front of you. I'd say most of us wouldn't make it a full year, and the majority would be good to make it a month before they woke someone else up.

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I agree, but there was never an explanation of why the robot bartender told her?

I was hoping for a twist at the end, that it was some type of social experiment the company was doing or something cheesy like a reality show.

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He told the bartender that there were no secrets between them. So the bartender no longer had to keep the secret. Pretty basic machine logic.

I just watched it for the first time with my wife. If it had been marketed as a romantic drama with a sci-fi setting rather than a sci-fi thriller it would have gotten a better reception than it did I think. Pratt and J-Law had good chemistry, and the story was really about them. Not a perfect movie, but fun enough to watch with the mrs.