JennaJ Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 (edited) Sony marketing. That really says it all. Have they marketed anything well this year? ETA: Some early positive twitter reactions are out from the premiere. Naturally won't mean a thing for reviews. We'll see. After waiting for almost two weeks since #Passengers, today at 3 pm I'm finally allowed to tell you that yeah, it's good. — Alexander Dunerfors (@dunerfors) December 15, 2016 Before I sleep… PASSENGERS is a beautiful, intimate love story writ large across the stars. See it on the big screen. #PassengersMovie — Merry Whitta ? (@garywhitta) December 15, 2016 So @PassengersMovie is a visually stunning ride with some great performances! #PassengersMovie — RJ Aguiar (@rj4gui4r) December 15, 2016 Edited December 15, 2016 by JennaJ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cochofles Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 6 minutes ago, Captain H said: Echoing the above sentiment, if they are really that lazy, the least they can do is make Chris and Jen stare at each other in the posters. Like, try to make it actually looks like a romantic film. They can even rip a page out of Titanic and make them hug each other with the spaceship in the background and it will be a much better poster than the one thag we get. Absolutely. Whatever the reviews end up being like, a solid marketing campaign can certainly ramp up interest in a film, especially when you realize that, no matter how big the stars of a film, audiences need to have a compelling reason to spend money and time inside a theatre (a reason that goes beyond a mere So-and-So is in the film). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misafeco Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 So review embargo lifts in a few hours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezme Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 2 minutes ago, misafeco said: So review embargo lifts in a few hours? less then 3 hours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennaJ Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 1 minute ago, ezme said: less then 3 hours Anyone wants to guess the RT score before we start getting reviews? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezme Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 (edited) 3 minutes ago, JennaJ said: Anyone wants to guess the RT score before we start getting reviews? I hope this can do better than The Ghostbusters... Edited December 15, 2016 by ezme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misafeco Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 6 minutes ago, JennaJ said: Anyone wants to guess the RT score before we start getting reviews? I'll start. 70% 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennaJ Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 54 minutes ago, misafeco said: I'll start. 70% I'll go with 66%. I just want it to be fresh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A District 3 Engineer Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I'll be happy with anything between 65-70% (and avobe 60 in MT) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertman2 Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Somewhere between 40 and 55 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misafeco Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 REVIEWS ARE IN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Variety: "begins promisingly but gets lost in space." http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/passengers-review-jennifer-lawrence-chris-pratt-1201942296/ Hollywood Reporter: "Dazzling design and star power don’t quite keep this starship afloat." http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/passengers-review-953702 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misafeco Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Forbes: positive http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2016/12/15/passengers-review-jennifer-lawrence-and-chris-pratt-shine-in-deep-space-romance/#3ebb7f803ffe Indiewire: negative http://www.indiewire.com/2016/12/passengers-review-jennifer-lawrence-chris-pratt-space-romance-1201757786/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cochofles Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/passengers-review-jennifer-lawrence-chris-pratt-1201942296/ "There’s only one place for “Passengers” to go, and once it gets there, Jon Spaihts’s script runs out of gas. Tyldun handles the dialogue almost as if he were doing a stage play, but he turns out to be a blah director of spectacle; he doesn’t make it dramatic. There’s not much to “Passengers” besides its one thin situation, and there are moments when the film could almost be “a very special episode of ‘Star Trek,'” because Pratt, with his golden-boy smirk, has a Kirkian side, and the voyage they’re on is grandiose yet amorphous (like the Enterprise’s). The ship itself has a variety of chambers and communal spaces, but it all seems overly familiar and sterile. What’s lackluster about “Passengers” isn’t just that the movie is short on surprise, but that it’s like a castaway love story set in the world’s largest, emptiest shopping mall in space." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Guardian (2/5): https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/15/passengers-review-spaceship-romcom-scuppered-chris-pratt-jennifer-lawrence The Wrap (negative): http://www.thewrap.com/passengers-review-jennifer-lawrence-chris-pratt/ Forbes (positive) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayumanggi Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Review: Jennifer Lawrence and Chris @prattprattpratt in #Passengers https://t.co/sRBLMcKQeY pic.twitter.com/FvYrRuxIPn— Variety (@Variety) December 15, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Looks like the definition of mediocre reviews. RT score will likely be in the low 40s range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misafeco Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 IGN: positive http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/12/15/passengers-review Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cochofles Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 3 minutes ago, misafeco said: Indiewire: negative http://www.indiewire.com/2016/12/passengers-review-jennifer-lawrence-chris-pratt-space-romance-1201757786/ Yet “Passengers” refuses to really wrestle with the compelling questions at its core, instead opting to lean on Lawrence and Pratt’s collective charm to keep things ticking amiably along. The problem is, this isn’t an amiable story — it’s a philosophically thorny one, and aiming to keep things light doesn’t dilute any of its issues, it just dumbs the entire outing down. “Titanic” in space? No, but it’s certainly a disaster. Ouch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misafeco Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 The Guardian: negative https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/15/passengers-review-spaceship-romcom-scuppered-chris-pratt-jennifer-lawrence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...