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Passengers | Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence | Dec 21, 2016 | Trailer pg 70

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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.

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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). 

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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."

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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.

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