Posted by Jonathan Klotz | Published
You can't escape Chris Pratt. You can try, but wherever you go, there's a Chris Pratt movie waiting for you. The case can be made that the hatred of the internet Guardians of the Galaxy/Super Mario Bros/Jurassic World/Garfield/The Lego Movie the star is overcrowded. People who argue that they have never seen his 2016 sci-fi film, Passengers and Jennifer Lawrence. For some reason, the film is now in the Netflix Top Ten, where I hope more people will understand that it is a horror film from the perspective of a monster.
Passengers is a horror movie
The opening of the Passengers has a big hook: Chris Pratt plays Jim, an engineer aboard a colony ship, who wakes up from a slumber 90 years early. Alone and alone, his only friend is a robotic salesman, Arthur (Michael Sheen). Watching Jim eat alone, explore the ship alone, play basketball to pass the time, is a sci-fi game Get rid of it. Until he stumbles across a pod containing Jennifer Lawrence's Aurora (that's another name for Sleeping Beauty, as subtle as the movie gets).
Jim begins to enter the passenger compartment and becomes obsessed with Aurora until he opens his pod and wakes her up. We have to raise them both as they fall in love, save the ship, and embrace life together. This is where it is Passengers miscalculates: Jim condemned the woman to die with him. She has no choice but to fall in love with him as well, they are alone on the ship, and you know, what is said.
If Passengers had taken Aurora's point of view instead of Jim's, it would have been a different horror movie. We will slowly see if he breaks his pod. The realization that you are trapped. There are so many possible stories in that angle, it's only a matter of time until someone makes it happen.
Jennifer Lawrence Regrets Playing Passengers
When it starts, Passengers was a hit, grossing $300 million during its run and every time it appeared on the streaming service it was in the top ten. The catch is, it's usually the first time viewers. They see Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence and they get curious, aroused, and then, as Aurora should be, the fear slowly sets in.
Passengers it benefited from one of the most misleading trailers of all time, which left out the truth of the situation. Instead, it looked like a high-octane space survival thriller. That's not the case. It's a horror film disguised as a slow-burning sci-fi romantic drama. Over time, Jennifer Lawrence came to terms with the need for the film to move away from Aurora's vision, to the point of openly regretting casting the film in the first place.
If you want to experience a train wreck, Passengers it's on Netflix right now. Meanwhile, Chris Pratt has only starred in two films so far in 2026: Mercy again Super Mario Bros. Galaxybut don't worry, there's a third one on the way: The Way of the Child Heroand in 2027, Garfield 2. And a little movie you may have heard of, Avengers Doomsday. You can't escape Chris Pratt.
