Passengers (mild spoilers)

[Ritterskoop]

If you go in expecting pretty people and some action, you're fine. I am old enough to prefer more story and less blowing stuff up. There is a moral dilemma but if someone doesn't make a poor choice, there is no story.

They try to have a message, delivered by a sassy android (Michael Sheen may be the best part of the movie, though Jennifer Lawrence acquits herself well enough with what she was given, which isn't much).

I was OK until about 80% in, but then the ending insults our intelligence. I got to see it free so I was not mad, just rolling my eyes. It would be OK at a dollar theater.

My solution:

Spoiler

Have dude die like he's supposed to, and then let Aurora go a year or two by herself, and leave the movie with her trying to decide whether to wake up a new boy toy.

[Bob78164]

If you go in expecting pretty people and some action, you're fine. I am old enough to prefer more story and less blowing stuff up. There is a moral dilemma but if someone doesn't make a poor choice, there is no story.

They try to have a message, delivered by a sassy android (Michael Sheen may be the best part of the movie, though Jennifer Lawrence acquits herself well enough with what she was given, which isn't much).

I was OK until about 80% in, but then the ending insults our intelligence. I got to see it free so I was not mad, just rolling my eyes. It would be OK at a dollar theater.

My solution:

Spoiler

Have dude die like he's supposed to, and then let Aurora go a year or two by herself, and leave the movie with her trying to decide whether to wake up a new boy toy.

It opened today here and I saw it. My solution:

Spoiler

Each spends one out of every three months in suspended animation, one out of every three months alone, and one out of every three months together. That would have stretched their time enough to give them a shot at seeing the new colony.

And I think I agree with you about Michael Sheen. --Bob