When this movie was released, there was a lot of chatter about “The Twist”. This was described to me as the movie not really being what the trailer showed it to be. I finally watched it last night, and it seemed to me that it was EXACTLY as the trailer made it out. A man and woman alone on a ship, awakened 90 years too early, ship has trouble, they fix it, love story, the end.
Did I miss something? Good movie, IMHO.
You missed the part where Chris Pratt was awakened accidently, but then coldly decided to wake up Jennifer Lawrence so he could bang her, and told her it was an accident too.
Yeah, the trailer made it seem like there was some mystery as to why they were woken up. I was actually surprised by how it happened when I watched it.
But is that really a “twist”? I think it’s more like “plot”.
That’s a rather crass take on the plot.
Dude was living in total isolation for an entire year prior to waking up the girl. Hell, in real life, most people lose their shit just after a month. He didn’t wake her up just so he could have a fuck toy. He was obviously lonely, and wanted companionship.
Does any of that excuse what he did? Of course not.
I purposely put it as bluntly as possible to counterpoint what the OP missed and his description of it as a “love story”. He woke her on purpose, but led her to believe she was awakened by accident as well.
And companionship or not - if the person you pick out of 5,000 to wake up looks like Jennifer Lawrence, you can’t claim banging wasn’t somewhere on your mind.
The movie frames an interesting moral dilemma, but i don’t think it contains a “plot twist.” The woman didn’t know why she was awake, but the audience does. Then she finds out, which was also not a surprise. She gets angry (not a surprise) and eventually forgives him (not a surprise).
Yeah, that was the way I took it.
And the guy was going insane. Clearly he wanted to have a female companion, but he did his best to not do it in the first place, and then let her decide on her own time whether to go in that direction. He was clearly wrong, and admitted to it. I’m sure for the rest of their lives he apologized repeatedly.
Not exactly the “Rape” that I saw it described as on other sites.
On a side note, two people eating all of the food and using the resources for 50 years would have probably put a decent dent in the stores for the remaining passengers/crew.
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Isn’t this pretty much the case with any relationship?
Also, both characters were pretty hot in terms of physical attractiveness.
And to clarify, a “Twist”, IMHO, would have been that this was all an experiment to see how humans would exist for such a long time alone or somesuch. I really thought it was going to go that way when the Captain appeared. Thankfully, it did not.
Perhaps the twist is that by waking up Lawrence, which seemed selfish, he also ended up saving the ship and thousands of lives, one of whom, was of course Lawrence herself. Not only did his actions save her, but she was really a sort of lost soul anyway. Her friends knew this about her, and as she was leaving her life, her friends, and her planet behind, they advised her that when she found her true love, not to reject it and flee from it. Reject it she did, but Pratt’s heroism gave her another chance and finally she found true happiness and fulfillment without needing to constantly flee it.
Well, no. I have lots of relationships where I don’t think about banging the other person. I’d say it’s the case with any potential romantic relationship, but you said he was just seeking companionship.
And are you saying it would have been more creepy if Steve Buscemi pulled the same thing on Jennifer Lawrence, but since she could reasonably be expected to find Chris Pratt hot, it’s less so?
Over time, I would probably find Lena Dunham attractive had she woken me up and there was nobody else around.
Who am I kidding? I would kick Lena out of the hatch, and wake up Jennifer.
I think it is implied I was speaking to romantic relationships.
And yes, it is creepy, regardless of “hotness”.
But yeah, someone who looks like Pratt getting someone who looks like Jenifer is probably par for the course.
So from his perspective, it’s not like he was thinking: “Oh wow, I could never get a girl who looks like this in real life. I’ll wake her up.”
He became smitten with her only after watching her video logs. Her physical attractiveness was not a major factor in my opinion.
Steve Buscemi on the other hand…
I’d call it less a “twist” (a late-in-the-game inversion of expectations) than a “bait-and-switch” (the intentional omission of information when marketing the premise of the movie to make it sound less gross).