I have found RT to be incredibly inaccurate far too many times. This is one of them. The movie is great. I voted it a 10 on IMDB.
Rotten Tomatoes is in fact accurate - a fairly accurate overview of the opinions of major print and online critics. The fact that you or I don’t always agree with the majority of those opinions doesn’t make it any less accurate.
Whether or not it accurately predicts that you’ll enjoy a specific movie is something else. I’d argue that that’s not its job.
32% fresh means, basically, that a third of all critics liked it, and two thirds didn’t. Even if we assume that critics are an accurate cross-section of the general moviegoing public, that just means that you agreed with the third of critics that liked it, instead of with the two thirds who didn’t. That’s hardly remarkable.
Saw the movie last night, and liked it quite a bit - and I’m normally very sensitive to how women are treated in movies. I think they did address it this way: Pratt’s character was desperate and despondent from isolation, and comes close to stepping out of an airlock without a spacesuit before he accidentally spots Lawrence. He then wrestles with the temptation to wake her up for, apparently, months before he gives in to the constant and unending torment.
They might have done a better job at portraying his torment, or written it so that he held out longer for a year, but in the end I thought that his actions (while no less terrible and despicable) were understandable. And the aftermath - his guilt; her fury and grief when she learns the truth - is dealt with. Their reunion and happy ending are a bit Hollywood-ish and pat, but I think the central complaint that this movie is an offense to women is off base.
I’d say the stakes (the survival of humanity) were just slightly higher in Interstellar.
I haven’t seen Passengers, but I think it’s easy for any of us to insist we wouldn’t give in to this temptation, not having walked a mile in Pratt’s moon boots.
invasion of Iraq 2003–2011
The Dark Knight. 2008: Vigilante violence is OK when your motives are pure.
My personal theory is that the American public wanted someone to tell them they’d done the right thing. It was popular in Aus too.
I’ve read a lot of posts talking about a rapey feel or Stockholm syndrome, but I didn’t see it. I saw a desperate man make a bad decision at a point when circumstances had pushed him to extreme measures.
I also didn’t see her final acceptance of him as either Stockholm syndrome or cheesy Hollywood ending. I think she empathized with his plight when she thought he might die. She didn’t suddenly say “I love you,” or “I forgive you.” She said, “i can’t live on this ship without you.” She was (almost) willing to sacrifice the lives of 5,000 other people to keep from living alone on the ship. She understood what he went through and that need for human contact. Yes, he did a horrible thing, but she finally understood what drove him to it.
I liked it cause it was fairly unpredictable. And fun to riff.
I don’t judge until I get the audience reviews that is from those who really watched it. Most of the medias these days are spreading false reviews and previews.