Hate Watching Passengers: I'd Rather Die Alone

About this episode

The hosts discuss the film Passengers and its failed romantic premise despite its intriguing setup.

Send us Fan Mail A guy wakes up alone on a colony ship, stares at a sleeping stranger for a year, and then makes a choice the movie wants to frame as romance. That’s the moment Passengers (2016) loses us, and we can’t stop talking about why. We walk through the film’s best ingredients: a slick sci-fi setting, a genuinely scary isolation setup, a talented Jennifer Lawrence, and a premise that could have powered a tense space thriller. Then we dig into the uncomfortable stuff the screenplay ke...

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Hosts: Dan Goodsell, Tony Czech

Topics covered

• film review
• sci-fi
• romance
• isolation
• screenplay analysis

Keywords

• Passengers
• Jennifer Lawrence
• sci-fi
• film review
• romance
• isolation
• screenplay

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Books & works: Passengers

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