Inspired by the linked XKCD. Using 60% instead of 50% because that’s an easy filter to apply on rottentomatoes.
I’ll go first: I think “Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows” was awesome, from the plot to the characters ,and especially how they used screen-play to highlight how Sherlocks head works in these absurd ways.
That actually helped make the movie more plausible. Pratt’s character knew almost nothing about her, but formed an opinion and love based upon what he wanted her to be. She wakes up, and is (surprise!) an actual human being with thoughts and feelings of her own and very little about what Pratt’s character projected onto her. At the same time she’s dealing with the struggles that the only other awake human is essentially her murderer, and for her to find some other human to connect with, she’d have to perform the same egregious act on someone else against their will.
It felt like a struggle from before our modern age where a woman might have to marry someone she doesn’t even like to make sure she has food, shelter, power, etc. She came to terms with her situation and made of it what she could like millions of women before her in a world dominated by someone else.
That’s a great take of the movie! Although she could have gone back to hypersleep in the end but decided against it, presumably because she had a glimpse of how he must have felt when she thought he was dead. So she definitely feels genuinely something for him in the end. I think the movie could have benefited from a short montage of their decades together on the ship in the end, sort of like how UP started.
I know thats the Hollywood desired take, but if we’re looking at the more realistic gritty vision we see a darker answer to Jennifer Lawrence’s character.
Since there was only one capsule that could put someone back to sleep, she could choose to save herself. However, she knows that she would have left the psychopathic murderer of Chris Pratt’s character to run wild for a few more years before he would wake up someone else when he gets lonely again. There is no second pod that could put someone back to sleep. She could have murdered him, then used the medical pod to go back to sleep, but then she too would take on and share Pratt’s “murderer” title.
So she sacrifices herself in the only way that no one else but her will die. She resigns herself to the hell of a life with Pratt’s character.
That’s definitely an interesting take on it, but I don’t think the movie as it is represented supports it. I agree that making Chris Pratt’s character into a psychopath would also made for a good movie, even a superior one. But that’s obviously not the movie that was being made.