Britt Goldberg (making up blog because I was absent on my day)

In this blog post I will be talking about the new science fiction adventure film, Passengers. I saw Passengers last weekend, and will say that I thought it was very good. Passengers is a movie about the star ship Avalon, traveling from Earth to a planet called Homestead II. The journey there takes 120 years, and the ship is carrying over 5,000 colonists going to the new planet. You may ask how would they live that long to make it. The answer is suspended animation. Suspended animation is a temporary stop of most of a persons vital functions, how ever you will not die. This is seen in hibernating animals. The 5,000 people on this ship, including the crew, are all in hibernation pods, and will wake up four months before they arrive at Homestead II. Or, at least they should. However, when the ship goes through a rough asteroid field, things seem to run differently.

Jim Preston, a mechanical engineer, played by Chris Pratt, wakes up. At first, Jim thinks what’s happening is normal, and is guided by the ships artificial intelligence. Jim very quickly begins to notice that something is very wrong. He’s the only one awake. Searching for answers, Jim learns that he has woken up, 90 years early. Desperate, Jim searches for a way to go back to sleep, knowing he will not make the trip if he’s awake. First he tries sending a message to Earth, yet then realizes the message will take even longer than 90 years to get there. He tries breaking into control rooms, yet fails because he cant break through. Jim’s only company is a robotic bartender, Arthur. Arthur tells Jim that he’s got this luxury ship all to himself, and might as well do whatever he wants and just live wildly. Jim for a whole year, messes around the ship doing what he pleases. At first, he’s enjoying himself, but as the year goes on, he begins to get tired. He is all alone. Jim almost does something crazy, yet quickly stops himself, running from the action he almost committed. In his running panic, he falls and rolls up to a beautiful woman’s hibernation pod. Her name is Aurora Lane.

Though Passengers appears to be very sci fi, its also a very romantic movie. I’d call it a Romantic Sci Fi Adventure movie. So, if your not the biggest fan of romance, then this movie might not be all for you! It has all the sci fi elements it needs to be classified as it, yet its also definitely a romantic movie. If you enjoy both these kinds of movies, then its for you. Even if you don’t like romance all that much, its definitely a good movie. When I went to see this movie, I had no idea it had a lot of romance at all, but that made me enjoy it even more! If you decide to see this movie, I hope you enjoy it!