#Passengers(2016)

[ineffable-romantics]

Thank GOD for those new promo pics.... I've always said this was the way I picture Aziraphale in modern day if he'd been the demon instead, and now I have the perfect angel!Crowley to match!

[thepensiveviewer]

Passengers (2016) | Dir. Morten Tyldum

[lunedits]

aurora lane - passengers (2016)

[featherlesswings]

I don’t feel like looking, but I was watching Ahsoka and it occurred to me that fandom being fandom, I’m surprised there isn’t a droid/bot fic that pairs David Tennant’s Star Wars droid Huyang with Michael’ Sheen’s Passengers (2016) robot bartender Arthur. Probably because Passengers sucks & also that character doesn’t have a body below the waist. But STILL. Y’all come up with some combinations.

[writingfanficsfan]

Like, fine, the ship was going to blow up and all the 5000 people were going to die but she did forgive him rather quickly.....

Also, sort of forgot how creepy Jim was.

[issela-santina]

I'm not sorry that I'm in love with this bit of Aurora fixing up Arthur's face in Passengers (2016)

[archivedpaige]

Passengers

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

2016 • Sci-fi/Romance • 1hr 56m

During a voyage to a distant planet, Jim's hypersleep pod malfunctions which wakes him up. So, he and fellow passenger work together to prevent their spaceship from meeting with a disaster.

“You're not where you want to be. You feel like you're supposed to be somewhere else. Well, let's say you could snap your fingers and you could be wherever you wanted to be. I bet you'd still feel this way. Not in the right place. Point is you can't get so hung up on where you'd rather be that you forget how to make the most of where you are. Take a break from worrying about what you can't control. Live a little.”

[roseartsandfics]

Passengers -- Nebula

It was a pretty decent day. It was the beginning of January, 87 years till the reach of Homestead II.

Aurora was just in the hallways of the ship, taking a little and thoughtful stroll around the Starship Avalon. The temperature was as decent as it is. Jim was just taking a short nap after working with mechanics and working with more technical machines until he had to take a break.

As Aurora was walking by the windows, she stopped at one of them to gaze at the stars in space. There were many of them, spreading out from each other in the galaxy. Aurora released a sigh as she stares at the window for a good view. Until then, Jim came out behind her, smiling after his nap.

Aurora turned around after noticing Jim behind her. She gazed at him, and he said to her “There is going to be a nebula very soon.”

Aurora smiled at his words. "Is that so?" She asked. Jim nodded slowly. Aurora's sigh escaped from her nose as she turned back to gaze at the window. Jim putted his one arm around his lover's back, and he stared at the window, fascinated by the stars in space.

“Do you think there would be more nebulas more beautiful out there, I presume?” Aurora questioned Jim. The mechanic sighed deeply through his nose, hesitating for ten seconds before answering.

“I’m pretty much sure they will.” Jim replied quietly. Aurora answered back with a sigh, and Jim pulled her close to him as they both watched the window, gazing into space.

Until then, the Avalon has encountered a blue and violet aura of the most fascinating thing that has ever to be seen; a nebula.

Aurora putted her arm around Jim's back as they both watched the nebula occur. The looked at each other, smiling. And they continue to watch the nebula together as Avalon continues moving along.

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I just love this movie x3

So I decided to draw Aurora and Jim looking at the nebula out in space near the windows of the Starship Avalon.

I also wrote a little fanfic up there, which is kinda rushed due to other stuff I was doing lol. Might've edited it for more detailed writing, which it wasn't as good ^^;

I did this drawing days ago ^^;, and I feel like this movie needs more attention lol.

What y'all think?

Aurora, Jim and Passengers ©Morten Tyldum, Sony Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, Start Motion Pictures and Original Film

Story and artwork ©SuperShadowSilver

No copyright infringement is intended

Used: mechanical pencil, Crayola colored pencils and 48 pack colored pencils

[issela-santina]

Welsh seduction machine

Michael Sheen as Arthur in Passengers

[operationandre]

Movie Recommendations for Zero Day (2003) fans!

*Movie descriptions are from Letterboxd.*

1. The Passenger (2023)

RIDE OR DIE. Randolph Bradley is perfectly content fading into the background, but when his coworker Benson snaps and goes on a violent killing spree, he's forced to face his fears and confront his troubled past in order to find a way to survive.

2. As You Are (2016)

Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenager as it traces the course of their friendship thorugh a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation.

3. Klass (2007)

THERE'S NOWHERE TO HIDE. An average guy of an Estonian high-school decide to defend his bullied classmate. This starts a war between him and the informal leader of the class.

4. Thoroughbreds (2017)

GOOD BREEDING GONE BAD. Lily and Amanda, two high school students living in suburban Connecticut, rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of drifting apart. Together, they devise a plan to kill Lily's abusive stepfather by hiring a lowlife drug dealer.

5. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)

In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.

6. Like Minds (2006)

FEAR AND EVIL MAKE DEADLY COMPANIONS. A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder.

7. Chatroom (2010)

CONTROL. ALTER. DELETE. When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily, and Mo meet William online in his new "Chelsea Teens!" chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker ruth. William is a dangerous loner, channeling all his energies into cyberspace. He's become an analyser, a calculating manipulator who finds it almost impossible to interact normally with others in the real world, instead turning his hand to manipulating people online.

8. Elephant (2003)

AN ORDINARY HIGH SCHOOL DAY. EXCEPT THAT IT'S NOT. Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

[bl-bam-beyond]

GU HAI GIVING BAI LUO YIN A BIKE RIDE (ADDICTED, 2016)

PHUM GIVING PHEEM A BIKE RIDE (WE ARE, 2024)

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[edgeplaymotif]

i’ve been writing my wips on discord bc i feel like it being broken up makes it easier for my brain to look or something at idk but i just have them labeled ship-kink and every time i open it i feel unhinged the things i’m doing to kyles characters rn …..

anyway if you have any unhinged ideas involving kyle characters lmk… (they will likely take months to complete but will probably be completed at some point)

[kitkatt0430]

Thoughts on Passengers (2016)? I personally loved it. Chris Pratt is problematic though.

I think I'd have liked it better if Aurora hadn't forgiven Jim. I get why she did - she accepted that she was stuck with this guy and had to make the best of it. On some level she did a cost benefit analysis for what her future was going to look like and decided that it'd suck less if she let go of her rightful anger and resentment towards him and made the best of things.

Considering who she was at the start of the film was the sort of person who abandoned her life and her loved ones for a year of colony experience and a novel that wouldn't be written for over 400 years, I do see where Aurora ends the movie as character growth. She's learned to live her life as it is instead of abandoning what she has for what might be.

Jim, though... it's hard to see him sympathetically to be honest. There's a lot of things he could have done differently and should have done differently before resorting to waking up a fellow passenger for company. And it's hard not to view his decision to wake up Aurora as particularly creepy given that he basically forms something of a para-social relationship with her before deciding to wake her up in hopes that they'd form a real relationship. He very much fits the 'predatory nice guy' trope that, having encountered enough 'nice guys' who stopped being interested in being my friend when they realized that a romantic relationship 'upgrade' was never gonna be on the table... I find that kind of character hard to enjoy.

That said, I do think he genuinely came to like Aurora for herself and not for the idea of her he built up in his head before waking her. And the situation he was in at the start of movie was genuinely unfair to him so I can understand why he made a bad decision out of desperation from his isolation - there is a reason solitary confinement is legally considered a form of psychological torture. So I don't hate that she forgives him or anything like that. I'd have just found it more interesting personally if she hadn't forgiven him.

Honestly, I do think it's well acted. It fits well into both of the main actor's wheelhouses. They're both good with science fiction plots, they had better onscreen chemistry than I expected, and the overall plot falling out the way it did made a great deal of sense to me. Most of the plot holes I've seen people complain about are down to the same kind of human hubris that led to real world events like the sinking of the Titanic and programming/mechanical errors from a very real world tendency to push code and hardware into production before they've been fully tested.

I've only watched the movie once back when it first came out on dvd (I think I rented it? or someone rented it anyway, might have watched it with my mom for a girl's day) so I don't remember it super strongly and I did wind up refreshing my memory by looking up a plot recap. I do remember that I did overall enjoy it - I'd certainly watch it again (though it's low on the re-watch priority list). But I think that's in part because it pings my love of science fiction and my enjoyment of certain flavors of psychological horror (I'd have probably enjoyed it more if it played more deliberately into that particular interpretation of the story) than because I found it to be a good romance movie. In fairness, I'm aromantic and so a lot of romance tropes are unrelatable to me; if I'm going to enjoy those tropes then I need them to hit differently than a lot of professional romance writers (of books or film) write them.

I do remember it having trailers that pushed the 'both of them woke up accidentally' angle which made me super not interested in watching it in theaters. The actual plot line turned out to be a whole lot more interesting and enjoyable for having Aurora's waking not being an accident. And Jim's arguably not being accidental either, but a case of programming errors in the ship's AI. It's one I'd likely recommend if asked and would enjoy re-watching with a friend.

As for Chris Pratt (he who lives up to his last name), he's definitely played into why I haven't re-watched the movie since what was probably 2017 (pre-pandemic years melting together effect). I've kind of reached the point where when a new movie is announced that I'd usually want to watch, him being in it is almost guaranteed to immediately kill that interest (such as the Mario movie). Which has had the unfortunate knock on effect of making me less likely to rewatch movies I have previously watched and really do enjoy... but have him in it.

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Edon Guraziu / Passengers – AutoDoc Sequence / Robotic Arm / 2016

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Russia. Svir River. Upper Svir Hydroelectric Station, lock Свирь. Верхнесвирская ГЭС, шлюз

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