13 Movies That Contradict Their Own Message

10. Passengers

The Intended Message: Love is all you need.

The Real Message: You don't need consent.

This hotly-debated sci-fi romance revolves around a man, Jim Preston (Chris Pratt), who is accidentally woken up from hyper-sleep 90 years too early, and in order to stave off loneliness, he wakes up a (smoking hot) fellow passenger, Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence), to share his misery.

Clearly, Passengers was written to be an affecting romance about the power of togetherness and that, at the end of the day, nobody else matters but the one you fall in love with.

Unfortunately this premise is built on a false foundation, because how can this really be a love story when it's missing one basic facet: consent. Aurora enters into a relationship-by-deception with Jim, unaware that he was the one to wake her up. Things go well for a while, though once she finds out the truth, she's naturally revolted.

But by film's end, she of course comes around, and in a rather tone-deaf display of quasi-Stockholm syndrome, she eventually agrees to live out her days with Jim rather than re-enter stasis when Jim manages to fix a stasis pod.

Though the film does (unconvincingly) depict Jim's crushing loneliness, the tone is all wrong and what's clearly supposed to be sweetly romantic and achingly human actually plays as shockingly creepy.