13 Small Changes That Would Make Terrible Movies Awesome

9. The Movie Begins When Jennifer Lawrence Wakes Up - Passengers

Passengers was one of last year's most anticipated films, but ended up being a huge disappointment due to one major tonal flaw in the movie's script and direction: it makes Chris Pratt's character look like a gigantic creep while totally intending not to.

After Jim Preston (Pratt) is accidentally woken up 90 years early from suspended animation on-board a colony spaceship, he eventually decides to wake up another crew member to avoid spending the rest of his life alone, and of course picks the beautiful Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence).

The problem isn't inherently his choice, but that the movie spends so much time vindicating him morally (especially in the first act), while Lawrence's heroine ends up feeling like a victim of Stockholm Syndrome.

Plus, considering that they become lovers during their time together, by lying to Aurora about how she woke up he's essentially obtaining sexual relations by deception.

There's a simple way to fix a lot of these issues, though, as laid out in an excellent essay by Nerdwriter1, by shifting the film's perspective to Aurora from the outset. The film would begin with her waking up, and so the audience would experience the big revelation when she does, imbuing the scenario with more ambiguity from the outset and not piling on the sympathy for Jim quite so desperately.

There are many other directions the movie could've taken from this point, such as Aurora eventually going back into the fixed stasis pod or having a horror movie showdown with Jim, most of which would've been much more interesting than the sappy, unintentionally unsettling finale viewers actually got.