#63 'Passengers' Movie, Review & Interview with Chris Pratt & Jennifer Lawrence
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2016
⏱️ 12 minutes
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'Passengers' Movie, Review & Interview with Chris Pratt & Jennifer Lawrence
Art Of Living Movie Review & Interview Series
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt star in an exciting action-thriller about two passengers who are on a 120-year journey to another planet when their hibernation pods wake them 90 years too early. Over the last few days, we've talked to "Passenger's" cast, Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, as well as Dr John Bradford (coming up...) Pratt and Lawrence characters, Jim and Aurora, who are forced to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction as the ship teeters on the brink of collapse, with the lives of thousands of passengers in jeopardy.
I have to tell you, I loved the movie. Chris Pratt is excellent as the action star that he's become and Jennifer Lawrence is a star. She is lovely, glamorous, yet down to earth and I'll bet she has a great sense of humor as a person. As the movie unfolds, and Lawrence, in character as Aurora, comes to life, she surprised me and I could see the her sense of soul, rage, and awe.
The setting of the spaceship is fantastic and you have to see this behemoth of a ship to truly get the drama of this thing, but the lighting, music, you're listening to some of it here, the CGI which is seamless and doesn't overwhelm, at all. BTW, the robot vacuum cleaners and Michael Sheen's character, Arthur, the bartending android, are fantastic. Again, Sheen, as Arthur must be seen: his smiling barkeep routine, slightly ironic, slightly mischievous, and a bit dirty minded is brilliant.
Personally, I love the "hard science" aspect of how the induced sleep is made to take over, and as I say, we'll be talking to Dr John Bradford later today about the development of this technology, it's role in the film and use in our world today. Like the movie, The Martian, and book of same name by Andy Weir, this element of what NASA research does, explaining the science through the use of it in Hollywood is welcome by me, and I love it, and I think you will, too.
Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, I'm your host Paul Vogel-Sang. |
| 0:22.1 | Well in anticipation of the nationwide release of the new movie passengers, |
| 0:25.0 | which will be in theaters December 21st, |
| 0:28.0 | we did a show last week after collaborating with Sony and NASA |
| 0:32.0 | sharing a little bit of the of the PSA |
| 0:35.2 | that was created to talk about some of this real space travel to various parts of the |
| 0:41.7 | galaxy and what that might look like. |
| 0:43.7 | It was such a huge hit with all of you and I think this movie Passengers is going to be that |
| 0:48.0 | that I want to offer my review after seeing the film and then we're going to hear from the two stars |
| 0:53.7 | Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. In a subsequent show to be released later |
| 0:58.1 | today, we'll even be speaking with real life NASA contractor and president of the firm Space Works. |
| 1:06.3 | His name is Dr. John Bradford. |
| 1:08.3 | And we're going to talk to Dr. Bradford about the real science, the heart science, if you |
| 1:12.0 | will, around the notion of this idea of long-term |
| 1:15.8 | hibernation, sleep stasis, induced hypothermia, all of these subjects which |
| 1:22.2 | play such a fundamental role in the film. |
| 1:25.1 | I'm sure you know if you've seen some of the trailers, you probably are aware of the plot, |
| 1:30.3 | really it's excellent. |
| 1:31.7 | Let me just run through it real quickly on a routine |
| 1:35.1 | journey through through space to a new home two passengers we're going to be talking |
| 1:40.8 | to Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence. |
| 1:42.7 | They are sleeping in this suspended animation stasis, |
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