Passengers: Aurora

If you're going to watch Passengers, watch this version. It's a lot closer to what I was expecting going into the original film. My only real issue is that the original movie was basically 3 different movies strung together and this edit cuts it down to 2 movies strung together. The idea of having the story center around Aurora from the beginning is excellent. The problem is just that the first half of the movie feels irrelevant once the second half starts. Maybe that's the intention of the original film? I don't know. But I feel like the first half of this movie (or specifically this edit) would work best as like an episode of Black Mirror. Trimmed down to 45-60min. Either the whole movie should expand on the idea of the first half or the whole movie should expand on the second half. They're just far too different to be in the same movie.

So while one of my main issues still remains, this masterful edit is the version I would show somebody who's interested in watching the movie.

Even though I still hold Passengers outside of my esteem, the edit was a surprisingly pleasant watch and a coherent self-contained tale of spacefaring sci-fi, which I'm always up for.

Editing is solid and AV is pretty good. Logo cards and all that stuff are very slick and tasteful.

As for narrative, I definitely felt that the shifted perspective was the only way to tell a compelling story with the source material.

Well done. Thanks macmilln for sharing!

As a first time watch, this worked pretty well. My score is just what I think I would give the film if this was the theatrical cut; that's just my rating of the footage itself. Fantastic edit.

I think that this edit would've been perfect if there'd been more footage to work with. It was executed as flawlessly as it could be. But, it was just lacking... Something. I don't know what. But something. I do know that I don't blame the editor for it, though.