David wrote:
Reportedly García shot a relatively more involved scene where he and his lieutenants go around the ship and see various remnants of the "world" Pratt and Lawrence made for themselves. They should have left this in. The ending feels SO abrupt.
They should've kept it in simply because they hired Andy Garcia. As soon as that door opens, any closure we got from Pratt/Lawrence goes out the window because the audience in their head is going, "Hey, is that And...", and they still wondering as the camera pans to tree, the cabin, and then the stars, and then the movie's over. The audience shouldn't be distracted. Maybe a montage would've worked or just cut to a shot of them 40 years in the future and place them in front of the cabin, etc.
And I guess they didn't have kids? And where are the bodies? You figure they're both probably around 30. That makes them roughly 118 by the last shot. Did Tildum cut out the last scene because the last shot would've been of two rotting corpses that have been sitting in the same spot for 20+ years?
Ok, anyways, the movie that came before it. It's, okay. It's visually stunning, but as a couple of other people have mentioned, Pratt and Lawrence are missing something. Before she finds out his secret, there probably should've been a little more to the montage of the two of them dating. The ship has a movie theater, a very tiny basketball court, a virtual dance game, but that's pretty much all we see. There are clearly stores as they mention shoplifting so there's got to be other stuff. Let's see them do some mundane shit on a spaceship. There's clearly a lot more to the ship. Maybe their chemistry doesn't work because the premise is kind of...ehh. Though I guess if he doesn't wake her up, no one saves the ship. He's a hero! Saved 5,200 something lives!
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