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TICKET PRICES: MATINEE before 6pm $5 ADULT $8 | STUDENT $7 | SENIOR 62+ $5 CHILD age 12 & under $5 Encircle Films Presents TIX $5 $3 $7 SUN TUES Passengers’ Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt can’t save an excellent premise from lousy execution or the first 30 minutes or so, Passengers is a decent film. If you like Chris Pratt, you’ll probably raise that decent to a “good” or “interesting,” as the first section is essentially a solo act for one of America’s Favorite Chrises. On the good ship Avalon, which soars through space on a century-long mission to another planet, 5,000 passengers pass the years in hibernation — until Pratt’s Jim Preston wakes up, 90 years too soon. As all lonely movie men must, Jim eventually grows a gnarly beard. He frequents the ship’s bar, with its endearing robot bartender (an excellent Michael Sheen) and tries every- thing he can think of to go back to sleep, including an extended attempt to bust his way into the crew’s hibernation quarters. A year passes, the ship’s amenities lose their charm, and Jim stumbles upon the pod of Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence). Yes, the sleeping woman with whom Jim becomes obsessed shares a name with Sleep- ing Beauty’s princess — who also didn’t have much say in being awakened. For a long while, Jim agonizes about waking her up, and if Jon Spaihts’ script is very good at one thing, it’s very good at sympathizing with Jim’s loneliness. Your entire life, alone in space: Who wouldn’t want company? The trouble is, Spaihts — and apparently everyone else involved in this film — never figured out how to truly extend that sympathy to Aurora. Of course, Jim wakes her up, hid- ing the evidence of his tampering; of course, he and Aurora get together for a long stretch of space romance; of course, she eventually finds out the truth, and Lawrence absolutely sells Aurora’s fear and rage at what’s been done to her. Passengers, from the moment Jim wakes Aurora, should be a horror movie, and not just because the Avalon is experiencing cascading failures. It’s a nightmare for Aurora, trapped in space with a man who prioritized his emotional needs over her autonomy of self. “It’s murder,” she says, at one point, and she’s absolutely correct. But that’s unimportant in the face of the foundering ship, and it gets in the way of the story Spaihts and director Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) want to tell, which is about a capable everyman who … maybe sort of tries to make up for having ruined a woman’s life? Passengers’ final act is full of so many inane moments that it feels like a sloppy first draft: The ship has 5,000 passengers, plus crew, and only one medical bay? We’re supposed to believe that no emergency procedures exist in case of pod malfunction or, say, giant space rocks? In brief moments, Passengers shows its potential: It flirts with class issues, shows a too- brief glimpse of future Earth and is sly about corporations who pretend to make your life better for their own gain. But none of these things can make up for the grotesque turns the narrative takes on its way to the end. To say more would be spoiling it — though it’s difficult to spoil something when it’s already this rotten. (Regal Valley River, Cinemark 17) STUDENT & SENIOR DISCOUNT ALL AGES 762-1700 | 180 E. 5TH AVE DAVIDMINORTHEATER.COM $3 TUESDAYS F FRI DEC 30TH - THUR JAN 5TH SECRET LIFE OF PETS 5:05 SULLY 5:15 MAGNIFICENT 7 6:40 LOVING 7:00 CAPTAIN FANTASTIC 9:00* THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN 9:10* A FILM BY FREDRIK GERTTEN PRODUCED BY WG FILM IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH SVT, FILM I SKÅNE AND ORF FEATURING ALINE CAVALCANTE, DAN KOEPPEL, RAQUEL ROLNIK, JOEL EWANICK, DON WARD AND GIL PEÑALOSA MARGARETE JANGÅRD AND ELIN KAMLERT EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ALEXANDRA GALVIS, CHRIS PAINE, FREDRIK GERTTEN AND MARIA FARINHA FILMS: LUANA LOBO, MARCOS NISTI, ESTELA RENNER BENJAMIN BINDERUP NARRATIVE CONSULTANT NIELS PAGH ANDERSEN CINEMATOGRAPHERS JANICE D’AVILA AND KIKI ALLEGIER COMPOSER FLORENCIA DI CONCILIO WITH SUPPORT FROM THE SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE, NORDISK FILM & TV FOND, THE MEDIA PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, INFLUENCE FILM FOUNDATION AND MALMÖ STAD IN ASSOCIATION WITH YLE, NRK, VPRO AND YESDOCU PRODUCERS EDITOR WWW.BIKES-VS-CARS.COM Thursday, Jan. 5 6pm Bijou Arts Cinema, 492 E. 13th Avenue Discussion following fi lm with Rob Inerfeld, AICP Transportation Planning Mgr., City of Eugene *NO SHOW 12/31 Call Theatre for Showtimes ASSASSIN'S CREED [CC,DV] (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(145 PM) 715 PM ASSASSIN'S CREED 3D [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.445 PM 1015 PM PASSENGERS [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(100 PM) 945 PM PASSENGERS 3D [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.430 PM 730 PM SING [CC,DV] (PG) ★ SING 3D [CC,DV] (PG) ★ Fri. - Sat.(1200 PM) 615 PM Fri. - Sat.(345 PM) 915 PM COLLATERAL BEAUTY [CC,DV] (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.630 PM 930 PM ROGUE ONE [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(1215 330) 700 1010 ROGUE ONE 3D [CC,DV] (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(130 240) 545 900 OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY [CC,DV] (R) Fri. - Sat.1000 PM MOANA [CC,DV] (PG) Fri. - Sat.(1230 PM 315 PM) 645 PM ASSASSIN’S CREED (3D) (PG-13) 4:35PM, 10:45PM ASSASSIN’S CREED (DIGITAL) (PG-13) 10:05AM, 1:30PM, 7:50PM COLLATERAL BEAUTY (DIGITAL) (PG-13) 8:00PM, 10:35PM FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (DIGITAL) (PG-13) 9:45AM, 1:05PM, 4:40PM MOANA (DIGITAL) (PG) 10:25AM, 1:25PM, 4:25PM, 7:15PM, 10:15PM OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (DIGITAL) (R) 9:40AM, 12:15PM, 3:00PM, 5:35PM, 8:20PM, 11:00PM PASSENGERS (2016) (3D) (PG-13) 3:50PM, 10:05PM PASSENGERS (2016) (DIGITAL) (PG-13) 9:50AM, 12:55PM, 7:00PM ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (3D) (PG- 13) 10:15AM, 1:40PM, 5:05PM, 8:30PM ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (DIGITAL) (PG-13) 9:30AM. 12:45PM. 4:05PM. 7:20PM. 10:40PM SING (3D) (PG) 4:45PM SING (DIGITAL) (PG) 10:35AM, 1:45PM, 7:40PM, 10:30PM FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM [CC,DV] (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1245 PM 345 PM) eugeneweekly.com • December 29, 2016 21
