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Would have worked better as a horror movie.


Right when she realized he woke her up, it could have changed tone and switched gears and turned very dark. So many ways it could have gone.

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Oh indeed. That's why I spend any time at all pondering such a so-so film. There were so many interesting ideas or ways it might have gone. Based on what you wrote, maybe even a horror comedy: Jim offs Aurora (which he probably should have done as soon as he realized she had a round-trip ticket), & wakes somebody new. Only she has problems & so on.

Even better might be to start with a woman waking first, waking & jettisoning one potential companion after another. Perhaps as a climax they wind up stalking one another on the ship a la The War of the Roses.

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Well, it could have definitely been done differently...

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With different stars, it would have played that way but there was too much riding on the star power of Jennifer and Chris to make it anything more than a somewhat fluffy romance with hints at something darker.

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