Inspired by the linked XKCD. Using 60% instead of 50% because that’s an easy filter to apply on rottentomatoes.
I’ll go first: I think “Sherlock Holmes: A game of Shadows” was awesome, from the plot to the characters ,and especially how they used screen-play to highlight how Sherlocks head works in these absurd ways.
I know thats the Hollywood desired take, but if we’re looking at the more realistic gritty vision we see a darker answer to Jennifer Lawrence’s character.
Since there was only one capsule that could put someone back to sleep, she could choose to save herself. However, she knows that she would have left the psychopathic murderer of Chris Pratt’s character to run wild for a few more years before he would wake up someone else when he gets lonely again. There is no second pod that could put someone back to sleep. She could have murdered him, then used the medical pod to go back to sleep, but then she too would take on and share Pratt’s “murderer” title.
So she sacrifices herself in the only way that no one else but her will die. She resigns herself to the hell of a life with Pratt’s character.
That’s definitely an interesting take on it, but I don’t think the movie as it is represented supports it. I agree that making Chris Pratt’s character into a psychopath would also made for a good movie, even a superior one. But that’s obviously not the movie that was being made.