Sci-fi's onscreen surge
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| Passengers, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, has recently made waves on China's big screen. [Photo provided to China Daily] |
![Passengers, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, has recently made waves on China's big screen. [Photo provided to China Daily]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20170119/b8aeed99045619ea85811d.jpg "Passengers, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, has recently made waves on China's big screen. [Photo provided to China Daily]")
"It looked quite different from anything I'd seen before. It was a different atmosphere for a movie," says Lawrence.
But "Passengers" is also an interesting case of the changing favor of Chinese moviegoers.
China has a short history of sci-fi movies. Most Chinese born in the 1970s and 1980s got their first knowledge about space and aliens from Hollywood imports.
"Now they are becoming pickier about storytelling," says Jiang Yong, a Beijing-based industry watcher.
On China's most popular reviewing site Douban.com, "Passengers" has obtained a mediocre score of 6.9 points out of 10. Critically acclaimed foreign imports usually surpass 7.
A number of reviews question the value in the film.
Pratt's protagonist -- who is the first to wake up accidentally -- wakes up a journalist (Lawrence), as he can't bear the loneliness and wants to have a companion. But his activity in a sense leads to ruining her life.
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