History Film / Passengers2016

* DivertingPower: A GenerationShip is damaged by a small meteorite fragment that becomes lodged in the engine core. The ship's computer responds by diverting power from the other systems in order to maintain life support, [[spoiler:but this slowly but surely causes a cascading effect where more and more systems across the ship start to malfunction due to lack of power. If it is not fixed in time by our leads, this will inevitably lead to total system failure and everybody on board dying.]]

** The hibernation pods are repeatedly touted as "fail safe." Not failure-proof, [i]fail-safe[/i], and in Jim's case this is absolutely true. Despite his hibernation pod suffering a critical fault, Jim lived. That's the dictionary definition of fail-safe: even in the event of failure it fails in such a way as to prevent injury or death. [[spoiler:Not so much for Gus, however.]]

** When Jim goes on his first spacewalk, the combined strain of psychological stress and the experience of being outside move him to tears. Crying on a spacewalk is a problem; tears don't fall, but rather just cling to the eye unless shaken off. Jim's fall as they would under gravity.

* ExactWords: Jim asks Arthur not to tell Aurora that [[spoiler:he woke her deliberately]]. Arthur is programmed to be a gentleman and obliges, but Jim makes the mistake of telling him that there are no secrets between him and Aurora, which Arthur takes to mean that he no longer has to keep that particular secret.

* {{Megacorp}}: Homestead, the company that owns the ''Avalon'' and the planet it's about to settle, along with a number of similar ships and holdings, is heavily implied to be one. Aurora mentions that colonizing frontier worlds has turned them a profit of five ''quadrillion'' dollars even without taking the ''Avalon's'' mission into account. Since that's such an unimaginable sum of money, she's so kind to point out that a quadrillion equals one million billions (or 1,000,000,000,000,000$ for those of you who like figures with a lot of zeros). Aurora appears to be a quite wealthy woman herself (since she's making the trip as a Gold Class passenger just to ''visit'' the colony for a year before going back to Earth), and judging by how stunned she sounds while relating those numbers, it's safe to assume that a quadrillion dollars in their time is not significantly less than it would be in ours.

*** [[spoiler:Aurora nearly drowns in the floating pool water, unable to swim out. A fully submerged person is in a condition close to zero gravity already, so Newton's Third Law would have served her just as well as in a regular pool.]]
*** If she doesn't swim fast enough, the water keeps wrapping back around her due to surface tension (and no gravity to counteract the surface tension).

** Relativistic effects are not brought up at all. A ship travelling at half the speed of light (the speed given in the film) would experience noticeable time dilation, in that a journey that takes 120 years from the perspective of Earth would take only about 104 years on board the ship, or 138½ years on Earth if 120 years is the ship-board duration.

* ShoutOut: Some parts of the plot are strongly reminiscent of ''Film/TheShining''. For a while, Jim is trapped on the ''Avalon'' and slowly [[GoMadFromTheIsolation Going Mad From the Isolation]], while spending a lot of time in a bar that looks like The Gold Room, while Arthur's outfit seems similar to Lloyd's.