I'm watching Sphere...

[Skitch]

...and I still quite enjoy this film. Bring on the hate.

[Rowland]

OMG, Sphere is a terrible film, but I'm not gonna lie, when I was first getting into movies, I loved it. I had really bad taste at the time... hell, I probably still do now, but eh.

[Winston*]

Haven't seen it since cinemas but I remember it having one of the stupidest endings to a movie ever.

[Skitch]

HELLO. HOW ARE YOU? I AM FINE.
WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
MY NAME IS JERRY.

[Skitch]

Haven't seen it since cinemas but I remember it having one of the stupidest endings to a movie ever.

I AM PLEASED TO BE IN CONTACT WITH YOUR ENTITES. I AM ENJOYING THIS MUCH.

[Skitch]

I...uh...

...I failed again, didn't I. Damn.

[Bosco B Thug]

The novel was my Favorite Book Ever at some point in my pre-teen years.

So I made myself like the movie, back in 1998 anyway. The sphere was exactly as I imagined it and the jellyfish attack freaked me out to my expectations, but if I watch it now, I'll be sure to expect mediocrity and the big "F.U." of

no giant squid in sight, in lieu just cupboards full of Catcher in the Rye???!!!??? (if I remember it correctly)

[Sycophant]

I...uh...

...I failed again, didn't I. Damn.
I haven't seen the film before, but I find your thread terribly grating.

[Skitch]

I haven't seen the film before, but I find your thread terribly grating.

Ouch...my pride...

[Sycophant]

Y'know. Just in case that's what you were asking.

[Skitch]

Y'know. Just in case that's what you were asking.

Not really...but, you know...hey, at least I know my standing.

[Sycophant]

No, you know your post's standing. You're cool with me still.

[Skitch]

Cool.


You watched Norbit?! HAHAHA!! Ah, damn thats...something...

[[ETM]]

The Sphere would have been a forgettable servicable B-SciFi flick, if not for the mega-popular author of the book and the A-frikkin'-list mis-cast... the only way it could have been worse would have been if they had cast Charlton Heston and the corpse of John Wayne alongside those who already somehow wondered into the film.

[Dead & Messed Up]

If you've read the book, Hoffman, Schreiber, and Jackson are damn good matches to their characters, but the film never comes close to giving them their due.

And the book in the cupboards was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

[Wryan]

Such a great book. Such an awful, awful movie.

[Fezzik]

Such a great book. Such an awful, awful movie.


Yeah, Sphere was the book that introduced me to Crichton and its still my favorite of all his stuff.

The movie was a sucker punch to the gut. How..how...why... [/fetal]

[Mysterious Dude]

I kind of like the scene where they go into the spaceship for the first time.

[megladon8]

Don't worry, Skitch, I actually kind of like the movie.

But...Event Horizon is better.

[[ETM]]

But...Event Horizon is better.

They're equally sucky. It's basically the same story.

[megladon8]

;75101']They're equally sucky. It's basically the same story.


Eh, not really.

They have superficial similarities, but they're very different in both tone and content.

[Milky Joe]

I like this movie too. Never got what was so especially terrible about it.

[Lazlo]

I was a huge fan of the book and as such this was probably my biggest cinematic disappointment ever.

[Skitch]

Don't worry, Skitch, I actually kind of like the movie.

But...Event Horizon is better.

Thank you! Finally...

Yes, Event Horizon is better...

"I have no intention of leaving her, doctor. I will fly the Lewis & Clark to a safe distance and fire attack missles at her until I'm satisfied she's distroyed. FUCK this ship."

[Morris Schæffer]

The book got me into reading after high school when reading seemed so awfully boring. So this was circa 1994. An awesome read. The movie not so much. Event Horizon is easily better.

[Dukefrukem]

I got this movie free with my first DVD player back in 1999.

[Raiders]

I got this movie free with my first DVD player back in 1999.

You got ripped off.

[Dukefrukem]

You got ripped off.

:lol:

It had one of those packages where the bar code was ripped off so you couldn't sell it to stores that buy used DVDs. I had to sell it on ebay or something.

[Skitch]

You got ripped off.


You think? I got Batman & Robin that way.

[Bosco B Thug]

And the book in the cupboards was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Haha, whoops. That makes a lot more sense.

[[ETM]]

Eh, not really.

They have superficial similarities, but they're very different in both tone and content.

Suckiness is about the same.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Don't worry, Skitch, I actually kind of like the movie.

But...Event Horizon is better.

Actually, a re-view about a year ago left me stunned as to how little I thought of Event Horizon. A few good images of horror aren't nearly enough to undo the film's slide from intriguing sci-fi into lame horror trappings, complete with people outrunning fireballs and the it's-not-quite-over ending.

I think they're both at about the same level of suck.

[Skitch]

I've watched EH several times...I still love it. I really, really dig that flick.

[Dukefrukem]

I've watched EH several times...I still love it. I really, really dig that flick.

I'm not gonna pretend like i wasn't scared at the movies when i first saw it... i was also only 13.

[Skitch]

I probably would have done better with an overly long worded synopsis of how I understand Sphere is a bad film, yet I still enjoy it. Eh, too much work. :lol: