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FilmPG-131998
Sphere
Directed by Barry Levinson
A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate. However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discovered in the cargo bay, things begin to fall apart. From TMDB
96 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 30, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 7 | 7 | 78 |
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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Sphere is a 1998 science fiction mystery thriller film, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson.
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60 of 96 · most liked first'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) vs 'The Wizard of Oz at Sphere' (2025) Over 90% of the film has been 'touched up' with AI
neutral · AI labelView post →We are watching the 1998 movie Sphere and they got to The Sphere and we went “yayyyyy”
positive · AI labelView post →if it's built the white house will sit beside this white elephant; the architectural version of that AI "Wizard of Oz" playing at the Sphere, where the subjects of the actual film are lost inside a gaudy soulless fantasia of extramarginal kitsch dogshit
neutral · AI labelView post →Wizard of Oz World Premiere at Sphere Las Vegas. Crazy special effects with the fully digitally remastered movie ✨✨✨
neutral · AI labelView post →'The Wizard of Oz at Sphere' is reportedly grossing $2M a day • Execs think it could make over $100M within a year • Over 90% of the film has been 'touched up' with AI • Fans are paying ~$200 a ticket • They're now talking to WB about licensing 'Harry Potter' and other films (via Bloomberg)
neutral · AI labelView post →‘ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW’ will be the next film shown at The Sphere in Las Vegas. The original 1975 film will be enhanced with AI imagery for the experience.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) is getting an AI “facelift” for the Las Vegas Sphere. Changes have been made to 90% of the film, including "digitally added characters." And this bastardization is being done w/ the full support of Warner Bros Discovery. www.theverge.com/news/645815/... #FilmSky #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →'The Wizard of Oz at Sphere' has now grossed over $290M • Over 90% of the film has been 'touched up' with AI • They're going to release an 'enhanced' version this year with new scenes "I’m not even sure [if] we need it ... but ... we're gonna do it anyway"
neutral · AI labelView post →This video is how I learned that the chief architect of the camera they use to film things for The Sphere in Las Vegas is someone who was in my graduating class in high school youtu.be/fSUlbcpZJmA
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm sorry, @benmank77.bsky.social, but I don't get why that Sphere version of WIZARD OF OZ is a "good" thing. Creating AI versions of actors in the film and radically altering the original images feels like a sin to me. I'm sure it's impressive, but it's artistically offensive.
neutral · AI labelView post →did they ever figure out what was going on with that sphere in the movie Sphere
neutral · AI labelView post →Take a movie title, add a colon and another movie's title to make it SOUND like a sequel to the first movie! I'll go first. Big Hero 6: The Magnificent Seven The Black Hole: Event Horizon Cube: Sphere Escape Plan: Get Out The Mummy: Evil Dead Poltergeist: It Follows A Quiet Place: Silent Hill
neutral · AI labelView post →you remember that movie Sphere? They should do that for real
positive · AI labelView post →Allie loves Wizard of Oz and couldn’t stop talking about wanting to see it at the Sphere. I booked a super quick trip to take her opening weekend. Never thought my first show at the Sphere would be a movie from 1939, but this looks pretty incredible. youtu.be/GDPDUD0_3z8
neutral · AI labelView post →For my vintage camera friends here, sharing a discovery I made recently in my Nice neighborhood. Photo Sphere is a tiny film and digital developing/printing shop that features the owner's personal collection of vintage cameras. None for sale and all appear to be in near-pristine condition.
neutral · AI labelView post →I was pondering the best movie you could possibly Sphere and decided on 'Das Boot'
neutral · AI labelView post →Sphere ⁞1998 www.imdb.com/title/tt0120184 #NowWatching #filmsky #scifi #sci-fi ·a spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean·
neutral · AI labelView post →There's only one film that should be screened in the Las Vegas Sphere. The single most appropriate movie. You know the one. A late 90s scifi thriller with horror elements. I'm of course talking about Cube (1997)
neutral · AI labelView post →i keep remembering the movie The Sphere and laughing, i think i kind of love The Sphere
positive · AI labelView post →A scene from Darren Aronofsky's "Postcard from Earth", a docu-film meant for the MSG Sphere in Las Vegas. #space #art by One Pixel Brush. www.artstation.com/artwork/AlRAEy
neutral · AI labelView post →Garfield movie at the Sphere. You can see Lyman trapped in the basement in every scene.
neutral · AI labelView post →1000xRESIST is what you get when you let Theater Perverts (laudatory) loose to make a game instead of Movie Freaks (derogatory) The result is the best damn narrative experience you'll ever have Sphere to square, sisters
neutral · AI labelView post →I think maybe the one film I'd like to experience at the Sphere is Derek Jarman's Blue.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rocky Horror doesn't need to be experienced at the Sphere. It needs to be experienced at your locally owned movie theater at midnight with a bunch of queer people
neutral · AI labelView post →Aronofsky made a short film for The Sphere about how we’re destroying the planet and followed that up by using something everyone agrees is draining resources from the planet. Maybe he didn’t watch his own “movie.”
neutral · AI labelView post →As a fan of this movie, I . . . don’t think I want this? And I think fans of the Sphere don’t want this movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →Concluding my final “Film History” session with lecture and discussion of @alissawilkinson.bsky.social's NYT review of Wizard of Oz at The Sphere. One of my favorite pieces of film criticism in a while! (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/m...
neutral · AI labelView post →the only man o' sphere i care about is Samuel L. Jackson in the 1998 Barry Levinson film Sphere. no apologies to dustin hoffman
positive · AI labelView post →I’m not religious but I believe the movie Sphere is true
positive · AI labelView post →Just learned that the Manos-Sphere somehow isn't an online fan group for the movie "Manos The Hands of Fate." Somehow this "Manos-Sphere" is more pathetic and stupid than that? Wow.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sphere from the movie Sphere was, in fact, not dissimilar to the Cube from Cube.
neutral · AI labelView post →Here’s my elusive 1970 UK Sphere Books movie tie-in paperback edition of Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly by Brian Comport. Quirky film and a tough to find tie-in.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Vegas Sphere will be partnering with Warner Bros. to create an immersive screening of “The Wizard of Oz”. Oh that sounds int- They’ll be using generative AI to expand the backgrounds and insert characters that weren’t originally there What variety.com/2025/film/ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →was trying to think of the funniest/worst film to watch at The Sphere in Las Vegas and I’ve decided that it’s Cube (1997)
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m the guy the Sphere hired to make the Wizard of Oz look like shit. Next week they’re asking me to just film a guy describing the plot of Citizen Kane.
neutral · AI labelView post →if you play this your brain is the sphere from the movie Sphere
neutral · AI labelView post →Coqo’s Horror movie of the day: Sphere (1998) Sci fi underwater thriller A team of scientists are sent deep into the ocean to study a spaceship that was discovered below. There they find a giant sphere that has brought to them an entity that is not only effecting their reality but is also emotional.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) will be the next film to get the Sphere Las Vegas treatment. Sphere’s AI desecration of THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) cost $100 million — and has grossed $400 million (so far) in less than a year. variety.com/2026/film/ne... #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →FASCINATING video about the Wizard of Oz at the Sphere, this covers a ton of ground as far as implications for film preservation, labour, filmmaking, filmgoing, why it looks "like that." Remarkably thorough and super watchable, I was glued to it. youtu.be/IgEmsKtdsRs?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm a pretty tough and grumpy mark for this type of YouTube cultural criticism video essay, but this is legitimately a really good rundown of the implications of the Oz Sphere monstrosity for film restoration and the future of cinema as communal art/entertainment.
neutral · AI labelView post →I finally got to see The Wizard of Oz at Sphere. Whatever you think of the changes they made to this particular movie, I have to confess: I thought the Sphere itself was an incredible place to see a film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the 1998 movie Sphere based on the Michael Crichton novel on Tubi AMA
neutral · AI labelView post →LotR movie only folks really missed out on the Ominous Sphere
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched From the sublime to the ridiculous this week as I went from The Odyssey and Up to Sphere and Trump vs The Illuminati.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nolan's next movie should be an adaptation of The Bible expressly filmed for the Las Vegas Sphere.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Wizard of Oz at the Sphere is amazing. Somewhat unrelated, I’m reminded of the greatest “review of that movie ever:
neutral · AI labelView post →Pick literally any Michael Crichton movie. I’ll go with Sphere.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dinner tonight. Going to see the U2 concert film at the Sphere tonight. Saw Blue Man Group and Michael Jackson One yesterday-both were very good!
neutral · AI labelView post →I was thinking of the movie Sphere, which also had many people die, but obviously a sphere is a different shape than a cube.
neutral · AI labelView post →Blogosphere? manosphere? The movie Sphere with Dustin Hoffman? connect the dots already folks
neutral · AI labelView post →With a more imaginative soundtrack, this movie could have been something. 🤦♂️ #HorrorWatch #Sphere
negative · AI labelView post →What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times? Not my favorite, but definitely the one I've seen the most. I even saw it at The Sphere in Vegas.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dustin Hofmann has a great line in the movie Sphere when asked if he wanted the computer to be happy and he says something to the effect of no, I don’t want it to feel anything
neutral · AI labelView post →- Sphere (1998) - The 6th Day (2000) - Deep Blue Sea (1999) - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) - Transformers: The Movie (1986)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Edge discusses U2's concert movie at Las Vegas Sphere www.latimes.com/entertainmen... #U2 #VU2
neutral · AI labelView post →I would never have predicted the first Disney movie to be presented at the Sphere would be Rocky Horror
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: Sphere (1998)
neutral · AI labelView post →With his “actor” background in context, it would not surprise if Ellison found a way for himself to cameo in a movie, similar to how Zaslav became a munchkin in the Sphere version of Wizard of Oz
neutral · AI labelView post →In honor of Spooky Month, what piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child? TW: Thalassaphobia I wasn't supposed to see it, but I did. The movie "Sphere" is the primary reason I am scared of deep water. Runner Up: I was going through my dad's comics, and found "Turok";
neutral · AI labelView post →#booksky #books 6865 Best Of British / Maurice Sellar (Sphere 1987, internet £2.28) Bombardier Billy Wells smashes the (silent) gong and another Rank movie begins : a thin collage of related stories and illustrations, distinguished by those photos and the smugness of knowing so many of the titles
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