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A comment on The Sphere.

Re:The Sphere by oceanplexian on Thursday July 04, 2024 @01:55AM (#40872634)
U2 was fantastic, and they really took advantage of the format but Postcards from Earth was awful. They didn’t correct a lot of the video so you’d have things like pillars and objects like trees that were curved. And the cheap tickets are at least $100.

The other problem was that the story, [Spoiler Alert] has an environmentalist theme but it was being told on the world’s largest LED screen in a giant air conditioned death star in the middle of the desert. I found this kind of ironic.

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Re:The Sphere by serial_dev on Thursday July 04, 2024 @03:38AM (#40873089)
I believe it's like 3D movies, I remember the Avatar was great and everyone wanted to see it. Every other production afterwards, you were just thinking, why is this 3D, how does that add to the experience?

Probably the same with U2 and the sphere, they had the time, budget and will to make it a great experience, other productions just rely on the Sphere hype and try to cash in with whatever garbage they can deliver within a constrained timeline and budget, making everyone quickly disillusioned in the whole genre.

I do wonder how is a live event, like UFC, translate to the Sphere.

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Re:The Sphere by japhyr on Thursday July 04, 2024 @02:07AM (#40872692)
> I found this kind of ironic.

And the main message was "It's okay, we'll just go out and recreate Adam and Eve on other planets until Earth has had time to heal."

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Re:The Sphere by fabbari on Thursday July 04, 2024 @10:00AM (#40875035)
The kicker for me was: only few people are allowed back the recovered Earth. Any guesses about who gets to go back and enjoy a pristine Earth?
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Re:The Sphere by lawlessone on Thursday July 04, 2024 @01:10PM (#40876462)
> Any guesses about who gets to go back and enjoy a pristine Earth?

The guy who makes electric cars or the one that runs an online catalogue?

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Re:The Sphere by brookst on Thursday July 04, 2024 @11:54AM (#40875853)
Environment is a theme, but not sure about environmentalism. I am pretty sure the message is “don’t sweat it, we can always bet another one when we mess this one up”.
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