Heyo! No you’re not alone I think about this movie all the time. It was one of my favorite books as a kid and honestly I think the movie is great. I never understood the hate for it, it’s such a unique film

NO! You are not alone in your assessment of this film. It was a great movie that caused you to take an honest look at the possibilities of humanity and black holes. I loved it ;)

Loved this movie. Underrated

Its a product of its time. I think this movie could have been much stronger say 10-15 years later perhaps? Less of the 90s silly bagage. BUT its a hell of a lot less silly that its contemporaries. Its clever, well acted, good cast, special effects are ok for the time. It should not have been a bomb because its not a bad movie. Not even close.

My favorite part of the book and the film is that it deals with arguably the coolest (and most difficult to explore) super power in all of fiction, and it's not time travel. It's reality manipulation

From release it, and The Abyss have been some of my favorite films of all time. Sure there are plot holes but it has a great atmosphere.

I read the book as a kid and loved it and just recently watched the film for the first time and couldn’t understand why everyone said it was so bad, it’s quite faithful to the novel and I thought was well executed and entertaining.

Sphere showed the power of the mind. What you believe is what you subconsciously project into your reality. The movie watching collective was not ready for that in the late 1990’s especially from Michael Crichton. They wanted another amusement ride to safely take them on a roller coaster of emotions and a dumb ending that would not make them question everything.

You’re definitely not alone. Just finished reading the book again after more than 20 years; I always liked the film, probably because of my long time love towards Dustin Hoffman as an actor. I think the movie caputred brilliantly the claustrophobic atmosphere of the book. Plus I think the main intention of the author of the book - Michael Crichton - and therefore the screenwriters was mainly drama about people under tremendous stress and not some action packed sci fi thriller. Plus, let’s not forget the time when the movie was originally released in the US theatres - it was about the time when “Titanic” was still no. 1 movie at the box office. :)

I've probably seen sphere like 300 times I have it on DVD and on my PS Vita😊 it sits as my 2nd favorite movie after EventHorizon.

I have loved this movie since I first saw it at a theater when I was 13. The box office poison thing always perplexed me.

Nope! Loved it ever since it came out when i was 15 years old… connected with it immediately… unfortunately i skipped it in theatres and only picked it up as a rental… but i think i‘ve seen it a dozen times since then and got all the releases it got which were not many… hell it didn’t even get a blu ray release where i live (germany) so i had to import it… Elliot Goldenthals score is fantastic and one of the reasons why i love it so much…

I didn't see the movie when it was released as I wasn't shown where I lived but I was shown 2 years later on cable TV and I recorded it. It was an interesting movie and it's ending made a perfect sense to me as it resolved both the dangers of reality warping powers and the time paradox. A significant part for the bombing was the release date. January/February release is almost a guaranteed bomb.

Personally I thought the casting was awful, they just picked the wrong actor's for the roles. I'd already read the book & the actor's did not fit the roles, imho.

This is the scene, Copycat Nolan's entire 'They' concept from Interstellar, and DeCaprio's fear manifesting to sabotage the mission in Inception. As well as the 'future people' idea from Tenet. Cooper - "They didn't choose me Tars, they placed the Tesseract next to the singularity hoping I would fall into the blackhole and send the message to Murph.. Because of our connection the watch I gave it to her." Also Cooper - "Who are they?" Dr. Brand - "I can't tell you unless you join the mission." Romely - "What's a three dimensional circle Cooper?"

I loved the sphere, the only thing is i wish we could of seen the giant squid

Had no idea it bombed, thought it was great

I read it for the first time this month. After having seen it back when it came out. Seeing the movie first kinda ruined the book for me but I delighted in the expansion of the story; and, the technical/logical aspects of Crichton's writing. (The man accomplished a hell of a lot in his lifetime.) What sticks is that the book was really concerned with not only presenting questions but also describing fear and paranoia. The experiments discussed early in book describe exactly why this group is unlikely to fall apart. And yet they fall apart because what they encounter changes/exposes who they are. I digress. The book and movie are fascinating. Would loved to have seen it as a Sci Fi Channel mini series, back in the day, that's closer to the book. Like Dune or The Triangle.

I love this movie and book!

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Maybe because the wrong aspect ratio made everyone look like they had very long faces.

I rather enjoyed Sphere, but I feel it didn't let its concepts linger. Compare it to Carpenter's The Thing and there's this clear distinction of paranoia that works and can breathe and a film that rushes from beat to beat with a few key exemptions such as the beautiful "we die down here" scene. I still love this film, but largely feel it was paced, edited, or directed in a way that wasn't compatible with its strengths.

I loved the movie even got the book by Michael Crichton

"Sphere" is one of my favorite novels by Michael Crichton (even though my 30-something self recognizes the flaws in his writing - mostly the dialogue), but this movie adaptation just didn't work for me. As a teenager, I remember my biggest annoyance being the fact that the giant squid never appears on-screen (except for synthetic aperture sonar imagery and the brief shot of its tail passing the habitat porthole), which feels like a cheap artistic trick.

Just watched this movie. Loved it! Keep it going dude

Really good essay/review

"To say that Sphere isn't everyone's cup of tea goes without saying." Are you for real? This is, like Korean AI, right?

Need to this movie again now.

Back in the late 90s i read the novel of which the movie is based on, and it was not bad at all. To discover a movie was made has given me an itch that I need to scratch so bad!!

Nah i just rewatched it after watching abyss and leviathan (which really was just the thing underwater) and this mivie was great. I loved it. Crichtons work is so underrated

Stupid ending. We saw it in theaters and hated they took an interesting movie and ruined it with oh hey btw ______. Me and my dad still laugh about how disappointed we were by it 25+ years later.

I've always dug this flick quite a bit.

what the hell is a techno-thriller?

I love sphere

An extra scene from a tv airing on the SciFi Channel in 2000 I believe.

yet Ridley learned nothing, and did the same thing in Prometheus...and then in alien covenant

Isn't there a tv adaptation in the works?

term guilty pleasures should be regarded for bad movies not for movies that didn't made gilizions $$$

A bit to deep for the average Joe.

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It just plain sucked

I really hated this one. Almost every role was badly mis-cast.

Because it is pretty boring, I guess

Audiences are dumb! Just look at all the remakes. Does anyone read Shakespeare anymore???