The Weekly Planet - Sphere - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

Ever heard of Jurassic Park? Michael Crichton’s greatest adaptation! Well get ready for another adaptation that’s not Congo, Sphere. A movie about aliens and time travel and Sphere’s and nightma...res. Starring a young…ish Samuel L Jackson, Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone it sank like a bloody stone at the box office due to poor reception and general disinterest in its blend of sci-fi and horror. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review!SUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNVideo Edition ► https://youtu.be/N-9HfQskrGwHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.coQm/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:01:15 We're only two in God bless you God bless you and we forgive you Not if you haven't come back. We don't forgive you now. Look, I'll be honest though I think this blessing you've given from the Lord himself. Yeah. I mean, the last one was pretty good. The last one was fun. It was fun at least. It was pretty fun. I think people probably would have been like, you know, I saw this video, maybe I watched a bit of Congo, I had a bit of fun.
Starting point is 00:01:36 Now I'll watch the next one. I think next week is the acid test. People stick around after Sphere. After Michael Crichton's Sphere. Please leave a like by the way. For the book Sphere, as opposed to the movie adaptation. Did you read Sphere. After Michael Crichton's Sphere. Please leave a like by the way. For the book Sphere as opposed to the movie adaptation. Did you read Sphere? Skimmed it. No you didn't. I skimmed it. When though? I have time. In 1990 when it came out. No recently a few days ago. I'm like oh yeah I get it Sphere. It's the same basic concept the spheres a different color in the book to be fair we'll talk about it.
Starting point is 00:02:01 And look people are talking about spheres in the modern era That Las Vegas sphere Yeah People are loving that Yeah you go and see U2 inside it and they tell you it's a beautiful day but it's a song Wow Yeah I feel like though if you're here then you're a person of substance who supports us no matter what If you're here you're a person of sphere You know it's fun to say
Starting point is 00:02:21 It is fun to say But is it fun to watch? No No This is directed by Barry Levinson The great Barry Levinson You know, it's fun to say. It is fun to say. But is it fun to watch? No. No. This is directed by... Barry Levinson.
Starting point is 00:02:28 The great Barry Levinson. To name a few, Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man, Tootsie, Woke by the way, Sleevers. Oh no. Yeah, Rain Man. I mean, I'd say he's probably best known for Rain Man. Sure. Famously featuring Dustin Hoffman. That's right.
Starting point is 00:02:41 So he's dusted off Dustin here. He's given Dustin a dust and he said, do you want to come back? Just be in this movie where you're underwater for a bit I think we're trying to get you to stand next to Sharon Stone too much because she's a head taller than you Dustin Hoffman. Hmm. Yeah, we have to talk about the story of this because nobody knows what these are Mm-hmm. Do you want to break down the movie sphere? Okay, so full spoilers for sphere full spoilers for sphere Full spoilers for Sphere. Full spoilers for Sphere.
Starting point is 00:03:04 Okay, so the government have been doing some digging in the ocean, or should that be splashing? Because there's no dirt. There's some dirt, but it's at the bottom. But they've been doing some splashing in the ocean, and they've discovered that there is some sort of spacecraft that has been under the water for nearly 300 years. So they put together a team. That's interesting. Because Dustin Hoffman is some kind of science guy and he's like you know the perfect team. The perfect team needs to be me Dustin Hoffman. Needs to be Samuel L Jackson. Is this his second Crichton adaptation? It is after Jurassic Park.
Starting point is 00:03:36 Does he do any more? Maybe he's in timeline we'll find out next week. Maybe he's in the 13th warrior. He might be the 13th warrior. Maybe he's the 11th or 12th warrior. We don't know Sharon Stone needs to be there. Leif Schreiber needs to be there because they're all different kinds of scientists or something Mathematicians. The geekiest that Leif Schreiber has ever been. Now he's Ray Donovan. He's a big strong man He would never do this now. Is he not also an intellectual Ray Donovan? No, I don't think so. Does he have the Warriors mindset Ray Donovan? What does he do? He's a problem solver or something? He goes to companies and he kidnaps people or something. Is that what he does?
Starting point is 00:04:10 He kidnaps the HR guy. That's a job. Stop it Stop it. All right He might a fixer or something. Yeah fix. I don't know. Anyway, they're like we think that this is an alien spaceship that landed here You know in the in the 1700s or whatever So we're gonna send a team and they're gonna go there and if there's aliens there you're all gonna talk to them or whatever Yeah, because we can only assume the aliens have survived to 300 years I agree, but then they got a maiden attempt to leave or anything. That's true Yeah, and then they go underwater and then they get in the spaceship and they're like, huh
Starting point is 00:04:42 What are this? What are the signages in English? What of gantries a lot of gantries. A lot of gantries that look, that are very hospitable to humans. They've got the nice guard rails and everything. Is this the set of the abyss we've stumbled into? Might be. Well, yeah, James Cameron sank it.
Starting point is 00:04:56 He made a point to sink it after they finished filming. But they're like, actually, this is a spaceship from the future. But an Earth American spaceship from the future. From the year something 43. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they make the assumption 2043, but I'm like, come on.
Starting point is 00:05:13 Let's be realistic. Now that we're in this economy. Right, now we're in 2025. They're gonna be big time spaceships in 2043? Unlikely. As one Elon Musk's spaceship's gonna survive landing in the ocean. I mean, let alone going into a black hole. So anyway these future human beings they encounter something in space
Starting point is 00:05:30 I don't know what it is. It says it's an unknown event. And so they're like, alright, let's just fly through it Let's see what happens. Anyway turns out to be a black hole. It flings them back to the past Yep to play some games that suck ass But actually it ends up, you know 300 years in the past. Yeah, like, well this is crazy. What secrets could be in the spaceship of Sphere? Yeah. If you're wondering is the spaceship of Sphere? No it's not. The Sphere is unrelated. It's some kind of alien entity slash piece of technology. Like they found it in space before they got flying into the black hole. It makes your dreams come true and you might think that's good but often... You might haul an oat style.
Starting point is 00:06:00 You make my dreams come true. I mean if your dream is being attacked by a giant squid. It is Every night But James that's the mystery that doesn't they don't figure that in and immediately no first of all they look at the sphere And they're like whoa pretty good. I mean it's pretty cool. It reflects everything except us How's it do that 90 CGI? But then one by one they're all like, I'm gonna go into the sphere. I mean we've touched it, we're pretty sure it's impenetrable but what if I just waited till everybody was asleep
Starting point is 00:06:30 and then I just went in the room with it and I looked at it for a bit and then I'm like I'm gonna walk into the sphere. What would happen? And they walk into the sphere. And then they come back out and they're like I'm forever changed, lol. And you think like, oh my god what's happening?
Starting point is 00:06:43 Who has walked into the sphere? It's very obvious that all of them have walked into the sphere at some point or another at some point or other yeah then what happens is when they go to sleep yeah some sometimes when they go to sleep whatever they dream comes comes true sometimes they can snake or octopus or flooding or fire or explosions although I had a bad dream where everything exploded well everything exploded in real life I was reading a book and while I was doing that I was thinking about other books and now there's books everywhere I cheated on the book I was reading with another book that I dreamed about and then the books appeared whatever incredible stuff
Starting point is 00:07:10 Oh great Uh, so you watched a very interesting formatted version of this movie Which obviously the studio doesn't care about because nobody has checked in. Well I rented it on YouTube a reputable streaming video platform That's Gugel.com. that is that is owned by Google.com and it's it's it's formatted like an old box style TV, but like back in the day when you watched a A widescreen movie on your little box TV if they just cut off the edges Yeah, but what what YouTube's done is just squished the widescreen version into a little box So I've got these big black borders and everybody's really squished and tall.
Starting point is 00:07:47 Even Dustin Hoffman, the littlest man in Hollywood. That just goes to show that nobody's keeping an eye on the movie sphere. Absolutely not, no. If this was The Abyss or Contact or Event Horizon or any other number of movies from the 90s where you find an alien entity. Well see that's the thing as well, this is just Event Horizon but not as interesting, right? Yeah, or The Abyss but not as interesting. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:10 And The Abyss itself I find is not that interesting. Sure, sure, sure. From memory. So it's the Event Horizon but boring. Event Horizon's crazy. You can't go back to this after Event Horizon? Similar era, yeah, though you're right. I think there's some really interesting ideas in this.
Starting point is 00:08:26 For example, the reason this crew has been assembled to talk to this alien entity or what could be, is because Dustin Hoffman wrote a paper for the Bush administration for 35 grand to kind of roughly outline what would happen if you make contact. But he just made it up
Starting point is 00:08:42 and he's like, yeah I put some stuff that was like actual research but it was some Isaac Asimov and some Rod Sterling and he's just like whatever and the military has taken this as the bible of contacting anything and so he's down there kind of like, I don't know. I don't know, bring in Samuel L Jackson I guess. He's quite charming, I don't know. I think also there's really interesting concepts and questions that are posed and they're not explored. Like, why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is time cyclical? Spheres.
Starting point is 00:09:11 Why doesn't the sphere reflect the humans? Never explained. Well, I think it does reflect the humans once you go in it. Oh, metaphorically. Then it reflects your psyche. Oh. Okay, but why doesn't it do it literally? Oh, no, I don't know. How's it doing that?
Starting point is 00:09:22 It reflects what it wants to do. It chooses what to do or something. It's a computer of the mind. I don't know I guess it is a computer of the mind And that's cool and exciting. Yeah, I think there's some interesting appearances Queen Latifah is in this. She's in it to be killed Yeah, that's true by a bunch of jellyfish. They aren't really jellyfish because they're sphere related They figure that out. It features a rare Huey Lewis acting performance, which you might sporadically get. That's true. He might do a Back to the Future. Can I bring the news in here?
Starting point is 00:09:50 To this underwater spaceship? No, you cannot Huey Lewis. You cannot bring your band of the news. He did the movie Duets with Gwyneth Paltrow. That's true, they were cruising together. They were cruising together. So yeah, it's nice to see Huey Lewis show up. But again, interesting ideas, but it's just boring. It's suffering. Because it's like, are we in a time loop potentially? Because it's stated by Samuel L. Jackson very early on that if
Starting point is 00:10:09 this is a spaceship from the future that is a result of time travel, they didn't know they were going to do time travel because it was an unknown era that happened to them, which means that nobody must have made it out of this incident to say that time travel happened. You've made it very confusing and I'm delighted in that right. Samuel Jackson is saying the present day crew of explorers who've come to explore this spaceship, they know now that that was a time travel incident. So that means that they should have gotten out of the spaceship, told people about it and then the crew in the future would know they were going to fall into that and not fall into that
Starting point is 00:10:45 Trap but the fact that they'd still did means that Sammy L Jackson and team died underwater So how they're gonna get out of that Mason you've made it confusing. Let me break it down for you So basically in the future. Yes time travel. It's a loop. Where is it? It's in the sphere Not really this feels unrelated this fear doesn't do any time travel stuff. That's unrelated It does shoot into space at the end, but that's unrelated that is unrelated Yes, it shoots into space to potentially get caught in a time loop again. Oh, yeah I mean, it's obviously the same sphere but like is does
Starting point is 00:11:16 What happens is? Mason the spaceship crew in the future they find the sphere in space and they bring it into the spaceship And then what happens is they All go into the sphere. This is separate. This is a different crew They went in the sphere they go into the sphere and then what happens is when you go into the sphere changes something about you So that your dreams become reality the whole of node style and making your dreams come true. Yeah, and then they all Killed each other with their dreams. Basically. They were like, oh, what if, I don't know, meteors and what else? What if I hit you in the head with a hammer?
Starting point is 00:11:49 What if all my astronaut ice cream killed you? What? You know what I mean? Came alive. That's the astronaut's worst nightmare. I don't know if you know that. I didn't know that. Not that it comes out of its container, it's all gloopy and gritty and you don't like it,
Starting point is 00:12:02 it's actually, why even bother? Why is it even called ice cream? Exactly. It's that it would come alive and kill you Yeah, grotanicals or whatever so they all died and then the ship fell in a black hole crazy stuff Where were we going with this and then the sphere? Goes back into space and then it survives for whatever amount of time and then it happened does it again. Yeah Yeah, till 20-23. Get a job sphere. Yeah, right. What are you doing? Yeah God pay rent start paying rent to the sphere Start showing stuff on the outside here like the real sphere the good sphere in Vegas
Starting point is 00:12:31 Goddamn. I think yeah again I keep coming back to this but there's so many interesting questions posed like before they go into the ship Samuel L. Jackson says it could be aliens and it might just kill us and Dustin Hoffman's like well Why would it kill us? Why would it wait for us to do that? And he's like, well, maybe it's like an infinite life form where it has no concept of life or death. That's meaningless. So killing something is like so far
Starting point is 00:12:53 out of its scope of understanding. And I'm like, that's interesting, but then- And then they go into the spaceship and it's just gantries, you're right. Yeah. Gantries and vending machines and so forth. You know why I think it is this kind of twisty, meandering kind of story?
Starting point is 00:13:05 Is because apparently a lot of this was also improved. And I don't think- Oh no, that's the- No! You shouldn't improv a time travel story. We just tried to do it! It didn't work! I mean comedically it was gold.
Starting point is 00:13:19 Or champagne like a sphere. That's so true. Well speaking of, the sphere in this is a a champagne colour but in the book it's chrome. Okay. But when they were testing it and it took them nine months to figure this out. When you have a chrome ball reflecting a dark room the ball is basically invisible. Right. So they eventually landed on this kind of... You can't do chrome on screen. Robo- they learned that in RoboCop in 1980 whatever. Yeah, exactly. So I would say probably the improv stuff would have been Because some of the characters have history with each other
Starting point is 00:13:48 Oh, yeah, like Sharon Stone's character had a drug problem And it was mean to Dustin Hoffman back in the day, and you shouldn't have been mean No, wasn't it also that they had a relationship, but he was married, but also she was like his patient That's true, and then she realized she was a foot taller than it and she had to break it off Yes, like heights not everything. I hope you get on drugs. I'm gonna put you on my spaceship list Hope you get sucked up into a spaceship. Hope you get crushed by a bunch of box with empty pages. I hope that's what happens I I think if you're doing a sci-fi narrative yet, it has to be tight You kind of got to get that stuff down pat.
Starting point is 00:14:25 So the filming of this is kind of interesting. It was shot in- Kind of interesting. Kind of interesting. It was shot in the dark. On like two stages. Well, there was a lot of model work. Okay.
Starting point is 00:14:35 It does remind me a little bit of Red Dwarf. Absolutely. But more interesting stuff happens in Red Dwarf. That is true, every episode. There's a one sixth scale sub. Most of that spaceship is real. Say that five times fast. I won't. Okay. That spaceship is like mostly real. It's a practical model. Okay, but is it gonna go into space?
Starting point is 00:14:50 No, then it's not really a pranks. Oh, that's good, isn't it? Yeah, I guess it's good So they were initially thinking of filming this on the open water instead of doing it in tanks Which is what they ended up doing but then because of water world which had come out a few years prior They were like that was a disaster and the budget blew out. They apparently saved $20 million not doing that. They learned from Kevin Costner, the best. That's true.
Starting point is 00:15:11 So we haven't really mentioned it, but this is also kind of a horror movie. Kind of. But it's nice. But again, compared to Aventurizer, come on man. Oh my god, which is horrifying, people nailing their eyes shut or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then Dustin Hoffman's out in the water being like, ooh, a sea serpent, a little one. Just grab it, idiot.
Starting point is 00:15:27 Yeah, grab it. Grab it and bash it against a rock. It's also, imagine it's not a sea serpent. Imagine it's ice cream. Use your imagining powers. You should have just used your imagining powers against it. He didn't know he had imagining powers until the end.
Starting point is 00:15:39 Yeah, cause he didn't remember that he went into the sphere. Yeah, but the horrors aren't that horrible. There's a giant squid and I'm like, oh, wouldn't that be interesting? Well, I guess if you saw it, which you don't, you see it on the radar and they're like, that's the biggest squid that's ever happened. But here's the thing, James,
Starting point is 00:15:53 they saved $20 million on not filming on open water. They are gonna be goddamned if they're gonna spend that $20 million on anything else. They're gonna finish this movie at the end, they're gonna be 20 million in the black, you know what I mean? Then they get to keep it. Yeah, I guess that's true I think it's fairly well budgeted and it looks good for how much they put into it
Starting point is 00:16:10 It was 50 million dollars. We'll talk more about what it made in a bit, but I'm gonna say For people watching James just lost his train of thought While talking about this movie and he just sometimes a lot of the time you get it back you know we edit out the dead space. This isn't coming back. No. I'm going into my brain it's not there and it's like it was never there. Right? You know like here's an interesting fact about the movie Sphere and then you just blacked out his head cracked onto the table. I don't know man I just would have liked to have seen a giant squid. I would have liked to see anything. I sent a text to you at one point and it said, I've got an hour left of sphere.
Starting point is 00:16:49 Boy it sure would be nice if something happens in an hour. And honestly I'm not sure if I would have meant in the movie or just in my life. Like maybe if the roof collapsed in my house, that'd be something wouldn't it? You know? I could call emergency services, they'd come around. Yeah absolutely. I could have a chat about you know, a busy night. No.
Starting point is 00:17:06 Been on long? Not at all. Okay. Oh, they're asking you or you're asking them? We're both asking each other. Yeah. Okay. You're like, stay, watch the movie Sphere with me. They're like, oh, I don't think so, mate. Not again.
Starting point is 00:17:17 If in fact I have watched it. No, no, no, no. I'd imagine there'd be a lot of call-outs, people watching the movie Sphere. And they'd be like, I can't, I need to call somebody. So the ending, everybody dies except the three main characters. Even Leif Schreiber gets his head torched. He is on fire. Deserved, because he's a big nerd.
Starting point is 00:17:34 And Samuel L. Jackson hates him and he's cool. That's so true, isn't it? Yeah. So at the end, the reason why nobody remembers the Sphere or time travel is because they still all have the powers of the Sphere. The wishing and the dreaming. Yeah, so they hold hands and they wish and they dream and they hope that they don't remember the sphere. That they forget all the walking into the sphere and then all the crimes they did to each other.
Starting point is 00:17:54 Yeah, oh my god, they killed each other and so many others. Yeah. And so they're like, man, we're rapidly reaching the surface. I really hope we don't face justice for any of the things that we did. So let's wish and dream that they didn't happen. Mm-hmm, and they just forget they still did happen leaf striper still dead Yeah, Queen Latif is still dead. Yeah, can you bring people back from the dead using the sphere? I don't know. I mean if you can magic a giant squid, why can't you magic a person back? These are questions we can only ask Michael Crichton or the sphere both of which are gone. That's true
Starting point is 00:18:24 RIP the sphere both of which are gone. That's true. All right pay the sphere And Michael Crichton. Yeah, well at least at the end very tall is a fun fact. Yeah, he's giant Well at least at the end giant he's don't be interesting. He's pretty tall. That'd be too interesting a fact for this video I heard he was snook sized with the hologram not the man. Wow. Yeah big. That's big. That's big. Yeah Yeah, well at least at the end he told Sharon Stone that he fucked up. He. Yeah, that's big. That's big. That's big. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well at least at the end He told Sharon Stone that he fucked up. He's like hey man I shouldn't have done that that was crooked me actually and you're right to break up with me when we eventually both stood up Now let's erase this apology forever with wishing and dreaming. Yeah, but I think again, there's better
Starting point is 00:18:59 90s slash 80s movies about looking at an alien life form. There's contact event horizon Independence Day the The Abyss, Alien, Alien, Independence Day, Resurgence. These are all better movies about looking at a ball or something. The Predator? No, not that one. Doesn't have a ball in it? The Shane Black one? Yeah, doesn't have a big ball in it? In the end there's a Predator suit in the big ball or something? I reckon that came out of a big ball. I think we're looking at those this year. I don't want to. Well, you have to. There's at least five. the big ball. Oh, yeah, I reckon that came out of a big ball I think we're looking at those this year. I don't want to well you have to there's at least five What if we wish and dreamed so I haven't mentioned this up until this point, but the sphere from sphere is in this room right now
Starting point is 00:19:33 It just appeared if we really want to we could wish and dream and not have to do well Can I wish and dream that I can see myself in the sphere or can it not do that? I can't do that. Okay, great. Well, that's all I wanted. Anyway, this time for Sphere-ia This is the trivia section of the show where I say hey sphere the movie is some trivia fans Or can it not do that? I can't do that. Okay, great. Well, that's all I wanted. Anyway, it's time for Sphere. This is the trivia section of the show where I say, hey Sphere, the movie, here's some trivia about it. Hey Sphere fans. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:51 All none of you. Hey there's fans out there. Due to budgetary concerns, pre-production on this stopped in October of 1996 and the script was revised, apparently. And in the interim, Barry Levinson directed Wag the Dog also with Dustin Hoffman Oh, there you go There you go, better movie It is a better movie
Starting point is 00:20:07 And Samuel L. Jackson would work on this film during the week and then work on Jackie Brown apparently on the weekends That's a better movie Better movie mate It's a much better movie. It might be Tarantino's best I am H.O. Whoa That's right Here's something that's gonna blow your mind Joseph Hahn the DJ in the rock band Link Lincoln Park designed the sea snake through concept art
Starting point is 00:20:27 There you go crawling in my skin these Snakes they again my shorts And those are big shorts so they could that snake could be anywhere In any number of the cargo pockets. I don't know whether this is true I found this piece on IMDB trivia's which is mostly lies Barry Le Levinson toyed with the idea of having Queen Latifah and Huey Lewis recorded duet for the end credits Oh my god retelling the events of the film It's hip to be sphere Incredible there's still time or AI could do it. Yeah, potentially sure Huey Lewis has an inner ear condition now
Starting point is 00:21:01 He can't sing anymore. Send me a tie. I didn't know that. That sucks, I like you, Lewis. Anyways, you're not going to believe this, but reviews for this were bad. I can believe that, actually. Here's what some people said. Ordinary. Devoid of suspense. Did someone say turgid? I'm not 100% sure what that term means, but it seems appropriate.
Starting point is 00:21:19 We're technically reviewers. What a turgid experience. That's right. An A-level cast working with B-grade material. That is probably true. Dustin Hoffman also, he was disappointed with the film, feeling that it could have done with more time just to flesh out the ideas of Sphere. And I don't disagree. I bet it would be longer, wouldn't it? Yeah, I guess so. But this did lead to a better Barry Levinson film because one EW review said this and this is pretty fucking ordinary. Okay I can't wait. The empathetic Jewish psychologist. This is about Dustin Hoffman's character. Okay so he's not officially Jewish he's only
Starting point is 00:21:54 Hoffman who arrives at the floating habitat and immediately announces nodgy and mensch like I'd like to call my family you do the math. So that was a criticism of this movie a character who's not named specifically to be Jewish is? Wasn't Jewish, it is? But not Jewish enough? I don't think so. I think you're saying it's some kind of cliche. Oh.
Starting point is 00:22:15 Yeah, I mean, he does a lot of muttering, but I don't think that's a Jewish thing. I think that's a Dustin Hoffman thing. That's a Dustin Hoffman thing. But this led Barry Levinson to make Liberty Heights as he wanted to make a movie that reflected his experiences growing up Jewish in Baltimore which examined race, religion and segregation. It was basically like what the fuck does Dustin Hoffman being Jewish have to do
Starting point is 00:22:34 with the movie sphere? Nothing I would argue. And so he made that movie which I think is that's good. It's good to make a better thing when you did a bad thing. Oh by the way sorry the budget wasn budget wasn't $50 million, the budget was $80 million. That's too much. And the box office return for this was $73.4. Big bomb. But there's a few reasons why. One, it was bad.
Starting point is 00:22:54 Two, it opened on the same day as the Wedding Singer. Three, Titanic opened in December of 1997. Sphere opened February 4th,'s Day for those who observe it and Titanic was still just still in sin and for a year. Yeah, right. Yeah, you could buy the VHS That's right. You can to pay yet VHS is probably the DVD you had to flip over I'm like that ran out of room on one side. I'm just running out of room Mmm. Anyways, the movie sphere. I think this is the final word on it. We've got a covered This is the definitive word. I think they should add final word on it. We've got a covered. This is the definitive word I think they should add this to the 4k or the blu-ray
Starting point is 00:23:28 This is an extra feature all squished up all squished up the all squished up edition. I Also have to play it at volume 100 on my TV that is how low the volume all it was on this Yeah, I don't disagree Mason. Why Why would you release it in this state? I didn't. Yeah. Alright it was me. Come on man. Anyways if you like these videos guess what you have to come back next week because they're doing the final of the Michael Crichton adaptation movies. Oh we're only doing three. We could do more I guess. I don't want to do more than three. I don't want to do two. I like Kongo. Kongo was fun. Well then shut up about it. Maybe you shut up
Starting point is 00:24:05 All right, I will. What's next week? Timeline. Oh, that's a movie that might not even exist That's another time one. It is a time one. But the clue is it's got time in the name. Correct. Unless it's about lines. Might be Sounds boring. I agree. I'm gonna try and read that before we do it. No, come on man. Let's be realistic Sometimes I come through sometimes I do don't I? I come through. Sometimes I do, don't I? That's true. Sometimes I do. That's true. Sometimes I'll elaborately puppet a goat for no reason.
Starting point is 00:24:29 That's true. Was that this video? No, that was the previous one. Okay, right. Here it is again. That's right. That cost me $9,000. Anyways, if you do want to see that early, you can actually support us by going to BigSandwich.co.
Starting point is 00:24:40 It's like our private Patreon. Not only are there early videos, we do video game let's plays. We recently looked at an incredible Jurassic Park arcade game. If you don't want to see that early, you can actually support us by going to BigSandwich.co. It's like our private Patreon. Not only are there early videos, we do video game let's plays. We recently looked at an incredible Jurassic Park arcade game. There's a bunch of other ones there. We also do movie commentaries. We do bonus podcasts. We also have a podcast called The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows.
Starting point is 00:24:59 That goes out early there on Sunday, but also you can listen to it on YouTube. It's got its own channel. On YouTube. It's got its own channel. On Spotify, it's got its own Spotify. On Apple, it's Apple. It's got its own Apples. It's got its own Apples. It's got its own Apples. It's a bit of fun, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:25:12 It's a bit of fun. We talk the news of the week and then a movie, etc. Alright. Thank you so much to Ben for the edit. Thank you, Ben. Thank you so much to Lawrence for the edit. Thank you, Lawrence. Thank you so much to Ben and Lawrence for the edit.
Starting point is 00:25:23 Thank you, Ben and Lawrence. And let's ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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