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Jackson’s the Black guy in what turns into a horror movie. Jackson thing-it feels like there are some optics.
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Sphere’s got a very limited cast-seven people in a habitat next to a giant spaceship, crash landed 300 years ago, but you’d need a support crew of a dozen to get everything done in the movie you need to get done considering they’re a bunch of narcissistic academics.īut back to the Schreiber vs.
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Of course, the second act stuff isn’t his fault exactly because the film needs its eggheads-Jackson’s a mathematician, Schreiber’s physics, Hoffman’s a psychologist, Stone’s a biochemist-to do all sorts of things you’re not sure they’d know how to do… like setting explosives, repairing underwater habitats, on the fly code-cracking-Stone’s basically a medic, they all know how to get into their underwater suits and go for solo strolls.
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Schreiber’s a lot better being annoying and doing exposition dumps than not being as annoying and giving them. Jackson doesn’t like Schreiber because he thinks he’s obnoxious, which is fine-though Schreiber gets intentionally less obnoxious in the second act and it backfires. There’s also these weird optics about competitiveness between Jackson and Schreiber and it’s inexplicable why Schreiber’s got it out for Jackson. Schreiber busts his ass to show-off in a bad part. He used the money to pay for the downpayment on his house, making one wonder what everyone involved with Sphere did with their paychecks before turning in their bullshit…. Jackson, before the government submarines them to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to meet space aliens, Hoffman bullshitted a report about how he, Jackson, Stone, and physics whiz kid Liev Schreiber should be the ones to first contact with any space aliens. Amusingly lead Dustin Hoffman has a bit-apparently ad-libbed-where he explains to Samuel L. At 134 minutes, it’s a bit of a chore to watch but I imagine it was even more of a chore to make with so little investment whatsoever. He’s not interested in executing the film successfully, just executing it. Vapid is the word for Levinson’s direction. It’s incompetently written, incompetently produced, but Levinson’s direction isn’t actually incompetent.
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Script’s a big problem but Levinson’s inability to crack any aspect of the project is the biggest. But there’s so much to fix, so much to compensate for, director Levinson just gives up on even trying. It’s got ludicrous character development and bad pacing, and is artificially bewildering and exceptionally crappy to women, specifically Sharon Stone. Whatever Kurt Wimmer (ominously credited with “adaptation”), Stephen Hauser, and Paul Attanasio did to adapt the Michael Crichton source novel does not a successful script make. I don’t think you could justify spending a dollar to rent a copy to watch, much less eighty million of them to make the thing. Sphere is not a justifiable use of eighty million dollars.