Cheapest tickets to see this at the Sphere cost over $200

"$200"...for THAT piece of garbage? Are you nuts?

Are you F’ing kidding me? That looks like masking from a noob photoshop beginner. 200 bucks is insane

$200 for that? You can watch the og for next to nothing and looks 1000x better. These companies just get richer off these people cause they people fall for this nonsense like it’s some unique and never before seem experience. Gtfo 😭You’re being cheated and ripped off.

You can watch the og for ABSOLUTELY nothing. Call your local library.

Exactly! People can watch it for free! They probably even have multiple copies given it’s a popular movie.

As someone who works in a library, I'm always happy to see stuff like this! It's cheaper and you're supporting a good public service!

Too many people forget libraries and how useful they are :c

They do. We do a lot more than just lending books. We also help all sorts of people, with everything from working out travel routes to filling in benefit forms.

...and deserve It.

Over $200 for this garbage?! Yuck.

My mams going they paid about $100 which is still $100 to much

TBF to her I don’t even think she knows what AI is

What a rip-off!

wtf? to see that?

My mother used to do coloration for B&W photos and hers looked a thousands times better than that crap! Progress...

Mom is wearing one of 2 house-dresses (40s to 60's dress) that she wore constantly, even while gardening. This one was done for the family, but you get the picture... and why it reminded me of it...

I wouldn’t see this garbage if it was offered to me for free. AI has no place in art, especially in classic films.

I’d rather blow that at the slots.

They’d have to pay me more to sit thru this shit. The wizard of Oz blows

$200 to see WOZ Asylum Version (for visual effects etc...)????

I’d be more entertained if I threw $200 off my roof

It should cost 2 eyeballs

I bet they accept crypto.

$200 will get you a good amount of drugs instead and you’ll be much more satisfied

Then you can watch The Wizard of Oz at home and play Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon at the same time and have even more fun.

So outrageous that I want those responsible for it to hear my full-chested "FUCK OFF!"

And to think I only paid $15 10 years ago to see actual restorations of Lawrence of Arabia and Singin' in the Rain, complete with a special (pre-recorded, obviously) pre-show with assorted film historians and people who'd worked on these movies, hosted by the late great Robert Osborne.

Who’s paying 200 dollars to see what feels like a YTP?

The only cool part about this is at least the morons who thought it was a good idea were fleeced out of a bunch of money.

That's a fucking robbery.

At least if you got mugged of that amount you'd have a good conversation starter.

Never underestimate dumb money. This is almost criminal

The intersection between the audience for this and the audience for NFTs is almost a circle

I wouldn't pay $2 for this.

Atrocious

Use that $200 to help a disabled trans woman survive instead Kofi: shorturl.at/Z3mfJ

If I'm ever trapped in Vegas again, I'll spend that $200 on Meow Wolf or one of the Cirque shows. Jebus, what an abomination!

They pay you the $200 right

😂

$300 if you keep your eyes open.

me trying and failing to pay my cell phone bill

To get that tretment it's 250,- extra

This isn’t even worth seeing for free.

LMAO scamming people was never as easy as modern times, first it was crypto,then NFT,now you just do some sloppy AI piece of shit that took longer to render then to create and people pay 200$ to see "woah that was.....chat GPT can you describe how cool that was for me in better words then mine"

Jack Benny had a joke where the cheap seats for his violin concerts where in the front and the expensive seats were in the back. If you paid enough money, they wouldn't even make you come!

$200 seems too expensive to watch movie characters in a green screen of crappy png background

I think we need to sta- no, no I can't say my true feelings here. but this should be buried and forgotten

Fuuuuuuuuuck that noise

This looks horrible to me, but maybe I’m just a hater.

Does the AI know wtf a composition is? Why are all the subjects so low on the screen and that hideous sky takes up 75% of the shot?? 😭

The sphere is special because its both a garbage venue, and the screen’s unnecessary 360 shape makes it unsuitable for actual films that intend for you to watch a specific part of the scene instead of random meaningless background

Oh it's because it's for that "sphere" thing and the majority of the shot is supposed to projected around the audience. This doesn't explain why they decided to make the entire thing look like an Apple TV screensaver but in context it's trying to be "immersive" in a very stupid way.

OOOH okay that makes more sense. I was so confused by the placement. Nothing more immersive than the Windows XP background sky

So the best use case they have for this in movies so far is a bunch of stuff that will only exist blurrily in ppl's peripheral vision. And could still be done way better by actual artists.

because you can't steal and train an AI on good taste lol

Lol TRUE

The actual reason is because the film assets cut off the at the bottom and I bet the ai version of that was horrific legs and feet. So they did the easier stuff of expanding the sky and sides.

When we have Wizard of Oz at home

This looks like ass and ruins the original artistic style of the movie

Not only does it look like shit, but also was thinking of this. Boring as shit youtu.be/45tpBq_xHYU?...

they keep proving him right

This will continue to age very well.

this is a perfect encapsulation of what this looks like.

Is this from Toys?

i believe that's the Windows 95 default background

Windows XP. I *think* 95 was just a solid teal color

ah yes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_(...

Lol, I’ll pay more attn the next time I drive by it.

She needs to be entirely in the bottom third of the frame for the full effect

i don't get paid enough to put thought into my shitposts sry

imagine what the Sphere could do to Charlie Kirk's face

downloading gimp, brb

it took me three entire seconds to realize this wasn't an actual shot of the movie

(i hesitated a bit longer than that before allowing myself to type the word "movie" there)

Behold!

Why would you share that

Jesus, it looks like she’s in front of a green screen.

Oh my God this looks like utter flaming dogshit

This sucks shit.

Mmmm thanks, I thought I was nauseous already, but this is infinitely worse! 🤢

Are these backgrounds AI or just shit cgi?

Looks shit, ngl

Disgusting

Wow that looks like shit.

Thanks, I hate it.

lmao

Boo, #NoAI!

How does it somehow look *less* real?

Because it literally is

It’s giving Windows XP

I hated that farking ball the moment I first saw it and now I hate it even more.

Oh my god this is just outright hideous.

What kind of vomit is this?

wtf is this shit

This is an insult to the very concept of art.

This movie was my childhood autistic hyper fixation. I wore through 4 VHS copies from how many times I watched it. Seeing that made me physically recoil and gag. It’s wrong. So wrong.

Wait a minute Did the AI expand the tree trunks into eucalyptus trees because it thought the "Oz" in "Wizard of Oz" was Australia?

Certainly the best use of the billions of dollars spent on this garbage technology and not stuff like healthcare and housing

This looks terrible

Watching this abomination again I am reminded of this Mad Tv sketch. Steven Segal trying to sell how great it is with "future cameras from space......or something" isn't far off from how AI defenders try to convince you it's the future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A00...

why is this happening

Movies ran out of new gimmicks so now its "what if it had more sky"

The studio spent $80 million to get this, absolutely insane, might as well have flushed the money

The tech industry is a hype-bubble at this point as they keep trying to shove more “innovations” that nobody wants and don’t improve things down our throats to justify their bloated budgets to VCs.

oh right cuz the tech boom theyre chasing is the internet but that was built on decades of public infrastructure and development before it was opened up for commercial use and nobody's done a large scale public infrastructure buildout since then so there's no easy money fountain to tap

Exactly.

its so funny that i can say shit like this on here and everyone's like "obviously" and then i say it down the block at the pub and everyone's just like "this is the most incredible thing ive ever heard"

Your mission if you choose to accept it is spend more time at the pub telling people true things

I have developed a reputation which includes yelling at the top of my lungs at someone talking about Secure Borders

So a good one.

this looks like poop from a but

I too always wanted to see a version of The Wizard of Oz in which the director and cinematographer didn't know how to frame a shot.

This looks like complete shit.

This movie changed the game when it came out and this is how they do it in 2025. Fuck dude. I'd rather watch the OG in that dumbass sphere. Jesus Christ.

How would anyone think this is "touched up"??? This looks faker than the actual movie.

That's just filthy and spitting on the artists who made the movie I hate it here

Its just so... jarring. it feels unnecessarily wide and they look like they don't fit into the setting. like they were cut and paste from another movie into a stiff CG background. I hope nobody is stupid enough to buy a ticket to watch this but that would be putting too much faith in humanity.

This would be like paying $200 to watch Morbious for the memes. Just…GOD, $200 DOLLARS.

That is so cheap looking.. omg what did they do

This had to go through so many committees and people and every single one of them just sighed and said "this is as good as we're gonna get. Fuck it."

Thanks, I hate it

Looks like absolute shit lol

What a crime

Thanks. I hate it.

It's look like the best and biggest spherical dogshit of all time !

@beauty-queen.bsky.social bunbun you’re gonna have a fking heart attack watching this hahaha

I knew about this disaster since last year. Needless to say, I hate this. Like, why couldn’t they do this “experiment” to a dumb movie like “Mac and Me”. BUT NOOOOOO, it just HAD to be done to a cinematic masterpiece…

In hindsight, Ted Turner colorizing classic films was not nearly as bad as adding AI backgrounds to classic films.

I mean, the main issue is that it is a soulless cash grab. Looking like absolute shit is just the icing on the cake

Why people like this? It looks cheap AF

This looks awful

cinAIsphemy

Good old AI. They should zoom out even further and have the camera in space

look very shit

Trademark this phrase, you’ll be rich soon

Hey so I absolutley hated that

ai can now answer the question "what if the wizard of oz looked like shit"

That looks like fucking shit. I can't believe people actually enjoyed this.

Who enjoyed it? I haven't heard that.

Good fucking *GAWD*, this is fucking hideous!

This shit so ass, man

These new Skyrim re-releases are getting weird.

This looks great, but I wish they’d get those pesky actors off the screen.

Ew... It looks so empty. Why would anyone want to see this??

I've seen low budget youtubers make better green screened backgrounds

You don't watch Wizard of Oz for the nice blue sky.....

may a house land on whoever made this

It's like we went to Disneyland for my birthday and Minnie Mouse is taking a shit on Dumbo and the background reminds me of Windows 98.

Wow, that's so much worse than I thought it would be

Come ON man that’s literally a YTP edit!

I’m actually not sure this is AI because as absolutely dog shit as it looks, I suspect an ai would be worse/less consistent

Also the clips are longer than 5 seconds

Where's tinky winky

I'm not a Wizard of Oz expert or anything, but isn't the yellow brick road supposed to be a straight path forward? If there were any intersections like that it'd be pretty damn hard to follow it especially since that's the ONLY direction she was given.

There was a scene with an intersection. I think it was marked which one led to emerald city.

Why do they make the characters incidental to the AI touch up? Dorothy is in the bottom third of the shot, the scarecrow is drowning in unfilled fake sky, this sucks

Because they don’t care

That looks genuinely terrible

This is hideous

this isn't just awful, it's outright profane

same video:

Hideous!

90s FMV Game aesthetic

This is abysmal

There’s gonna be so many podcasts about this

What a fucking waste of resources to ruin the original film.

Where we're going, we don't NEED the rule of thirds!

its so annoying how everything is happening in a tiny window at the bottom center of the frame and everything else is like looking at the screensaver on my OLED

That's exactly how I was feeling! It's like the whole movie is just going to play on the lower quarter of the screen and the rest of the scenery is just clouds

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Looks like an old Amiga 32 CD game. Fucking shite.

It bloody does you know, it doesn't half remind me of Zool.

YES!

Looks like absolute shite

This looks like a video game YouTube poop

Thanks. I hate it

God this looks like shit

If I were a film class teacher and a student turned this in to me I would fail them and send them home for the day to think about what they've done.

Looks like the start of a cyriak video except bad and none of the shit posting. youtu.be/WQO-aOdJLiw?...

I am so glad I am not the only one who thought that. (And I don't remember seeing Baa, so thank you. Off to watch Kitty City for the nth time.)

faving and boosting this because it was a much-needed eye cleanser

Am I wrong though? Im expecting Dorthy to be devoured by a mutated cow at any second.

What the technicolor fuck?

Do not show this to any cinematographer or director, they will have a heart attack. I mean come on! Why add so much headspace on the shots of Dorothy? What do you gain from that?

These extended backgrounds are laughably generic and do not fit the Oz aesthetic at all. The originals are hand painted for crying out loud

Looks like a shitty commercial for second-rate insurance this sucks so much

This looks truly terrible.

lmfao

It’s truly remarkable that literally every single scene of this I’ve seen looks horrible. They didn’t even accidentally make a decent looking scene. The ENTIRE movie looks like ass.

my tree is pastede on yey

Man I love movies, but they'd be so much better if the cast was zoomed the fuck out so you can't see their movements or mannerisms

What if movies were like plays, but in a stadium and everyone’s seat was in the nosebleed section?

I think I’ve seen YouTube animash AMVs with higher production value then this

Absolute trash

Thank you, AI. Very cool

Incredibly and ironically this is an *actual* photograph www.nydailynews.com/2014/04/12/t...

🥴

...why...why would anyone do this? 😧

Because it's hilarious

Oh and it gets even worse.

That is awful.

youtu.be/1grXohFmN68?...

This looks like a shit post

Jesus, that looks like garbage

It is so visually exhausting to have everything in focus with no depth of field.

they ruined it wtf

Looks like absolute shit

of dogshit

Please, for the love of everything that is good and kind, stop promoting this garbage.

Wow! It's somehow much worse than the single screenshot!

This is repulsive. Just a disgrace.

This needs to be ejected into the sun

Oh that is so ugly

ghoulishly ugly and soulless.

Looks fake and flat as fuck. Thank you AI, once again, shit job.

This looks like a bad FMV game, christ almighty

Somthing just doesnt look right about it

oh my god it looks so fake which is funny because it literally was fake before

What the actual fuck

Jesus CHRIST

what if wizard of oz looked like shit but also you had to go to vegas and spend way more money to watch it

That’s everything in Vegas.

Hilariously, Vegas is basically a ghost town these days apparently, largely thanks to the orange felon who annihilated the tourism industry

📌

Looks like poop from a butt

This looks so fuckin bad lmao

This is the decapitated head nightmare of a heavily sedated ex-soldier.

DO NOT WANT

Oh my god, this is vile. The Sphere can be an incredible experience, but the second I heard about this, I knew it would be atrocity.

What the fuck is this

This looks like shit

Let's think of it as a kind of esoteric cartoon. Honestly, it piques my curiosity. I think this mix of vintage and AI tech can create a visually appealing atmosphere that's quite fitting for the original story.

I'm going to think of you as an idiot

The difference in the mountains and hills in the background compared to the original painted background. And somehow the original looks more "real" in the context of the film

OMG that's terrible!

It’s amazing what you can accomplish with rudimentary tools applied with precision. Matte background painting is like the coolest fucking part of old movies and it’s becoming a lost art

They've added more background but made it less interesting

Live action point and click adventure game vibes

Why was this allowed to happen?

My eyes have been really.messed up today so while I can see thisnis fucked up, can someone explain to me what is going on here? I walked to my local post office looking like i was drunk earlier cos my depth perception is gone 🙃

Holy fuck this is bad lol Ai can’t expand the images downward so all you get is gobs of extra sky to make every shot a misframed nightmare. So glad we’re melting our planet down to power this tech, great work everyone

Vulgar.

this shit's so ass

What the Christ is this happy horseshit?

Looks fucking awful

My parents wanted to see this on our current roadtrip and I’m very reluctant to see cause of the AI, thank god we’ll be home by then

Just watch the original at home then. It's way cheaper and a better experience.

No argument there, I’m happy to watch it at home with some comfort food and pets at my side

That looks so ASS.

This looks like crap. Total crap. AI 🙄

looks like shit

Why does it look like bad green screening?

Because it is bad green screen. Literally all they're doing is cutting her out of the original scene and replacing the visuals just like they would with the greens Green it's just better technology to place someone in the video. Still looks like dog s***

Christ this looks like complete shit

jfc this looks ungodly aweful man the death of this ai nonsence cant come soon enough

How many aquifers did they vaporize for this shit

this looks like complete shit lmfao

Wow. That looks like a student project. Very obvious how layered it is with the original characters overlayed over a background like an artificial background on a Zoom call.

Yes! And the artificial background being the Windows 95 desktop wallpaper.

😹😹😹

wow, this looks like shit

they put them in windows xp

wow this is as ugly as it could've possibly been

Wow its awful

Who the hell is going to see this?

This makes me viscerally ill on many levels

And it's making me physically ill and I'm not sure why! I get seasick easily and this is triggering it.

Absolutely hideous

palate cleanser youtu.be/un3NkWnHl9Q?...

That certainly added a whole not of nothing.

Looks bad!

Awful lot of wasted acreage in that footage. They should have people in the background throwing pies at each other or something entertaining. Or maybe put an ESPN score bug in the corner.

So, is it that you can't put bodies or people anywhere above a certain point because they'll warp?

The characters are lost. Way way way too much scenery. What were they thinking?

can we get a comparison to the original

Bro this is fucking garbage, buy movies/tv shows in physical form if you can at any possible time

Looks like shit the people who did this should be executed

wow this looks like dog shit

Wow! That looks like shit.

It's as if they're playing the Wizard of Oz in the bottom left quadrant of the screen in case MAYBE you want to look at it while you instead REALLY stare at the 75% of the screen covered with their 3D Oz-esque scene setter ambience. Didn't the movie Zardoz warn us of this shit? 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

They can't even lip sync it right!

Why is it so out of sync???? Like, it’s shit in so many ways, but why is it so out of sync? You have so much budget, edit!!!!

It's weird when nothing else is moving (not the corn, not the clouds, not the trees). And knowing they left some AI artifacts in some scenes makes it worse