You can’t make this shit up…

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You can’t make this shit up…
« on: August 30, 2024, 12:06:36 PM »
…there’s a concert film of U2’s concert at the sphere, being shown in the sphere. For $100. In a hilarious footnote, the sphere website explains ‘it’s not a live concert’.
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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2024, 12:11:51 PM »
100$ is the cheapest seat.
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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2024, 12:16:56 PM »
100$ is the cheapest seat.

Even worse, then. Honestly, just when one thinks U2’s can’t get more ridiculous, they do this. It’s a film ffs.’Directed’ by edge and his wife. Who are already richer than god.
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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2024, 12:32:24 PM »
I agree that it's ridiculous, and I'm never gonna fly over there just to see it but it makes sense in that venue :

-Apparently tickets for another film designed for the Sphere start at 114$. I think Darren Aronofsky filmed it ?
-I can't imagine U2 signing a deal for the Sphere that didn't include something like that. The venue is craving for content and it was too good to pass.

I don't think the film is targeting U2 fans. It's targeting the Vegas crowd.
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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2024, 12:41:02 PM »
U2 won’t be setting the prices for this. I was just in Vegas and there was a film at the Sphere and the tickets were $90+. I don’t think you’ll get in that building any cheaper.
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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2024, 12:44:47 PM »
My disappointment is that when u2 did their thing at the sphere, they didn’t riff on the whole point of the original tour. It was a real chance to work with concepts like information/disinformation overload, relevant to the modern age, and how the media continually disenfranchise the human experience.

Instead, the audience were filming the screen on their phones. And now, u2 have decided to make a film about what was, for the most part, a film in the first place.

The better part of me thinks u2 get the irony of this. A more likely explanation being they’re just leveraging profits.
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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2024, 01:53:39 PM »
MSG's gonna get that $1.5 billion back one way or another.
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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2024, 02:00:06 PM »
How much did the Sphere cost to construct?  They've go to claw the money back and then some.  They're not in business for the good of their health.
 
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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2024, 02:26:39 PM »
How much did the Sphere cost to construct?  They've go to claw the money back and then some.  They're not in business for the good of their health.
I know it cost much more than they thought it would originally.  Some people were calling its creation one of the biggest blunders ever before it was even finished.

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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2024, 07:07:23 PM »
The Vegas crowd.

(nm. was trying to post the closing scene from Casino.  Fuck it.)
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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2024, 05:59:58 PM »
My disappointment is that when u2 did their thing at the sphere, they didn’t riff on the whole point of the original tour. It was a real chance to work with concepts like information/disinformation overload, relevant to the modern age, and how the media continually disenfranchise the human experience.

Instead, the audience were filming the screen on their phones. And now, u2 have decided to make a film about what was, for the most part, a film in the first place.

The better part of me thinks u2 get the irony of this. A more likely explanation being they’re just leveraging profits.

Exactly.
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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2024, 06:18:51 PM »
If you are still clinging to the idea a group of very, very wealthy men in their 60's who have a real taste for money and whose best days are far, far behind them being subversive, then you are going to be disappointed.


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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2024, 06:22:33 PM »
Some day, I will be a very, very  wealthy man in my 60s.
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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2024, 06:30:11 PM »
Some day, I will be a very, very  wealthy man in my 60s.

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Re: You can’t make this shit up…
« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2024, 01:41:54 PM »
My disappointment is that when u2 did their thing at the sphere, they didn’t riff on the whole point of the original tour. It was a real chance to work with concepts like information/disinformation overload, relevant to the modern age, and how the media continually disenfranchise the human experience.

Instead, the audience were filming the screen on their phones. And now, u2 have decided to make a film about what was, for the most part, a film in the first place.

The better part of me thinks u2 get the irony of this. A more likely explanation being they’re just leveraging profits.

It is strange that zoo TV was self prophetic, and they never seem to engage with that concept live from the angle of “We are now all living inside ZooTV 24/7”. And in the case of the sphere, absolutely literally living inside ZooTV, sucked into the screen and swimming through the pixels into Zooropa…I have no compass…I have no map.