Movies: The Black Hole

[woodwardiocom]

Despite being briefly obsessed with this movie back in 1979, I'd never actually seen it until today.

It stands as proof positive that trying to achieve the prestige of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the money-making power of Star Wars by combining a hard-science ambience with adorable robots and laser fights Just Won't Work. Adding in a lot of Forbidden Planet didn't help either. And jamming in that inane shooting gallery sequence at the last minute (which nearly derailed the plot) was also ill-advised.

(Not that the science is all that hard. Decompression appears to happen only when the plot demands it.)

Wow. Bad.

Comments

[unseelie23.livejournal.com]

It has it's charm, and could have been a good movie in that 70's slow paced SF way if they'd left out all of the cute robot crap. About 20 minutes less of it seems about right.

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

The sad part is that they made history by showing the first computer generated image on film. (The opening credits.)

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

It might be the first raster scan computer graphics, but STAR WARS (1977) had vector graphics in the mission briefing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeSw00n3Ac

[dmmaus.livejournal.com]

I remembered this as an awesome film from when I saw it as a kid in the cinemas back in '79. Got it recently on DVD, and only then realised how bad it was.