Movie - The Black Hole (1979) [/]
Mar 17 2021
The Black Hole is a classic Disney live-action science fiction film back before they had Touchstone for this kind of fare.
On the way back to Earth USS Palomino encounters a giant black hole but more surprising a ship stationary well within the black hole's gravity well. It's the Cygnus, a giant exploration ship thought lost a couple decades ago. The Palomino decides to investigate and end up trapped by the black hole, forced to land on the Cygnus which is not as dead as they thought.
The crew of six -- Captain Dan Hollard (Robert Forster), Lieutenant Charlie Pizer (Joseph Bottoms), and the AI droid VINCENT (Roddy McDowall) are the ship crew; Dr Alex Durant (Anthony Perkins) and Dr Kate McCrae (Yvette Mimieux) are the mission scientists; Harry Booth (Ernest Borgnine) is a journalist documenting the mission -- end up meeting Cygnus' commander, Dr Hans Reinhardt (Maximilian Schell) and his thuggish droid Maximilian.
Dr Reinhardt plans to travel through the black hole and explore the other side and he's willing to let the Palomino crew fix their ship and observe his attempt from a distance. But there are secrets on the ship and once the Palomino crew find out Dr Reinhardt reluctantly decides to dispose of them...
Maximilian the robot was scary when I was a kid. Also when Dr Durant removes the face mask from one of Cygnus' robot crew. The special effects are not amazing considering earlier films like 2001 (1968) and Star Wars (1977), but still good. The story is a good science fiction story. The ending is a bit deux ex machina as it turns out the Palomino crew don't directly bring down Dr Reinhardt and the Cygnus.
Overall though, The Black Hole stands up and is still entertaining today.
On the way back to Earth USS Palomino encounters a giant black hole but more surprising a ship stationary well within the black hole's gravity well. It's the Cygnus, a giant exploration ship thought lost a couple decades ago. The Palomino decides to investigate and end up trapped by the black hole, forced to land on the Cygnus which is not as dead as they thought.
The crew of six -- Captain Dan Hollard (Robert Forster), Lieutenant Charlie Pizer (Joseph Bottoms), and the AI droid VINCENT (Roddy McDowall) are the ship crew; Dr Alex Durant (Anthony Perkins) and Dr Kate McCrae (Yvette Mimieux) are the mission scientists; Harry Booth (Ernest Borgnine) is a journalist documenting the mission -- end up meeting Cygnus' commander, Dr Hans Reinhardt (Maximilian Schell) and his thuggish droid Maximilian.
Dr Reinhardt plans to travel through the black hole and explore the other side and he's willing to let the Palomino crew fix their ship and observe his attempt from a distance. But there are secrets on the ship and once the Palomino crew find out Dr Reinhardt reluctantly decides to dispose of them...
Maximilian the robot was scary when I was a kid. Also when Dr Durant removes the face mask from one of Cygnus' robot crew. The special effects are not amazing considering earlier films like 2001 (1968) and Star Wars (1977), but still good. The story is a good science fiction story. The ending is a bit deux ex machina as it turns out the Palomino crew don't directly bring down Dr Reinhardt and the Cygnus.
Overall though, The Black Hole stands up and is still entertaining today.