The Black Hole (1979)
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" On December 19, 1979, Disney did something so bonkers, it had talked about for years! One part, Star Wars, one part 2001: A Space Odyssey. All parts, existential bat crazy weird nightmare fuel! See a homicidal Killer robot! Watch violence! Witness robot hell! The crew of the spaceship Palomino stumbles across the ''lost'' ship U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering on the edge of an immense black hole. Once aboard, they find the ship manned by robots. Its only human inhabitant is Dr. Hans Reinhardt, an "

"Reason for the future sucking: Scientists and astronauts, are trapped on a spaceship heading into a black hole, thanks to a mad scientist. Year it takes place: 2103"

"SCREENING: 35mm, Making Magic: 100 Years of Disney DATE: July 15th CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank SHORTS: Lifted"

"FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★ NOTES: Presented as part of the BFI’s ‘100 Years of Disney’ season, preceded by a DCP screening of Lifted (which I had already first seen on the big screen this year, what are the odds?). Original release Technovision print that opens with the original two-minute overture, plenty of cuts and two different changeover cue marks so it’s not easy to tell how many reels there are exactly, but this is about as faded and as low on dust as the print of Fantasia,"

"The U.S.S Cygnus The U.S.S. Cygnus (also known as a "Death Ship" to B.O.B.) is an exploration vessel and served as the main location throughout the whole film, The Black Hole. Why you wouldn’t want to visit: The ship is helmed by a mad scientist, bent on piloting the ship through a black hole, possibly not only destroying the ship, but also killing everyone aboard."

"A main character gets killed by a laser, I mean really really painfully killed, there is a very deadly killer robot, the people who work on the ship turn out to be undeadish animated zombies, and the ending, oh boy, the ending. "

"A 1950s adventure film tricked out with cutting-edge Seventies effects, Disney’s first PG-rated film updates 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as a deep-space dance with infinity. Thanks to the discomfiting sight of past-their-prime talents like Anthony Perkins and Ernest Borgnine cavorting with talking trashcans, the film felt hopelessly anachronistic on arrival. But technically speaking, the title sequence boasts an early example of computer graphics — a preview of what the studio was cooking u"

"Disney jumped on the original Star Wars bandwagon with this wordy tale of a long-lost scientist in his spaceship on the brink of entering a Black Hole. A group of astronauts arrive and find they are an important part of his plan. With two robots supposedly resembling R2D2, an hour of complex explanation, the film only really picks up in the last half hour. John Barry's score mixes his usual stylings with a hideous John Williams rip-off. Not half as good as I remember."