The Black Hole Digital Life DVD

The Black Hole
starring: Ernest Borgnine, Joseph Bottoms, Robert Forster, Roddy McDowall, Tommy McLoughlin

List Price: $14.99

Amazon.com's Price: $10.99

You Save: $4.00 (27%)
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: $4.48
Third Party New Price: $6.63

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936234213
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 03, 2004
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 8317
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 21, 1979

Digital Life
Related Items:

Digital Life
Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The crew of the spaceship palamino stumbles across the lost ship uss cygnus hovering on the edge of an immense black hole. Once aboard they find the ship is manned by robots its only human inhabitant one dr hans reinhardt an eminent scientist missing for the past twenty years. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 01/11/2008 Starring: Maximilian Schell Ernest Borgnine Run time: 98 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Gary Nelson

Amazon.com:
Disney's foray into big-budget science fiction, close on the heels of Star Wars, had some of the most impressive special effects to grace theater screens in the 1970s. Graced by handsome production design--most notably a glass and latticework interstellar craft that looks like a battleship crossed with a modern skyscraper--The Black Hole is in many ways the most beautiful science fiction film of its era. Unfortunately, the graceful and gorgeous picture is jarred by dialogue that wouldn't pass muster in a comic book and a silly conclusion that plays like a murky, dime-store knockoff of 2001. Too bad, because the visual realization of the film is a veritable haunted house of futuristic phenomena, from the cloaked zombie-like drones shuffling through corridors to the devilish, crimson robot Maximillian, the strong arm of the mad scientist played by Maximilian Schell (a kind of wild man Captain Nemo with an even more ruthless temperament). Only the way-too-cute robot V.I.N.CENT (voiced by Roddy McDowall), a merchandising gimmick that looks like a Fisher-Price toy, mars the technological landscape. Robert Forster is the quietly authoritative captain of an exploration ship that stumbles across the seemingly derelict ship, and Anthony Perkins, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine, and Joseph Bottoms fill out his crew. This is one case of a triumph of art direction and special effects over story--it's worth sitting through it to see the magnificent scene of the fireball rolling through the ship's enormous hull alone. The rest is just atmospheric gravy. --Sean Axmaker

Digital Life Reviews

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- classic
This movie gave me nightmares as a kid. Disney shows us one of its dark sides with an awesome performance. Maximillion is the scariest robot ever dreamed up. The Cygnus is such a cool space ship. I dont think they had any science advisors for this move which makes it way out there.

Rating:

- So bad it's great!
Almost everything in this movie plays out like a comic cameo. The dialogue, acting and even some of the actors are so hammy that the movie, unintentionally, makes great comedy. Shades of Ed Wood; on a big budget.

Rating:

- The Black Hole DVD
Excellent movie from Disney for that time period in which it was created. I had been wanting to get this for quite awhile.

Rating:

- Pretty interesting ideas and set conveyed in a slow boring fashion
The premise for this movie is good. Even the characterisation is not bad, however, the plot seems to have large periods of meandering without purpose. Having built a fantastic set, created a wonderful villain, the crew of heroes are fairly bland and characterless. Also some of the dialogue could be tightened. Not as fun as some other films from the era (Battlestar Galactica, Flash Gordon) but with an interesting premise. Definitely recommended for fans of 2001 - a Space Odyssey, although it achieves nothing of the intensity of that movie.

Digital Life

Digital Life is all about
CD's DVD's Music Video Concerts Movies and Software

DVD : The Black Hole
Digital Life Average Rating:

Digital Life is all about CD's DVD's Music Video Concerts Movies and Software

DVD : The Black Hole Digital Life Average Rating:

Digital Life is all about
CD's DVD's Music Video Concerts Movies and Software

DVD : The Black Hole
Digital Life Average Rating: