Black Hole remake

The original is a guilty pleasure of mine :o

I have mixed feelings about a remake. There is a lot of room for improvement, especially with those slow fight scenes, but then again the clunky robots and 70s cheese are part of its odd charm....
 
The original version has to be one of the lamest films I've had the misfortune to sit through but it was almost made worthwhile simply for the absolutely stunning U.S.S. Cygnus which has to be my favourite spaceship ever to grace the big screen......it was simply beautiful to look at. No doubt a remake would have a CGI'd version.

The U.S.S. Cygnus......

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Still looks wonderful 30 years later.
 
Agree...the look and design of the film was superb, it was just everything else that was poor.

There robots were intensely annoying, and it was trying too hard to tap into the Star Wars audience. And the ending...what the hell did Disney think kiRAB were supposed to make of that?

But the best bit has to be near the end when the ship starts breaking up, and looks like it's made of rubber, with large 'girders' twisting and bending, and despite huge holes in the ship the crew seem to be able to walk around with no effects of decompression whatsoever.
 
The original is technically flawless.

The script, story and characters were a huge let down though, and the various WTF moments like being able to breath in space and the heaven/hell "thing" that happens at the end, render it quite eye rollingly bad.

I'm not sure what to think about a remake though. With the exception of the Amityville Horror, all the recent remakes have been far worse than their originals, so the statistical likelihood of this being better, is quite small.
 
still one of my favs (massive sci fi fan and all that) and would be interested in this remake

tBH is the most undisney disney film they ever made, what with THAT ending (VERY metaphysical!), and maximillion is one of my fav robot characters too

oh and they didn't "breathe in space" (the dome and walking through the corridors when the ship was breaking up), as they were still in atmosphere ..... abeit as it was rushing out :D
 
I was only on about The Black Hole the other day. As a kid I loved it, and had pretty much all the merchandise but like I said I haven't seen it for donkeys years and after reading many reviews for it that claimed it an abomination I thought it best to steer clear of a revisit. Not sure about a remake - lets face it there really isn't much of a story and from what I remember, it was very much a case of Disney jumping on the Star Wars bandwagon and it did a mighty fine job of filling the gap between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back but that was back then, today it would seem quite redundant. Some things are best left alone I say.
 
Disney flirted with the dark side quite outrageously with the Black Hole. The "android" crew of quite morbid origins, Maximillian's whirring fans, the religious imagery going through the Black Hole. Vincent and Old Bob were daft though. Who in the name of god would programme a robot with the voice of Slim Pickens?
 
Aww. Hope they don't screw it up. The original had a madcap craziness to it, that just can't be recreated these days, and no matter how cool the new robots are I won't be changing my profile picture!
 
I think if it hadn't been for the desperation to knock out a space movie in the wake of Star Wars, 'The Black Hole' could have been a fantastic movie with more development. Agreed the design was fantastic but the superb cast were saddled with unengaging characters and a lame plot.
 
Well this is the second remake in recent weeks I've not had a problem with. :eek: I must be going soft.

The original has a unique look, but I've never really worked out what it's actually about. You can never have enough Black Hole's in sci-fi, so let's give it the 21st century CGI treatment and maybe even tag on an actual plot. :D
 
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