Ernest Borgnine was one of the very best character actors of all time and he seemed to be a genuinely decent person in real life. He was the highlight of the picture and nicely offset Maximillian Schell's hammy Captain Nemo (or whatever his name was.) Roddy MacDowell and Slim Pickens were great as the bots, but I wasn't really fond of the leads in the film. Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, and Yvette Mimeux were as bland as Wonder Bread.
The sets were pretty remarkable, though, especially the Cygnus. God that was a crazy awesome ship design! Like the Eiffel Tower in space! I also love that this was back in the 70's, when we still thought a black hole was literally a hole where matter could be pulled out of one universe and deposited into another. The ending was crazy weird for a kids' movie.
Reply by enigmaticocean
on April 4, 2017 at 11:38 PM
There's life here! Awesome! It's such a shame that imbd had to be a bunch of idiots. the Black Hole board on IMDB was fairly active.
Reply by manfromatlantis
on April 4, 2017 at 11:49 PM
I REALLY ENJOYED THIS FILM.
Reply by tmdb65271336
on April 4, 2017 at 11:54 PM
Ernest Borgnine was one of the very best character actors of all time and he seemed to be a genuinely decent person in real life. He was the highlight of the picture and nicely offset Maximillian Schell's hammy Captain Nemo (or whatever his name was.) Roddy MacDowell and Slim Pickens were great as the bots, but I wasn't really fond of the leads in the film. Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, and Yvette Mimeux were as bland as Wonder Bread.
The sets were pretty remarkable, though, especially the Cygnus. God that was a crazy awesome ship design! Like the Eiffel Tower in space! I also love that this was back in the 70's, when we still thought a black hole was literally a hole where matter could be pulled out of one universe and deposited into another. The ending was crazy weird for a kids' movie.
Reply by Nexus71
on August 12, 2019 at 6:07 PM
When people think the ending of The Black Hole was crazy weird it still makes much more sense than Nolan's Interstellar ending.