@mjones242 said:

About as poetic and meta as you can get. Discuss.

That was so depressing at the film's end when the man was trapped inside of the robot!! And I was just a little kid, watching it. UGH

Actually was pretty dark for a Disney movie

Maximilian Schell was the ultimate "mad scientist in space."

The Black Hole is one of my favorite films. Very noir and moody throughout (this is definitely one you want to watch late at night, with all the lights off). Not really much dialogue for any of the characters-- a show-don't-tell-movie, as most films, whatever the genre, should be.

It gets a lot of flack for playing loose with the science, but had it been made with a team of technical experts on site-- as many current SF films seem to be, for fear of offending the "internet intelligentsia" if one little scientific error occurs-- we would have been robbed of many spectacular visuals.

I still think the escape sequence to the probe ship, without any spacesuits, is a great series of scenes and isn't as unforgivable as some make it out to be. 2001: A Space Odyssey and Event Horizon get a pass for similar situations, but not TBH, which is unfortunate. My own theory was that the Palimino crew was benefitting from an "oxygen bubble" from escaping air while outside the heavily damaged Cygnus (that spinning circle that Charlie was being pulled toward was not the Black Hole, but the membrane between the oxygen and open space). But that's just my view.

Thanks, mjones242, for starting this post!

I think that the whole part of Schell being inside of the shell of Maximilian was metaphoric .Where his obsession with the Black Hole turned him into a monster but there are further explanations that could be said about that scene,like since Reinhard made Maximilian part of him is in Maximilian