There is an error beginning around 1:21. You will notice that when Harry is about the crash the Palomino the black hole is smaller than in the previous frames and you can't see the red event horizon within it. It looks like it did earlier in the movie when the Cygnus was stationary and much further away.
@NorthWriter -- That's one of the reasons why I consider this film rather poorly made...because anyone with any knowledge of science knows the crew of the Palomino (except perhaps VINCENT) could not possibly have made it out alive. In fact, they probably shouldn't even have survived the trip through the greenhouse once the atmosphere and heat started to leak out.
LOVE the scene where the fireball is barreling through the ship and the characters silhouettes run across the platform to escape. Iconic image, and one that I remember from very early childhood!
I like this movie. As a child I nenever understood what was going on but I appreciate the good ole days with actual robots and not human-looking cyborgs like RoboCop and Terminator(both good movies don't get me wrong). There's something about the robot that doesn't try to emulate humanity that is comforting and a bit more frightening
Small question-- if the Cygnus had a null-gravity device that allowed it to get *THAT* close to the black hole in the first place, why then does the Cygnus' screens, nearing the end (and as they get ever closer to the hole's event horizon) read 'STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OVERLOAD'? Was the Cygnus just too close to the hole and the gravity so great that it was overloading the field and crushing the Cygnus? Or had it been too badly damaged at that point to keep the field up?
That glowing meteorite tearing along the central space (03:10) with the crew running across the bridge has got to be the iconic sequence for this movie.
@bdkalltheway not necessarily.... the null g field is not a shield or force field. it is a barrier surrounding the cygnus allowing zero gravity inside that zone. as a result the ship is able to maintain its position. the gravity waves are simply bent around the ship. the meteors are already being pulled by the gravity, when they enter the null g field there is no force to stop them or deflect them. if this were true the Palomino would have been deflected too.
3:02 - to this day I am still AMAZED at that effect of the fireball bounching through the ship's interior with the people running accross the bridge in the foreground......ASTOUNDING effects for it's time!!!
I sometimes watch that scene over and over and over, just so I can try to figure out how the effects people did that...!
damn streaming video...keeps pausing every 10 seconds.......to doug1975,this was written by alen dean foster,a giant in the sci-fi author industry.it did'nt differ much from the movie except that there was a little more info on why the robots were built small.other than that yes the book was ok.about as good as the movie
why doesn`t Maximillian help Dr. Reinhardt at 7:45? maybe he thinks "no one he has to serve any more". Both are mad - always fascinating to see mental patients.
@Ringelpiez68 Maximilian was already in the elevator and following his programming "prepare the probe ship" and he most likely will come back for Reinhardt,, OR he knows his master is mortally injured and it is now an 'every man for himself' situation... in the book when Reinhardt calls for help, the elevator had already closed and Max was gone
@Doug19752533 thanks;) is the book good? I always thought Maximilian was headstrong, megalomaniac had problems to subordinate and execute commands - as well as his creator Dr. Reinhardt. in many scenes Reinhardt must repeat the commands vigorously until Maximilian reacts. when Dr. Reinhardt needs help he gets the punishment for his evil side that his creature let him die. my previous interpretation
@Ringelpiez68 i liked the book very much. its short enough you could read it in a day. Bob goes into deeper detail telling what happened to the crew, and the ending is totally different - they do not survive going through the hole, at least not physically. Cpt Holland is aware they have crossed the event horizon and senses Kates consciousness, as well as Charlie and Vincent. together they all merge into a new entity and go on in some new form of existence. i have the book and read it still
Reinhardt's last words are: "More kight!" Those were Goethe's last words before he died, too. What do we make of that? Only think I can think of is Goethe's Faust, about a man who sold his soul to the Devil. Is that it?
@Cokecakepopcorn Eh, if you're talking about Maximillian, i think it's been established that he was kind of a loose cannon. Sometimes i wonder how serious Reinhardt was earlier when he begged Kate in a whisper to save him from Max. However if you're talking about the crew... I think whether it's the remnants of their humanity remembering what Reinhardt did to them, or just poetic justice that his zombified crew in the end couldn't save him makes for an interesting debate...
They definitely are going to want to look at the atmosphere issue for the remake. I don't know why they can breathe when they are going outside to get to the probe ship.
@Trudeau790 I've heard that they actually did have spacesuits ready for these scenes, but the actors simply refused to wear them. Something that they'll have to account for in the remake.
@AnimeFanatic5602 There's a remake of this coming? I'd be curious to see how that would turn out, especially since this movie has a lot of SERIOUS flaws in its story department, particularly the whole thing about the space suits and needing them in order to walk in space. A bit more energy and faster pace wouldn't hurt either.
@Turnajon The remake is apparently going to focus more on the time twisting effects of a black hole. I am interested to see what they do with the visual design and if the robots will return. If so, how they intend to handle the terrifying metal monster that is Maximillian
@weldonwin Hmm, how interesting. I'm not saying I dislike this movie; I admire it as a case of Disney trying to do something different, and they did deliver some haunting visuals and top notch effects/music and a potentially intriguing story. But it seems as though everyone involved didn't know where they wanted to go with it, hence the pacing is off and the ending very puzzling. I only hope the writers for the remake are more experienced with space travel, too.
@Turnajon Well, the original draft of the script, called "Space Station 1" was going to be a very different movie, a sci-fi take on the Posiden Adventure, with the crew of a gigantic starship caught in the pull of a black hole. I have a feeling that this is where the remake is going, back to the original concept, though if an updated version of Maximillian and Reinhart don't appear, I'll be really surprised.
It's not a surprise to me the Cygnus was starting to lose its structural integrity. I really do like the Gothic design of it, but it's as fragile as a Fabergé egg with all those windows. It hardly looks spaceworthy, let alone capable of flight through a black hole.
@Akira625 Yeah, that has to be the most stupid scene in sci-fi history. Meteoroids heat up and glow in the atmosphere of Earth. In space, they are nothing but cold rocks.
@dahanks1 possible idea, at this point they are very close to the hole, possible within the accretion disk, and are heating up from intense radiation coming from the breaking down material falling into the hole
Durring the meteor scene the tunnle that they drove that hover car though was smashed open. Wouldn't they have been sucked out into space? At 2:54 that's open space right? How can they just stand there with out being blown out into space?
@philipbabb That's been a long-standing issue with the movie. Plus they climb the up to the probe ship and it was clearly on the exterior of the Cygnus. I just have to let it go. Maybe it had something to do with Reinhart's anti-gravity field around the ship, creating some kind of bubble.
@monkeychunks1000 1. The guy in the ship was a horrible pilot, not the one who normally pilots it. He was flying erratic. Dr. Rein even says "shoot it before it hits us!".
So it was really bad piloting that made it crash into the mother ship. Max shot at it trying to keep it away. It was doomed to fly into the mother ship not matter if Max shot at it or not. Max did hit it... means he's an excellent shot!
@DominicanTech he wasnt a pilot, he was a reporter. and yeah he had NO idea what he was doing. more then likely had the Cygnus not fired on the Palomino, it would have been pulled into the hole because Booth couldnt control the ship
@stormrain71 Really? You think so? Sure, the model of the Cygnus is amazing, but the rest of it seems really corny and contrived. I'm really trying to like it, because it totally takes me back to when I saw this as a kid, but the few cool parts can't make up for the bad acting (at least on Kate's part), cheesy sound effects, cheesy visual effects, and the god-awful ending. Even the first Star Trek movie is better than this.
I always hated this part. The Cygnus was one of the neatest ships in Sci-Fi. What a shame to see it destroyed. I've heard talk of a remake of this movie. It would be good with all the new computer generated effect. Just don't screw with the design of the Cygnus.
@kas3001 theyre getting closer and closer to the hole, as a result gravity is becoming stronger and stronger, light waves are becoming stretched. red is the longest lightwave so things would appear red. thats why everything appears red now. technically inside the hole things would become blue/violet from the light waves being compressed by the immense gravity, or super bright from all matter being crushed into pure energy, but thats just a guess.
Too much pressure and pull for the ship. The generator has to energize the engines AND the anti-gravitation-emitters. Seems to be too much for the Cygnus.
Well actually, it was not the increase of power to maximum that tore the Cygnus apart. The meteor shower had destroyed the antigrav force field generators, leaving the ship vulnerable to the black hole's immense gravity and g-forces, which is what caused the ship to fall into ruin.
@triton115 Yep. Reinhart's greediness to go into the hole was ultimately his undoing, and you can see the foreshadowing of it in a few places earlier in the movie.
Yeah The U.S.S. Cygnus was allways one of my favorites as well, that meteor shower part was a downer but having the Palimino crash into reactor No. 2 didn't help either.
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TheKumadon 3 weeks ago
I am just as bored with this movie at 42 as I was at 9.
kingofmars2010 1 month ago
@kingofmars2010 Amazing then that you made it this far. ;-)
I'm still very entertained by it. It isn't Star Wars or Raiders, but it does have a charm to it.
andoc 1 month ago
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neokidd916 2 months ago
There is an error beginning around 1:21. You will notice that when Harry is about the crash the Palomino the black hole is smaller than in the previous frames and you can't see the red event horizon within it. It looks like it did earlier in the movie when the Cygnus was stationary and much further away.
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Yeah, because the red-hot superheated waves off of the meteorite wouldn't kill them or anything...OR the massive decompression.
NorthWriter 3 months ago 3
@NorthWriter -- That's one of the reasons why I consider this film rather poorly made...because anyone with any knowledge of science knows the crew of the Palomino (except perhaps VINCENT) could not possibly have made it out alive. In fact, they probably shouldn't even have survived the trip through the greenhouse once the atmosphere and heat started to leak out.
OreadNYC 4 days ago
09:03 Penis Punch!!!! lmfao
kingSpork1 3 months ago
LOVE the scene where the fireball is barreling through the ship and the characters silhouettes run across the platform to escape. Iconic image, and one that I remember from very early childhood!
MrCWells3000 4 months ago
@MrCWells3000 Ditto!
micahnewman 1 month ago
good jobs, vincent.
doromamire 4 months ago
Well, Harry sure turned out to be a sh*tbag.
IronRangeSurvival 4 months ago in playlist sneakyYTmooobies2
poor BOB
Jay80477 4 months ago
Did that chump make up some stupid story about a meteor storm disabling the ship? OHHH the irony!
verdigo1 4 months ago
A decent sci-fi flick overall........
MrNashguitar1 5 months ago
7:46 "Maximilian, help me!" Maximilian: "blow me, bitch!" doors close.
Purplecatsoup30 5 months ago 4
The asteroid hurtling down that chamber around 3:10 is one of the most realistic effects I've ever seen in a film.
ancalites 5 months ago
WOW it is good to see Ernie Borgnine! The Charlie robot is voiced by Skim Pickens!
KC8YOQ 5 months ago
2:30 the new planned Disney Magic Kingdom or Epcot Ride!
Never materialized though. This movie was a box office flop.
GooglFascists 5 months ago
I like this movie. As a child I nenever understood what was going on but I appreciate the good ole days with actual robots and not human-looking cyborgs like RoboCop and Terminator(both good movies don't get me wrong). There's something about the robot that doesn't try to emulate humanity that is comforting and a bit more frightening
User5973 5 months ago
OOOPS!!! 3:10, banana peel moment!!!
tommyt1971 6 months ago
WAY TA GO CHARLIE... W/THEM TOY PISTOLS!!!
tommyt1971 6 months ago
Does Charlie realize that Harry can't hear him when he screams after him?
Trudeau7900 6 months ago
Small question-- if the Cygnus had a null-gravity device that allowed it to get *THAT* close to the black hole in the first place, why then does the Cygnus' screens, nearing the end (and as they get ever closer to the hole's event horizon) read 'STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OVERLOAD'? Was the Cygnus just too close to the hole and the gravity so great that it was overloading the field and crushing the Cygnus? Or had it been too badly damaged at that point to keep the field up?
DorianMichaelsIII 7 months ago
@DorianMichaelsIII
yes, it was to damaged to keep the field up and running at full capacity
keikoyanai 6 months ago
That glowing meteorite tearing along the central space (03:10) with the crew running across the bridge has got to be the iconic sequence for this movie.
TK42138 7 months ago 2
someone made a boo boo. if they had enough anti-gravity power to hold them steady and protect them , then the metorites should have been deflected.
bdkalltheway 8 months ago
@bdkalltheway not necessarily.... the null g field is not a shield or force field. it is a barrier surrounding the cygnus allowing zero gravity inside that zone. as a result the ship is able to maintain its position. the gravity waves are simply bent around the ship. the meteors are already being pulled by the gravity, when they enter the null g field there is no force to stop them or deflect them. if this were true the Palomino would have been deflected too.
Doug19752533 7 months ago
Respond to this video... also in the book, Reinhardt says that the field is unstable, its shape flexes and bends.
Doug19752533 7 months ago
3:02 - to this day I am still AMAZED at that effect of the fireball bounching through the ship's interior with the people running accross the bridge in the foreground......ASTOUNDING effects for it's time!!!
I sometimes watch that scene over and over and over, just so I can try to figure out how the effects people did that...!
beeepizzle 8 months ago
@beeepizzle its called blue screen, the same thing that was used in star wars
bdkalltheway 8 months ago
@beeepizzle
I agree with you. This is an outstanding effect even by today's standard and what amaze me is that it was done without the help of CGI.
jrpc2000 7 months ago 2
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beeepizzle 8 months ago
"Let go, Captain! Save yerself!"
I gotta hand it to old BoB, putting the lives of his human friends ahead of his own.
johntheechidna1 8 months ago
damn streaming video...keeps pausing every 10 seconds.......to doug1975,this was written by alen dean foster,a giant in the sci-fi author industry.it did'nt differ much from the movie except that there was a little more info on why the robots were built small.other than that yes the book was ok.about as good as the movie
TheReboot70 8 months ago
those translucent meteors were AMAZING!
theonlyred4 9 months ago
not to pick nits... but the travel tube is OPEN TO SPACE!!!! seriously disney? i caught that huge error back in '79 lol
omega311888 9 months ago
@omega311888 How do you know that it's not glass? Or some type of invisible force-field?
khonsmosis 9 months ago
@khonsmosis perhaps but it looked pretty open to me :P and i doubt disney thought of the force field option haha
omega311888 8 months ago
@omega311888 of course it's not. It's some kind of glass!
Mr17051963 1 month ago
@omega311888 or anything that only can be possible in the movies. LOL
Mr17051963 1 month ago
Poor aHarry!
He atried to maka an escape, anna the ship apulla him back.
Acrash anna burn, go apoor aHarry. Maya he arest inna peace.
dahanks1 9 months ago
if stupidity had a temperature, this movie would be one million degrees dumbtigrade.
dean0waterz 9 months ago
Since when are there meteorites in space?
GeekBoy03 9 months ago
@GeekBoy03 There aren't. Just like there are no formulas.
Meteoroids and formulae please, Mr. Scriptwriter.
dahanks1 9 months ago
why doesn`t Maximillian help Dr. Reinhardt at 7:45? maybe he thinks "no one he has to serve any more". Both are mad - always fascinating to see mental patients.
Ringelpiez68 9 months ago
@Ringelpiez68 Maximilian was already in the elevator and following his programming "prepare the probe ship" and he most likely will come back for Reinhardt,, OR he knows his master is mortally injured and it is now an 'every man for himself' situation... in the book when Reinhardt calls for help, the elevator had already closed and Max was gone
Doug19752533 9 months ago
@Doug19752533 thanks;) is the book good? I always thought Maximilian was headstrong, megalomaniac had problems to subordinate and execute commands - as well as his creator Dr. Reinhardt. in many scenes Reinhardt must repeat the commands vigorously until Maximilian reacts. when Dr. Reinhardt needs help he gets the punishment for his evil side that his creature let him die. my previous interpretation
Ringelpiez68 9 months ago
@Ringelpiez68 i liked the book very much. its short enough you could read it in a day. Bob goes into deeper detail telling what happened to the crew, and the ending is totally different - they do not survive going through the hole, at least not physically. Cpt Holland is aware they have crossed the event horizon and senses Kates consciousness, as well as Charlie and Vincent. together they all merge into a new entity and go on in some new form of existence. i have the book and read it still
Doug19752533 8 months ago
Which robot is raping which? I'll soon find out in part [9/10]!
MrStillmans 9 months ago
6:45 What happened there?
Bugstomper2 9 months ago
Why is the black hole now red? Of course blue isn't scientifically accurate either but wtf?
BabyWetsAllNight 10 months ago
@BabyWetsAllNight Because all the light has been red-shifted. As the wavelengths are stretch out from the gravity, the light becomes red.
Bugstomper2 9 months ago
@BabyWetsAllNight Even better, why is the center blue, and the outer ring black?
Light disappears in the center, not along the Event Horizon.
dahanks1 9 months ago
help we're being coated with dust in the garden!!
jblcn1042 11 months ago
crushed to death by giant flatscreen. hell of a way to go!
Curien247 11 months ago
Reinhardt's last words are: "More kight!" Those were Goethe's last words before he died, too. What do we make of that? Only think I can think of is Goethe's Faust, about a man who sold his soul to the Devil. Is that it?
boriato 1 year ago
Where's the Terminator when they need him? I'd like to see Maximilian try to take him out...
Carpathia1086 1 year ago
0:30 Is that a putter?
boriato 1 year ago
3:15 I see Indiana Jones
bobian414 1 year ago
05:52 thats what she said
Povixas 1 year ago
hello... State Farm?
shinyglanz 1 year ago
01:06 nothing like an attack of hemorrhoids at a critical moment
Bronzewhaler82 1 year ago
In his calculations Dr. Hans forgot to carry the 2.....
1225Media 1 year ago
7:42 Death by 56 inch flatscreen. TV, it'll be the death of everybody
trilateralmxo 1 year ago 9
So all of a sudden the robots don't listen to their master? mhm
Cokecakepopcorn 1 year ago
@Cokecakepopcorn Eh, if you're talking about Maximillian, i think it's been established that he was kind of a loose cannon. Sometimes i wonder how serious Reinhardt was earlier when he begged Kate in a whisper to save him from Max. However if you're talking about the crew... I think whether it's the remnants of their humanity remembering what Reinhardt did to them, or just poetic justice that his zombified crew in the end couldn't save him makes for an interesting debate...
Stigmatainmypants 1 year ago
harry is a bad driver
monkeynuts76 1 year ago
this is like watching a creationist video on the universe
FUwogs 1 year ago
@FUwogs The writers and crew all hated the ending of this movie, since it was quite plainly written in a Disney board room by committee
weldonwin 1 year ago
They definitely are going to want to look at the atmosphere issue for the remake. I don't know why they can breathe when they are going outside to get to the probe ship.
Trudeau790 1 year ago
@Trudeau790 I've heard that they actually did have spacesuits ready for these scenes, but the actors simply refused to wear them. Something that they'll have to account for in the remake.
AnimeFanatic5602 1 year ago
@AnimeFanatic5602 There's a remake of this coming? I'd be curious to see how that would turn out, especially since this movie has a lot of SERIOUS flaws in its story department, particularly the whole thing about the space suits and needing them in order to walk in space. A bit more energy and faster pace wouldn't hurt either.
Turnajon 1 year ago
@Turnajon The remake is apparently going to focus more on the time twisting effects of a black hole. I am interested to see what they do with the visual design and if the robots will return. If so, how they intend to handle the terrifying metal monster that is Maximillian
weldonwin 1 year ago
@weldonwin Hmm, how interesting. I'm not saying I dislike this movie; I admire it as a case of Disney trying to do something different, and they did deliver some haunting visuals and top notch effects/music and a potentially intriguing story. But it seems as though everyone involved didn't know where they wanted to go with it, hence the pacing is off and the ending very puzzling. I only hope the writers for the remake are more experienced with space travel, too.
Turnajon 1 year ago
@Turnajon Well, the original draft of the script, called "Space Station 1" was going to be a very different movie, a sci-fi take on the Posiden Adventure, with the crew of a gigantic starship caught in the pull of a black hole. I have a feeling that this is where the remake is going, back to the original concept, though if an updated version of Maximillian and Reinhart don't appear, I'll be really surprised.
weldonwin 1 year ago
9:18 Koo Laid MAN OH YEAH! or better yet Maximilian is DA JUGGANAUT B^%H!
orionbolt 1 year ago
I had the toys from this film, at least the Max and Vincent ones anyway. They weren't as cool as my Millennium Falcon though.
djstevie69 1 year ago
No explosive decompression when the meteor crashed through the midsection of the Palomino. Hard to swallow that logic gap.
alldaytubin 1 year ago
This seemed cooler when I was nine. Also, is that Slim Pickens doing the voice of the ghetto robot? Retard Dee Too.
megarouge2001 1 year ago
Just realised after watching this that Rienhart had a Flatscreen TV fall on him in a 1979 movie.
RavenHawkes 1 year ago 3
@RavenHawkes But was it an LG? That would be something. . . .
Trudeau790 1 year ago
@RavenHawkes But was it an LG? That would be something. . . . And it doesn't get HBO. That would cost extra.
Trudeau790 1 year ago
It's not a surprise to me the Cygnus was starting to lose its structural integrity. I really do like the Gothic design of it, but it's as fragile as a Fabergé egg with all those windows. It hardly looks spaceworthy, let alone capable of flight through a black hole.
Akira625 1 year ago 2
@Akira625 structural integrity is irelevent due to the anti gravity force field repelling objects and gravity its self away from the cygnus.
jasonmoore1900 1 year ago
2:05 Orange Pop Rocks of DEATH!!!
Akira625 1 year ago 22
@Akira625 Yeah, that has to be the most stupid scene in sci-fi history. Meteoroids heat up and glow in the atmosphere of Earth. In space, they are nothing but cold rocks.
dahanks1 9 months ago
@dahanks1 possible idea, at this point they are very close to the hole, possible within the accretion disk, and are heating up from intense radiation coming from the breaking down material falling into the hole
Doug19752533 9 months ago
@Akira625 The only realistic looking effect in the film!! %-D
tommyt1971 6 months ago
The audio improves on this one. :D
ajones35 1 year ago 3
2.28 Revenge of the lava lamp
MrsJosephMerrick 1 year ago
9:35 Maximillian dry humping on Vincent
NorthWriter 1 year ago
9:02, Maximillians penis. lol
markco2 1 year ago
Vincent is ballsy little robot! Glad to see he drill-fucks Maximillian.
PHANTOMZ0NE 1 year ago 2
@PHANTOMZ0NE Yeah, he got him good. And I loved Roddy McDowall's voice-over for the droid. Very memorable!
MasterJediDude 1 year ago
8:30
its like Terminator Vs R2D2
walter0bz 1 year ago
Durring the meteor scene the tunnle that they drove that hover car though was smashed open. Wouldn't they have been sucked out into space? At 2:54 that's open space right? How can they just stand there with out being blown out into space?
philipbabb 1 year ago
@philipbabb That's been a long-standing issue with the movie. Plus they climb the up to the probe ship and it was clearly on the exterior of the Cygnus. I just have to let it go. Maybe it had something to do with Reinhart's anti-gravity field around the ship, creating some kind of bubble.
MasterJediDude 1 year ago
I have been wondering about that too. . . .
Trudeau790 1 year ago
come on get to the black hole already....
dloverise 1 year ago
notice how at 0:24 the hole is appears orange/red. theyre closer to the hole and light is beginning to become stretched into longer wave lengths
Doug19752533 1 year ago
9:00 Maximillian has a metal penis...
Dandramere 1 year ago
damn, maximillian is a bad shot!! it still hit the ship
monkeychunks1000 1 year ago
@monkeychunks1000 1. The guy in the ship was a horrible pilot, not the one who normally pilots it. He was flying erratic. Dr. Rein even says "shoot it before it hits us!".
So it was really bad piloting that made it crash into the mother ship. Max shot at it trying to keep it away. It was doomed to fly into the mother ship not matter if Max shot at it or not. Max did hit it... means he's an excellent shot!
DominicanTech 1 year ago
@DominicanTech he wasnt a pilot, he was a reporter. and yeah he had NO idea what he was doing. more then likely had the Cygnus not fired on the Palomino, it would have been pulled into the hole because Booth couldnt control the ship
Doug19752533 1 year ago
Harry's leg healed fast because of technology?
MrGrevy 1 year ago
@MrGrevy well Harry's leg was never actually broken. he was lying so he could get back to the ship and try to escape.
GeneralZugg06 1 year ago
Impressive effects for a 1979 movie
stormrain71 1 year ago 24
agree!!
romeonarcizo 1 year ago
@stormrain71 Really? You think so? Sure, the model of the Cygnus is amazing, but the rest of it seems really corny and contrived. I'm really trying to like it, because it totally takes me back to when I saw this as a kid, but the few cool parts can't make up for the bad acting (at least on Kate's part), cheesy sound effects, cheesy visual effects, and the god-awful ending. Even the first Star Trek movie is better than this.
NorthWriter 1 year ago
@stormrain71 Alien did a better job
GeekBoy03 9 months ago
@stormrain71 yeh really! especially the fire meteor bit where they run across the ramp.
2010Barbon 7 months ago
The meteor was a sight to see in the theater.
fixinggrace 1 year ago
If the Cygnus' forcefield cant withstand a meteor shower how the hell is it gonnna get through a black hole????!!
th4397 2 years ago
@th4397 It can be said that the meteor shower came from the rear of the ship. Most of its forcefield was in the front - facing the Black Hole.
Or it can be said... same effect why a knife can pass through a bullit proof vest, but a bullit cannot.
DominicanTech 1 year ago
the brief fight in the garden was always one of my favorite parts
glasssoul86 2 years ago
I always hated this part. The Cygnus was one of the neatest ships in Sci-Fi. What a shame to see it destroyed. I've heard talk of a remake of this movie. It would be good with all the new computer generated effect. Just don't screw with the design of the Cygnus.
ptfd121 2 years ago
That's what you get Dr Rhienhart when you don't properly install your widescreen LCD. ---- >7:42
f3hdemon 2 years ago
6:38 owned!
ZoSo3K 2 years ago
Why is the Black Hole red all of a sudden?
A Red Hole is what you get after a prostate exam.
kas3001 2 years ago
@kas3001 theyre getting closer and closer to the hole, as a result gravity is becoming stronger and stronger, light waves are becoming stretched. red is the longest lightwave so things would appear red. thats why everything appears red now. technically inside the hole things would become blue/violet from the light waves being compressed by the immense gravity, or super bright from all matter being crushed into pure energy, but thats just a guess.
Doug19752533 1 year ago
@Doug19752533 stfu
MrGrevy 1 year ago
Increasing power to maximum not such a good idea, was it?
Tommykey07 2 years ago
Too much pressure and pull for the ship. The generator has to energize the engines AND the anti-gravitation-emitters. Seems to be too much for the Cygnus.
VariusMayhem 2 years ago
Well actually, it was not the increase of power to maximum that tore the Cygnus apart. The meteor shower had destroyed the antigrav force field generators, leaving the ship vulnerable to the black hole's immense gravity and g-forces, which is what caused the ship to fall into ruin.
triton115 2 years ago
@triton115 Yep. Reinhart's greediness to go into the hole was ultimately his undoing, and you can see the foreshadowing of it in a few places earlier in the movie.
tall32guy 1 year ago
I always hated the meteor shower scene, because the Cygnus was such an awesome ship and it sucked seeing it get destroyed like that.
Tommykey07 2 years ago
Yeah The U.S.S. Cygnus was allways one of my favorites as well, that meteor shower part was a downer but having the Palimino crash into reactor No. 2 didn't help either.
f3hdemon 2 years ago