Say what you will about those goofy eyed robots. Maximillian made up for it by scaring the shit out of children around the world in 1979. I'd easily choose to be locked in a room with that disco-ball torture droid from Star Wars than that red bastard.
@ElAullidoDeLaNada A lot of people don't seem to like it. I loved it as a kid. I would watch it again but I'm afraid it would be another bit of nostalgia flushed down the crapper when it does not hold up.
A very interesting movie with a bad reputation it doesn't deserve. Sure, it isn't Star Wars or Star Trek, but it is entertaining and the ending alone that is heavy on metaphor content more than makes up for the uneven pacing of the film.
@Venturi01 No, you are not alone! I loved this movie. I remember begging my father to take me to the theater to watch this movie during a snow blizzard!
The only redeeming feature of this abortion is John Barry's soundtrack. A total fuckin clunker of a film that bored me as a child and angered me as an adult. Fuck off cute robots!!
@BaronVonPenguin Agreed. The Barry score is one of his best, but this movie's cheesiness is exceeded only by its tedium.
What's really amazing is that even though this movie and "Alien" came out the same year, the Black Hole feels like a sci-fi B-movie from the 50s and Alien, except for the computer screens, still looks like it could have been made last year.
@TheInflicted Thats a brilliant point about Alien and this trash, well said! I never thought about it before but its a total B movie. With Disney behind this I'm guessing it must be the most expensive B movie in history
a complete piece of garbage..on my list as the worst sci-fi film ever...the effects are so bad, they are beyond description. The robot looks like a tin can turned upside down and two eyes painted on it's head....hilarious but unintentionally.
Back in 2007, a friend of mine decided we should play a prank on our class during the big class road-trip. We had a coach bus with the TVs, and I was chosen to select entertainment by our teacher. Today, there are a lot of people who know the Black Hole all too well thanks to me. Best prank ever pulled in our class, and the one time that movie ever came in handy.
WTF????? Are you some sort of crazy lunatic? Talking to yourself is not good. Sounds like you've got a split personality and has issues! Oh btw, don't take the piss out of diabetees or retards you sick fucker. Diabetees runs in my family and a friend of mine is retarded!! U LOW LIFE!!
Do you mean the fact that by the late 70s Disney's financial gains were in the toilet, the films they produced seen to be antedeluvian, and the theme parks old hat - and "Black Hole's" $17 million price tag didn't help...?
Or do you mean the "Black" period was an attempt by Disney at this time to move into darker, less juvenile fare?
@Autostade67 I think he might mean that during the 70's Disney's outpute had mostly been garbage. Shit like Apple Dumpling Gang, Superdad, Freaky Friday, Herbie the Luvbug, Gus ( the football playing mule ), The Shaggy D.A., .. . not exactly classic stuff, ya know? I remember all THAT shit cause I was a pre-adolescent during that era and practicaly unalowed to see any flick unless it was pute out by Disney!!
@VincentValdemar Hmm haven't seen that one. What year did it come out? But Mimieux was always a great looking woman, .. especialy in 'The Time Machine where she was a really young babe in 1961. Most of the good Disney stuff that I saw back then was re-released older stuff ( like 'Snow White, Pinochio, Fantasia, .. etc ). It's also worth noting that Disney didn't have another succesful new flick again until 'The Little Mermaid in 89, .. a whole decade after THIS one here !
@Skulldini: It was released in 1967 and re-released around 75-6 (when I saw it) - the gist of the film is Dean Jones inheriting a farm and making a crew of monkeys work it against the wishes of the townsfolk! xD To cap it off, it is Maurice Chevalier's final film - from IMDB's tagline: "DEAN GOES FOR YVETTE...YVETTE GOES FOR DEAN...and the whole town goes ape over a quartet of olive-pickin' chimps!"
LMFAO it was a demeaning film for all involved! I'd rather watch Lancelot Link than see it again!
The tin foil. Good question. Why did she have it on her head? For those of you expecting high standard special effects, it were made in 1979 NOT 2009! If you diss this, you're dissing star wars and star trek! No no no. Insulting.
Had this movie come out in the 50's or early 60's it would have been considered a sci-fi classic, but in '79 the acting, plot and those stupid robots were hopelessly dated and silly compared with what Lucas and Spielberg were doing around the same time. But I like a lot of the special effects and that HUGE spaceship.
I wish Disney wouldn't have tried making this movie so kid-freindly and taken the project more seriously.
I remember to percieve this movie as horrorfying as a kid. but I can't remember why. same with Tron 1982. I watched Tron82 a couple of weeks ago. it was awesome. can't wait to see this one again. thanks for uploading the trailer
I remember watching this film growing up in the 90's. As a kid Maximilian was a frightening robot! It was the creepy music that did it tho, as the crew tried to escape and Dr Rineheart sending his robots to kill them. The standoff between Maximilian and Vincent at the end was entertaining stuff lol. Is there any news of an updated dvd version with extras like deleated scenes, bonus features etc? I'd like to see that! Cheers :-D
I liked this one alot when I was a kid...saw it in the theatre. I had the viewmaster3D discs from this too. I remember I really dug Maximillian and the laser guns that shot out of both ends.
Considering that the version of the original Star Wars seen on TV these days is the one that was remastered by George Lucas, the special effects in this movie aren't that bad.
for a family based movie, its pretty creepy to be honest. I remember seeing this as a kid, and it actually freaked me out. Anyone else think the same?
@clonard Yes! I was a little tyke and remember vividly seeing this in the theatre. I already owned those Black Hole "pancil holders" found in the Sheddies box, so I was really looking forward to this. Good Star Wars-esque feel, but some scenes were a little dark for younger audiences. That Maximillion robot was quite scary!
Yeah it was pretty 'dark' in parts. The fact that Dr. Reinhardt turned his crew into zombies and the fact that people actually did 'die' in this...pretty gruesomely too with Maximillian having those blades. Hardcore for a disney film.
As rediculous as this movie is by todays standards, I remember being turned onto science fiction when I first watched this movie as a young kid in the early 80's. Watching this brought back great memories.
@doctorw2 i wouldn't say that . but it had alot of potenial to match the original alien film.but disney didn't want to go to far because of the kids. but its still a great scifi film.hopefully the remake will live up to the potenial.
Ah, THE BLACK HOLE; that's where all the profits went since this film was a big flop in 1979.
Many people may not realize that George Lucas originally approached the Disney Corporation to produce an obsure little film known as STAR WARS, but the genius Disney executives did not think that sci-fi films were profitable, so they turned him down and 20th Century Fox produced STAR WARS instead.
THE BLACK HOLE was Disney's attempt to catch up to the STAR WARS craze.
@ewd76... What are you not impressed about? The trailer, or my comment. It wasn't meant to impress anyone. I just merely stated that it was too long and I remember seeing it in theaters.
I'm not sure I agree it was last of the "old school FX" movies - Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi used model FX, as did the later Trek movies up until the 90s.
However, it *was* probably the last to use studio in-house FX, which is probably what you meant.
I loved this movie as a kid. A little creaky now, but fun.
This movie in many senses was one of the most extraordinary films in Disney. For many reasons such as, it is what defined the path for Thouchstone Pictures when Disney had decided that this kind of genre no longer belonged with a company that mainly produced movies for younger kids.
It also was Disney's come back after Star Wars, and other Sci-Fi films of its day. After having many writers on its story it really is a wonder it ever pulled through. That and being a good movie is why I like it.
This was a lot better than I expected. I can also understand why it wasn't a very big hit in theaters--it was in the shadow of Star Wars. Looks a little dated special effects-wise, but was overall pretty impressive for '79. I also thought Vincent was a cute android!
If anyone knows who made the humanoid robot facemasks (1:43 - 1:50) or alternatively knows someone who can make identical replicas - could you please let me know, thanks...
@Juanpasaenz I think this means the 'dark period' when Disney and a few other film companies released fairly dark natured films that are often looked over due to their lack of success at the box office. If you look at the Black Cauldron, that's a good example of 'dark' animation, and there was a lot of it about at that time.
I don't know why film trailers used to be made like this...
showing full scenes, giving away specific plot points, maybe they thought kids wouldn't know the difference.
BTW, this was Disney's first (gasp) PG rated film...
Despite the corniness, I remember as a kid sensing the huge scale of this film. I might rent it on Netflix to see if it still holds up, especially the scene with the molten meteor barreling through that huge passageway!
I've always liked this movie. Scared the s*it out of me when I first saw it. The ending is rubbish, but there is something great about the movie it's self.
I remember reading the "read along cassette" book version of this movie but I never found out what it was called due to my lack of interest of titles back then. Now at 22, I have found the title of that book that got me hooked to sci fi. Thank you for the post.
This movie was actually "shelved" by Disney, but when they saw the success of Star Wars, they quickly released it to ride the coat tails of Lucas' blockbuster. I went to see it after Star Wars and laughed at it then left (with half the audience).
@boardskins That's not quite true. It was because of the enormous success of Star Wars that Disney got into production on this project; just like the first Star Trek film finally got made, because they wanted to ride the coattails of the new SciFi craze.
The film is most interesting as an experiment, because this was the time Disney realized they needed to broaden their horizons to find the audience that wasn't coming to their films. 1979 to 1983, they released several more 'mature' films.
@Fangmeier I see that "The Black Hole" was released two years after the original Star Wars, so I have to agree. At the time of its release, it was rumored to be a "shelved" movie that was released, as I remember.
If anyone remakes this great movie, (and I don't care if the dialogue was cheesy) I am going to be peeved right off!! Computer graphics have totally ruined new sciFi movies!! I am glad I got to experience movies like this when theatres had curtains! It was magic!
Vaguely remember this movie as a kid. It was a little freaky. BTW, why did Disney opt for horror-themed trailer as oppose to a brash, rousing, "Star Wars"-like preview?
Actually, 2001: A Space Odyssey was what this movie was trying to top. Hell, they even tried to include a surreal ending, which just came off as both creepy and somehow hilarious.
That's hardly fair - even Uwe Boll could improve on the "Black Hole" - not that there was anything wrong with Kosinsky's take on Tron - it was superior to the original in every way and is easily one of the most visually and stylistically amazing films ever made.
@MrRandomcommentguy I didn't say anything about the visuals. Kudos on the visuals, Joseph, but the dialogue was sub par and cheesy. I feel sorry for Jeff Bridges.
Joseph's just using older Disney films to remake into eye candy. Otherwise, nothing else is improved. Tron was bad in every other aspect.
Ha ha she got tinfoil on her head, tight budget i guess
EvilPoet85 6 days ago
Saw this movie when i was a kid and it made quite an impression, today it does'nt hold up a well, but I still like it.
EvilPoet85 6 days ago
Doorway to Dimensions.
SeaBassVamp 1 week ago
This is a very "brawny" video. =p
acharylee77z 1 week ago
I so wish it was 1979 again. I remember going to the theatre with my mom to see this movie and have loved it ever since.
Tiamat1156 3 weeks ago 2
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chrlsnewsom5 3 weeks ago
The cute robots keep this movie from being completely Kafkaesque.
texjoy86 3 weeks ago 2
Say what you will about those goofy eyed robots. Maximillian made up for it by scaring the shit out of children around the world in 1979. I'd easily choose to be locked in a room with that disco-ball torture droid from Star Wars than that red bastard.
MadKap76 3 weeks ago 4
@MadKap76 "Maximilian" was scary as heel. I saw this movielike 7-8 times in a week when i was seven years old.
ElAullidoDeLaNada 3 weeks ago
@ElAullidoDeLaNada A lot of people don't seem to like it. I loved it as a kid. I would watch it again but I'm afraid it would be another bit of nostalgia flushed down the crapper when it does not hold up.
MadKap76 3 weeks ago
@MadKap76 Yep it would. I too, saw it as a child... and now..... well....
sean1973x2009 5 days ago
A very interesting movie with a bad reputation it doesn't deserve. Sure, it isn't Star Wars or Star Trek, but it is entertaining and the ending alone that is heavy on metaphor content more than makes up for the uneven pacing of the film.
andoc 4 weeks ago
Back then it was just a movie, now it's for real!!,year 2012 is here!!!
tigertj1994 1 month ago
Classic Game Room brought me here.
EointheGuy101 1 month ago
thought this movie was cool when i was a kid now it looks super cheezy
Arkstrikle 1 month ago
Cute robots... Its got to be Disney! It should be remade 'properly'.
yokai1968 1 month ago
IM the only person on earth that liked this movie. the rest of yall can go bake cakes lol!!!!
Venturi01 1 month ago
@Venturi01 Well according to IMDB it's in Chris Nolans top ten (in trivia), that has to count for something...
ThePsybapunk 1 month ago
@Venturi01 No, you are not alone! I loved this movie. I remember begging my father to take me to the theater to watch this movie during a snow blizzard!
sanzoparty1066 4 weeks ago
They are talking about re-making this. Kinda imagining the updated VINCENT looking more like a floating WALL-E
GeninX3m2 1 month ago
The only redeeming feature of this abortion is John Barry's soundtrack. A total fuckin clunker of a film that bored me as a child and angered me as an adult. Fuck off cute robots!!
BaronVonPenguin 1 month ago
@BaronVonPenguin Agreed. The Barry score is one of his best, but this movie's cheesiness is exceeded only by its tedium.
What's really amazing is that even though this movie and "Alien" came out the same year, the Black Hole feels like a sci-fi B-movie from the 50s and Alien, except for the computer screens, still looks like it could have been made last year.
TheInflicted 3 weeks ago
@TheInflicted Thats a brilliant point about Alien and this trash, well said! I never thought about it before but its a total B movie. With Disney behind this I'm guessing it must be the most expensive B movie in history
BaronVonPenguin 3 weeks ago
What happends at the end ? Pardon my spelling, i am not english :-) Do they fall into the hole ? What happends ?
aFemale1 1 month ago
The cutesiness of the robots is embarrassingly bad....and I'm sorry, but I can't take entirely seriously any movie that has Ernest Borgnine in it.
travisnealtodd70 1 month ago
a complete piece of garbage..on my list as the worst sci-fi film ever...the effects are so bad, they are beyond description. The robot looks like a tin can turned upside down and two eyes painted on it's head....hilarious but unintentionally.
vrc1008 1 month ago
very nice blasters sound fx !
alvarokas 1 month ago
I saw this movie back in 05 it was of course from 1979. But it was good I think they should do a remake.
LordHannigan 1 month ago
Back in 2007, a friend of mine decided we should play a prank on our class during the big class road-trip. We had a coach bus with the TVs, and I was chosen to select entertainment by our teacher. Today, there are a lot of people who know the Black Hole all too well thanks to me. Best prank ever pulled in our class, and the one time that movie ever came in handy.
Maklarr2000 1 month ago
1:55
Now that's a stylish tinfoil hat...
Are they turning them into baked potatoes?
jetpoweredgriffin 2 months ago 5
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BreakTheRules2011 2 months ago
Disney's desperate cash in on Star Wars. Although it's a little more darker. Every time i watch this I expect the alien to jump out and attack them
darthmeyers074 2 months ago
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This looks pretty interesting. I might watch this!
puppymolly123 2 months ago
what's the latest on the remake from the director of "Tron Legacy"?
kascnef82 2 months ago
hihi come to my room I'm all burning
tomchavayd 2 months ago
Loved the soundtrack
stoncoldrob 2 months ago
Perhaps we should all consider creating a "black hole" group discussion forum haha.
Lee249 2 months ago
hehe frisky and outgoing girl who wants to have fun
ADukeChicago 2 months ago
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VincentValdemar 2 months ago
When I did a search for Black Hole, I thought I would be shown naked african women, not this!!
angus1000001 2 months ago
WTF????? Are you some sort of crazy lunatic? Talking to yourself is not good. Sounds like you've got a split personality and has issues! Oh btw, don't take the piss out of diabetees or retards you sick fucker. Diabetees runs in my family and a friend of mine is retarded!! U LOW LIFE!!
Lee249 3 months ago
What is the Disney "Black" period...?
Do you mean the fact that by the late 70s Disney's financial gains were in the toilet, the films they produced seen to be antedeluvian, and the theme parks old hat - and "Black Hole's" $17 million price tag didn't help...?
Or do you mean the "Black" period was an attempt by Disney at this time to move into darker, less juvenile fare?
Or both?
Autostade67 3 months ago
@Autostade67 I think he might mean that during the 70's Disney's outpute had mostly been garbage. Shit like Apple Dumpling Gang, Superdad, Freaky Friday, Herbie the Luvbug, Gus ( the football playing mule ), The Shaggy D.A., .. . not exactly classic stuff, ya know? I remember all THAT shit cause I was a pre-adolescent during that era and practicaly unalowed to see any flick unless it was pute out by Disney!!
Skulldini 2 months ago
@Skulldini: Don't forget Monkey's Go Home! - another Yvette Mimieux and Disney 'Classic'!
(I actually liked the original Freaky Friday, btw!) :P
VincentValdemar 2 months ago
@VincentValdemar Hmm haven't seen that one. What year did it come out? But Mimieux was always a great looking woman, .. especialy in 'The Time Machine where she was a really young babe in 1961. Most of the good Disney stuff that I saw back then was re-released older stuff ( like 'Snow White, Pinochio, Fantasia, .. etc ). It's also worth noting that Disney didn't have another succesful new flick again until 'The Little Mermaid in 89, .. a whole decade after THIS one here !
Skulldini 2 months ago
@Skulldini: It was released in 1967 and re-released around 75-6 (when I saw it) - the gist of the film is Dean Jones inheriting a farm and making a crew of monkeys work it against the wishes of the townsfolk! xD To cap it off, it is Maurice Chevalier's final film - from IMDB's tagline: "DEAN GOES FOR YVETTE...YVETTE GOES FOR DEAN...and the whole town goes ape over a quartet of olive-pickin' chimps!"
LMFAO it was a demeaning film for all involved! I'd rather watch Lancelot Link than see it again!
VincentValdemar 2 months ago
I think the movie "Event horizon 1997' was Inspired by this movie.
LUXITANE 3 months ago
@LUXITANE Totally agree.
ElAullidoDeLaNada 3 weeks ago
HEY BITCH
alteredchild 3 months ago
@alteredchild
WHO THE FUCK YOU CALLING BITCH, BITCH?!
alteredchild 3 months ago
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alteredchild 3 months ago
@alteredchild
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alteredchild 3 months ago
@alteredchild
HAVE FUN TRYING, BECAUSE YOUR DIABETES HAS ALREADY EATEN YOUR FAT FUCKING LEGS!
alteredchild 3 months ago
@alteredchild
FUCK YOU RETARDED! OMFG Y U NO SPELL CORRECTLY? IT'S SPELT DIABEETEES.
alteredchild 3 months ago
@alteredchild
NO IT'S NOT RETARD!
alteredchild 3 months ago
OMFG! who was in charge of that logo?! (o_0)
how did it ever make it out of the drawing board?! XD
thehside 3 months ago
Star Wars was much better considering it was made 2 years earlier.
stmahlberg 3 months ago
And so they wrap her head in tin foil and attempt to bake it like a hot potato! ;D
CaptainGoofysstash 3 months ago
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Looks like it's best to aim for the chest!
birthnight 3 months ago
The tin foil. Good question. Why did she have it on her head? For those of you expecting high standard special effects, it were made in 1979 NOT 2009! If you diss this, you're dissing star wars and star trek! No no no. Insulting.
Lee249 3 months ago
these arnt the droids your looking for...
XXWHOTHEHELLCARESXX 3 months ago
Awesome. Disney was even ahead on special effects!
Blitzion214 3 months ago
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This movie is really great!
TvFreakLady 4 months ago
I love this movie. It has a great flavor. I wish i was reinhart. I would love to kill everyone on board, and take over the ship all by myself !!
archon808 4 months ago
hiya Please, don't keep me waiting.You will have a fun time with me
6daphnehood6 4 months ago
Had this movie come out in the 50's or early 60's it would have been considered a sci-fi classic, but in '79 the acting, plot and those stupid robots were hopelessly dated and silly compared with what Lucas and Spielberg were doing around the same time. But I like a lot of the special effects and that HUGE spaceship.
I wish Disney wouldn't have tried making this movie so kid-freindly and taken the project more seriously.
JangleRadio365 4 months ago
Oh COME ON
2:39
She has TIN FOIL on her head -_-
D00ml0rdKazzak 4 months ago
Was that Tony Jay who announced for this trailer?
CNFanLDE 4 months ago
@CNFanLDE Nope It was Percy Rodrigues (1918-2007) The Voice of Horror!!!! But good guess though!
AtomicRooster77 4 months ago in playlist Percy Rodriguez trailer voiceover
I remember to percieve this movie as horrorfying as a kid. but I can't remember why. same with Tron 1982. I watched Tron82 a couple of weeks ago. it was awesome. can't wait to see this one again. thanks for uploading the trailer
Teamo86 4 months ago
Umm...didn't he just stick his hand under that laser when he threw the robot under it?
dacypher22 4 months ago
What an awful trailer. They really weren't capable of making good trailers then.
dreaMakerOne 5 months ago
and they think this is the year 2011
mohgoku 5 months ago
Starring...That guy from "Jackie Brown"....that guy from "Psycho"....and that guy from
"Airwolf"
RevDrTSgtC 5 months ago
@RevDrTSgtC Yeah, this was definitely a "hey, it's that guy!" movie.
Yvette Mimieux was totally unrecognizably older. The amazing part is she couldn't have been more than 38 or so.
CristinaFernandez 3 months ago
I remember watching this film growing up in the 90's. As a kid Maximilian was a frightening robot! It was the creepy music that did it tho, as the crew tried to escape and Dr Rineheart sending his robots to kill them. The standoff between Maximilian and Vincent at the end was entertaining stuff lol. Is there any news of an updated dvd version with extras like deleated scenes, bonus features etc? I'd like to see that! Cheers :-D
Lee249 5 months ago
what did i just watch?
xfa3ilkhair 5 months ago
I liked this one alot when I was a kid...saw it in the theatre. I had the viewmaster3D discs from this too. I remember I really dug Maximillian and the laser guns that shot out of both ends.
PullMyPeeper 5 months ago
Considering that the version of the original Star Wars seen on TV these days is the one that was remastered by George Lucas, the special effects in this movie aren't that bad.
mzhivago925 5 months ago
Neil de Grasse Tyson took me here.
pigin007 5 months ago
for a family based movie, its pretty creepy to be honest. I remember seeing this as a kid, and it actually freaked me out. Anyone else think the same?
clonard 5 months ago in playlist Coming soon
@clonard Yes! I was a little tyke and remember vividly seeing this in the theatre. I already owned those Black Hole "pancil holders" found in the Sheddies box, so I was really looking forward to this. Good Star Wars-esque feel, but some scenes were a little dark for younger audiences. That Maximillion robot was quite scary!
jayanxiety 5 months ago
@jayanxiety
Yeah it was pretty 'dark' in parts. The fact that Dr. Reinhardt turned his crew into zombies and the fact that people actually did 'die' in this...pretty gruesomely too with Maximillian having those blades. Hardcore for a disney film.
johnnyphoenix74 5 months ago
At 2:28, his fingers are hit by the lasers, but nothing happens to them...
MigDetBareMig 5 months ago
As rediculous as this movie is by todays standards, I remember being turned onto science fiction when I first watched this movie as a young kid in the early 80's. Watching this brought back great memories.
Beausmithftl 5 months ago
this movie sucked bollocks disney should stick with making cartoons.
doctorw2 5 months ago
@doctorw2 i wouldn't say that . but it had alot of potenial to match the original alien film.but disney didn't want to go to far because of the kids. but its still a great scifi film.hopefully the remake will live up to the potenial.
averageblackreviews 5 months ago
still freaks me the fuck out to this day.
angie4josh 6 months ago
Ah, THE BLACK HOLE; that's where all the profits went since this film was a big flop in 1979.
Many people may not realize that George Lucas originally approached the Disney Corporation to produce an obsure little film known as STAR WARS, but the genius Disney executives did not think that sci-fi films were profitable, so they turned him down and 20th Century Fox produced STAR WARS instead.
THE BLACK HOLE was Disney's attempt to catch up to the STAR WARS craze.
TorontoJon 6 months ago
Before Disney created "Touchstone" for their more serious projects...
mcculleyg 6 months ago
Dead Space 1979.
mrnachocheese 6 months ago
is that even a disney movie
villi1997 6 months ago
the film could have been so much better without that annoying 'cute' robot.
methanbreather 6 months ago 8
@ewd76... What are you not impressed about? The trailer, or my comment. It wasn't meant to impress anyone. I just merely stated that it was too long and I remember seeing it in theaters.
AuburnBrad97 6 months ago
Such a good film...and oldie but a goody.
hotandspicy666 6 months ago
What was the Disney's "Black" period? It looks like this movie, despite being made by Disney, is more mature that previous movies.
Markis2bi4 7 months ago
" and now .. the man is about to enter the black hole ! " and thats where buttsex came from :D
Seiferzed 7 months ago
1:03 for something happening other than green grid.
moomoo1337 7 months ago
This ranks up there with The Last Starfighter as one of the most underrated science fiction movies ever.
jakfuki 7 months ago
This disney trailer was way too long. I remember seeing it when I went to see Moonraker.
AuburnBrad97 7 months ago
@AuburnBrad97
I'm not impressed.
ewd76 6 months ago
I'm not sure I agree it was last of the "old school FX" movies - Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi used model FX, as did the later Trek movies up until the 90s.
However, it *was* probably the last to use studio in-house FX, which is probably what you meant.
I loved this movie as a kid. A little creaky now, but fun.
ItchythaWookiee 7 months ago
This movie in many senses was one of the most extraordinary films in Disney. For many reasons such as, it is what defined the path for Thouchstone Pictures when Disney had decided that this kind of genre no longer belonged with a company that mainly produced movies for younger kids.
It also was Disney's come back after Star Wars, and other Sci-Fi films of its day. After having many writers on its story it really is a wonder it ever pulled through. That and being a good movie is why I like it.
SirEpifire 8 months ago
No one can stand against, The Quad Laser!
BanzaiM50 8 months ago 2
Thumbs up for Redban!
AnimusAeternus 8 months ago 33
Whose doing the voiceover work here??
jrichman21 8 months ago
This was a lot better than I expected. I can also understand why it wasn't a very big hit in theaters--it was in the shadow of Star Wars. Looks a little dated special effects-wise, but was overall pretty impressive for '79. I also thought Vincent was a cute android!
lurch321 8 months ago
this was disney's answer to star wars lmao
funkyfreshbboy 8 months ago
@1:46.....OH S#!T, it's RINZLER.
ultilinium8 8 months ago
This is a great movie until the final scene then it turns into a WTF!
sprigelf2000 8 months ago
@sprigelf2000
Yeah, it seemed Disney wanted to redo 2001 A Space Odyssey at the end but brought in Heaven and Hell instead.
Cagedguitarist401 8 months ago
1:53 her moans gave me one of the first boners I can ever remember.
stargroove4 8 months ago
If anyone knows who made the humanoid robot facemasks (1:43 - 1:50) or alternatively knows someone who can make identical replicas - could you please let me know, thanks...
Sheldonix 8 months ago
Co to za język do cholery? Po jakiemu oni mówią!?!
Inspektisto 9 months ago
Cant believe fucken disney did this film....
SirSleezy 9 months ago
She's wearing a tinfoil hat!
MrStillmans 9 months ago
this was a cool and fun movie, I don;t know why disney abandoned it. Yes it did not break box office records but this was fine Disney film making.
digipeeper 9 months ago
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one of the best films
bopkick5 9 months ago
I still love this movie.
AudioVisualMatter 9 months ago
Zomg lasors! This MUST be the future!
CFrostyTheSnowman 9 months ago
1:17 That guy reminds me of Saddam Hussein!
Bugstomper2 9 months ago
Classic for me & the soundtrack from the late John Barry is top
DanielBowden1975 9 months ago
haha laser lobotomy? COUNT ME IN!
HOTbulletMIXER 9 months ago
looks like another bad sci-fi rehash to me...
musefanatical1 9 months ago
@watcheem that movie was great!
StrangerUnidentified 9 months ago
According to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson this movie sux!
watcheem 9 months ago
It's the Daft Punk robots!!!
Dulcimerist 10 months ago
Rented this again from Blockbuster Online, truly awesome! The story telling in the 70s, and 80s was so fresh and unique.
hootyhaha 10 months ago
....Kinda glad the eighties and nineties are over... Ha
FutureRefrence 10 months ago
Oh...my...god...
I had seen this movie a long long time ago and forgotten everything about it. Then I remembered the robots and the guy with the mirror face.
Funny hte robots look like Eric Cartman.
WarHorseVarejao 10 months ago
I like the credits: "Anthony Perkins"...
Perkins : *dies*
To be fair, tough, that's the main thing I remember from seeing this movie: Perkins getting killed by Maximillian with a blender.
jonahsdive 10 months ago
I couldn't get enough of this movie when I was a kid. I bought all the bubble gum cards on it I could. Anyone still have those?
PotatoGunsRule 10 months ago
@PotatoGunsRule= I had a Maximillian action figure. And my old playroom, still has Black Hole wallpaper on it.
vigo894 10 months ago
@vigo894 Can you post a pic of that wallpaper? Apparently there were a lot of items merchandized from that movie.
PotatoGunsRule 10 months ago
@PotatoGunsRule= Give me a couple of days. I gotta download one more video first.
vigo894 10 months ago
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MarillMatey 10 months ago
haha xxD the guns almost looks like the plasma cutter in dead space xD
AlexS9403 11 months ago
This is the trailer? It's like a couple of disjointed lines, a couple of disjointed scenes, and a narrator that seems confused.
greyeyed123 11 months ago
@greyeyed123 Well, then it's not that different from the movie itself...
no1DdC 10 months ago
The Re-boot's coming in 2012. By the same director of Tron Legacy.
nizamm 11 months ago
@nizamm hope it's IMAX 3D as well -_-
mfuji02 10 months ago
@nizamm i hope they do a better job of dialog... tron legacy's sucked!
handymandan100 10 months ago
@handymandan100 Agree. Though visually stunning.
nizamm 10 months ago
what do you mean by "Disney's black period"?
Juanpasaenz 11 months ago
@Juanpasaenz I think this means the 'dark period' when Disney and a few other film companies released fairly dark natured films that are often looked over due to their lack of success at the box office. If you look at the Black Cauldron, that's a good example of 'dark' animation, and there was a lot of it about at that time.
shenoir 11 months ago
@shenoir makes sense... the Dark Cauldron scared the hell outta me when I was a kid. Used to have nightmares about the horned skeleton dude.
Juanpasaenz 11 months ago
They made the trailer too good.
stokepogue 11 months ago
Alternate Title: When Daft Punk Attacks!
0chimusha 11 months ago 2
This actually looks not half-bad for a seventies sci-fi flick.
cjwright79 11 months ago
on the description you said "Disney's black period" what do you mean?
Lili0000007 11 months ago
Epic soundtrack by John Barry, who did most of the classic James Bond scores.
bps3013 11 months ago 13
are those sound effects from G.I Joe?
pundar 11 months ago
Is that fucking tin foil?
ZabuzaSOULESS 11 months ago
I don't know why film trailers used to be made like this...
showing full scenes, giving away specific plot points, maybe they thought kids wouldn't know the difference.
BTW, this was Disney's first (gasp) PG rated film...
Despite the corniness, I remember as a kid sensing the huge scale of this film. I might rent it on Netflix to see if it still holds up, especially the scene with the molten meteor barreling through that huge passageway!
khentoumi 1 year ago
I've always liked this movie. Scared the s*it out of me when I first saw it. The ending is rubbish, but there is something great about the movie it's self.
tbone1975uk 1 year ago
I remember reading the "read along cassette" book version of this movie but I never found out what it was called due to my lack of interest of titles back then. Now at 22, I have found the title of that book that got me hooked to sci fi. Thank you for the post.
royalpain88 1 year ago
one of the best movies of all time !!!!!!!!! thanks for the upload :D
KatjaContu 1 year ago
This movie was actually "shelved" by Disney, but when they saw the success of Star Wars, they quickly released it to ride the coat tails of Lucas' blockbuster. I went to see it after Star Wars and laughed at it then left (with half the audience).
The XXX version "The Black Holes" was better! lol
boardskins 1 year ago
@boardskins Black Holes sounds interesting. Do you know where i can find it?
drumtum 1 year ago
@boardskins That's not quite true. It was because of the enormous success of Star Wars that Disney got into production on this project; just like the first Star Trek film finally got made, because they wanted to ride the coattails of the new SciFi craze.
The film is most interesting as an experiment, because this was the time Disney realized they needed to broaden their horizons to find the audience that wasn't coming to their films. 1979 to 1983, they released several more 'mature' films.
Fangmeier 1 year ago
@Fangmeier I see that "The Black Hole" was released two years after the original Star Wars, so I have to agree. At the time of its release, it was rumored to be a "shelved" movie that was released, as I remember.
Either way, it's an epic failure of a movie.
boardskins 1 year ago
@boardskins no way man, and the comic books were awesome imo.
nottheduck1 1 year ago
STOP!
There's the Blaggho... but where's the Gatekeeper?
OuroborosChoked 1 year ago
If anyone remakes this great movie, (and I don't care if the dialogue was cheesy) I am going to be peeved right off!! Computer graphics have totally ruined new sciFi movies!! I am glad I got to experience movies like this when theatres had curtains! It was magic!
Thermionman1970 1 year ago
What is Disney's "black" period?
1972skb 1 year ago
Vaguely remember this movie as a kid. It was a little freaky. BTW, why did Disney opt for horror-themed trailer as oppose to a brash, rousing, "Star Wars"-like preview?
alexo1176 1 year ago
looks like everyone was jumping on the star wars wagon back then.
Attila709 1 year ago 2
@Attila709
Actually, 2001: A Space Odyssey was what this movie was trying to top. Hell, they even tried to include a surreal ending, which just came off as both creepy and somehow hilarious.
Hawdkoah 11 months ago
@ 9 years old this commercial scared the shit out of me in a good way
mfuji02 1 year ago
Sick movie.
das81 1 year ago
As always for Disney, nice models and special effects. Not so good with the plot.
bukster1 1 year ago
Straight up aluminum foil, can't wait to see remake on video! Was in kindergarten when it came out! Funny the stuff we all look up, lol!
seelinton 1 year ago
Joseph Kosinski's gonna fuck this one up, too.
ethanichols 1 year ago
@ethanichols
"Joseph Kosinski's gonna fuck this one up, too."
That's hardly fair - even Uwe Boll could improve on the "Black Hole" - not that there was anything wrong with Kosinsky's take on Tron - it was superior to the original in every way and is easily one of the most visually and stylistically amazing films ever made.
MrRandomcommentguy 1 year ago
@MrRandomcommentguy I didn't say anything about the visuals. Kudos on the visuals, Joseph, but the dialogue was sub par and cheesy. I feel sorry for Jeff Bridges.
Joseph's just using older Disney films to remake into eye candy. Otherwise, nothing else is improved. Tron was bad in every other aspect.
ethanichols 1 year ago
Tron Legacy actually referenced this. A (good) remake of this would be epic. I loved this movie and I'd be the first to buy a ticket.
atomofish 1 year ago
I've never seen the movie, but I gotta say, that's a great title screen.
ShadowColossi 1 year ago
love the tinfoil hats
benadril 1 year ago
Daft Punk music could be in the next sequel or remake of the Black Hole.
daft07 1 year ago
@daft07 I would see the movie just for that. :P
DuchessAliana 1 year ago