The Black Hole - U.S.S. Cygnus

The crew of the spaceship Palamino stumbles across the ''lost'' ship U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering on the edge of an immense black hole. Once aboard, they find the ship is manned by robots - it's only human inhabitant, one Dr. Hans Reinhardt; an eminent scientist, missing for the past twenty years. His plan - to enter the Black Hole . . . Whether Dr. Reinhardt is a genius or a mad-man, one thing is for sure, he will not be denied his life's dream. What lies beyond the Black Hole? Immortality . . . or, Oblivion . . . ?

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[spyder1138]

The ending of the film is also really, really dark. It can be taken in many different ways, but one of the theories (which is present in the novel) is that everyone physically died. As the book said, no one can survive the pressure of the black hole, but the gravitational pull keeps your conciseness and soul intact. Their bodies were destroyed, but they are aware of where they are, however they are unaware that they are dead.

Pretty dark for a Disney film.

[bwtupman]

When I saw the movie as a kid - I was around 7 I guess - the final scene of the evil Doctor, trapped in Maximillian, standing on the burning mountain, strongly affected me. It was almost like a religious vision of some sort, for a kid. The religious overtones of the final act raise it into a movie of high strangeness - it would not be as good a movie without them.

[boradis]

If it weren't for the ham-handed religiosity this would have been a decent SF film.

[scupking]

Such a great movie. I remember the first time seeing it when I was a kid and still love it today at 28 years old. I can't wait for the remake. I love how odd the ending is and how it makes you think.

[johnbarry007]

John Barry`s music is just stunning

[gallantmon8]

Goddammit, I have this on DVD.

[Takeshi357]

This film came out the same year as Moonraker, to which John Barry also composed the soundtrack. One can definitely find some similarities between the two scores.

[Big12189]

...And then Dr. Weir appears.

[KaitainCPS]

@IanDavidOnDU

That was a misspoken line by Mimieux, but it was left in the movie.

Sometimes happens. There's actually a minor misspoken line in Empire Strikes Back by Billy Dee Williams: he's clearly supposed to say (talking about the Empire): "It's always been a danger and it looms like a shadow over everything we've built here." Instead, he says "It's always been a danger BUT it looms like a shadow over everything we've built here", which doesn't really make sense.

[11jcmc11]

transhumanistic lucifer, tripped out...

[beasst94]

@spyder1138 there was darker stuff than this earlier in disney films

[ReverendSyn]

@starsiegeplayer Basically, at the time Maximilian killed Durant (And, later when he attacked Kate and company trying to escape) Frank had not yet overridden the failsafe protocols keeping him in line. Part of Max seems to operate under an AI. Franks brain was there simply to give Humanoids orders. It was the AI that killed Durant and Frank couldnt stop it

What Hans feared was that Frank WOULD completely override the failsafes through willpower eventually. And pretty soon. But not just yet.