The Black Hole
Or, wut
A 1979 Disney movie that comes with a hefty serving of Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory . . . I think; TV Tropes of course has a fuller list which ate yet another afternoon of my life. My father recommended (or maybe un-recommended) the film to me as a really bad movie worth(?) seeing if I could do so for free. Well, that's what the public library is for. It, er, lived down to his description of it.
Where to start? The soundtrack is kind of intriguing . . . until it gets repetitive. Though there is a dash of Saturn thrown in. There are certain a lot of similarities to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Hans Reinhardt even kind of looks like Captain Nemo from that earlier Disney movie (to do: write up 20kLUtS and JttCotE)), and, in my opinion, The Tempest (possibly by way of Forbidden Planet). There's a very localized meteor shower (kind of like when a cartoon character has a storm cloud over his head). There's the all important but rather weak extra-vehicular robot tether. There's Old BOB. There's that time when Maximilian, a robot with a sort of saw-blade/drill-bit option for hand-like fixtures, kills . . . yeah [wince].
Speaking of Maximilian-induced wince, there's that shot near the end that looks really disturbingly like really disturbing Maximilian/Reinhardt (and yes, it merits that level of redundancy). As my father had wandered into the room for the last ten or fifteen minutes of the film, however, I tactfully maintained a stony-faced blandness instead going for OMG DO NOT WANT!!!11!!1 AAAGHH, MY EYES!!!
And then there's the end itself. The depiction of all the stuff concerning Reinhardt is kind of . . . an intriguing twist, I suppose (on traditional imagery, that is, not in the plot line). On the whole though, it was several ways beyond weird. The whole wtf!ending IN SPACE actually kind of reminded me of The Fountain (which analogy, I am afraid, would probably horridly distress the friend who introduced me to the latter), not only because it was a wtf!ending IN SPACE, but also because there possibly definitely probably was some sort of weird religious significance allusion hooey something in the whatever that the characters experienced.
Oh, and the DVD was kind of scratched and skipped in a few places. I apparently even missed one character's death in one of those skips. I am not, however, inclined to fill in the . . . er . . . holes.
tl;dr - wut; need brain (or maybe eye) bleach; more wut
A 1979 Disney movie that comes with a hefty serving of Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory . . . I think; TV Tropes of course has a fuller list which ate yet another afternoon of my life. My father recommended (or maybe un-recommended) the film to me as a really bad movie worth(?) seeing if I could do so for free. Well, that's what the public library is for. It, er, lived down to his description of it.
Where to start? The soundtrack is kind of intriguing . . . until it gets repetitive. Though there is a dash of Saturn thrown in. There are certain a lot of similarities to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Hans Reinhardt even kind of looks like Captain Nemo from that earlier Disney movie (to do: write up 20kLUtS and JttCotE)), and, in my opinion, The Tempest (possibly by way of Forbidden Planet). There's a very localized meteor shower (kind of like when a cartoon character has a storm cloud over his head). There's the all important but rather weak extra-vehicular robot tether. There's Old BOB. There's that time when Maximilian, a robot with a sort of saw-blade/drill-bit option for hand-like fixtures, kills . . . yeah [wince].
Speaking of Maximilian-induced wince, there's that shot near the end that looks really disturbingly like really disturbing Maximilian/Reinhardt (and yes, it merits that level of redundancy). As my father had wandered into the room for the last ten or fifteen minutes of the film, however, I tactfully maintained a stony-faced blandness instead going for OMG DO NOT WANT!!!11!!1 AAAGHH, MY EYES!!!
And then there's the end itself. The depiction of all the stuff concerning Reinhardt is kind of . . . an intriguing twist, I suppose (on traditional imagery, that is, not in the plot line). On the whole though, it was several ways beyond weird. The whole wtf!ending IN SPACE actually kind of reminded me of The Fountain (which analogy, I am afraid, would probably horridly distress the friend who introduced me to the latter), not only because it was a wtf!ending IN SPACE, but also because there possibly definitely probably was some sort of weird religious significance allusion hooey something in the whatever that the characters experienced.
Oh, and the DVD was kind of scratched and skipped in a few places. I apparently even missed one character's death in one of those skips. I am not, however, inclined to fill in the . . . er . . . holes.
tl;dr - wut; need brain (or maybe eye) bleach; more wut