There is a lot to dislike but there is also a lot to like and I know I’m in the minority but 44 years later the matte paintings background are still impressive and even better than some CGI of today

What did I just witness? I'm not sure if "The Black Hole" was a serious attempt at "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Star Wars", or "Star Crash". This movie had some impressive special effects like the whirling black hole and the fantastic look of the USS Cygnus. But for every one of the top-notch visuals, there was as many dollar store versions. The BOB and VINCENT robots were cheap looking little beer kegs and the attempt at recreating a R2D2/C3PO relationship was pretty obvious. The story itself was good enough but the casting choices were curious. Ernest Borgnine? Maximillian Schell? The biggest negative though was the score. It was written by John Barry of the James Bond Theme fame and it doesn't work here. In fact, the music played during some of the gunfights is as misplaced and distracting as any I can ever remember hearing. I've taken a lot of shots at "The Black Hole" but its strangeness and its head-scratching choices are what makes it enjoyable to me. And last but not least...how about that ending!?!? It is certainly one of the most bizarre and baffling endings to any movie I've ever seen.

Wow, my memory of this movie was wayyy off. this movie was released 2 years after Star Wars and the sfx are terrible. If you are going to have a lot of scenes were your actors are in front of the blue screen, you better figure out how to eliminate the halo effect. The was a brief scene where the Guard robots were walking and you could see through them. At the end of the movie the shuttle ride scene is ridiculous. The outer hull of the ship is destroyed and they have no problem breathing, science, who knew.

If you take into consideration when this movie was made it´s really good. Yes, the story is a bit thin but it´s quite entertaining. I remember seeing it back when I was young and I still like it. Funny thing with all this HD technology today you can easily detect all the wires they used.

I saw this film as a kid when it came out, and again recently. Objectively it's not a good movie with a bad script and abysmal science, but there's just something so compelling about it to me. Could be the strange mix of Disney-like robots and oppressive darkness of the story made a strong impression on me; all I know is that, for me, _The Black Hole_ has this unique quality to SF that you can find, say, in Tarkovsky's _Solaris_: a mix of dread and awe at the unknown, a sense that the universe is more dangerous and vast and wondrous that you can possibly imagine. That, plus Maximilian the robot is such a fantastic villain.