The Black Hole! What memories this brings back! I remember an advance poster for it outside Sydney University and someone had grafittied it to read The Slack Mole -with a mole peeking out of the event horizon!
It should have been a really good film, an updated 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but those cutsey robots killed it stone dead! Lovely Bob McCall concept art, Victorianized by Peter Ellenshaw, it certainly looked distinctive, but the script while showing flashes of promise just failed to deliver. My wife and I were big Science Fiction Fans even before we met, so we were on a similar wavelength. We went to see The Black Hole on a double bill with Dragonslayer at the Blacktown Skyline Drive-In (sadly no longer there!) My partner fell asleep about halfway through The Black Hole and when she woke up, she asked what she'd missed. When I described the events of the final reel, she wouldn't believe me. "Oh, you're making that up!" she said!
The Black Hole! What memories this brings back! I remember an advance poster for it outside Sydney University and someone had grafittied it to read The Slack Mole -with a mole peeking out of the event horizon!
ReplyDeleteIt should have been a really good film, an updated 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but those cutsey robots killed it stone dead! Lovely Bob McCall concept art, Victorianized by Peter Ellenshaw, it certainly looked distinctive, but the script while showing flashes of promise just failed to deliver.
My wife and I were big Science Fiction Fans even before we met, so we were on a similar wavelength.
We went to see The Black Hole on a double bill with Dragonslayer at the Blacktown Skyline Drive-In (sadly no longer there!)
My partner fell asleep about halfway through The Black Hole and when she woke up, she asked what she'd missed. When I described the events of the final reel, she wouldn't believe me.
"Oh, you're making that up!" she said!
Unfortunately, having stated to watch it, I realise it's just a taster to get you to pay.
ReplyDeleteNever mind Andy. Thanks for the tip.
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