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It's been more than 40 years, but for some reason I thought Disney's weirdest failure would have been The Black Hole.
by mikey_p 4y ago
It's been more than 40 years, but for some reason I thought Disney's weirdest failure would have been The Black Hole.
- tcbawo 4y agoAnother strange failure for Disney was the Black Cauldron. Although, I knew it wouldn’t have impacted science fiction.
- chiph 4y agoThey got so much right with that film. And so much wrong. It could stand a remake, or even a sequel where the Cygnus reappears after surviving it's apparent destruction.
- LaserDiscMan 4y agoAlthough different in many ways, I think Event Horizon shares some similarities with The Black Hole. The Gothic style of the ship, the setting, the plot etc...
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoTrue, it's exceedingly uneven, maddening even. The things it gets right, it gets so right that you can feel the potential the movie had, and then something clunky or poorly written shows up to ruin the moment. Similarly, the idea of remake both excites and frightens me because I have doubts that the high points would be matched by a modern version. Probably something mostly bland and generic, with some rapidly dated contemporary political themes thrown in the mix.
- remoquete 4y agoI was about to say that but… Turns out TBH grossed 35 million dollars, more than its cost.
- MBCook 4y agoYeah, but at a $20m budget that’s not a ton. Isn’t something like 2x considered minimum-success in Hollywood? Between that and the poor reviews it’s clear it’s not what they wanted.