# Disney's "The Black Hole" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2007, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-the-black-hole/406475 "2007-06-02T11:53:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-the-black-hole/406475/21 "2007-06-04T05:32:13Z")
[QUOTE=mlees] The special effects weren’t bad, for 1979. [/QUOTE] Yes they were. The eponymous black hole was clearly a satellite photo of a hurricane, somewhat recoloured. This was \*two years \*after **Star Wars**! Check out the [goofs](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078869/goofs): there are visible wires, matte paintings, you name it. For the time and budget it was inexcusable. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-the-black-hole/406475/22 "2007-06-04T06:35:40Z")
[QUOTE=Askance] Yes they were. The eponymous black hole was clearly a satellite photo of a hurricane, somewhat recoloured. This was \*two years \*after **Star Wars**! Check out the [goofs](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078869/goofs): there are visible wires, matte paintings, you name it. For the time and budget it was inexcusable. [/QUOTE] Hehe. Well, I was comparing them, in my mind, to the effects in _Logan’s Run_… you have a point. ---
**Author:** ![Daffyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daffyd/32/8923_2.png) [@Daffyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daffyd)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-the-black-hole/406475/23 "2007-06-05T03:52:41Z")
I saw The Black Hole about 100 times when it first came out… As a teenager, I was an usher in a theater that played the film two times a night and four or five times a day on weekends… for **weeks** … and it was a **single** theater… none of that newfangled multiplex stuff for **us** back then… The only thing I can still remember about it is that all us ushers would act out scenes in the lobby, and one of our favorite lines was “The Black Hole will be your grave!”… I have no idea what character said it, but as soon as I saw the title of this thread, I added “will be your grave!”… So I guess in a weird way it made an impression on me… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disneys-the-black-hole/406475.md?page=1)