The Black Hole
with Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, some ranting guy with flared nostrils and a wild bushy beard, and some generic 70's people.
Jumping into the late 70's post-Star Wars sci-fi glut of crap movies comes this retro non-gem from Disney. The spaceship Palomino is rambling around somewhere in space when they notice a huge Black Hole. Anthony Perkins helpfully explains nothing can escape it, not even light. The crew also notices another ship hanging around much closer to the event horizon than any ship should be able to, so they go in for a closer look. The camera shakes a bit to denote turbulence, the blatant ripoff of R2-D2 spouts some platitudes then goes outside to repair the ship in non-suspenseful fashion, and they eventually touch down on the mystery behemoth ship. Which suddenly turns on every interior light. This thing is huge...but for some reason, the inside is mainly empty air. Large, empty plazas of nothing with high, vaulted ceilings are the design motif. They eventually reach the command centre, where they meet the ranty bearded guy. Dr...name I can't even remember twenty minutes after the movie ended informs them he's the last survivor of the good ship Cygnus, and he's about to take his crew of robots (or are they?) into the Black Hole for nostril-flaring fun and scientific knowledge. Basically, he should be wearing a sandwich board reading: I'M BATSHIT CRAZY. Anthony Perkins naturally wants to come along. The token woman (who has ESP with the trashcan droid...no, really. She does. That's a thing in this movie.) is endangered, groups of terrible-looking robots shoot lasers with accuracy that makes Imperial Stormtroopers look like Annie Oakley, and the cheesiest SFX 1979 can provide assaults your eyes.
I saw it as a kid, had a picture book from the movie and yeah. 6 year-old me was right. It's really, really boring. And the ending really didn't make sense. The overbearing score is John Barry's tribute to other, much better scores by John Williams. The acting is bottom of the barrel, the sets are clearly plastic, the ship design is painfully stupid, the robots are 7th rate copies of Star Wars...I could go on. Let's just say if you're suffering from insomnia and are really craving a 70's kick, this is the movie for you. Has NOT aged well.