A review of "The Black hole" and other films. Plus, a review of the worst offences on freedom of speech of all time.

This movie (and I cannot detect cheesiness in movies very well, due to my Asperger's) was absolutely horrible. Though it had a certain quality about it at the end, which I shall call "sōgådün" in a language I am creating, which makes one almost want to be inside the film, it is filled with bad science, including meteor showers that glow bright electric red, a strange ending clearly ripping off on the 2001ASO ending, and an even stranger ability to breathe in the vicinity of a black hole while in open space! Let me nitpick this movie....

It starts in space, with a spaceship appearing from offscreen. (The models, I admit, are very well done, as are the scenes.) We hear several voices, all male, and a human-like, but partially altered, voice, talking. This progresses to scene inside a spaceship, where we see the source of the strange voice, a robot named V.I.N.C.E.N.T . The Robot is quite silly looking. It has human-like eyes.
They suddenly discover that they are near a black hole. They also discover a ship in orbit around it. They identify it as the Cygnus, a ship manufactured by the United States They go Near it, discover that there is no gravity from the black hole around it, and then move out of its range, encontering the Black holes gravity. After they come back, they discover that there is a person on board the ship (because the lights go on) and they enter it. On board, they are met by the ships captain, and his robot, Maximilian, along with other, sillier robots. Maximillian looks rather scary to some, but is for some reason normal to me. They get a grand tour of the ship, and a few of them go on "unescorted excursions" through the ship, During which they discover another robot, older and more beat-up than VINCENT, speaking in a southern drawl, and a limping robot, among o other things.

After Mr. Good Candidate for a New Singer for Little Children(a.k.a.VINCENT) (his real voice provided by some-old-spoiled-celebrity-jackass named Roddy Mcdowall, who is now, unfortunately (?), dead) says a few folk sayings, they leave him among other robots, and off they go to dinner. During dinner, the robots compete against the ship's robots in a sharpshooting match, saying many cheddary and marshmellowy lines during the duration of this excruciatingly slow Camembert-filled tent display (Camembert is a very good type of French cheese.) Our robots, of course, (since this is a Disney movie, and no one, apart from the villians and a few minor characters, must lose) win. And so on....

After several boring explanations, the ships captain makes his intentions clear: the visitors are to accompany the Cygnus into the black hole, through which he will try to enter a new universe, unexplored by man. The visitors, thinking him mad decide to leave on their ship. A complicated (but one dimensional) plot follows, which ends with the four visitors and the robots alive and the two other visitors dead and the cygnus sent to another dimension destroyed by the captain's weapons. A meteor shower ensues, damaging the Cygnus. After the meteor shower, the men enter the "probe ship" and leave, just as the Cygnus falls apart. They however, discover that the probe ship is programmed to follow the route of the captain, through the black hole They enter the black hole, and inside it they discover a scene so "strange" that it "defies explanation".

Why is it strange, you say? Because it is a corny rip-off of 2001's ending The ships captain goes to hell, and the heroes are led through heaven by a silhouette of a garland (supposedly an angel) and the crew come out in another universe. Sōgådün kicks in.

Other movies are:

I Am Legend-This was a good and scary movie, with a nice albeit religious ending. See it and be moved.

The Mist-Very scary It has a plot so scary that I shall not describe it. Go get it on DVD when it comes out

Now, the worst offenses on free speech.

1. The banning of new cybercafes in China, and the creation of new boot camps for computer addicts in China.

2. The prosecution of holocaust deniers in Germany. (Yes, absolutely everyone has a right to free speech, even those that society abhors or finds repugnant. I do not care how many people hate the Nazis, and I despise them, utterly and completely, but all viewpoints have a right to be spoken, criticized and supported.)

3. The banning of Falun Gong in China.

4. Tiananmen Square Massacre (link to Wikipedia link to Chinese wikipedia)

These are NOT in order of severity.

Well, the spyware on this computer was eliminated ages ago, so no more worrying about this window closing. Goodbye, and I hope to write soon.

(Update 5/21/08: I edited the posts for grammar and to increase sarcasm.)