John Barry - "Start the Countdown" (2011 Digital Remaster)

More music from one of darkest scores from Mr John Barry - strange for what purports to be a childs film!!!

[@deaddropholiday]

"He's going to do it. He's going to do it. He's REALLY going to do it!"

[@chrismayer3919]

“You’ll kill us all if you don’t get us outta here now, Holland!”

[@kirkk6920]

What do we do? We wait

[@quietman71]

I used this music as background for a short movie I did in college. My instructor loved the "great James Bond type music". I laughed and told him he was... pretty close, actually.

[@TheSaneHatter]

If you all want to talk about what "kind" of movie this was, it was really a return to an older school of 50's/60's-style sci-f, in the vein of "This Island Earth" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still." It was simply done with a more modern look and soundtrack, and an all-star cast. Films like that weren't really for kids, either, but were passed off as such to a world that didn't take the genre seriously, and so kids saw them anyway.

[@jmac46951]

"Sammy Terry" used to use this as background music for his monologues on his "Nighmare Theater" in the 1980's. What fun memories.

[@justarandomguy1977]

The fact that Disney's damaging brand has convinced people that this film was a children's film makes me angry. This film is a dark, sci-fi with an unrecognized genius.

[@4ccmusic]

good, its the right thing

[@debonyangelgirl6497]

I totally agree with you 💯, I said it before that The Black Hole was not a movie 🍿 for kids, although I thought it was excellent and I saw it when I was a child, it may have been around almost the same time as Star Wars; however, it had it's own plot and storyline. Super cool, mad scientist obsessed with the Black Hole and wants to travel beyond it or try to, turns his entire crew into zombies robots, builds a monster murderous robot, and robot henchman. It's like a haunted house in space.🤖🚀🤖👻🍿

[@alucard624]

@@debonyangelgirl6497 It truly is more of a horror meets sci-fi film in so many ways. The haunting score from Barry here drives that home.

[@Winterx69]

Children of the late 70s and 80s were made of tougher wood.

[@alucard624]

Exactly. This was definitely not a kid's movie at all, with it's dark and very adult themes. However, I enjoyed the movie as a kid and as an adult appreciate what they were trying to do story wise. The soundtrack is outstanding and this track alone is hands down one of the creepiest pieces of music ever composed. It's even creepier on the Story of The Black Hole LP where it was dubbed over other scenes where there was no music.

[@Simonize41]

I was 11 when The Black Hole was released in cinemas. 8 times i think... Star Wars was a game changer; The Black Hole changed me. I'd no idea who John Barry was, but this is where I found him. Little did I know I'd heard his music lots of times before. For me, TBH is JBs finest work. Incredible, just incredible. Sublime. RIP John Barry.

[@debonyangelgirl6497]

I 💯 agree with you, the soundtrack alone became a part of the movie 🍿, like a character itself. It was creepy cool. The instrumentals surrounded the entire story. It's like being in a haunted house or a haunted spaceship 🚀. 👻🤖🤖

[@robertcornhole5197]

John Barry + Blaster Beam = fantastic.

[@quietman71]

You beat me to it by more than a year. I wish we'd hear more Blaster Beam in movies.

[@jackmoik4894]

You can hear the beam in Battle beyond the stars, Star Trek 1,2 and 3, Wolfen and many more @@quietman71

[@IffyJottere]

"The time has come to liquidate our guests." Dr. Hans Reinhardt

[@IffyJottere]

@@charlescole1766 Oh, you just wish you were as fun as us. "You can't modify perfection; we're the best!"

[@tahutoa]

@@IffyJottere this made me laugh. _goteem_

[@debonyangelgirl6497]

@@IffyJottere I didn't get why Reinhart thought he had to kill the crew of the Palomino. Who were they going to report him to, the space police?🚀🤖🤖🚀 Space po-po

[@Robert_Douglass]

@@debonyangelgirl6497 Nope, probably the Senate Commission on Space Exploration and the Senate Appropriations Committee. Reinhardt would get an earful from the Senate Majority Leader.

[@debonyangelgirl6497]

@@Robert_Douglass Hey Douglass, it's not like the space police or the Senate commission on Space Exploration and Senate appropriations committee would even come out that far into space to arrest him. Plus there may not be a rescue station that far in space 🚀 to help them if they needed it.🚀👾🤖🕳️🖤

[@cjurschik]

Entering the debate, I think Disney did a bunch of great horror films for kids at the time (this one, Watcher in the Woods, Escape to Witch Mountain, Something Wicked This Way Comes), but now the notion of "horror film for kids" sounds very weird.

[@alucard624]

Disney took some actual risks back then and put out some pretty memorable films.

[@mwolski9921]

Obviously Moonraker is similar in feel to this soundtrack as both films were released 1979 but I can hear echoes of OHMSS here, especially the bits where Bond is in Gumbolds office and when Irma Bunt is talking to Bond in his Piz Gloria guest room

[@kirkk6920]

Its also similar to Raise The Titanic when I watched that film I immediately recognised John Barry's music which also makes that film better

[@bcool1011]

drax laboratory when bond discovers poison viles

[@thesealsharkproductions9780]

John Barry composed raise the titanic, the black hole, James Bond and Dances with the wolves, I know

[@kitchenaut]

I always saw this as a blueprint for a fantastic Four movie. Schell would've made a great Doom.

[@speeta]

The Black Hole never purported to be a children's movie. That's an assumption made because it came from a studio reputed for producing consistently family-friendly, G-rated fare up to that time.

[@alucard624]

The scene where Perkins gets skewered alone is definitely not kiddie fare. That scene is still creepy even today.

[@debonyangelgirl6497]

I agree with you, speeta, the Black Hole was definitely not a family movie, but I was mature for my age and I thought it was the coolest sci-fi movie ever.🤖👾🕳️🖤🚀🤖🤖 Seriously.?

[@debonyangelgirl6497]

@@alucard624 alucard624, I agree with you, the scene would've been even better and creepier if there had been some blood in the scene. The man gets eviscerated and there's no blood.

[@Lennis01]

@@debonyangelgirl6497 That would have brought the movie into "R" rated territory, given the ratings standards of the time. (There were only three ratings; "G", "PG", and "R" in those days.) An "R" rating would have cost Disney millions and damaged the brand's reputation. It was a small miracle we got the scene we did, even without the blood. In the comic book adaptation Durant was shot, not eviscerated. The same movie released today would get a PG-13 rating, easy.

[@alucard624]

@@debonyangelgirl6497 That blood curdling scream he makes getting skewered is bad enough.

[@williamsprong8947]

Sammy Terry brought me here. Badass theme

[@cmkwan59]

Have to say, it's so James Bond theme like!

[@benrussell-gough1201]

Same composer so you should expect a similar style.

[@kirkk6920]

Its also similar to Raise The Titanic when I watched that film I immediately recognised John Barry's music which also makes that film better

[@foxotcw30]

John Barry does "menacing doom from superhumanly diabolical villain" music like no one else.

[@BrickBardo9782]

I really don't think this was meant for kids to be honest... The movie actually seems more like Disney tried to return to making very dark films (which was destroyed by the marketing campaign they used).

[@apryllon412]

I was approx. 10 years old, when I saw this movie. I certainly wasn't ready for it. But it kept me busy till today - now I am 39 years old. This movie, along with Return To Oz, are those movies, that had a huge impact on me. A good impact I would say. I'm thankful, that I could experience those movies in my childhood. The soundtrack of this movie from John Barry will follow me forever. That scene, when Dr. Durant found out, that the crew isn't human anymore, was very haunting for me, when I was a child. I knew, something was wrong there, but when that scene cleared it up, I was still surprised of the cruelty.

[@alucard624]

It's a pretty dark film in many parts, and the borderline creepy soundtrack for it only adds to the ominous atmosphere the film has throughout.

[@Wahidfelty]

"prepare reactors!"

[@tahutoa]

"It's my laeg"

[@eon14873]

Coward!

[@michaellambert1124]

80's movie for Gen-X we watched scary spooky movies that were labelled suitable for children but were NOT, we genX had to toughen up, different times

[@justarandomguy1977]

Disney's always been a sucker for bad marketing and brand recognition. Look at John Carter. Not to mention all the jokes made about Star Wars VII.