From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: mbaldelli@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: The Case For Star Trek Winning Best Picture (was Re: Star Trek   
   Makes 2009 National Board of Review Top 10 Films List)   
      
   On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:49:57 -0500, "Obveeus"  wrote:   
      
   >It does seem a bit odd that anyone would use The Black Hole as an example of    
   >good special effects.  That movie came out after Star Wars, yet its 'robots'    
   >were trash cans...with moving cardboard inserts...with Crayola drawings of    
   >eyeballs on them.  The movie had effects, but they certainly weren't    
   >special.  In fact, I think the entire budget for that film was used up on    
   >the one scene of the fireball 'rolling' slowly through the middle of the    
   >ship.    
      
   .And paying the salary of Maximilian Schell who necessary   
   needed a lot of money to keep him acting in this...  atrocity.   
      
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