Saturn 3 (1980)
Genre: Scifi / Adventure
Duration: 88 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom
Directed by: Stanley Donen
Stars: Harvey Keitel, Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett
IMDb score:
5,1 (11.515)
Releasedate: 15 February 1980
Saturn 3 plot
"Some thing is watching... waiting... and wanting on..."
Two scientists, Alex and Adam (Fawcett and Douglas), are working on alternative food sources on a planet in Saturn's ring. They are visited by Benson (Harvey Keitel) and a robot who both want Alex.
Reviews & comments
baspls
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- 4118 messages
- 1673 votes
"I AM NOT MALFUNCTIONING - YOU ARE"
An excellent cult sci-fi/thriller. Just like Alien, in this thriller the main characters are completely cut off from the outside world in space, the film tries to create an atmosphere and thanks to Elmer Bernstein's soundtrack it succeeds very well. The story goes back a bit to the 50s Sci-fi and yet it is a real 80s future image with all those strange pills.
The space ships and space are beautifully made and it all looks great. The technology also looks great in this movie, a bit similar to the control panels in the Death Star in Star Wars. I also think the Saturn 3 is well designed on the inside. However, the costumes are terrible and I don't think Hector is very well designed.
Harvey Keitel, Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett are the only ones on screen other than a few masked pilots and extras. Kirk Douglas is the best, he has a nice role here as Adam, but otherwise I didn't think Keitel and Fawcett were as bad as I expected.
It's not a top film, but it has a nice atmosphere and I don't think the story is that bad. John Barry (actually cinematographer), who wrote the story, left the film as director because he couldn't handle the actors and then Stanley Donen took over. A few scenes were removed at the request of Lord Grade because he would have found them tasteless, this concerns a scene where Benson is chopped into pieces by Hector on an operating table and a dream scene of Alex and Adam[/spoiler ]. Would have loved to have seen those two still in there. It's a shame that Donen edited out much of Bernstein's score, but what is still there gives the film a wonderful atmosphere.
All in all, highly recommended for fans of cult sci-fi and murderous robots!
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FlorisV
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- 1859 messages
- 798 votes
I like your body. Can I use it?
Watched again after years. I knew it was a failed b-movie, but I was still intrigued enough to watch it again. There is quite a bit of rattling...
-The Captain (Keitel) is an incredibly strange character. Kills someone at the beginning without us ever finding out why. Talks like a robot but still looks human. Says creepy things like the one-liner above.
-Alex, played by Fawcett, is, as mentioned, a true Goddess. They are no longer made that way. That body, those eyes, that angelic voice... her acting comes across as quite childish, but it doesn't make her any less attractive.
-Adam, aging Kirk Douglas, is the most earthly thing the film has to offer. There are grumblings about the credibility of a relationship between such an old man and such an incredibly beautiful woman, but this happens enough in real life and Douglas is not that ugly.
-Hector, the robot, doesn't really look nice or scary.
-I don't think so about the sets either.
-I thought the way they trapped the robot was creative. The film is just as trivial as Fawcett's nightwear (what legs!), there just isn't much happening.
-The music is not good and sometimes just out of place. Why that ominous music at the end? Are we to believe that Fawcett was captured via the neck plug and that Hector has, as it were, been given a new, Divine body?
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Noodless
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- 10053 messages
- 6185 votes
In itself, the film seems a bit older than its year of production considering other SF films around those years, but the execution is still quite interesting. It all seems very kitschy, low budget sets and a very crazy visual robot. The spaceships don't look like much, but the space station itself is in great shape with all those corridors, a huge amount of computer buttons and different types of rooms. The trump card is the robot Hector, who has a bizarre, strange look and somehow conveys a bit of horror. In terms of horror, it remains a bit tame, apparently this film has also been cut and a few bloody scenes have been omitted. Shame. In terms of cast, they have chosen three well-known names with Kirk Douglas as Major Adam who finds himself in trouble due to the visit of Harvey Keitel as Captain Benson. The captain sees a beautiful body that he can use in the sensual Alex Farrah Fawcett. He literally says this in the film. 
Benson also tells the Major that Adam is the past and he is the present. Robot Hector also becomes interested in Alex, who often walks around the space station in sexy outfits. The ending is surprising because it seems that the robot Hector has succeeded after all when Alex goes to Earth in a spacecraft, supported by striking exciting music. 6/10
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