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In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three years in the base alone with their dog Sally. Captain Benson arrives Saturn 3 with Hector, incapable to controlling his emotions he transfers his homicidal tendency and insanity to Hector. Now Major Adam and Alex are trapped in the station with a dangerous psychopath robot.
ok so in 1980 the guy who directed SINGIN' IN THE RAIN filmed a script by martin motherfucking amis about a super buff robot with a wall-e face attached to an extending arm thing instead of a head that tries to kill people on a space station because harvey keitel programmed its brain by doing a mind meld and harvey keitel really wants to have sex with farah fawcett but she and kirk douglas won't let him and it makes harvey keitel really mad so the robot gets really mad too, and then kirk douglas is nude wrestling with harvey keitel, and farah fawcett has flawless hair and makeup and fashions all the time even though she's one of only…
"I know how much you love that space movie and you wanted a video of it," Dad said, shoving an unwrapped VHS tape into my hands. "So here, son. Happy birthday."
"Star Wars?!" I cried with joy. But it wasn't Star Wars. It was something I had never heard of before. "This isn't Star Wars..."
"It's not? Oh, just watch it anyway. I'm going out for smokes. Tell your Mom I'll be home for dinner."
Dad never came home from the store. Years later I found out that he had moved to Jacksonville with a stripper named Tammi. He called me once from a truck stop. He asked me how I was and if I still liked the star movie. I told him Saturn is a planet, not a star and I didn't like Saturn 3, I liked Star Wars. He said I was a smart boy and to go to bed. It was only 5pm.
In a remote Saturn station, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel and a robot named Hector engage in a game of deception and violence to decide who gets to fuck Farrah Fawcett.
1980 sci-fi jam features Farrah Fawcett and Kirk Douglas living the sex life as hydroponic food researchers on the Saturn 3 station. Rapey madman Harvey Kietel shows up and builds a demigod evil robot out of brain tissue and things escalate lol.
A naked Kirk Douglas fights Harvey Kietel and the 8 foot tall robot’s name is Hector and tbh that’s a great robot name. Saturn 3 is violent psychosexual space crazy with some awesome production design and unexpected eye trauma.
"You have a great body. May I use it?" "I'm with the Major." "For his personal consumption only?"
In the distant future, mentally unstable Captain Benson (Harvey Keitel) kills another pilot and takes his shuttle to fly to a remote experimental hydroponics research station on Saturn's third moon, which is run by scientist Adam (Kirk Douglas) and his young lover Alex (Farrah Fawcett), who's never been on the troubled and crowded Earth. Benson, however, reveals, he's come to replace the scientist with a robot he brought along ...
Saturn 3 is a science fiction film directed by Stanley Donen.
It's puzzling how many famous names are attached to a B-movie like this: It was helmed by the director of Singin'…
A heavily dubbed Harvey Keitel with a rat tail builds an evil robot to take out Kirk Douglas and an absolutely stunning Farrah Fawcett. That’s it. That’s the movie. Directed by legendary Hollywood filmmaker Stanley Donen before he Blames it On Rio. The behind the scenes drama is somehow more interesting than the actual film. But kudos to Douglas for going buck ass naked for a fight scene.
The aesthetics and musical score played no small role in my rating. I’ve known of Saturn 3 for years and last night finally pulled the trigger due to its availability on Prime. It is not lacking in flaws yet despite having seen a few clips over the years, holy crap did I love the aesthetics, and more so than expected. There’s at least a few moments I’d frame and put on the wall. I also was a fan of the score from Elmer Bernstein.
The story itself isn’t terribly complex. In the future, Kirk Douglas and his younger lover Farrah Fawcett (they have a dog; yes, it dies) work with hydroponics to try and help feed a depleted Earth. That…
This is one of those movies that if you look at all of its components, it should be much weirder than it is. Boiled down, this is Alien with a Killbot. Not that unusual. But when you start to focus on the individual parts, you notice it becoming curiouser and curiouser.
A logical place to start is at the beginning. The opening sequence features a lengthy shot of a lengthy spaceship moving overhead, just like Star Wars or 2001 if you're nasty. Then we are treated to a strange sequence of people moving in some choreographed pattern on a beautiful futuristic set. The lighting is dramatic and it's all quite pleasing to the eye, if a bit confusing. Then it…
"Saturn 3" is a 1980 science fiction film directed by Stanley Donen. Set off in the far distant future, the narrative of the film focuses on an isolated outpost on Saturn's 3rd moon. There a pair of scientists are working together in the field of hydroponics to deal with Earth's food crisis, something that they are apparently not delivering results quick enough. The incoming solution is to send a third traveler to Saturn 3 (not only the name of the film but also one of the actual names for the moon, the other being Tethys) to build a new cybernetic helper to speed up the process. The isolation of space often tends to be a propellant of urged desire as…
In this hilariously awkward lo-fi, sci-fi adventure, Harvey Keitel designs an incredibly goofy looking robot that quickly turns evil and starts chasing Farrah Fawcett and Kirk Douglas around a Saturn space station.
Oh, and if that’s not weird enough, Harvey Keitel’s voice is entirely dubbed by Leopold Mozart!
As soon as we de-clipse, I’m reporting your incompetent handling of this whole experiment.
Saturn 3 has two directors. One of whom is Stanley Donen, who is best known for directing Singin' in the Rain. To say that Saturn 3 is uncharacteristic of his usual work is an understatement. It'd be like if Dario Argento directed a musical rom com.
The other director is John Barry, who is best known for doing the set design for the original Star Wars trilogy. Knowing that, all the sets in this film are gorgeous to look at, especially the space station in the beginning. I love the look of 70's-80's futurism. Elmer Bernstein delivers a fantastic score to this as well.
Christ Nashawaty’s excellent book about the Sci-If summer of 1982, The Future is Now>/i>, should have a special coda about Saturn 3 (1980), that most bizarre of overreactions to Star Wars.
The production must have begun as a skit at an improv club:
- Ok, give me the name of a Director: - Stanley Donen - Name a writer? - Martin Amis - Great, one the finest directors of Hollywood musicals and a master of the contemporary satiric novel. What genre should the movie be? - Sci-Fi - Name of a leading actor? - Kirk Douglas - Name of a leading actress? - Farrah Fawcett - Who’s naked ass should we show, Kirk’s or Farrah’s? - Kirk’s - Pervy third character?…
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