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Summary: I am guilty once again
Review: AS I HAVE STATED BEFORE:
If you like campy Science Fiction as I do than this film is for you.
There is not a lot to say about film like this because it is not actually any good at all. It is just a "Cult" like bad Sci-Fi movie that is enjoyable to those who well, enjoy this type of fun rubbish. And I am guilty.To add a bit, this film stars Farrah Faucet that alone gives it potential. This film brings back memories of my childhood bedroom and that famous poster I blew a kiss to each night before going to bed.
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Summary: Another interesting meld of science fiction and horror
Review: Despite what critics have said about Saturn 3, I think it is a very good science fiction film. Another good meshing of science fiction and gothic horror. It may seem like a futuristic version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, however, it is still a very good film. One of the many best that ITC Entertainment has ever produced. It goes to show you that the British are one of the best film industries in the world. This was the first R-rated film I ever saw, and I was amazed at how the film looked as well as the storyline, and special effects. Most of all, the acting, costumes, sets, the works. The film tells the story about a couple who work on one of Saturn's moons, developing a new hydroponics system for a starving Earth. The old man(played wonderfully by Kirk Douglas)is someone who has rejected Earth and its way of life. The young woman(played really well by Farrah Fawcett)is someone who was born on a colony and has never seen or been to Earth. Along comes a terrorist(played by the ever great Harvey Keitel), who has originally murdered the original pilot who has come to Saturn 3, to help the two scientists get back on schedule. As part of that help, he builds a robot, the first in its series, named Hector. Unfortunately, due to the pilot's instability, the robot becomes a threat and starts a rampage, which forces the two scientists to sacrifice everything they have in order to survive and overcome the odds. Plus the old man making the ultimate sacrifice. It may be a bit like Ridley Scott's masterpiece, ALIEN, however, Saturn 3 is still a very good and entertaining film. Not only with a wonderful soundtrack by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, but with its solid storyline and plot. If you enjoy science fiction, be sure to check this film out. It's certainly better than Star Trek and its spinoffs, let alone the film Supernova. It even has a nude scene with Farrah Fawcett that's pretty good too.
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Summary: Fair as sci-fi goes
Review: Harvey Keitel and Farrah Fawcett are not the original terminators in this film as some have suggested. In fact, this is a poor man's sci-fi story and if you want action, see the Terminator instead.
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Summary: The movie was a modern day Frankenstein.
Review: I thought Saturn 3 was another version of Frankenstein. They build the monster. The monster runs amok. A plus to anyone's robot movie collection. Besides,I have to agree with Butch from New York. I also enjoy looking at Farrah.
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Summary: A good dumb movie
Review: It's very hard to belive Stanley Donen directed this fun, unusual yarn set in a bizaare space station posessed by a happy anti-human couple (Kirk Douglas & Farrah Fawcett) until visitor, Harvey Keitel (who develops a big liking for Fawcett) sends out a robot to kill them both. Douglas's needless little nude scene was nominated for a Golden Turkey but lost to Linda Blair's nude scene in CHAINED HEAT. The critics really dumped on this one but the average movie goer may find it watchable.
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Summary: A good dumb movie
Review: It's very hard to belive Stanley Donen directed this fun, unusual yarn set in a bizaare space station posessed by a happy anti-human couple (Kirk Douglas & Farrah Fawcett) until visitor, Harvey Keitel (who develops a big liking for Fawcett) sends out a robot to kill them both. Douglas's needless little nude scene was nominated for a Golden Turkey but lost to Linda Blair's nude scene in CHAINED HEAT. The critics really dumped on this one but the average movie goer may find it watchable.
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Summary: Adam and Evil
Review: John Barry and Stanley Donen's misunderstood sci-fi brainchild was panned on initial release, but happily is coming under re-evaluation in a later age. Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett run a hydroponics lab on Saturn's third moon, Titan, which helps feed an overcrowded and progressively more sociopathic Earth. Douglas and Fawcett are "paired," though not actually married (or at least it is never understood that they are), she being an innocent naif who has never seen Earth and lived virtually her entire life with him, and he a disillusioned older man who never desires to see Earth again - though he encourages her to visit their home planet one day, if for no other reason than to further Fawcett's natural development. Earth has decided that Douglas will soon be "obsolete," and sends captain Harvey Keitel to assemble a robot to eventually run Saturn 3. Keitel, however, is actually an impostor - he was washed out of the robot programming division because he was "potentially unstable," and, proving the point, murdered the man given the assignment in order to take his place. The reason is never stated, but the implication is strongly present - given his immediate fascination with Fawcett - that he wanted the assignment in order to be closer to her. The robot - "Adam" - has a human brain, directly programmed by Keitel. Since Keitel is a homicidal psychopath...well, you get the picture. It isn't long before Saturn 3 becomes a battleground for supremacy with a mad metal titan. This is really a great movie, if flawed. The ending is too abrupt. Douglas sometimes seems uncomfortable in his role, or acts as if he is in a different movie than Keitel and Fawcett. The special effects are uneven, though generally pretty impressive. But the script is solid and the suspense never lets up. The action is pretty gripping, shooting out of a gun from the first scene, when Keitel coldly murders the astronaut whose place he is taking by flushing him out into space. The production is gorgeous, and unified. The sets are beautiful, and incredibly colorful. The matte shots for space and Saturn hearken back to 1950's pulp magazine covers. The costuming is futuristic, but functional. And the robot, Adam, is a nightmare out of Leonardo da Vinci's sketchbooks of human anatomy. The terrific music score, by Elmer Bernstein, is mechanistically haunting. A great movie it isn't, but it is very good. There is a nice undercurrent of human feeling to this film, which is emphasized by the contrast of the warm and loving relationship between Douglas and Fawcett with the predatory intrusion of the coldly sociopathic Keitel. This is wonderful sci-fi pulp, and if that's what you're in the mood for, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Worse Than Jabba's Restroom Biscuits
Review: The 1970's saw a degradation of the sci-fi medium, with notable stinkers such as "Silent Running" (tree hugging hippies in outer space), "Logan's Run" (youth drug culture at its worst) and this canon fodder which merged the absurd with the contemptible. The plot, or more-so, the arrangment of Kirk Douglas in a ridiculous role, takes place on Sheba, a moon of Saturn where there is a really old horny guy (Douglas), over the top as ever and his young sex slave (Facett), who does numerous nude scenes. This is so painful to watch because there is absolutely no chemistry between the two. Add a lousy Kietal in the "mad scientist" role and this goes even further into the stink pit. The special effects are lousy as is the dialogue. Not for the intelligent.
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Summary: great space movie
Review: the concept to put sci.-fi film, together with extreme beauty was beyond my exspectations.The plot was good,what a life kirt had, to live with farrah in her prime,whom did not know anything except what he told her.dream come true for most males.there humdrum life was enterupted by a man whom wanted to be known as a great scientist.He introduced his find to kirt and farrah and oh my "could life still go on".
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Summary: Forgotten sci-fi worth a look
Review: This is a bit of a misunderstood sci-fi flick ' not flawless, but worth a second look. In a floating space station near Saturn, we meet Harvey Keitel's character, Benson, or 'The Captain'. Or is he really somebody else? In the first few minutes, he murders a pilot preparing to leave for a remote colony on Saturn's third moon. Taking the dead pilot's place, mission and cargo, Benson braves the rings of Saturn and arrives on Saturn 3, where Major Adam (Kirk Douglas) and the fetching Alex (Farrah Fawcett) are developing hydroponics-grown food for a struggling Earth. It's not just work for Adam and Alex, and Benson's arrival disrupts the family unit that the two have made for each other. Adam came to space to escape Earth (which we're supposed to assume is made unpleasant perhaps by pollution, war or simply the vast numbers that must be crowding it up by then). Alex has never known Earth, which only highlights their apparent generation gap. Benson begins desiring Alex well before he actually gets around to his purported mission, and he figures that Adam's age gives him the edge (monogomay is frowned upon back on Earth, he tells her). It turns out that Benson has come to construct a robot to replace the team's now obsolescent half - Adam, and in this, he throws himself full steam. Benson is so obsessed to complete the menacing robot which will replace Adam, that you begin to wonder which of his loves really rules his dark soul: Alex or the robot. When completed, the vaguely humanoid machine stands about 8 feet high, moves convincingly and menacingly robot-like and is topped with an incongruous thing that looks like a desk lamp. Called Hector, the robot's CPU is a large clear can containing what looks like human brain matter. Not talkative at the outset, the machine (a model ominously called a 'demigod') picks up fast when linked into Keitel's brain through a remote sensor Keitel implants into the base of his own spine (a striking precursor to the decades-newer "Matrix"). Unfortunately, the neural link also gets the 'bot past the firewall guarding Benson's soul, and we learn through the robot a dark thing or two about Benson - notably that he failed a probably important course, likely one meant to ensure that artificial intelligence would never be tainted by interface with a natural-born psychotic. Unsurprisingly, the machine not only becomes psychotic as well, but decides that Benson is an obstacle to be replaced much as Benson had planned for Adam. Soon, Adam and Alex are on the run from Hector, learning to quickly duck in and out of hydraulic doors and weave through cramped ventilator shafts. This was a pretty slim flick which gets more mileage than it should out of Farrah Fawcett. Her character is vulnerable and compulsively dependent throughout the movie, never displaying the resourcefulness that Sigourney Weaver had established for a new generation of sci-fi heroines in 'Alien' (which came out the year before). Alex has to be the last female character to faint out of fear in a sci-fi film. We never get an insight into Keitel's character either - obsessed with both Hector and Fawcett. The two can't both be paramount in his mind. You get the idea that to Benson, the robot is just a means to get Alex; but there are scenes when Keitel tries to get into the robot's head, making it a more substantial part of his own psyche. It's incredible to think that Martin Amis had anything to do with this story which, among other things, is strikingly unsurprising. (Case in point: when first demonstrated, Hector crushes a can Benson had ordered the robot to give Adam. There isn't a person on the planet who couldn't guess Kirk Douglas's response: 'I'm glad you didn't tell him to shake my hand.') On the plus side, the visuals are nice. The sets were obviously influenced by Alien at the time, but today look more like a cross between the drab utilitarian interiors of that film and the way-out futurism of visionary artist Chesley Bonestell (the space station, ships and starscapes recall the famous artist's vision) and the thin story will keep you watching - just not that much. But above all, the real attraction is Harvey Keitel - who speaks in a very precise accent. It's Keitel as you've never seen him before (with a cool euro-looking ponytail). You know that the robot will go for him first, and his loss is what kills this film as much as his presence gives it a life that (like the robot) it doesn't really deserve.
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