Saturn3 is pretty mundane sci-fi with one primary exception....Farrah. She was stunning at that time. The plot is just a needless distraction TBH. They could have just filmed her frolicking around the sets in various states of undress for 2 hours and no one would have complained.
Yep. Majors was a hot commodity at the time. Posters, newspaper articles from major papers doing in-depth reporting on her haircut and how teens were copying it (and some were being jealously attacked by classmates), talk show appearances, numerous magazines; she was everywhere. A few of my friends had the swimsuit poster on their walls. Space sci-fi was also a big draw thanks to the success of Star Wars. Give us a space adventure starring Majors (who also was married to Lee Majors, The Six Million Dollar Man, another big icon for us young folks) and we’d be saying “shut up and take my money” long before that meme existed.
Hector was one of the most disturbing robots I'd ever seen in a movie. Human shaped body, but then that tiny little stem of a head with eyes. You just knew it was going to run KILL.EXE at the first opportunity.
I know I'm responding to a three-year-old comment, but yeah. Loading the thing with a big cylinder of brain tissue was pretty disturbing, too. Movie audiences might be familiar with the idea of a "wetware CPU" now, but it was a fairly original idea at the time. Hector wasn't really a robot. It was a cyborg. No wonder it had a thing for... flesh.
Everyone dont forget that. Harvey wasnt the robots orginal programer in the beginning of the movie he murders the man who is suppose to be bringing the robot to Saturn 3 and the robots brain is supposed to be taught by a direct brainlink to its programmer so it gets hooked up to the brain of a murder , so murder is what it learns. And jealousy the robot falls in love with Farrah.
I was a kid the first time I watched this movie. I was absolutely terrified by Hector. Even now, 40 years later, it's painful to me to watch the movie because it brings back these childhood fears.
I remember watching this as a kid and being really scared 😂, my dad's name is also Hector and he wasn't the nicest father at times. That combination made it worse.
I was 17 when this came out. All me and my friends heard was Farrah's faucets made an appearance and we trampled each other to get in line. I was a big SF fan but it was all about Farrah that night. Saw the movie again years later and realized yeah she really was the best reason to be there.
Harvey Keitel's voice was actually done by Roy Dotrice. When it came time to do post production looping, Keitel refused to come back and do it. So the film company hired Dotrice and had him to all the voice.
The reason Kirk Douglas and Farah Fawcett were cast in Saturn 3 was because the studio did demographic studies, which concluded that the two stars which audiences most wanted to see in movie together were those two performers. The original director of Saturn 3 was John Barry -- who had served as production designer for Star Wars and Superman (Saturn 3 was to have been his directorial debut, but he was fired, and Stanley Donen stepped-in). Harvey Keitel's dialog was dubbed by British actor Roy Dotrice (who is probably best-known for playing Mozart's father in Amadeus). That scene where Fawcett and Douglas take the drug was actually cut from the film. A lot of incredibly talented people worked on Saturn 3 -- like production designer Stuart Craig (who went on to design Gandhi, The Mission and the Harry Potter movies). The score was written by Elmer Bernstein, who had written the music for The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill A Mockingbird and Ghostbusters (yes, that disco music was written by the guy who scored The Ten Commandments).
I saw the movie in australian cinema and the drug/party scene was still in it. I think it might have been later cut out to meet G ratings for wider distribution, a lot of USA states demanded G ratings or there were complications
i love this movie. back when it came out it was up there with special effects and story. maybe not the best script but still a great movie. any time you get to see Farrah in a movie was great and along with her two other great actors. this came out around the same time as outland with sean connery and a few others with the same look,feel, and basic story idea so for the time these movies all fit together. it was a time in movies that you had to be there to like and appreciate them for what they were. i think a lot of times when looking back at shows and movies of the past we judge them by todays standards
You're definitely right about how some people see these old movies! I think also there's the aspect of chasing that cult classic sort of a thing, and maybe these were made for a quick buck and at the box office and a slow-burn of VHS cash for the Stars? Lol
Somehow I remember seeing this. Kirk was in a weird place around this time. I mean, The Villain, then this. That outfit. Wow. Then you had disco music going…
My grandparents randomly found a VHS of this lying around their house and gave it to me when I was quite young. I don't remember much of it beyond the name, a guy sticking something into the back of his neck to control a robot and that it scared the absolute fuck out of eight-year-old me! Oh and I think the robot had a brain in a big tube, too.
I remembered seeing this movie on television. My oldest brother told me what it was all about, so I decided to watch it. I was pretty young at the time, early teenager, and the movie did scare the crap out of me. Especially that scene where that man fell down and broke as if he were made of glass. As for the name of the movie, I don't think it was a trilogy film, it was just called Saturn 3, probably because of the name of the base they were in.
I first watched Saturn 3 as a kid in the 80s. I really liked it, I did find it terrifying! Yes it is not the best film of its time but it is well worth watching.
I was looking for it for decades. Kept searching for Saturn V, and never got a hint, do you mean 3? Another great missing movie is Checkov's Moonbase movie. The original transformer movie.
@robertsmith2956: Easy to get the number wrong. Saturn V is the heavy-lift launch vehicle (rocket) used by the Apollo program to get men to visit the moon. Saturn 3 is the movie that launched lots of pocket rockets of boys who were over the moon to see Farrah.
Because Keitel refused to take part in post-production looping, Keitel's voice is dubbed over by British actor Roy Dotrice who, for this performance, adopted a mid-Atlantic accent.
This movie scared me to death when I watched it for the first time in the 80s as a teenager. Years later I was very surprised to find that the screenplay was written by Martin Amis!
Haven't watched this movie in 40 years but I can still hear that creepy alarm! Wap-Wow Wap-Wow Wap-Wow Have you seen "Battle Beyond the Stars"? The lead is played by John Boy of the "Waltons" TV Show of the 1970s. It's Bad Too
Luckily, modern iris scanners will detect if a person is alive by looking for subtle movements of the eyeballs and irises. Fingerprint scanners will accept a dead finger.
I remember being a kid in my local video store (pre Blockbuster) and looking at the VHS version of this on numerous occasions. I always thought robot on the cover looked cool and wondered if I should rent it. I never did... for whatever reason.
It's hard to defend this film on any level. It stems from the kind of ultra-violence era of late seventies films like 'Demon Seed', 'Rollerball', 'Logans Run' and 'Zardoz'. Saturn 3 doesn't get near those films on an artistic level but there's something about the visual 'pop' of this film that I like. The films outcome is completely obvious and I think it has a kind of nightmare quality in the very contained facility, the vastness and loneliness of outer space and the developing psychosis of the robot literally driven by the mad Keitels sexual infatuation with Alex. But the robot cannot 'connect' with her and so it goes insane. If there's any message to the film it's that a machine cannot adopt or understand human traits without going mad. But it fails to present the robot as sympathetic in any way at all, so the only tragedy at the end is Adams death, who himself states how obsolete he was anyway. The film doesn't deliver but it's still fun to watch.
@@TheMsLourdes Yea, a couple guys and a crazy robot get up to some shenanigans in the proximity of Farrah Fawcett, a woman who's posters literally papered my adolescent bedroom. And it was in space, two thumbs up. ;)
I also watched Logan's Run. Farrah is in it as eye candy, too. In both movies, I eagerly waited over 90 minutes for that 1-second flash to cross the screen. Back then, there was no way to rewind and replay the moment repeatedly. It was like watching the sun set and seeing the green flash.
If I may interject... Nicholas Cage also was in a film called "Bad Lieutenant New Orleans". Harvey was better...err worse. Any Farrah film is a good film or TV show. Check out "Drive Crazy" with Cage and Amber Heard ( w/catchy tune:" F*ck the Pain Away"). Have fun!
Agreed, that the robot was terrifying! Remember it well from when I was young, in the 80s. A worthwhile film to watch and I love the sci-fi film set it created.
Stanley Donen was called in early in production to take over and finish the film. He did this as a favor to a few colleagues, when they realized it was a disaster. He was unable to completely salvage what is now a camp classic, but enough of the film was “his” that DGA credit was due. Hence, this film is unlike anything else he did in his celebrated career.
John Barry was the original director of the film since he'd written the original story, while Stanley Donen was just going to produce the film. Barry was the Production designer on 'Star Wars,' 'Empire Strikes Back,' and many more films, but he'd never directed a film or worked directly with actors. This was a problem immediately once shooting commenced, as Douglas and Fawcett were unhappy that Barry had no idea how to communicate with them about how they should play their characters(Did this not come up in rehearsals??). After three days of this, the cast went to Donen, Donen went to Lew Grade, whose ITC Films was financing 'Saturn 3' and Grade fired Barry. Donen agreed to step in as director so the production wouldn't shut down, because the film had already been blind-booked into theaters before shooting even began.* Donen was basically directing a film genre he had no affinity for, so it was probably very difficult for him to make a suspenseful, scary film. Why he couldn't get even a _slightly_ more human performance out of Keitel, I don't know. The scene above was cut after disastrous test screenings, which was a shame since Farrah's costume had already been shown for months in magazines like Starlog and Playboy, so obviously fans were left wondering why. The trailer for the film(which is actually very good) doesn't even mention the cast, it just shows the setting and the basic storyline to get you interested. I personally saw this scene for the first time on TV in the Philippines in 2002, so, apparently there are multiple versions of the film out there. Maybe we can get #releaseTheDonenCut trending. Despite it flopping and being a sci-fi stinker it still is cheesy fun with the right adult beverage, the right company and a *comfy chair.* *Blind-booking is the practice of film studios/producers getting a film booked into theater chains sight-unseen, usually because either the cast is very hot or the filmmaker is a proven commodity. Usually studios would book films with theater chains by showing off a reel of the film's highlights to get exhibitors interested. This was a common practice in the '70's and '80's, especially with science fiction, fantasy or horror, which were enormously successful markets back then.
@@antduude Yeah, you'd think that a film starring Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett would have done well based on them alone. But even the biggest stars in the world can't salvage a bad movie.
Not quite right. Stanley was brought in to save the picture because John Barry died. Everyone involved reckoned Kirk was the reason he died. He had a time out clause in his contract, where if he disagreed with Barry he could slope off to his dressing room for the duration. Barry was directing for the 1st time and was driven to distraction by Kirk who constantly rewrote the script, making it ridiculous, and calling time out's when he didn't get his way. Once Donen came in the first thing he did was put Kirk up against the wall in the Berkeley Hotel. He calmed down quite a bit after that. Kirk's most amusing contribution was calling a time out because he A. Wanted to film a fight scene in the nude, which became know on set as the "scrawny chicken" fight. B. Wanted the script changed so that Harvey wins the fight only by cheating. However, for all his nuttiness Kirk redeemed himself by getting Farrah to take her tits out on camera, the 6 million dollar man was not amused ....
Using The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 as the cultural touchstone for pouring drinks on drugs is the best surprise I've had all day, thank you
Used to watch late night movies like this on my TV in my room. My parents really didn't have a clue what I used to see. I was around 9 years old 😅 This was a good thriller , not a Sci fi horror. The music and sound effects were great at the time.
I remember my parents taking my brother and I to see this in the theater when it first came out. At 13 I was a huge sci-fi fan, and I have to say, it doesn't seem like much today, but it was a pretty amazing film for its time. In this time of AI fears, I think it's still a fairly poignant film, despite its obvious dating flaws. I still watch it at least once a year. As a matter of fact I think I'm going to watch it tonight!
The hotness of Farrah in this film and the overall goofiness is offset by the absolute creepiness of Hector the robot. I remember seeing this as a tween when we rented it, and I found it pretty disturbing. Hector isn't just a robot that goes out of control, it's a robot that learns its behavior and "personality" traits from its user, which is Keitel's evil character. As a results, Hector is a serial killer robot with weird sexual issues, jealousy over Farrah, as well as being physically creepy with that tiny sensor head and human brain tissue wired directly into its electronics. It's too bad they didn't build a better film around Hector, because he was truly one of the creepiest sci fi villains ever. The Hannibal Lecter of robots.
The first five to ten minutes of this movie are a masterpiece, a testament to man's ability to suck the life out of his soul. Then Keitel lands on the moon and the film becomes mediocre interspersed with scenic genius. The set work and robot were extremely well done. A flawed film with great set design and music.
@@Rationalist001 The scene is great visually. The idea that the real moon guy is freezing to the point where he's shred into ice cubes looks great and is an interesting concept. Bad design is a part of technology i.e. The Space Shuttles were death machines. Keitel puts on his helmet and he looks like a bug. He then goes to his ship which looks like a bug. The scene establishes that Keitel is a psychotic emotionless creep (a bug)...so I like the scene for these reasons.
I watched Farrah being interviewed by Johnny Carson (after her success with "The Burning Bed" and "Extremities") and she said that the original script was called "The Helper" and was a better script than the final product.
I was living in Alaska when this came out. I drove 260 miles roundtrip in a snowstorm to see it in Anchorage. Winters are bleak and entertainment sparse up north.
True story. I actually bought the movie poster from the owner of the movie. Sadly I had it stored in a hollow tube that my mother thought was empty and she threw it out. 😭😭😭
It never ceases to amuse me when people comment on films using today's standards as a basis. It amuses me even more when they completely miss the hidden message in them, especially when it is a subject they are passionate about
You failed to mention the scene where Farrah removes her towel, and we get an extended view of her dream balloons. I was young, and I couldn’t get enough of that scene. I saw this on HBO; there was no pause, no rewind, so I had to wait three days for it to be broadcast again…and again…!…and maybe again.
' This is an actual unedited scene that actually exists' stamped all over the screen when Farah Fawcett is in that costume seriously made me start to question if YOU know who the target audience of your video actually is....?
I sure didn't appreciate this stuff when it was current. Of course nobody else did either. Why? I think maybe because it was sort of a suspense movie and suspense movies only appealed to a limited audience, and there were plenty of them already. This was one of the many sci fi movies that were overlooked as America waited for the next Lucas or Spielberg production so they could line up to see it multiple times, IIRC. Farah was just incredibly gorgeous at the time of this film too. This was the era when I would go to the store at the mall that had the posters just so I could look at the posters of her in a wet blouse, I must have been all of 13. We didn't have video back then, so that picture was about as explicit as it got for me.
They fucked it by over dubbing Harvey's lines because he sounded too New Yorker. Can't remember the name of the actor who did it. I loved it when it came out, what my folks were thinking letting me watch it I do not know lol.
The best thing about this movie is that I was 10 years old at the time. In comparison it shows the genius of Ridley Scott who did Alien a year later. Another SF movie from that time was Damnation Alley which did well considering its ridiculous.
🟦... I wanna know how she not only got into that outfit in 16-seconds, but did an AMAZING job STYLING HER HAIR! (Which would ordinarily take at Least 40-minutes!).
I always laughed at this when Harvey comes on to Farrah: Alex : It's time we get to bed, Captain. Benson : Yes, you have a great body. May I use it? Alex : I'm with the major. Benson : For his personal consumption only? Alex : Yes. Benson : That's penally unsocial on Earth, you know that? Alex : Well, it's not here. Enjoy your blues.
I was 15 and my buddy Scott was 16 and we went to see this movie on a sat afternoon. I was so nervous if they would let us in because it was R rated had to be 17. The ticket person didn't give a crap we went right in . I enjoyed it fun memories... Movie a dollar popcorn a dollar and pop a dollar 3$ my allowence for week was 5$ . I saved my lunch money for the week 5$. Haaaaa. Not the same today...
In the original edit you actually see the robot slice poor Harvey to bits but it was deemed to gory/violent and got cut from the film, the MPAA might have demanded it cut too, would be interesting to see how that would change the tone of the film, no way to verify it but got a lot coverage in fanzines at the time.
And her hair completely changed when she changed her costume. I saw Saturn 3 when it came out. Adolescent me loved it. Now I see the comedy, too. I should watch it again.
Funny during the segment about the weird ADR I kept thinking that they made Harvey sound like Gene Kelly and then later when you mentioned it was directed by "the Director of Singing I The Rain" I made me really wonder. However according to IMDB Roy Dotrice did the ADR.
People don’t understand when we say the 70s and 80s were peak civilization. THIS is what we thought the future would be like. We were all dreamers, swingers, smokers, drinkers, and having great times at the mall.
It is listed as a 1980 film but was a late 1970s film and a naked Farrah fawcett in space film.At the time in London was the biggest set ever and was a promotion beyond the movie. Their was another dream sequence that was filmed but never found The futuristic sets with a 1970s mind set.The Robot not being really scary.With the mindset of the killer and a drooling lustt again for Farrah. Saturn a 3 way with Farrah should be its title. I still watch it because it could have been better The Atmosphere of desolation was down to a T.But needed a better story line obviously. Good Video 😎
Saturn 3 was shown frequently late at night when I was young. I caught it by accident each time and I always watched it to the end. I forgot about the movie until now.
Saturn 3 was heavily promoted by the studio as an epic sci-fi movie for 1980, especially considering the star power in the film. But it flopped big time at the box office. The robot is cool, and so are the few space scenes. But other than that, and looking at a young Farrah, this movie is forgettable. The other sci-fi movie from 1980 that also starred Kirk Douglas was The Final Countdown, and it's much better than Saturn 3! If you are looking for lesser known 1980s sci-fi that is actually worth watching, I suggest the following: The Thing - 1982 2010 - 1984 Enemy Mine - 1985 Outland - 1981 Explorers - 1985 Heavy Metal - 1981 Forbidden World - 1982 Creature - 1985 The Ice Pirates - 1984 Spacehunter - 1983 Cherry 2000 - 1987 Leviathan - 1989 Deep Star Six - 1989 The Quiet Earth - 1985 Time Bandits - 1981 Robot Jox - 1989 Altered States - 1980
I saw this at the theatre when it came out. It is one movie that I never cared to see again and didn't and probably won't again. And I'm a Science fiction fan.
Farrah left "Charlie's Angels" to make it big in feature films. She starred in three between 1978-79: "Somebody Killed Her Husband," "Sunburn," and "Saturn 3." All three were critical and commercial failures.
Keitel refused to do any voice over work in post, so they hired British actor Roy Dotrice, who used a mid-Atlantic accent. Think, Cary Grant, Vincent Price, Christopher Plummer. A hybrid Brit/US accent.
Any actor who can walk the oars of a Viking ship can actually pour an actual drink. BTW, the main draw at the time was Farrah's breast. I saw it in the theatre.
Saturn 3 really is a perfect intro to sci fi horror for kids. It's boring, so you look around and see what there is to look at. You have no idea who the stars are, so again, it's just about the scenario. Hector is scary as fuck if you're a child, and the brief moments of gore and just enough to jump scare and give mild, temporary nightmares. As an adult, it's a ridiculous mess. Now, Demon Seed - that really is the stuff of nightmares!
Saturn3 is pretty mundane sci-fi with one primary exception....Farrah. She was stunning at that time. The plot is just a needless distraction TBH. They could have just filmed her frolicking around the sets in various states of undress for 2 hours and no one would have complained.
Exactly. This same approach made Barbarella a cult classic , and it's a shame Saturn 3 didn't make it work for Farrah.
Yep. Majors was a hot commodity at the time. Posters, newspaper articles from major papers doing in-depth reporting on her haircut and how teens were copying it (and some were being jealously attacked by classmates), talk show appearances, numerous magazines; she was everywhere. A few of my friends had the swimsuit poster on their walls.
Space sci-fi was also a big draw thanks to the success of Star Wars. Give us a space adventure starring Majors (who also was married to Lee Majors, The Six Million Dollar Man, another big icon for us young folks) and we’d be saying “shut up and take my money” long before that meme existed.
Yeah she was foxy af.
Except a LOT of women.
in an age of I'm not having that in my house, the wife would have complained!
Farrah was absolutely stunning at this time. Whoa!
Farrah 😍...one of the influences as to why I married a white girl ❣️
Hector was one of the most disturbing robots I'd ever seen in a movie. Human shaped body, but then that tiny little stem of a head with eyes. You just knew it was going to run KILL.EXE at the first opportunity.
I know I'm responding to a three-year-old comment, but yeah. Loading the thing with a big cylinder of brain tissue was pretty disturbing, too. Movie audiences might be familiar with the idea of a "wetware CPU" now, but it was a fairly original idea at the time. Hector wasn't really a robot. It was a cyborg. No wonder it had a thing for... flesh.
Still a cool design
@@racookster Biden's eyes, they really are.
The scene with his veins filling up, and when he showed a sick sense of humor desecrating a body was underrated.
Everyone dont forget that. Harvey wasnt the robots orginal programer in the beginning of the movie he murders the man who is suppose to be bringing the robot to Saturn 3 and the robots brain is supposed to be taught by a direct brainlink to its programmer so it gets hooked up to the brain of a murder , so murder is what it learns. And jealousy the robot falls in love with Farrah.
You forgot to mention that Hector the robot was absolutely *TERRIFYING!*
The movie is pretty much a mess but it really does have some good moments.
I agree, I think it's sort of poignant today given the fears of AI going around in the media.
I was a kid the first time I watched this movie. I was absolutely terrified by Hector. Even now, 40 years later, it's painful to me to watch the movie because it brings back these childhood fears.
I remember watching this as a kid and being really scared 😂, my dad's name is also Hector and he wasn't the nicest father at times. That combination made it worse.
What’s really terrifying is that space disco. 😱
I was 17 when this came out. All me and my friends heard was Farrah's faucets made an appearance and we trampled each other to get in line. I was a big SF fan but it was all about Farrah that night. Saw the movie again years later and realized yeah she really was the best reason to be there.
I went to the cinema for the very same reason! 🤣
I took a date to see it. She still liked me.
@@Mattertransfer LOL - that's incredible. I would have spent years apologizing to any date I took to it...
SF. Is that Sally Field.
Science Fiction
Harvey Keitel's voice was actually done by Roy Dotrice. When it came time to do post production looping, Keitel refused to come back and do it. So the film company hired Dotrice and had him to all the voice.
The reason Kirk Douglas and Farah Fawcett were cast in Saturn 3 was because the studio did demographic studies, which concluded that the two stars which audiences most wanted to see in movie together were those two performers. The original director of Saturn 3 was John Barry -- who had served as production designer for Star Wars and Superman (Saturn 3 was to have been his directorial debut, but he was fired, and Stanley Donen stepped-in). Harvey Keitel's dialog was dubbed by British actor Roy Dotrice (who is probably best-known for playing Mozart's father in Amadeus). That scene where Fawcett and Douglas take the drug was actually cut from the film. A lot of incredibly talented people worked on Saturn 3 -- like production designer Stuart Craig (who went on to design Gandhi, The Mission and the Harry Potter movies). The score was written by Elmer Bernstein, who had written the music for The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill A Mockingbird and Ghostbusters (yes, that disco music was written by the guy who scored The Ten Commandments).
Wow!
I saw the movie in australian cinema and the drug/party scene was still in it.
I think it might have been later cut out to meet G ratings for wider distribution, a lot of USA states demanded G ratings or there were complications
Wow is right. Thanks for doing that research bro.😂
i love this movie. back when it came out it was up there with special effects and story. maybe not the best script but still a great movie. any time you get to see Farrah in a movie was great and along with her two other great actors. this came out around the same time as outland with sean connery and a few others with the same look,feel, and basic story idea so for the time these movies all fit together. it was a time in movies that you had to be there to like and appreciate them for what they were. i think a lot of times when looking back at shows and movies of the past we judge them by todays standards
You're definitely right about how some people see these old movies!
I think also there's the aspect of chasing that cult classic sort of a thing, and maybe these were made for a quick buck and at the box office and a slow-burn of VHS cash for the Stars? Lol
Somehow I remember seeing this. Kirk was in a weird place around this time. I mean, The Villain, then this.
That outfit. Wow.
Then you had disco music going…
My grandparents randomly found a VHS of this lying around their house and gave it to me when I was quite young. I don't remember much of it beyond the name, a guy sticking something into the back of his neck to control a robot and that it scared the absolute fuck out of eight-year-old me!
Oh and I think the robot had a brain in a big tube, too.
It appears @metaspherez wife stashed his VHS tape @Helbore's grandparents house. Which the grandparents then gave to child. Interesting.
@@DodgyBagehot the circle of life
I remembered seeing this movie on television. My oldest brother told me what it was all about, so I decided to watch it. I was pretty young at the time, early teenager, and the movie did scare the crap out of me. Especially that scene where that man fell down and broke as if he were made of glass. As for the name of the movie, I don't think it was a trilogy film, it was just called Saturn 3, probably because of the name of the base they were in.
the base was on the third moon of Saturn.
I first watched Saturn 3 as a kid in the 80s. I really liked it, I did find it terrifying! Yes it is not the best film of its time but it is well worth watching.
I was looking for it for decades. Kept searching for Saturn V, and never got a hint, do you mean 3?
Another great missing movie is Checkov's Moonbase movie. The original transformer movie.
@robertsmith2956: Easy to get the number wrong. Saturn V is the heavy-lift launch vehicle (rocket) used by the Apollo program to get men to visit the moon. Saturn 3 is the movie that launched lots of pocket rockets of boys who were over the moon to see Farrah.
Because Keitel refused to take part in post-production looping, Keitel's voice is dubbed over by British actor Roy Dotrice who, for this performance, adopted a mid-Atlantic accent.
How delightfully embarrassing for everyone involved! I needed this today. 😂
This movie scared me to death when I watched it for the first time in the 80s as a teenager. Years later I was very surprised to find that the screenplay was written by Martin Amis!
Martin Amis !
Replayed in his novel Money: A Suicide Note. The Kirk Douglas character comes out of it well, unlike Fawcett.
Haven't watched this movie in 40 years but I can still hear that creepy alarm! Wap-Wow Wap-Wow Wap-Wow
Have you seen "Battle Beyond the Stars"? The lead is played by John Boy of the "Waltons" TV Show of the 1970s. It's Bad Too
I very much like that robot's design. "Normal humanoid body but head is entirely un-headlike" is a fantastic concept.
Ooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my gawd, I just remembered 'the eye' scene.
Dammit, now I need to watch this film again.
Luckily, modern iris scanners will detect if a person is alive by looking for subtle movements of the eyeballs and irises. Fingerprint scanners will accept a dead finger.
I saw this movie in 1979 during a "Western Movie Festival" in Poland. Loved it!!!
I learned recently that the close up of Ozzy's hands was staged to make it look like he was too fucked up to pour orange juice.
3:23 is a definite reference to the famous swimsuit poster that every teen guy had to have.
I remember being a kid in my local video store (pre Blockbuster) and looking at the VHS version of this on numerous occasions. I always thought robot on the cover looked cool and wondered if I should rent it. I never did... for whatever reason.
I have the exact same memory from when I was a child.
It's hard to defend this film on any level. It stems from the kind of ultra-violence era of late seventies films like 'Demon Seed', 'Rollerball', 'Logans Run' and 'Zardoz'. Saturn 3 doesn't get near those films on an artistic level but there's something about the visual 'pop' of this film that I like. The films outcome is completely obvious and I think it has a kind of nightmare quality in the very contained facility, the vastness and loneliness of outer space and the developing psychosis of the robot literally driven by the mad Keitels sexual infatuation with Alex. But the robot cannot 'connect' with her and so it goes insane. If there's any message to the film it's that a machine cannot adopt or understand human traits without going mad. But it fails to present the robot as sympathetic in any way at all, so the only tragedy at the end is Adams death, who himself states how obsolete he was anyway. The film doesn't deliver but it's still fun to watch.
I'msorrry... you found a plot in Saturn3??? There actually was one?
@@TheMsLourdes Yea, a couple guys and a crazy robot get up to some shenanigans in the proximity of Farrah Fawcett, a woman who's posters literally papered my adolescent bedroom. And it was in space, two thumbs up. ;)
Um, I'd say Saturn 3 was at least on a level with Zardoz, LOL!
I also watched Logan's Run. Farrah is in it as eye candy, too. In both movies, I eagerly waited over 90 minutes for that 1-second flash to cross the screen. Back then, there was no way to rewind and replay the moment repeatedly. It was like watching the sun set and seeing the green flash.
I've only watched the movie a few times, so now that you bring it up, I should watch it again!
That was an exquisite pour and an exquisite job by the writers getting Farrah Fawcett into those skimpy costumes/outfits.
They knew exactly what they were doing - and so did she.
@@gregorde For sure man, no doubt.
My favorite film with Harvey Keitel is " The Bad Lieutenant" he brings out the real life crazy Harvey it's a must watch movie!
If you like crooked cops be sure to watch Woody Harrelson in 'Rampart' - he rivals Keitel's LT for insanity.
@@arise2945 I'll have to check it out! Thanks
If I may interject... Nicholas Cage also was in a film called "Bad Lieutenant New Orleans". Harvey was better...err worse. Any Farrah film is a good film or TV show. Check out "Drive Crazy" with Cage and Amber Heard ( w/catchy tune:" F*ck the Pain Away"). Have fun!
Agreed, that the robot was terrifying! Remember it well from when I was young, in the 80s. A worthwhile film to watch and I love the sci-fi film set it created.
Stanley Donen was called in early in production to take over and finish the film. He did this as a favor to a few colleagues, when they realized it was a disaster. He was unable to completely salvage what is now a camp classic, but enough of the film was “his” that DGA credit was due. Hence, this film is unlike anything else he did in his celebrated career.
John Barry was the original director of the film since he'd written the original story, while Stanley Donen was just going to produce the film. Barry was the Production designer on 'Star Wars,' 'Empire Strikes Back,' and many more films, but he'd never directed a film or worked directly with actors. This was a problem immediately once shooting commenced, as Douglas and Fawcett were unhappy that Barry had no idea how to communicate with them about how they should play their characters(Did this not come up in rehearsals??). After three days of this, the cast went to Donen, Donen went to Lew Grade, whose ITC Films was financing 'Saturn 3' and Grade fired Barry. Donen agreed to step in as director so the production wouldn't shut down, because the film had already been blind-booked into theaters before shooting even began.*
Donen was basically directing a film genre he had no affinity for, so it was probably very difficult for him to make a suspenseful, scary film. Why he couldn't get even a _slightly_ more human performance out of Keitel, I don't know. The scene above was cut after disastrous test screenings, which was a shame since Farrah's costume had already been shown for months in magazines like Starlog and Playboy, so obviously fans were left wondering why. The trailer for the film(which is actually very good) doesn't even mention the cast, it just shows the setting and the basic storyline to get you interested. I personally saw this scene for the first time on TV in the Philippines in 2002, so, apparently there are multiple versions of the film out there. Maybe we can get #releaseTheDonenCut trending. Despite it flopping and being a sci-fi stinker it still is cheesy fun with the right adult beverage, the right company and a *comfy chair.*
*Blind-booking is the practice of film studios/producers getting a film booked into theater chains sight-unseen, usually because either the cast is very hot or the filmmaker is a proven commodity. Usually studios would book films with theater chains by showing off a reel of the film's highlights to get exhibitors interested. This was a common practice in the '70's and '80's, especially with science fiction, fantasy or horror, which were enormously successful markets back then.
@@antduude Yeah, you'd think that a film starring Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett would have done well based on them alone. But even the biggest stars in the world can't salvage a bad movie.
@@antduude Thanks DJ... Interesting backstory. News to me.
Not quite right.
Stanley was brought in to save the picture because John Barry died. Everyone involved reckoned Kirk was the reason he died. He had a time out clause in his contract, where if he disagreed with Barry he could slope off to his dressing room for the duration. Barry was directing for the 1st time and was driven to distraction by Kirk who constantly rewrote the script, making it ridiculous, and calling time out's when he didn't get his way.
Once Donen came in the first thing he did was put Kirk up against the wall in the Berkeley Hotel. He calmed down quite a bit after that. Kirk's most amusing contribution was calling a time out because he A. Wanted to film a fight scene in the nude, which became know on set as the "scrawny chicken" fight. B. Wanted the script changed so that Harvey wins the fight only by cheating.
However, for all his nuttiness Kirk redeemed himself by getting Farrah to take her tits out on camera, the 6 million dollar man was not amused ....
Using The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 as the cultural touchstone for pouring drinks on drugs is the best surprise I've had all day, thank you
"It's fun to watch Douglas and Fawcett act like they're totally baked."
ACT???
Was the weed really that good back then?
Used to watch late night movies like this on my TV in my room. My parents really didn't have a clue what I used to see. I was around 9 years old 😅
This was a good thriller , not a Sci fi horror. The music and sound effects were great at the time.
Awesome movie, a childhood favorite
I remember my parents taking my brother and I to see this in the theater when it first came out. At 13 I was a huge sci-fi fan, and I have to say, it doesn't seem like much today, but it was a pretty amazing film for its time. In this time of AI fears, I think it's still a fairly poignant film, despite its obvious dating flaws. I still watch it at least once a year. As a matter of fact I think I'm going to watch it tonight!
complete with disco music. something in here for the whole family...
The hotness of Farrah in this film and the overall goofiness is offset by the absolute creepiness of Hector the robot. I remember seeing this as a tween when we rented it, and I found it pretty disturbing. Hector isn't just a robot that goes out of control, it's a robot that learns its behavior and "personality" traits from its user, which is Keitel's evil character. As a results, Hector is a serial killer robot with weird sexual issues, jealousy over Farrah, as well as being physically creepy with that tiny sensor head and human brain tissue wired directly into its electronics.
It's too bad they didn't build a better film around Hector, because he was truly one of the creepiest sci fi villains ever. The Hannibal Lecter of robots.
Remember watching this on TV in my younger days... Enjoyed it, Farrah helped 💯😁
"Fluidic injection." I'm using that phrase with the ladies.
I don't care what anybody says, I Love This Movie!
I remember it being a colossal bomb, trying to leech on the Star Wars craze. Still, the production design isn't all bad. The acting, though...
Just found this & OMG I LMFAO... however... I still love this movie LOL LOL LOL... as much as I loved the 80's
The first five to ten minutes of this movie are a masterpiece, a testament to man's ability to suck the life out of his soul. Then Keitel lands on the moon and the film becomes mediocre interspersed with scenic genius. The set work and robot were extremely well done. A flawed film with great set design and music.
@@Rationalist001 The scene is great visually. The idea that the real moon guy is freezing to the point where he's shred into ice cubes looks great and is an interesting concept. Bad design is a part of technology i.e. The Space Shuttles were death machines.
Keitel puts on his helmet and he looks like a bug. He then goes to his ship which looks like a bug. The scene establishes that Keitel is a psychotic emotionless creep (a bug)...so I like the scene for these reasons.
I watched Farrah being interviewed by Johnny Carson (after her success with "The Burning Bed" and "Extremities") and she said that the original script was called "The Helper" and was a better script than the final product.
I was living in Alaska when this came out. I drove 260 miles roundtrip in a snowstorm to see it in Anchorage. Winters are bleak and entertainment sparse up north.
Think I might have actually seen this on tv as a kid. Now I have to rent it and see, no matter how corney it's worth it to feel the late 70's again.
Just love that future space disco - like Buck Rogers in the late 70's. Ugh. Cheese factor of 10
I was 13 when this movie came out and I loved it. I used to watch it every chance I got when it was on one of the pay channels.
Saturn3 is on the same shelf with Plan 9, Day of the Triffids, Event Horizon, Omega Man, and a few others I reserve for background party visuals.
True story. I actually bought the movie poster from the owner of the movie. Sadly I had it stored in a hollow tube that my mother thought was empty and she threw it out. 😭😭😭
Classic mom move "nobody needs this, out it goes."
She said she thought it was empty...
It never ceases to amuse me when people comment on films using today's standards as a basis. It amuses me even more when they completely miss the hidden message in them, especially when it is a subject they are passionate about
This movie freaked me out in the best way when I was a kid. The set and robot is great.
There is also FF topless
That was the pay-off for the ticket price.
Kirk and Farrah's white space helmets are a great couple of props.
You failed to mention the scene where Farrah removes her towel, and we get an extended view of her dream balloons. I was young, and I couldn’t get enough of that scene. I saw this on HBO; there was no pause, no rewind, so I had to wait three days for it to be broadcast again…and again…!…and maybe again.
I loved this movie when I was little and idolized Farrah Fawcett, the great sorrow of my childhood was that my hair was unfeatherable.
' This is an actual unedited scene that actually exists' stamped all over the screen when Farah Fawcett is in that costume seriously made me start to question if YOU know who the target audience of your video actually is....?
I sure didn't appreciate this stuff when it was current. Of course nobody else did either. Why? I think maybe because it was sort of a suspense movie and suspense movies only appealed to a limited audience, and there were plenty of them already. This was one of the many sci fi movies that were overlooked as America waited for the next Lucas or Spielberg production so they could line up to see it multiple times, IIRC. Farah was just incredibly gorgeous at the time of this film too. This was the era when I would go to the store at the mall that had the posters just so I could look at the posters of her in a wet blouse, I must have been all of 13. We didn't have video back then, so that picture was about as explicit as it got for me.
I remember watching this film.
They fucked it by over dubbing Harvey's lines because he sounded too New Yorker. Can't remember the name of the actor who did it.
I loved it when it came out, what my folks were thinking letting me watch it I do not know lol.
Roy Dotrice
Singing in the Rain is one of the greatest movies to ever come from Hollywood.
grew up with this film. loved it as a kid. maybe not as much as return of the living dead. but still loved it.
Thanks for uncovering this cheesy gem!
I remember from this when I was a kid it was a fun little romp.
I remember the movie and remembering once was enough.
I saw this in the theater. It wasn't great, but it was good. Farah was absolutely gorgeous.
I remember Farrah in Logan’s Run. Classic sci-fi movie.
Hector the robot actually creeped me the hell out when I was a kid.
Farrah Fawcett is the only reason to watch this movie ..............she is smoking hot.
troynov1965 - You got that wright.
ARE YOU BLIND AS A BAT. FARRAH WAS A TRANNY. LOOK AT THE BIG FUCKING TRACHEA !!!
Really. then how did she give birth to Redmond
Tony Lester wow you are one confused individual
YOU MUST NOT KNOW WHAT A REAL WOMAN LOOKS LIKE ?? OR THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MANS BODY AND A WOMANS ???
thanks for this. i love this film and nobody talks about it
People talk about it
Started to watch because of Farrah but could only take about 15 minutes. She was incredible to look at, what a beautiful woman.
What..?
The best thing about this movie is that I was 10 years old at the time. In comparison it shows the genius of Ridley Scott who did Alien a year later. Another SF movie from that time was Damnation Alley which did well considering its ridiculous.
This is 2024 and all of Faucet's fashions are all back in style this year...
🟦... I wanna know how she not only got into that outfit in 16-seconds, but did an AMAZING job STYLING HER HAIR! (Which would ordinarily take at Least 40-minutes!).
Now, I want a copy of it to watch again and again.
I always laughed at this when Harvey comes on to Farrah:
Alex : It's time we get to bed, Captain.
Benson : Yes, you have a great body. May I use it?
Alex : I'm with the major.
Benson : For his personal consumption only?
Alex : Yes.
Benson : That's penally unsocial on Earth, you know that?
Alex : Well, it's not here. Enjoy your blues.
I was 15 and my buddy Scott was 16 and we went to see this movie on a sat afternoon. I was so nervous if they would let us in because it was R rated had to be 17. The ticket person didn't give a crap we went right in . I enjoyed it fun memories... Movie a dollar popcorn a dollar and pop a dollar 3$ my allowence for week was 5$ . I saved my lunch money for the week 5$. Haaaaa. Not the same today...
In the original edit you actually see the robot slice poor Harvey to bits but it was deemed to gory/violent and got cut from the film, the MPAA might have demanded it cut too, would be interesting to see how that would change the tone of the film, no way to verify it but got a lot coverage in fanzines at the time.
And her hair completely changed when she changed her costume. I saw Saturn 3 when it came out. Adolescent me loved it. Now I see the comedy, too. I should watch it again.
Not to pick on the Continuity person, but Farrah changed outfits in 12 seconds
Her closet passes through a wormhole.
Outfits? what about the HAIR?
@@BrightBlueJim 😆
Part of the outfit I reckon.
Hair & makeup advancements are coming, apparently lol
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Funny during the segment about the weird ADR I kept thinking that they made Harvey sound like Gene Kelly and then later when you mentioned it was directed by "the Director of Singing I The Rain" I made me really wonder. However according to IMDB Roy Dotrice did the ADR.
He poured that drink like a Boss!
People don’t understand when we say the 70s and 80s were peak civilization. THIS is what we thought the future would be like. We were all dreamers, swingers, smokers, drinkers, and having great times at the mall.
Saw this in the theater, it's still in my collection. Absolutely bizarre.
It is listed as a 1980 film but was a late 1970s film and a naked Farrah fawcett in space film.At the time in London was the biggest set ever and was a promotion beyond the movie.
Their was another dream sequence that was filmed but never found
The futuristic sets with a 1970s mind set.The Robot not being really scary.With the mindset of the killer and a drooling lustt again for Farrah.
Saturn a 3 way with Farrah should be its title. I still watch it because it could have been better The Atmosphere of desolation was down to a T.But needed a better story line obviously. Good Video 😎
Love Saturn 3! Retro fun!
Saturn 3 was shown frequently late at night when I was young. I caught it by accident each time and I always watched it to the end. I forgot about the movie until now.
The shocking moment and scene of the robot wearing Keitel's severed head left a lasting impression of the movie.
I sure as hell wasn't watching this movie for the story when I was a kid!
"I once had a horse. On Coney Island. She got hit by a car". Shoulder shrug. Brilliant
R.I.P. FARRAH FAWCETT 🙏🙏 MISS YOU ICON 😥😥❤️
Saturn 3 was heavily promoted by the studio as an epic sci-fi movie for 1980, especially considering the star power in the film. But it flopped big time at the box office. The robot is cool, and so are the few space scenes. But other than that, and looking at a young Farrah, this movie is forgettable. The other sci-fi movie from 1980 that also starred Kirk Douglas was The Final Countdown, and it's much better than Saturn 3!
If you are looking for lesser known 1980s sci-fi that is actually worth watching, I suggest the following:
The Thing - 1982
2010 - 1984
Enemy Mine - 1985
Outland - 1981
Explorers - 1985
Heavy Metal - 1981
Forbidden World - 1982
Creature - 1985
The Ice Pirates - 1984
Spacehunter - 1983
Cherry 2000 - 1987
Leviathan - 1989
Deep Star Six - 1989
The Quiet Earth - 1985
Time Bandits - 1981
Robot Jox - 1989
Altered States - 1980
I saw this at the theatre when it came out. It is one movie that I never cared to see again and didn't and probably won't again. And I'm a Science fiction fan.
Farrah left "Charlie's Angels" to make it big in feature films. She starred in three between 1978-79: "Somebody Killed Her Husband," "Sunburn," and "Saturn 3." All three were critical and commercial failures.
Keitel refused to do any voice over work in post, so they hired British actor Roy Dotrice, who used a mid-Atlantic accent. Think, Cary Grant, Vincent Price, Christopher Plummer. A hybrid Brit/US accent.
One of the first movies i saw when cable tv showed up to our house. Nobody hated this movie, because nobody saw it.
I had Farrah's pin up on the wall of my barracks when in the Army , 1975- 79. She was a doll !
those sets actually look pretty sci-fi disco dope.
You missed Keitel in his Breakout role in Mean Streets and his award winning performance in The Duelist.
Any actor who can walk the oars of a Viking ship can actually pour an actual drink. BTW, the main draw at the time was Farrah's breast. I saw it in the theatre.
Saturn 3 really is a perfect intro to sci fi horror for kids. It's boring, so you look around and see what there is to look at. You have no idea who the stars are, so again, it's just about the scenario. Hector is scary as fuck if you're a child, and the brief moments of gore and just enough to jump scare and give mild, temporary nightmares. As an adult, it's a ridiculous mess.
Now, Demon Seed - that really is the stuff of nightmares!
That robot scared the crap out of me. And it was 43 years ago.
The pneumatic doors in the Co-op at Coniston, Cumbria, England are the exact sound that is used for the robot!