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Saturn 3 [DVD] [1980]
enlarge	Directors: John Barry, Stanley Donen Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, Ed Bishop, Roy Dotrice Studio: ITV Studios Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£9.99~~ Buy New: £3.90 as of 10/9/2010 06:11 BST details You Save: £6.09 (61%) New (9) Used (10) Collectible (2) from £2.15 Seller: mikeygiles2005 Rating: 11 reviews Sales Rank: 6222 Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 84 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5037115005236 ASIN: B00004I9PJ Theatrical Release Date: February 15, 1980 Release Date: May 22, 2000 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 11 1 2 3 Next » Creepy and excellent sci-fi fun May 2, 2007 Michael Gerrard (Geneva) 3 out of 4 found this review helpful This film isn't to the standard of Alien or other sci-fi classics. But Saturn 3 is a good story that is creepy! Harvey Keitel is perfectly cast as the mad killer who visits a far off outpost. The robot he builds learns from Harvey Keitel's mind so it ends up pretty twisted. There's a fair bit of tension, mostly helped by the gripping music. You wonder what the whole point of this will be and what that robot might want with our Farrah... Some might say the special effects aren't all that great, well they aren't brilliant, certainly Alien (made a year or two earlier) has much better effects. With Saturn 3 you wish they'd more of an effort on the spaceships for sure. The films ending is also a little flat. But the build up is good. I recommend this film to anyone who likes a simple sci-fi story and of course anyone who likes Farrah Fawcett! I, Hector July 3, 2010 Mr. Jonathon T. Beckett (Dracula's Crypt) An unstable pilot Benson(Harvey Keitel), murders his rival Captain James, and sets off in his place on a mission to a research station on one of Saturn's moons. The personnel of the research station consist of only two people, Major Adam(Kirk Douglas) and his partner Alex(Farrah Fawcett). Benson, assuming the guise of Captain James, informs the duo that he has brought a robot to help run their experimental food program. The robot is Hector, one of the new Demigod III range. Benson is soon making himself very unwelcome by lusting after Alex and engaging in long winded diatribes. When Hector is built, events takes a more dangerous turn, as the robot who gains knowledge from 'direct contact' with its creator begins to show all too human failings. The murder of Alex's beloved pooch is only the start of Hector's horrifying plans for the research station, and its occupants. It's all too easy to dismiss this film as a failure. Okay Douglas and Fawcett are both badly miscast as Adam and Alex, Douglas being particularly hammy, and Keitel delivers a rather peculiar performance as Benson, coming across as Data from Star Trek's psychopathic older brother. There is quite a lot of padding that lengthens the paper thin story. However, just to concentrate on some of the more successful aspects of the film for a minute. The set design is terrific(I've read it being dismissed as sub par in a post-Star Wars age, but I find it to be charming). There is a great, rousing music score, perhaps a bit at odds with the somewhat dull on- screen shennanigans, and the design of Hector is pretty striking. Most of the best scenes in the film involve the robot, especially good is one where the research stations resident robots under the control of Hector, rebuild the robot's damaged body. The opening, mostly silent opening sequence involving Benson's flight from the spaceship to th research station has an eerie ambience and promises much. So much for promises. You may wonder how I could give a film four stars after being quite disparaging about it. Well, despite its many flaws I really enjoyed it, and for very different reasons than I did as a sexually frustrated teenager, feverishly ogling any fleeting glimpses of Farrah's nakedness. Now, I simply lap it up as an enjoyable piece of pulp sci-fi, with the visual style taking precedence over any substance. Proceed with caution, but any lovers of 70's Science-Fiction cinema are sure to lap it up. 4 out of 5 Focus on the feeling November 18, 2006 Razer (United Kingdom) 5 out of 7 found this review helpful I was ten years old when this film was made. So, by the time I saw it, I was still relatively young. This film struck a chord with me that most sci-fi does and always did, that of alienation. The whole sense of this film is one of being utterly isolated. Not only is one (if it's possible to identify with any of the characters at all - which, being at least human, one should) so very far from home, but the whole environment is one of emotionally devoid, plastic inhumanity. We as people crave not only varied human contact, but contact with everything else about our world that is tactile and real. Plants, seas, trees, animals, air and skies. In the environment that the characters of this film inhabit, it is pre-eminently (outerspace) sci-fi, and so, devoid of these comforts. This all goes to giving the viewer the absolute sense of isolation, of inhumanity, of being set apart from all that we know, love and that makes us comfortable and settled. From this point of view, the film achieves it's objective of totally unsettling the viewer. Factor in then the absolute epitomy of that which is inhuman. A robot. Furthermore, a robot that is not only on a crash course of destruction, threatening to steal the human character's very humanity by making them slaves to it's will, but a robot whose 'controller' is himself seemingly as utterly inhuman as his machine. No matter where one looks, there is no escape, there is no mercy, there is no humanity. For me as a child, and for me as an adult now, the overriding sense of this film far outweighs any lack of quality acting or failings in the script that there may be. In fact, for me these things are irrelevant for what the film conveys emotionally. Hence, 4 stars. One final thing. The sight of a young Harvey Keitel in very tight leather, that surely could only be peeled off, is a true delectation to behold. Old movie August 9, 2009 Paul Moortgat 0 out of 1 found this review helpful I've seen it when I was young and wanted to see it again. I've no complains. Just a movie of that time. Good Robot for early scfi July 8, 2000 2 out of 6 found this review helpful The Lost in space movie robot owes alot to hector Farrah Fawcett is gorgeous Kirk is dimpley And the plot is great just forget about the poor special effect, cause the robot effect is worth seeing Showing reviews 1-5 of 11 1 2 3 Next »

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