Steineded How sad is this?

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) Before there was "The Terminator", and after "Alien" a year earlier, there's "Saturn 3". Saturn is the 6th planet in the Solar System. The second biggest planet. And has a lot of moons there. On Saturn 3, two scientists Adam(Kirk Douglas) and his lover and partner Alex(Farrah Fawcett, 1947-2009) are living there because Earth is very much overcrowded over the years. Their bliss is interrupted by the presence of Captain Benson(Harvey Keitel) who appeared at the station with a replacement robot named Hector. Unbeknownst to the two, but Captain Benson has murdered a colleague at a station. So when he used a neural link, Hector sensed his tendency to kill. So when Hector tried to kill Alex, he was dismantled. However, he was able to control the other robots to have him reassembled. Then more chaos comes in. I liked it when Alex had that lab accident, and Hector was able to remove the particle from her eye. I know that Farrah was known for her hair. She was also known for her eyes. It was a decent sci-fi/horror film. And that Hector was a very menacing character. It was a fine film. 3 out of 5 stars

pahvou I stumbled upon this movie on NetFlix. I like outer space adventures and thought with Kirk Douglas and Harvey Cartel this would be a good one. I was wrong. After the first ten minutes I decided to just fast forward to the scenes with Farrah Fawcet in a negligee, which there was an abundance of.

imbluzclooby Saturn 3 is one of those lousy science Fiction movies from the late 70's that deserves to be ridiculed. Unfortunately, it wasn't bad enough to be featured on SNL, but definitely not good enough to be remembered. Somewhere in the remote future a Human inhabited spacecraft, Saturn 3, is occupied by the stunning Alex(Farrah Fawcett) and her pre- geriatric lover, Major Adam (Kirk Douglas). They are visited by an anal technocrat from Earth (The Captain) played by Harvey Kietel. He is proposing to construct a high tech robot for research and to serve as an assistant for his new home. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned. The Captian is taken by Alex's ethereal beauty. He wishes to severe the tie she has with the aging Kirk Douglas to have her for his own. His method? To live vicariously through the robot (Hector) in order to overtake Adam's position as lover. Now I know the appeal of beautiful woman can be a plot driven device if used tastefully and if it doesn't dominate the overall theme. But this seems to be the only thing going on here beside the development and fine tuning of the poorly constructed robot. Now I thought the robot was pretty cool looking and reminded me of a more fragile version of The Terminator. But Hector, albeit striking in appearance, is poorly designed with all of its loosely fitted wires, exposed valves and hollow frame. He could have used a more sturdy core to withstand blows. Modern Sci-Fi movies take the attractive woman's beauty as incidental and give the poor gals a bit more brains, substance, authority and toughness. But Farrah was just being used for eye candy while she titillated us with her sexy pouts, lilting voice, gorgeous figure and dazzling eyes. Harvey Keitel is wasted in this role where he plays against type. Here he chooses to use an uptight voice and speech pattern which sounds more robotic than military. And Kirk Douglas? Okay, I don't really have anything personal against the guy, but watching him cast with a woman thirty years his junior is both disheartening and fairly grotesque. Much like his son, he was the kind of actor I felt I had to put up with when watching a movie rather than ever truly enjoying or liking him. Saturn 3 is a snooze fest. But that's not to say that I completely hate it. It boasts some pretty cool production qualities and some admirably constructed set designs. This movie could have done better if they made a porno where Farrah gets accosted by some Technocrat or alien. It's that bad

gavin6942 Two lovers (Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett) stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat (Harvey Keitel) from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot robot. Remember, in space no one can hear you scream..."Saturn 3" was produced and directed by Stanley Donen, better known for his colorful musicals, who saw it as "a Frankenstein story in space". The story came from John Barry, who had done production design for such films as "A Clockwork Orange", "Star Wars" and "Superman". He initially passed the story to Donen's wife who passed it to Stanley, but Barry ended up being a co-director of sorts.The cast, consisting of only three people, is pure star power. Kirk's role was originally for Sean Connery, but Connery passed because he was hiding out in Spain to avoid taxes. And this was during Keitel's low period, after his work with Scorsese and revival thanks to Quentin Tarantino. For some odd reason, he is entirely dubbed. People are bound to seek this one out just to see some of their favorite stars.I cannot even begin to say how disappointed I was by this. Science fiction is a fun genre, and this is an all-star cast with a hugely successful director. There is no way this should have gone wrong, but it totally did. What should have been suspense turned into a slower, dragging tedium.There is so much potential here, and you have to admit the set designer and special effects crew did a top notch job. For a late 1970s science fiction film, they had everything at their disposal to make this a blockbuster. This same robot used in a different way could be incredible... but no.The film lost money at the box office, and the critics were not too kind, either. Roger Ebert gave the film a measly single star and wrote "the story is so dumb it would be laughed out of any junior high school class in the country".The Scream Factory Blu-ray features audio commentary with fan Greg Moss and film critic David Bradley, and is extraordinarily informative. For such a stinker of a film, these two have an endless amount of information on its background and make it almost a treat.