Saturn 3 (1980)

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   Siskoid

   There are many questions evoked by Saturn 3, chief among them: What was Stanely Donen thinking?! And also, is production designer John Barry a scriptwriter? And also, why did Kirk Douglas agree to this? (Perhaps the answer is the often casually nude Farrah Fawcett - definitely part of my original, on-TV, experience of the movie.) And for that matter, how did I forget Harvey Keitel was also in this. Barry didn't do his own production design, but the film's look is quite strong, if at times derivative. It opens the same exact way Star Wars does (a shot originated on Space: 1999, to be fair) and the outer space stuff is running the 2001: A Space Odyssey playbook. The gory violence is always brief, but it IS shocking, starting with the freeze-dried murder at the top. Unfortunately, most of Saturn 3 is like watching paint dry, or watching a robot being built, as the case may be. And that's even after it turns into a robot slasher. So was the genesis of this project 2001 with violence and nudity? Whatever the case may be, it just doesn't work, in part because the (human) villain is never given a reason for his actions. 5 months ago
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   mcmakattack

   I would give it some props for cool set design and effects, except the main robot looks so silly and unintimidating 1 year 5 months ago

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