My high school theatre teacher told me this story, although she had never seen this movie: "Farrah Fawcett's agent sent her a script called Saturn 3 and Farrah rejected it outright saying, 'I don't do horror.' The agent persuaded her to think about it over the weekend and to give the script a closer look. That weekend Farrah went to the movies with her friend Jamie Curtis to see her in her new movie, 'Halloween.' Monday morning Farrah called her agent and said, 'I'll do it.'" Not sure of the story's veracity, but always sounded plausable enough to have a ring of truth to it. Also, there's some cheesecake photos online of Farrah in some sexy outfits from scenes edited out of this movie if you're a fan of Farrah's.... assets." Best to you-
My mom told me some years ago that I was named after the character played by Kirk Douglas in this movie. I never saw and heard of this movie until now and figured if Douglas was in it then it can't be bad. Why couldn't she have named me Spartacus?
So it's like Demon Seed... but with legs! I got to say, Hector is a genuinely intimidating robot, the buff humanoid body with the tiny snake head is really uncanny. And Kirk Douglas is 101 years old? Holy moley, good on him.
Years later, HECTOR had the indignity of becoming a random lobby display at the entrance of the Space Invaders ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach (having apparently done a stint in the lobby of The Black Hole ride). I shit you not. It was my favourite ride as a kid, but didn't know where the creepy robot came from until I caught this movie on late night TV. I think it was on Moviedrome, a movie showcase on BBC 2 where Alex Cox would introduce weird cult movies the BBC had in their archives but had no idea what to do with. The ride was better than the film.
That's very cool, Hector got off of Saturn 3 and had a easy gig, wait a minute Blackpool Pleasure Beach with girls in bikinis and those over powered clamps for hands-on massages, I hope Hector is still somewhere today, would have been great on the Series LEX
Derek Smallshorts To be honest, the idea of a British theme park with people dressed up as Hector going around hugging kids like Mickey Mouse at Disneyland kinda intrigues me.
Fun fact ... Farah’s character had a theme written for her but the film makers felt that this theme made the score WAY too romantic .. which it did. There is a limited edition CD soundtrack available for this film. Anyways .. her theme was later reused in the 1980’s film ‘Heavy metal’ as the theme for ‘Tarna’ .. in the 6th part of that film .. it’s a very beautiful theme but it did very much change the entire tone of the film so much that I can see why they dropped it. But I’m very pleased that Elmer Bernstein’s theme was reused. The CD soundtrack does not actually contain the 10 min music cue from the beginning of this movie because it was a cut together of several pieces from the whole score. I recreated it myself (cuz I’m cool like that) meticulously re-editing all the parts to fit exactly. I love the music in this film. And that’s robot creeped me out almost as much as ‘Maximillian’ from “The Black Hole”.
Actually, if you think about it, this was a big budget R-rated version of the first episode of the original "Lost in Space" - the protagonists must battle for survival against a powerful robot controlled by an evil villain while stranded in deep space.
Astronomical trivia: "Saturn 3" refers to Saturn's moon Tethys. The moons of Saturn were first named in order of discovery, hence it was referred to as "Saturn III" when it was discovered in 1684. It was re-named "Tethys" in 1847.
The actor they dubbed over Keitel was Roy Dotrice. Also, one of the reasons why he ended up being dumped over is because they asked Keitel to come back to loop some dialogue in post-production, and he refused
My high school theatre teacher told me the story about how Farrah Fawcett told her agent, "I don't do horror" when offered to review the script of Saturn 3. She at least agreed to read the script over the weekend and have a final answer on Monday. That night, she was going to the premiere of her friend Jamie Curtis' latest movie, "Halloween." Monday morning, she called her agent and said, "I'll do it."
Happens more frequently than you'd think. Sometimes an actor's performance isn't satisfactory, or sometimes they can't loop their lines for one reason or another. Jack Hawkins lost his voice due to throat cancer, so for the last decade or so of his career he had his performances dubbed by Robert Rietti and Charles Gray (of Rocky Horror fame). Many of the early Bond films dubbed over their cast, almost all of the early Bond girls were voiced by Nikki Van Der Zyl and the villains by Rietti. Andie MacDowell in Greystroke was re-dubbed by an uncredited Glenn Close because the director thought her natural voice didn't fit the character. I guess they thought Keitel's natural Brooklyn accent didn't fit whatever setting they were trying to convey, which makes you wonder why they cast him in the first place.
Damn and he left Michael Douglas a big Fuck You, cause all his fortune went to help Charity and Michael gets fuck all. I hope all the money will help a good cause.
I love some of the movie's special effects. Especially the ships flying through Saturns rings. I think of these scenes when flying to ringed planets in Elite Dangerous.
John Barry was the production designer on two Stanley Donen films. During production on the last one, Movie Movie, he approached that film's financier Lew Grade about supporting his directing debut, Saturn 3. Grade said yes, but on condition Donen was Producer to ensure debutante Barry stayed right. After his dismissal, they needed a dir fast, so Donen stepped in.
There was Saturn and Saturn 2: The Beginning. But Saturn 2 was actually an Italian movie that was totally unrelated to Saturn and somehow released AFTER Saturn 3. It gets very confusing.
There's a "secuel" made in Italy of Alien. Somehow after Alien1 but way before the fantastic Aliens by Cameron. In the italian version Alien arrived Earth.
Ok, I saw this movie when released and It was ok for me.. obviously many new technologies enriched the big screen biz. Got the feeling you make fun of the film.. with mistakes and all was watchable. Many modern horror sci fi are less than interesting. So, I have respect for old days movies.
I remember watching this growing up when I was old enough to watch late night TV in the '80s, great little movie, quite creepy when watching it for the first time at the age of 15 late at night. Plus Farrah Fawcett, woof.
If it had a money shot of Farrah then the movie would be worth it. Brandon, you are doing the internet a great service by suffering through the bad movies and letting us know what B movies are worth seeing and entertaining us at the same time. We commend you.
Last time i've heard about something considering hydroponics in space it ended up waaay worse than a horny murderbot stalking two people. Like "unholy twisted abominations of nature murdering everyone on Ishimura" worse.
Now that you mention it, someone _does_ lose a hand. Is this the one where we find out that Kirk Douglas is really Farrah's dad? Because he's OLD enough to be!
I'm old enough to remember when this film came out. The reviews at the time were similar to yours in that they said Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett had achieved a quantum breakthrough in managing to make space sex as dull as dishwater. (Thus foreshadowing the "death-by-dishwater" scene at the end of the film?)
The funny thing is this movie sounds and looks like it would be more of a classic. It’s got a talented cast, the sets are creative, and it’s got a creepy atmosphere. Just one of those films that sadly suffers from bad writing that affects everything else.
omg.. I have been searching for this movie for ~decades~ I saw this as a kid in the 80s and it scared the crap out of me, but all I remembered was a robot with a brain in a jar and water floorboards on a spaceship. Everyone tried to convince me I was misremembering Alien or Leviathan. You have redeemed me!!
Its a movie that would have benefitted from formula like a crew on the station for the robot to kill . But it is a movie where you can see there was an idea when they started.
James Cameron has made noises of a Saturn3 remake and cited it as a major influence on The Terminator. The whole production design of the sets of Saturn 3 are so beautiful. It's what's kept me fascinated with the film for all these years. Fired director, John Barry, went from this, his own project, to 2nd unit director and designer of Ice planet Thoth on The Empire strikes back and was dead within the year. Kirk Douglas's awful behaviour and over compensating toxic masculinity was satirised in Martin Amis's next novel 'Money' with whole passages of the book lifted from his behaviour of the set of Saturn 3. When he asked for Stanley the visionary, he needed Kubrick rather than Donen. So much was trimmed from the film, an alternative death scene for Harvey Keitel, the infamous wild ecstasy/Blue dreamers drug experience scene with Farrah in her suspenders, she even dispatches Keitel's dead body out of an air lock dressed like that. The original running time was 107mins. Every commercially available cut/release has been a mere 83 minutes. I'd love to one day see the full experience put together. For any Saturn3 fans this website has e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g about its unusual troubled production, using it's poster tag line 'Something is wrong on Saturn3' It's a making of Saturn3 website and it's rivetting. saturn3makingof.com/ Returning to Blackpool pleasure beach in my twenties, I was gutted to see Hector being used as a side carnival display in a glass box.
I saw this film very young .. and this was the first film I ever saw Harvey Keitel in .. and for years I always thought that was his actual voice. I was shocked to learn years later that this was actually Roy Doltrice’s voice. It’s too bad .. he sounded really cool as a British guy :D
I think the coolest thing about the movie was that awesome "Solar Fascist" emblem plastered all over everything. Reminds me a bit of the old Hitachi logo.
Using brain matter for processing power/storage is an older idea, but still very viable. Used to be called "Form Q". Brain matter is incredibly dense compared to existing digital technology, and runs on far fewer resources. The only thing holding it back at the moment is the lack of a working analog/digital interface.
I think you miss the part where Alex was looking at the earth and we saw the data port at the back of her neck, implying that Hector might have transfer itself into her or that she has become his slave and built him a new body back on earth. That’s the horror twist.
I remember seeing this movie when I was a teenager. I loved it! It looked so damn cool. The sets were cool. Everything in it just looked amazing. (I tell you what. I love the special effects and set design that looks like this a LOT more than the CGI bullcrap fest that we have constantly shoved in our face today. The movies color looked better. They didn't have the "Everything is teal or orange" thing going on. They didn't throw crap CGI at you all the time. Things were... actually there for actors to interact with...)And Hector is an awesome looking robot design. I always thought that they should have adapted Hector for some superhero show to be the superhero or have multiple Hectors for the superhero to fight. I just love the look of him. And think of the possibilities of "Hector vs Alien vs Terminator vs Predator"!
That was British actor Roy Dotrice as Harvey Keitel's voice. He passed away last year; he was "Hallnye" on "Game of Thrones" in 2012 and had been working in British TV and movies since the late 1950s.
This one was strangely creepy in appearances, from the spooky dark halls to Hektor himself. He looks like a robot version of Uncle Frank putting himself together in the attic in Hellraiser..
I like the visual aesthetic of this film, but that's about it. I still remember first learning about it from a cool old sci-fi magazine (starlog, I think) I bought from a used bookstore.
I was maybe 8 or 9 when I saw this. It was on HBO and it looked super cool. I managed to talk my mom into letting me watch it. Farrah Fawcett made it worth seeing but I thought it was pretty cool at the time.
Apparently Elmer Bernstein wrote a pretty good score for this film that was cut up and butchered in the final cut. The original score was officially released years ago, but unfortunately it's out of print. A shame if you ask me.
An interesting fact: Ever heard of the adult animated movie that is most known for having tits in them called Heavy Metal? It has voice actors such as John Candy, Eugene Levy and Harold Ramis and a soundtrack by Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Journey, Nazareth and Black Sabbath. The character Taarna the Taarakian (who is also on the movie cover) has a music theme that was originally made for Farrah Fawcett's character in this movie, but they never used it. You should review that movie =)
Thank you Brandon for this review. I was 9 yrs old when it came out and was the last movie i saw with my mom. Back then, a nine yr old could go watch a R rated movie with, and some times without, an adult.
This is one that I think could stand to be remade with modern effects. Something along the lines of Upgrade. A fantastic movie shot on a shoestring budget if you haven't seen it.
Out of curiosity, I looked him up... the production designer you kept raving about, later did ALL of the "HARRY POTTER" movies and its 3 prequels (so far).
I saw this movie on TV as a young kid, and I was a bit freaked out about the nude old man fighting and the violent robot chopping people up. - Definitely wasn't Star Wars.
Quality content over quantity trash. Jake Paul has millions of subscribers and he hasn’t contributed a damn thing of value to the world his whole life.
@@danstiver9135 Jake Paul's form of comedy is just acting like an immature asshole....and has 17 million subscribers....while Brandon has more quality and has less subscribers.... Does that make sense?.
The only time I ever saw this was waaaay back in the day, when I was at my grandpa's when my mom was taking care of him in his old age. This was on one of the local UHF stations when they put movies like this, Heartbeeps, and The Wiz because the rights to them were easy to get. I think I'd prefer this to all the talk shows, judge shows, and infomercials of today.
Stanley Donen recently died and nowhere in any obituaries did they mention this movie, just some crappy film called singing in the rain. They should have said "Stanley Donen the director of Saturn 3 passed away today.
I love the design of the robot except for the out of place tiny head. It makes it look unfinished or like part of it already got blown off, and severely reduces it's menace.
Exactly. Although there are real life couples with that much of an age difference it just didn't work for the movie. Instead of Kirk Douglas they would have been better off hiring his son Michael Douglas!
My high school theatre teacher told me this story, although she had never seen this movie:
"Farrah Fawcett's agent sent her a script called Saturn 3 and Farrah rejected it outright saying, 'I don't do horror.' The agent persuaded her to think about it over the weekend and to give the script a closer look. That weekend Farrah went to the movies with her friend Jamie Curtis to see her in her new movie, 'Halloween.' Monday morning Farrah called her agent and said, 'I'll do it.'"
Not sure of the story's veracity, but always sounded plausable enough to have a ring of truth to it.
Also, there's some cheesecake photos online of Farrah in some sexy outfits from scenes edited out of this movie if you're a fan of Farrah's.... assets."
Best to you-
My mom told me some years ago that I was named after the character played by Kirk Douglas in this movie. I never saw and heard of this movie until now and figured if Douglas was in it then it can't be bad. Why couldn't she have named me Spartacus?
I am Spartacus.
This comment board is going to be gold. GOLD I tell ya!
Adam Zeanchock Well, at least she didn't name you "Hector".
@@TheBrandonTenold No, that was what she named his brother.
@BadPeople1100 yeah it's pretty hard to tell, there was BadPeople in all of his movies.
Ah a killer robot in love with Farrah Fawcett... on one of Saturn’s moons?Truly a tale as old as time.
Farrah Fawcett was a beard for closeted Lee Majors you know. ....also a tale as old as time
+Ricardo Silkworth Me too Saturn 2 Was Really Bad
So it's like Demon Seed... but with legs! I got to say, Hector is a genuinely intimidating robot, the buff humanoid body with the tiny snake head is really uncanny.
And Kirk Douglas is 101 years old? Holy moley, good on him.
He's still alive??? Holy shit! I thought he'd died years ago.
Alas he passed away last month.
Mia Fillene rip
@@miafillene4396 OK, then, but, he was still alive when I made that comment, though :P
You call it uncanny, but I think it's hilarious.
Thank you for mentioning "Lexx". That show was very unique. I am glad I am not the only one who remembers it.
Ahh back when Syfy was sci-fi and had good shows.
Years later, HECTOR had the indignity of becoming a random lobby display at the entrance of the Space Invaders ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach (having apparently done a stint in the lobby of The Black Hole ride). I shit you not. It was my favourite ride as a kid, but didn't know where the creepy robot came from until I caught this movie on late night TV. I think it was on Moviedrome, a movie showcase on BBC 2 where Alex Cox would introduce weird cult movies the BBC had in their archives but had no idea what to do with. The ride was better than the film.
That's very cool, Hector got off of Saturn 3 and had a easy gig, wait a minute Blackpool Pleasure Beach with girls in bikinis and those over powered clamps for hands-on massages, I hope Hector is still somewhere today, would have been great on the Series LEX
Derek Smallshorts To be honest, the idea of a British theme park with people dressed up as Hector going around hugging kids like Mickey Mouse at Disneyland kinda intrigues me.
@@TheBrandonTenold Consider a corelation to FNAF as well.
I watched this on cable as a kid only because of the Dual Moons of Farrah.
Amen
The whats?
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She wouldn’t be caught dead near Uranus!
I loved the editing of Harvey Keitel's dialogue from Pulp Fiction and Bad Lieutenant into the scenes haha. Great review!
Kirk Douglas is born 1916 so he was around 64 here and he still is living. and it mean he is around 102 year old now.
Sadly he died early this year at 103
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey He had a good life.
Fun fact ... Farah’s character had a theme written for her but the film makers felt that this theme made the score WAY too romantic .. which it did. There is a limited edition CD soundtrack available for this film. Anyways .. her theme was later reused in the 1980’s film ‘Heavy metal’ as the theme for ‘Tarna’ .. in the 6th part of that film .. it’s a very beautiful theme but it did very much change the entire tone of the film so much that I can see why they dropped it. But I’m very pleased that Elmer Bernstein’s theme was reused. The CD soundtrack does not actually contain the 10 min music cue from the beginning of this movie because it was a cut together of several pieces from the whole score. I recreated it myself (cuz I’m cool like that) meticulously re-editing all the parts to fit exactly. I love the music in this film. And that’s robot creeped me out almost as much as ‘Maximillian’ from “The Black Hole”.
Maximillian was creepy AF... stopped watching Disney films after that.
Actually, if you think about it, this was a big budget R-rated version of the first episode of the original "Lost in Space" - the protagonists must battle for survival against a powerful robot controlled by an evil villain while stranded in deep space.
The guy who made Clockwork Orange was replaced by the guy who made Singing in the Rain😂
He didn't make Clockwork Orange. Kubrick made Clockwork Orange. He only worked on it.
The Guy who only work on clockwork orange got replaced by the Guy who made singing in the rain
that is funny on multipule levels
two Stanleys
I've never seen either movie
Astronomical trivia: "Saturn 3" refers to Saturn's moon Tethys. The moons of Saturn were first named in order of discovery, hence it was referred to as "Saturn III" when it was discovered in 1684. It was re-named "Tethys" in 1847.
Tony Stroppa thank you for explaining that.
As a kid I watched it hoping to catch a look at Farraw's Tethys...
@@ChristianAttridge We all wanted that glimpse.
This movie is definitely a schlocky sci-fi classic. However, is a crime that Harvey Keitel was dubbed by some British actor. Damn you Lew Grade!
The actor they dubbed over Keitel was Roy Dotrice. Also, one of the reasons why he ended up being dumped over is because they asked Keitel to come back to loop some dialogue in post-production, and he refused
Hector reminds me of Proteus, the supercomputer in "Demon Seed" (1977) that actually impregnates the wife of his creator.
No Kenny's. That's a plus.
After seeing THAT film, there are no bad movies anymore. There are only movies...and "Things".
Ahhhh, "Things".... another personal favorite of mine. ❤
My high school theatre teacher told me the story about how Farrah Fawcett told her agent, "I don't do horror" when offered to review the script of Saturn 3.
She at least agreed to read the script over the weekend and have a final answer on Monday. That night, she was going to the premiere of her friend Jamie Curtis' latest movie, "Halloween."
Monday morning, she called her agent and said, "I'll do it."
An American movie that dubs over one of its actors? Blasphemy that’s only supposed to happen to foreign movies, preferably from East Asia.
It’s actually a British film. But it’s still a weird choice.
Happens more frequently than you'd think. Sometimes an actor's performance isn't satisfactory, or sometimes they can't loop their lines for one reason or another. Jack Hawkins lost his voice due to throat cancer, so for the last decade or so of his career he had his performances dubbed by Robert Rietti and Charles Gray (of Rocky Horror fame). Many of the early Bond films dubbed over their cast, almost all of the early Bond girls were voiced by Nikki Van Der Zyl and the villains by Rietti. Andie MacDowell in Greystroke was re-dubbed by an uncredited Glenn Close because the director thought her natural voice didn't fit the character. I guess they thought Keitel's natural Brooklyn accent didn't fit whatever setting they were trying to convey, which makes you wonder why they cast him in the first place.
Troy Schulz I didn’t mean for people to actually take this seriously. This is awkward.
i mean at least it didn’t happen in any famous movies *Cough star wars Cough*
I can think of one movie where it happened in production and was part of the plot: Singin' in the Rain.
The freaky thing about all this, 60 something Kirk Douglas is still alive 40 years later and the beautiful Farah Fawcett is gone :-(
Well not you jinxed it.
Okay, at age of 104 it was kinda expected, but damn this did not age well.
Z Zs the guy was 100+ but still at any age my comments was never going to age well, everyone dies at one point or another it’s not a mystery
Damn and he left Michael Douglas a big Fuck You, cause all his fortune went to help Charity and Michael gets fuck all. I hope all the money will help a good cause.
@@_Muzolf The phrase, "Hasn't aged well," hasn't aged well. See, it doesn't apply here because things change. That's not the same as not aging well.
👍👍👍 for the "Rock It" scene alone!!!!
I love some of the movie's special effects. Especially the ships flying through Saturns rings. I think of these scenes when flying to ringed planets in Elite Dangerous.
John Barry was the production designer on two Stanley Donen films. During production on the last one, Movie Movie, he approached that film's financier Lew Grade about supporting his directing debut, Saturn 3. Grade said yes, but on condition Donen was Producer to ensure debutante Barry stayed right. After his dismissal, they needed a dir fast, so Donen stepped in.
There was Saturn and Saturn 2: The Beginning. But Saturn 2 was actually an Italian movie that was totally unrelated to Saturn and somehow released AFTER Saturn 3. It gets very confusing.
Italians are known for making fake sequels & prequels.
There's a "secuel" made in Italy of Alien. Somehow after Alien1 but way before the fantastic Aliens by Cameron. In the italian version Alien arrived Earth.
Ok, I saw this movie when released and It was ok for me.. obviously many new technologies enriched the big screen biz.
Got the feeling you make fun of the film.. with mistakes and all was watchable. Many modern horror sci fi are less than interesting. So, I have respect for old days movies.
...i honestly can't tell if you're joking or if that's real
I remember watching this growing up when I was old enough to watch late night TV in the '80s, great little movie, quite creepy when watching it for the first time at the age of 15 late at night. Plus Farrah Fawcett, woof.
If it had a money shot of Farrah then the movie would be worth it. Brandon, you are doing the internet a great service by suffering through the bad movies and letting us know what B movies are worth seeing and entertaining us at the same time. We commend you.
well, I mean, Singing in the Rain was a BIG part of A Clockwork Orange.. ...
Last time i've heard about something considering hydroponics in space it ended up waaay worse than a horny murderbot stalking two people. Like "unholy twisted abominations of nature murdering everyone on Ishimura" worse.
Them running around in the dark hallways with the alien alarms works really well
An A list movie pretending to be a B list movie? I love it.
Most A-list genre films ARE just B films with more money.
@@KRhetor True, but it look like a B movie despite A money.
The mummy
Boy, I sure hope it's better than Saturn 2.
People don't like it, but as a dark middle chapter, I thought it was pretty good.
Now that you mention it, someone _does_ lose a hand.
Is this the one where we find out that Kirk Douglas is really Farrah's dad? Because he's OLD enough to be!
But did it can Beat the Original Saturn?(the first one)
The Horror Guru No, but it is definitely better than "Leonard Part 6".
Or Saturn 1.
So glad you did this movie, It's easily one of my favourite sci fi horror films and i always make all my friends at least see it once.
I'm old enough to remember when this film came out. The reviews at the time were similar to yours in that they said Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett had achieved a quantum breakthrough in managing to make space sex as dull as dishwater. (Thus foreshadowing the "death-by-dishwater" scene at the end of the film?)
15:13 LMAO Saturn 3 (Bad Lieutenant: edition)
The funny thing is this movie sounds and looks like it would be more of a classic. It’s got a talented cast, the sets are creative, and it’s got a creepy atmosphere. Just one of those films that sadly suffers from bad writing that affects everything else.
Logans Run with Farrah Fawcett was better.
The murderous robot in Logan's Run had a better voice as well.
Self destruct is there for insurance purposes.
omg.. I have been searching for this movie for ~decades~ I saw this as a kid in the 80s and it scared the crap out of me, but all I remembered was a robot with a brain in a jar and water floorboards on a spaceship. Everyone tried to convince me I was misremembering Alien or Leviathan.
You have redeemed me!!
I always thought that the robot in this looked cool.
yeah, I read somewhere it cost a buttload of money to build it, like a million bux
a re-edit of this whole movie with Harvey Keitel quotes over the dubbing would be amazing lol
RIP Farrah Fawcett
Its a movie that would have benefitted from formula like a crew on the station for the robot to kill .
But it is a movie where you can see there was an idea when they started.
Harvey Keitel's real voice as a robot that would be awesome
The way Hector was connected to Harvey Keitels brain was similar to how the ID monster was connected to Professor Morbius's brain in Forbidden planet
Dude you rock, can you do 80s Flash Gordon, or horror comedy student bodies, mean while keep rocking, I am now a subscriber thanks
Today’s a good day 👍
The dubbing of Hector with Harvey Keitels voice was ingenious
WAAAAAAYYYYYY better with Harvey Keitel's voice.
I wish Harvey Keitel dubbed me too
"The Helper" wow that actually sounds like they had a robot which gradually became sentient and frightening.....
Love your work Brandon. I’ve probably watched all of your episodes at this point. You and Decker Shado
This was great. I saw this on tv when I was 8 and even highly edited I’m pretty sure it caused some permanent damage. Subbed.
Needless to say, when this notification popped up on my phone, I stopped what I was doing just to watch this one. Thanks, Brandon.
Oh man, I love this movie!
Also: HOLY SHIT, I THINK MARTY MIGHT BE THE KILLER!
imagine if they had fired kirk douglas instead... they would've had a more suitable directer and a bigger working budget.
I don't want to watch Saturn 3. Deep Space 9 is better.
Can we compromise and watch Babylon 5?
what about Farscape?
...or Duck Dodgers In the 24½th Century?
Space:1999 is the BEST!!!
Not as good as the classic Cleopatra 2525.
@@stijill guess he turned it into his private chat... 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
James Cameron has made noises of a Saturn3 remake and cited it as a major influence on The Terminator. The whole production design of the sets of Saturn 3 are so beautiful. It's what's kept me fascinated with the film for all these years. Fired director, John Barry, went from this, his own project, to 2nd unit director and designer of Ice planet Thoth on The Empire strikes back and was dead within the year. Kirk Douglas's awful behaviour and over compensating toxic masculinity was satirised in Martin Amis's next novel 'Money' with whole passages of the book lifted from his behaviour of the set of Saturn 3. When he asked for Stanley the visionary, he needed Kubrick rather than Donen. So much was trimmed from the film, an alternative death scene for Harvey Keitel, the infamous wild ecstasy/Blue dreamers drug experience scene with Farrah in her suspenders, she even dispatches Keitel's dead body out of an air lock dressed like that. The original running time was 107mins. Every commercially available cut/release has been a mere 83 minutes. I'd love to one day see the full experience put together. For any Saturn3 fans this website has e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g about its unusual troubled production, using it's poster tag line 'Something is wrong on Saturn3' It's a making of Saturn3 website and it's rivetting. saturn3makingof.com/ Returning to Blackpool pleasure beach in my twenties, I was gutted to see Hector being used as a side carnival display in a glass box.
I saw this film very young .. and this was the first film I ever saw Harvey Keitel in .. and for years I always thought that was his actual voice. I was shocked to learn years later that this was actually Roy Doltrice’s voice. It’s too bad .. he sounded really cool as a British guy :D
Roy Doltrice's voice? He didn't have a lot of luck with sci fi, did he? (See Toomorrow with Olivia Newton-John)
I think the coolest thing about the movie was that awesome "Solar Fascist" emblem plastered all over everything. Reminds me a bit of the old Hitachi logo.
Using brain matter for processing power/storage is an older idea, but still very viable. Used to be called "Form Q". Brain matter is incredibly dense compared to existing digital technology, and runs on far fewer resources. The only thing holding it back at the moment is the lack of a working analog/digital interface.
I think you miss the part where Alex was looking at the earth and we saw the data port at the back of her neck, implying that Hector might have transfer itself into her or that she has become his slave and built him a new body back on earth. That’s the horror twist.
I remember seeing this movie when I was a teenager. I loved it! It looked so damn cool. The sets were cool. Everything in it just looked amazing. (I tell you what. I love the special effects and set design that looks like this a LOT more than the CGI bullcrap fest that we have constantly shoved in our face today. The movies color looked better. They didn't have the "Everything is teal or orange" thing going on. They didn't throw crap CGI at you all the time. Things were... actually there for actors to interact with...)And Hector is an awesome looking robot design. I always thought that they should have adapted Hector for some superhero show to be the superhero or have multiple Hectors for the superhero to fight. I just love the look of him. And think of the possibilities of "Hector vs Alien vs Terminator vs Predator"!
I didn't think much of it when it first came out, but in this review it comes across as pretty damned cool.
But remember the sets etc would have been the work of the director that got fired because Douglas had a bug up his ass.
That was British actor Roy Dotrice as Harvey Keitel's voice. He passed away last year; he was "Hallnye" on "Game of Thrones" in 2012 and had been working in British TV and movies since the late 1950s.
He was also the Neville Chamberlain type character who was going to sign the Centaurian non-agression treaty on Babylon 5.
Roy Dotrice also read all the audio book versions of the Game of Thrones novels too
This is the best day for uploads bless this day
62 year old Kirk Douglas was in better shape than 40 year old me.
This one was strangely creepy in appearances, from the spooky dark halls to Hektor himself. He looks like a robot version of Uncle Frank putting himself together in the attic in Hellraiser..
What every locker room needs, an unregulated airlock with razor wire. Sounds legit.
and think you in what way tehy clear this stuff? Every mans locker room, dark, dark areal, clear it by space void and razors hehehe
I saw this in cinema as a double feather with hawk the slayer
This was the first time I've thought of Lex in a very long time.
I like the visual aesthetic of this film, but that's about it. I still remember first learning about it from a cool old sci-fi magazine (starlog, I think) I bought from a used bookstore.
Thank you, pain is keeping me awake but this has cheered me right up. You always make me smile and laugh.
Sorry your in pain
Aww thank you. I am so use to it now but that is very kind of you.
I was maybe 8 or 9 when I saw this. It was on HBO and it looked super cool. I managed to talk my mom into letting me watch it. Farrah Fawcett made it worth seeing but I thought it was pretty cool at the time.
Hector is actually a really cool movie robot. I like the design! Very unique
Apparently Elmer Bernstein wrote a pretty good score for this film that was cut up and butchered in the final cut. The original score was officially released years ago, but unfortunately it's out of print. A shame if you ask me.
An interesting fact: Ever heard of the adult animated movie that is most known for having tits in them called Heavy Metal? It has voice actors such as John Candy, Eugene Levy and Harold Ramis and a soundtrack by Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Journey, Nazareth and Black Sabbath. The character Taarna the Taarakian (who is also on the movie cover) has a music theme that was originally made for Farrah Fawcett's character in this movie, but they never used it. You should review that movie =)
Your review of this is hilarious lol I’m subscribing
Awesome...just subscribed to your videos, very well done. Thank you
Oh wow I remember this movie. I really liked it. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.
This was upload on my birthday. Nice gift
Hey Brandon, great video!
blazing commentary dude!!!! love it, and acutely said :-)
i loooove you broooo keep up the amazing work
For some reason I loved this movie when I was a kid
I think the music's telling me that Hector's good now. 😂 10:30
Thank you Brandon for this review. I was 9 yrs old when it came out and was the last movie i saw with my mom. Back then, a nine yr old could go watch a R rated movie with, and some times without, an adult.
I can understand an older person in great shape wanting to show off, but keep it above the belt...sheesh!
This is one that I think could stand to be remade with modern effects. Something along the lines of Upgrade. A fantastic movie shot on a shoestring budget if you haven't seen it.
Love all these vids
Out of curiosity, I looked him up... the production designer you kept raving about, later did ALL of the "HARRY POTTER" movies and its 3 prequels (so far).
I saw this movie on TV as a young kid, and I was a bit freaked out about the nude old man fighting and the violent robot chopping people up. - Definitely wasn't Star Wars.
How does this channel only has 53k subscribers?.....is it irrelevant?.
Quality content over quantity trash. Jake Paul has millions of subscribers and he hasn’t contributed a damn thing of value to the world his whole life.
@@danstiver9135
Jake Paul's form of comedy is just acting like an immature asshole....and has 17 million subscribers....while Brandon has more quality and has less subscribers....
Does that make sense?.
Blame TH-cam and their algorithms.
Casey Goddard agreed, I've got recomended this channel last week and have been kind of binge watching vids from as far as 2014.
sivalo the sergal this chanel isn’t irrelevant it’s that so many in TH-cam are uninitiated
The only time I ever saw this was waaaay back in the day, when I was at my grandpa's when my mom was taking care of him in his old age. This was on one of the local UHF stations when they put movies like this, Heartbeeps, and The Wiz because the rights to them were easy to get. I think I'd prefer this to all the talk shows, judge shows, and infomercials of today.
Stanley Donen recently died and nowhere in any obituaries did they mention this movie, just some crappy film called singing in the rain. They should have said "Stanley Donen the director of Saturn 3 passed away today.
Brilliant brilliant review. Haven't laughed as much for ages
I love the design of the robot except for the out of place tiny head. It makes it look unfinished or like part of it already got blown off, and severely reduces it's menace.
Nothing more charming than a 62 year old guy romancing a girl old enough to be his grand kid. No wonder his movie bomb.
Exactly. Although there are real life couples with that much of an age difference it just didn't work for the movie. Instead of Kirk Douglas they would have been better off hiring his son Michael Douglas!
@@PlumbPitiful I am 57 and I didn´t find this romance believable.
It the Blues berry, orange Kool-Aid Robot . If you ask it, it will make you a Slurpee .
Great video!
OH! That movie! I seen this trailer on TH-cam back in 2012.
Hah! You got me with "Vape Troopers"
2:02 If I had a nickel for every movie you reviewed having that damn shot!
Honestly you think Hollywood would go back to movies like this that fell short of their potential and do a proper re-make or reboot.....
Seriously, though. Those sets really are damn good.