Saturn 3 (1980)
First of all, Kirk Douglas actually lived till he was 104 (in 2020). Now that's damn impressing in itself. Sadly though, Farrah Fawcett only lived until her 62th birthday (2009), which truly sucks considering her 70s iconic pop cultural status which lives on today. However, this means Douglas was already 64 in this flick, and Fawcett was 33. Yeah. One could say Douglas looked really youthful for his age back then (way less gray hairs than me lol). Yeah, but still..
My favourite hilarious dialouge between Fawcett and Harvey Keitel:
- Yes, you have a great body. May I use it?
- I'm with the Major.
- For his personal consumption only?
- Yes (yup, 64yo Kirk Douglas' "personal consumption" of Farrah Fawcett..).
- That's penally unsocial on Earth, you know that?
During the aftermath of Star Wars, Superman The Movie, Alien, The Shining etc, etc, typically timed when VHS was slowly becoming a thing, we saw the glorious growth of crappy B-movies in sci-fi, action flicks, horror movies etc, etc. And us kids of course loved it.
Whilst being in that typical era, this had some kind of budget with a fun cast though. It looks kinda decent over all, and there's some robot stuff I seriously dig here.
Of course it's still a far, far cry from pure quality sci-fi flicks in that late 70s/early 80s era like Alien or (so ****ing underrated) Outland. And feels more like mid 70s sci-fi. Which isn't a bad thing.
A claustrophopic but fun 70s sci-fi flick with a perfect hungover quality during this easter holiday. I'll drink to that. And RIP Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett.