Random Film of the Week(end): Saturn 3

(thanks, deadenddrivein!)

saturn 3 posterSince I’m feeling sick as a dog today, I’ll share the wealth (without making your temperature go up to stay in bed levels) by getting you a bit queasy with this rather wretched 1980 sci-fi/ “horror” film that completely wastes the talents of too many good people and is so surprisingly awful that anything resembling a proper remake would require the invention of a mass mind-wiping machine PLUS time travel so you could stop the original from being made.

Yes, Saturn 3 is THAT bad for a big movie fan such as myself, but it’s much worse because as soon as you start listing most of the talent behind it, you see that most of them have done far, FAR better work than this stinker and you can’t chalk up this film’s failures to everyone simply having an “off” day every single one it took to make this howler…

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Random Art: Me Taking A Sick Day Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Get A Post…

squintYuk. So, I’m a bit under the weather today thanks to too many people in a few places I drop into for some wi-fi time being too generous with their germs. Bleh. I hate having a cold or whatever this is in such nice weather, but I’ll need to resist the temptation to start carrying around a paddle to whack those public sneezers and wheezers on the back of their head while telling them to stay the hell home if they’re not feeling well. Especially when there’s a table full of them all yakking about their symptoms and what meds they’re taking while still under the spell of what’s laying them low… Continue reading