Sean Connery | Outland -1981 | Quick and Dirty Movie Review 

Seen Outland? Seen High Noon? Share your thoughts!

Both 'High Noon' (1952) and 'Outland' (1981) are outstanding movies and they are both part of my physical media collection. In fact, I wish movie theatre chains would re-release 'Outland' for a limited run just so new audiences could appreciate it on a big screen. :)

'Outland' (1981) is such a great movie and aside from having the same composer, Jerry Goldsmith, for the score just like Ridley Scott's 'Alien' (1979), it has a similar production design and narrative like 'Alien' in terms of people being controlled by "The Company", so in that way, the Con-Am company in 'Outland' is much like the Weyland-Yutani corporation in 'Alien' in terms of profits being everything while people or public safety were expendable. I have 'Outland' on VHS, laserdisc, DVD, and I think Blu-ray as well, not to mention the score on LP record and CD. So, you could say I'm a fan of this movie. :)

Well I’m going to see both. Thanks guys. You rock. 🤘Happy birthday Mike. September 10th.

Yes, 'Outland' (1981) is definitely 'High Noon' in space or 'High Noon' meets 'Alien', but with only humans being a major threat to Sean Connery as the mining colony's new marshal and not aliens of any kind.

Please turn your gain down.

30:49 do it, Mike, do it. 31:51 Yes, but that is the same reason that makes the film just a good film and not a Masterpiece; he is just a good policeman doing what he must, he is a simple "hero". Sean Connery's character should have ended up as a tragic hero; that is, an honest "corporate policeman" but burned by the quasi-slave-like and dehumanizing obligations of the economic system that he "defends", as the ultimate guarantor of the rules, and that lead him to lose even his beloved family. And at this point Connery's character should have made the tragic leap and given his life to destroy the entire mining complex of capitalist corruption that has destroyed his life and that of many others, by the way, in just revenge against the "System". With this destructive action of the mining complex and his own death, the entire "System" will not change, but... or maybe it will. 😘👍🤘