Outland (1981)

[stephbg]

Outland (1981) Sean Connery plays a cop in a rough-and-tumble space mining facility.



* I love the smell of an evil giant corporation in the morning.

* A SHOTGUN? In a pressurised installation?????

* Hey Earth gravity on Io, cool. Handy. Cheap. Even after they made such a big thing of it being 1/6 Earth gravity because that looked sexy in greenscreen teletype.

* Boiling oil and glass containers in the company cafeteria. Sensible.

* Long boring foot chases through modular scruffy sets. Cheap. Handy for international distribution.

* I was promised Sean Connery in ugg boots, speedos and a bandollier, like Zardoz. Husband LIES.

* Red cordial as blood. They didn't even spring for strawberry jam.

* No dripping water or clanging chains yet, but I knows they's a'comin'.

* I see your hair, makeup, IT and--bizarrely--the sex scenes, and I guess 1982. Only a year off. I really don't want to think about that line of analysis. Something about the unattractive scrawniness of the prostitutes *shudder*.

* Monochrome command-line natural language processing AI info system. My brain is suffering.

/pause at t-45 minutes/

Comments

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

I read the book recently...It sounds like the movie was better. :-)

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

You've missed out on one of the great joys of Outland: seeing it in a cinema with a dozen sf fans, all of whom are humming "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling" (theme from High Noon) during the final scenes.

Loudly.

I tried to like the movie, but the blood dripping upwards in "zero g" took it over the line into farce, and it never recovered. (I did like the scruffy sets: apparently, they paid extras to live in them for a couple of weeks to make them look that much more realistic. And I'd forgotten the unattractively scrawny prostitutes, but that makes sense: the miners couldn't afford to be particularly picky, and smaller women are going to be cheaper to ship between gravity wells :-)

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Husband has provided more than enough High Noon references, thanks.