Outland (1981)

[Mr_Vindictive]

Finally got a chance to catch this flick on ThrillerMax last night.  Fantastic film that revolves around a US Marshall in space (Sean Connery) who stumbles upon a drug running ring on the mining planet.  

This film was great!  Mercenaries, Space, Violence and Connery!  How could you go wrong!?

The film did remind me of one of my favorite 80's Alien rip off films - Leviathan.  Although this one was set in space, I still got the same feeling of close quarters and dirt.  The film also kinda made me feel like it might have been a remake of a western?  The whole "Lone Marshall Against The Baddies" seemed way too Westernish.

[Deej]

LOVE IT!! High Noon in space...without all the crappy wooden acting that comes with Gary Cooper. I'm a Sean Connery fan from way back, and I think this is one of his best...only gripe...his boots are sooooo 1979!

[FearlessFreep]

The film also kinda made me feel like it might have been a remake of a western? The whole "Lone Marshall Against The Baddies" seemed way too Westernish.

Yes, it's a remake of "High Noon", as Deej alluded to.

Except I also liked "High Noon" as well

[JohnL]

I think I mentioned this before, but why is there a difference in the gravity inside the complex and outside? Inside the gravity seems normal, but outside, it's like he's in 1/3 gravity. The only explanation I can think of is that since he was in a space suit, they figured it should look like he was in space. For a movie that was supposedly made to look as realistic as possible, this seems like a big goof.

[trekgeezer]

There is a big continuity goof when they are crawling around outside the station.  I think it was Connery, not sure but I saw an exposed  part of an arm between the spacesuit and glove.  This is bad considering they made a  big deal of showing several grizzly decompression deaths.

[jmc]

This is one of those movies that will make your head hurt if you try to think about it too much....