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We watched Outland (1981) last night. Not a bad movie if you like sci-fi.

Kim got a kick out of Frances Sternhagen's portrayal of a surly company doctor. Sternhagen would've been about 51 at the time of filming.

Kim was hoping for a love scene between her and Sean Connery.

From IMDb.com:

The film was hugely influenced by Ridley Scott's Alien (1979), in terms of style and tone. The films even have the same music composer (Jerry Goldsmith). However, Outland in turn was highly influential on James Cameron's Aliens (1986), which came out five years later. Both films depict a colony on a distant moon, which are very similar in design, along with various futuristic industrial elements. The serene, projection wall of a green Earth environment, Even the pulse noise of the computer screens from Outland was appropriated for Aliens (and later Alien 3).

Over the years, fans have formulated a theory that this film could very well be set in the same universe as Alien (1979), due to many similarities. Both were presented by Alan Ladd Jr. (who greenlit Alien as president of 20th Century Fox, and Outland as head of The Ladd Company) and scored by Jerry Goldsmith; nine department heads involved in production design worked on both movies. Each movie features a huge conglomerate that deals in interstellar mining and transport, is colloquially known as "The Company" and operates with little regard for the safety or well-being of its employees; both movies feature a very similar production design that presents a "used future", where structures and technology don't look state-of-the-art but worn out and visibly aged; both movies have a protagonist who uncovers a company conspiracy, after which attempts are made to silence them, and they are finally left defending themselves completely on their own. Neither movie is set in a specific year (although Alien was retroactively set in 2122), so they could take place in the same time frame.

Outland (1981)