What the corpus says about Outland (1981)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Outland (1981) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Outland (1981) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:16:53 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Outland (the host's read) · contrast · Outland tries to be Alien and does not connect; it is not as bad as The Black Hole. · "it's not as bad as black hole, but it's it's trying, it's trying to be alien and it's not, it's just not connecting."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:19:36 · unknown (0.35)] Outland ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · people · MGM went to Hyams because he had just made Outland, which is set on Io, a place that plays a role in 2010. · "Outland is the Sean Connery Space Western that's set on IO, which plays a role in this movie."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:16:13 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.65)] Jim Steranko ↔ Outland · career · Steranko did the graphic-novel adaptation of Outland, better than the film. · "There is a comic, believe it or not, there is a graphic novel adaptation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:21:53 · unknown (0.40)] Stanley Kubrick ↔ Outland · people · On his call with Hyams, Kubrick's first question was how Hyams did a certain shot in Outland. · "and immediately asks him how he did a certain shot in Outland."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien. · "Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:17:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film exists because Clarke published the sequel novel. · "Arthur C. Clark, of course, did publish a sequel to 2001 called 2010."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:27:04 · Joanna Robinson (0.60)] Sigourney Weaver ↔ Alien · lineage · Both the Working Girl role and the Alien role were originally written for a man. · "the screenwriter said that her role was originally written as a man, which is true for her role in alien as well."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:44 · unknown (0.35)] Hannibal ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · The sequel arriving a decade-plus later after audiences demanded it, over the original team's refusal, is called a real Hannibal situation. · "It's like a real Hannibal situation."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes. · "Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Silence of the Lambs ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · Jokes that Clarke's sequel is a straightforward explainer while Thomas Harris went for the most hateful story imaginable. · "But of course, I would say Arthur C. Clark wrote a pretty sort of straightforward sci-fi sequel book that does try to explain what was going on in 2001, whereas Thomas Harris ripped his guts open"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up. · "some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Interstellar · theme · The speaker finds 2010 closer in feel to Interstellar than to 2001. · "I found it interesting that in a lot of ways this movie feels less like dumb 2001 to me and more like dumb interstellar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:16:07 · unknown (0.30)] Danny McBride ↔ Alien · lineage · McBride is also a return to Harry Dean Stanton: someone with the wrong energy for a sci-fi movie. · "McBride's also trying to sort of get back to a Harry Dean Stanton, kind of."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Creed · theme · The Zarathustra cue at the end is likened to Gonna Fly Now at the end of Creed: a movie that earned the right to the cue. · "It almost feels like fucking gonna fly now playing at the end of Creed where you're like, the movie's worked this hard to earn the right."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
[speaker] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Outland (1981); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Outland (1981) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.