Product Description

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/28/2008 Run time: 109 minutes Rating: R

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7032 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2007-12-18
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 109 minutes

Customer Reviews

Excellent movie, mediocre DVD
Outland is an above-average early-1980s sci-fi Western that benefited from smart casting.

Unfortunately, the 1997 and 2007 DVD releases of Outland suffered from lackluster transfer -- grainy, distorted images and letterboxed widescreen.

The February 2008 DVD release seems to be marginally less grainy and distorted. However, the color intensity and resolution are still not quite up to par with present-day movie transfers. Low-light scenes suffer from fading and graininess which may become especially apparent on large screens. On smaller widescreen TVs (under 30 inches), filmed signs and lettering are acceptably crisp but post-production titles and captions remain blurred.

I have always liked Outland because it relied more upon mature characters (including a tough female country doctor) to tell the story, and resisted the temptation in Hollywood to fall back upon gun-blazing mayhem conducted by inexperienced young rookies. I continue to hope the studios find a way to produce a fully restored version of the film.

A great movie that screams for remastering
I'd read the reviews, I consider myself forewarned about the quality of the DVD, I never expected this, they should be ashamed of charging $15 List for this, I'd feel like I was paying too much at $4.99.

When the theatrical trailer actually has better quality then the movie presentation, it's a sign something is wrong. The menus are 100% better looking then the quality of the movie itself

That being said, this is a movie I've been meaning to get back and rewatch, and the story, the plot, the action, was all as good as I remembered, but WB owes those of us who bought this version free copies of the eventual remastered version that someone needs to have made.

Warner Bros. Sucks.
This a pretty good flick, not great but watchable. The DVD, however, stinks. This was one of the first DVDs released in the mid-1990s and over ten years later they still haven't done a decent remastering job on this. They just repackaged the DVD with a new cover! They even say that this is "Enhanced for widescreen TVs". It's not - it's just letterboxed. This is basically unwatchable. In fact, with all the juddering and shimmering it's worse than VHS. Avoid.