Enemy Mine is a flick from 1985 based on a novella of the same name by Barry Longyear and directed by Wolfgang Petersen.
In the future, humans have gone to war with an alien species called the Drac. A fighter pilot played by Dennis Quaid crashes on some planet while fighting the Drac and finds himself stuck with his worst enemy, a Drac warrior. The planet is hostile and they have to team up if they want to survive.
This pit monster looks quite lame at first, but turns out nastier than expected...
Peepin' on lizard aliens...
Dracs are ugly mothers...
So it's a classic friendship story, with a strong anti-racist message. The movie is quite predictable, and the story seems older than life itself.
But still, at times the movie surprises you - because you don't get what the filmmakers were thinking! Many times I was thinking to myself "now why did that happen?". "Why did those frozen trees start falling all of a sudden?".
The visuals are nice throughout the movie.
Green, the favourite color of all aliens.
Our protagonist decides to set a pond on fire and jump off a cliff. Don't ask why, I didn't get the point.
"HAAHHAHAAHAHAHA!!" Quaid's acting acting is way over the top.
If Louis Gossett Jr.'s reptilian voice sounds familiar, you may have heard him as the Vortigaunt in Half-Life 2.
The film suffers a lot from weak acting. Seems like the crew was so busy making the effects, they just filmed all the acting with one shot. Dennis Quaid is overacting all the time, and the supporting actors are much worse. Everyone stinks except Louis Gossett Jr. At that level, the directing fails totally.
This was the worst acting I've seen in a long while. Plain terrible.
There's also points in the movie where the story fast forwards in an abrupt fashion... The whole movie feels rushed out.
So you're saying that pile of crap will hold up against a meteor storm?
The movie has a B-movie feel to it. It was a big budget movie back in it's time, and also a big commercial failure. The age shows, but it's also refreshing to see good old special effects tricks after all the CGI you see today.
I give it two stars. Entertaining, but shit, really.
This blog is about sci-fi movies. But it's not going to be your average blog. There's going to be blood. Tits. A lot of B-movies, some stinkies. But a lot of good ones too. I'm going to review them according to my own taste. Criticism is welcome anyway, please comment! ZF
Starcrash. Wow. Now this is a classic, at least in my books! Directed by Luigi Cozzi under the pseudonym Lewis Coates, this low-budget italian gem from 1979 really hits the spot! Screened two years after the first Star Wars movie, the film obviously tried to tap into Star Wars' success. Some things are straight rip-offs, like the overly polite robot companion. But this is entertainment at a different level than Star Wars is. This is pure cheese! A spacecraft that looks like a moth shoots lasers at a giant robot's tits. The plot: there's the good guys and there's some bad guys, and the good guys must kick the bad guys' ass. I don't really remember anything about the plot, but it's really not that important. Instead the film is full of classic moments. You get a lot of stupid outfits, a lot of cleavage, you get the Hoff, you get starships shooting torpedoes that have soldiers inside them, a lot of crappy effects, a lot of colors and psyched
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