jon@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Gingerich) (11/28/85)
a Well I just came back from a test view of the movie "Enemy Mine". The ads looked kind of intriguing. I would like to see a scifi movie with a little more thought than the usual Star Wars or Alien type flic (I liked both though). Well "Enemy Mine" is not it. It is an excretable waste of celluloid, if someone gives you tickets, cross him off your Christmas list. The story appears to be out of the '50's and is VERY earnest about peace, love, interstelar racial relationships, which Lou Gosset has grand fun with. I think he actually shuffles in his rubber suit and gargles "Midnight Special" as he hauls stuff around. Anyway, the question "How are these alien being going to learn to trust each other?" is answered (or avoided really) in the first 15 minutes, and for the next hour (which seem a LOT longer) a really bad pulp prepubescent survival tale drags on until a death, birth, and Lincoln freeing the slaves from a bunch on earring sporting hams livens things up. In the mean time, things are absolutly dreadful, from the "forest" without any trees, to the bad looking plastic models suspended in front of black backgrounds, to the stupid rubber suits. Its not that too much of the paraphenalia looks 80's - it looks 50s! I was told the director Wolfgang Petersen did "Das Boot". Well, if so, his politics are still sadly simplistic while he seems totally unequiped to deal with a set larger than a submarine interior. "Without your space helmet Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult" Jon. Gingerich
brett@ucla-cs.UUCP (12/01/85)
> Well "Enemy Mine" is not it. > It is an excretable waste of celluloid, if someone gives you tickets, > cross him off your Christmas list. I think your opinion on this movie is too rash. Although the movie is not an outstanding cinematic effort, it is not as outlandinshly bad as you make it out to be. The film is basically a Robinson Carruso - ish (sp?.) remake with two space traveler stranded on an alien planet. Although the plot is pretty predictable, I dont think it deserves to be as badly panned as you've done. Brett Fleisch University of California Los Angeles LOCUS Research Group 3804-f Boelter Hall Los Angeles, CA 90024 Phone: (213) 825-2756, (213) 474-5317 brett@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU {...sdcrdcf, ihnp4, trwspp, ucbvax}!ucla-cs!brett -------------------------------------------------------------------------