Breaks over, time to get back to it.
Enemy Mine is on the TV right now. For those that aren't familiar with what I consider to be one of the best Sci-Fi films of the 80's, it goes like this: the it's the late 21st century Humans have finally made peace with each other, and while exploring the galaxy came upon a race of advanced sentient reptiles known as the Drac.
Being Humans, we went to war. With the conflict in full swing a Human and a Drac crash land their respective fighters on a barely hospitable planet. To survive, they must rely on each other.
It's a deeply moral tale of the value of tolerance, friendship, and acceptance. Strictly speaking, it's a story that didn't have to be told with a science fiction setting, and in a way that's what made it so good.
It has an elegant simplicity. There were special effects to be sure (decent, although not great ones for the period), and the Drac makeup was excellent, but they didn't overwhelm the rest of what was going on. The actors (Dennis Quaid, Lou Gosset Jr., and the always menacing, but dearly missed Brion James) didn't let the fantastic setting throw them, and delivered genuine performances. Gosset is particularly good as Jeriba, the Drac. He's portraying a completely alien being, dramatically different, yet very much like a human.
Netflix it. You won't be disappointed.
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Absolutely great movie
One of my all-time favorites. Haven't seen it in ages, but watched it as a kid A LOT!
I'm suprised you had to rediscover it.
We sat and watched it and cried together many times. When we got rid of VHS it was sadly one that went and has not been replaced. However, it did go to the teenage boy across the street who seemed interested in it when I gave him story line. He took it gratefully and scurried across the street, hopefully to introduce another generation to this winderful, totaly unexpected story. NanaK
I watched this movie countless times when we had a VHS, too. It is a good flick.
Oh, I never forgot Enemy Mine, it just seems to me that the vast majority of people did.
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