Enemy Mine (1985) Dogfight

NO CGi! The 80s! its ALL REAL! they had to build it. More 80’s More Sci Fi Dennis has some serious Target Fixation even after making a kill. Not Healthy for his RiO / Co-Pilot Enemy Mine is a 1985 American science fiction action drama film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by Edward Khmara, based on Barry B. Longyear’s novella of the same name. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. as a human and alien soldier, respectively, who become stranded together on an inhospitable planet and must overcome their mutual distrust in order to cooperate and survive. An international co-production between the United States, United Kingdom and West Germany, Enemy Mine began production in Budapest in April 1984 under the direction of Richard Loncraine, who quickly ran into “creative differences“ with producer Stephen Friedman and executives at 20th Century Fox; the project was shut down after a week of shooting. Petersen then took over as director and reshot Loncraine’s scenes after moving the production to Munich. Originally budgeted at $17 million, the film ultimately cost more than $40 million after marketing costs were factored in, and was a box office failure during the 1985 holiday season, earning only a little over $12 million. However, the film was successful in the former Soviet Union, where it became the first Western sci-fi film shown in the theaters. It later gained a cult following Films directed by Wolfgang Petersen Stadt auf Stelzen (1965) One or the Other of Us (1974) Vier gegen die Bank (1976) Reifezeugnis (1977) The Consequence (1977) Black and White Like Day and Night (1978) Das Boot (1981) The NeverEnding Story (1984) Enemy Mine (1985) Shattered (1991) In the Line of Fire (1993) Outbreak (1995) Air Force One (1997) The Perfect Storm (2000) Troy (2004) Poseidon (2006) Vier gegen die Bank (2016) At the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Enemy Mine has an approval rating of 60%, based from 25 critics.[14] On Metacritic, it has a score of 59%, based on reviews from nine critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews“.[15] Roger Ebert gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars, saying it “made no compromises in its art direction, its special effects and its performances—and then compromised everything else in sight“.[16] Janet Maslin of The New York Times referred to it as “This season’s Dune“, referring to the critically panned science fiction epic from the previous year.[17] Variety magazine called it “an anthropomorphic view of life but touching nonetheless“.[18] Seventeen years later, another New York Times reviewer gave the film a more positive assessment, noting that if it were “taken in the intended spirit, it’s often moving, suggesting what might happen if two of Earth’s perpetually warring peoples were stranded together.“[19] The Los Angeles Times praised the film, calling it “surprisingly coherent, surprisingly enjoyable“.[7] The film received similar praise from critics Gary Franklin, Gene Siskel, and Leonard Maltin.[