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I'm glad Mike addressed his missed joke. Now we can begin to heal.

In enemy mime there should be an interrogation scene where the mime won't give them anything, but then they realise it's because his hands are cuffed so he can't mime

Back in the 2000s I was at a scifi convention in Denver with a theater in it. Enemy Mine was showing with opening statements by the author of the book. He stood up and proceeded to bash and insult the movie and the people who made it for fifteen minutes and then left before it started. It was an enjoyable introduction.

I'm worried about Mike... Jay had to prompt him to talk about Star Trek.

RLM trolling us. How am I supposed to have an opinion on Dune without knowing what Mike thinks?

I seriously laughed out loud at the studio having to insert a physical mine into to the movie because they though the audience wouldn't understand the possessive "mine" in the title.

“Silence of the Mimes” must be made immediately.

"I created a little comic strip about a mime serial killer." - Jay , being Jay.

3 mins of just insane babbling about mimes, this era of Mike's sanity is a golden age

My family regularly says, "I did not mean to insult Mickey Mouse." This film is a gem.

Back in 1985 I went to the theatre to see The Color Purple because we were reading it in school. Wound up sneaking in to see Enemy Mine, Clue AND Jewel of the Nile. It was a great day at the movies.

I love how other KZfaq reviewers are rushing to be the first within their Dune reviews to be relevant. Meanwhile RLM just says fuck it. Let’s do Enemy Mine.

I like how RLM are perfectly aware of how disappointing they are.

According to the book, dracs self impregnate when they're in a state of emotional calm and comfort which means that there was real affection there. Also the book has sequels but they are both weird and interesting.

My dad always picked this movie, thinking we hadn't seen it. Multiple times he came home with this great new movie for us to watch lol

They also missed the obvious joke about the mime in interrogation exercising his right to remain silent.

mike, his brain clouded; darmok unmentioned.

The novelization had a much more satisfying ending…it was a combination of the original novella with elements from the film. In this the main character (Davidge) and the Dracs child have to face equal amounts of xenophobia from both the humans and the Dracs as he strives to have the child accepted back into the alien society. Eventually they overcome after it is shown that both embrace both cultures and Davidge is then included in the lineage of his adopted child. It has themes that are relatable to those who entered mixed race marriages during the pre-civil rights era.

There's actually a StarGATE episode called Enemy Mine, where the SGC are mining and encounter an alien race that they see as hostile, but Daniel Jackson resolves the conflict because of a friendship he developed in an earlier episode where he was stranded with one of those aliens and they learn each others language and become friends. The alien race even has a similar look.

Eagerly looking forward to the 15-second Dune review in their end-of-year wrap-up video.

The apology for missing the “silence” joke killed me. Also kind of hoped this was going to end up being a 45 minute video of Mike just workshopping Enemy Mime.

I never comment, but it’s long overdue. I haven’t had anyone to discuss films with in depth since I left college. Thanks for helping me through this void in my life for all these years.

Hell in the Pacific, the late 60s, with Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune, was about an imperial Japanese soldier and US fighter pilot stranded together on an island. Two excellent actors portraying their former roles in WWII, Marvin a former Marine and Mifune a soldier in the air service branch.

Cant wait for them to do a review on Lynch’s Dune and never talk about the new one

I literally sat in the shower yesterday and wondered when we'd get a Half In The Bag for Dune... and then these hack-frauds crushed my dreams in ten seconds

I really respect you guys for talking about movies you care about, instead of chasing the latest trends

Watching long-winded, slow-burn scifi as a kid isn't too unusual. I watched "2010: The Year We Make Contact" dozens of times on a VHS tape when I was little.

9 seconds in and Mike hasn't said "Shaka, when the walls fell". This can't be right.

The idea that the studio would be watching the film and say, " Where is the Enemy Mine? They're in a cave, is that the Mine?"

COP: "This case is taking a real toll on me. I'm losing my mime."

One of the movies Mike is thinking of at 40:00 would be Hell on the Pacific. Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune are stranded on an island during WW2. Really good flick, and has the same pacing as Enemy Mine.

Mike: Rails against self for missing an obvious reference Also mike: Lists similar Star Trek episodes and forgets Darmok

How on earth Mike sat for a full 45 minutes and did not say the word "Darmok" once had shaken me to my very core. Mike, blink twice if Jay has you hostage.

I'd have put money on Mike referencing 'Darmok', shocked he didn't.

I loved this movie as a kid. It came on like everyday on HBO during the summer.

The studio originally tried to get Terry Gilliam to direct this movie because he was considered the up and coming A-lister in fantasy at the time. He turned them down because he said he had a much better script. The script was for Brazil. The studio just handed him the budget and final cut. When they saw the end result they tried to bury Brazil completely and refused to release it. He had to release it covertly to critics and it ended up being nominated for a bunch of awards even though no one had seen it in a theater, forcing the studio to distribute the film out of embarrassment. It all started with Enemy Mine.

“Your ‘Mickey mouse’ is a big DOPE!” This movie was way ahead of its time.

i LOVED ENEMY MINE as a kid Edit I am almost SHOCKED that Mike did not think about that on Star Trek Enterprise episode where Trip is stranded with an Alien which even looks almost IDENTICAL like the Drax. And they have to work together to get of the planet

Mike possesses the uncanny ability to keep a 4 o'clock shadow at all times.

Mike not mentioning the TNG episode “Darmok” has broken me [Rich Evans, on couch, staring into space]

Jay, you fool, you've made a grave mistake. You mentioned The Last Starfighter and now I have to request a Re:View of that movie.

I loved this movie when I was a kid. Glad to see it’s being chatted about.

I watched this as a child on a rainy Sunday morning while I was sick, and was never sure if it was a real movie or just a fever dream. I guess it was both.

Mike - “I can name one right off the bat…” Jay - continues to talk so Mike cant riff about Star Trek for 45 minutes.

My high school art teacher helped do some of the special effects for Enemy Mine. He took time off from teaching and worked on House 2, The Golden Child, Howard The Duck, The Fly and Enemy Mine. He brought some of the alien prosthetics in to show us. One was a face application and the other was one of the hands. Pretty cool stuff. Plus we got to watch the movies in class so that was cool.

*Space Cop* is a criminally underrated documentary that had its best picture award stolen at the Oscars.

This is one of my favorite movies from when i was a kid and still is. I think it was misunderstood and underappreciated, not to many actually saw it. It is a wonderful movie, i still think it is, regardless of how it has aged or how some people nitpick about what it is not, instead of looking at what it is.

"A cute version of the easerhead's baby" is one of the "Jay-est" quotes ever.

The original story 'Enemy Mine' is really good. The story ending is that they get rescued and the war's over, but the two species still hate each other. The alien child is considered mentally ill by the other aliens for not hating humans enough. The human goes to the alien home planet in order to perform a ritual which is supposed to be a big part of an alien's life, where they recite all of their known ancestry, on the alien's behalf. This becomes a big moment of reconciliation between the two species.

The original director was Richard Loncraine, who hasn't done a whole lot of note film-wise, but he did direct the second episode ("Day of Days") of Band of Brothers, so he's apparently quite capable of making good stuff

I always loved the double entendre of “Enemy Mine.” While the miners were comically evil, I cared so much for Uncle and Zommies that I was on the edge of my seat for all of those scenes. I love this movie.

My grandfather died some years back, and when we went through his stuff there was a Conversational German book from the 1930s. It had the imperial seal of Japan inside, and notes written in English, Japanese and German in the margins. From the looks of it, at some point during ww2 he and a Japanese man taught each other how to speak some of each other's language using German as a common tongue. It's a really cool little piece of humanity from such a terrible point in time. Don't think they raised an asexual butt baby though.

I want them to troll everyone by reviewing "Dune" from 1984

I've actually really been wanting to re-watch this lately, for no reason at all. Like I saw it as a kid, didnt think about it for 30 years, and like a month ago i popped in my head. This video shows how little i remember about it though. Think ill order a copy. Cheers, everyone.

I love Enemy Mine. One of the first movies I remember watching as a kid. It was always on tv and my dad would let me stay up to watch it with him. I was about 4 or 5.

Trolling the fans, this is why I really enjoy RLM content.

I love how Mike just took Jay's childhood concept, turned it around 180 degrees, and instantly elevated it into what could be a cult movie.

I remember seeing this on tv as a kid all the time. Pretty good stuff at least as young me remembered.

I used to rent this movie all the time as a tween. In another geeky sci-fi connection: 25 years later, Bumper Robinson, the actor who plays Zammis, voiced Bumblebee and Blitzwing in Transformers Animated.

There's a movie scene that haunts me, it's so beautiful and sad, and powerful. Louis Gosset Jr.'s character is dying, and Dennis Quaid's just says, "you can't die and leave me here all alone." Gosset says so powerfully, perfectly, "you are alone. In yourself, you're alone." Cinema at its finest.

"yeah I saw the new Dune." "anyways, let's talk about Eternals".

I have a super-fond memory of renting this along with a few other 'new' sci-fi movies one night with a bunch of my stoner friends in high-school. We settled in for the movie night and I think this was second, and after the first couple minutes everyone was bored and fell asleep, except for like 3 of us. And we got hooked on this completely bonkers thing that was basically just two guys talking. At the end we absolutely loved it. Although I've never watched it since and I had completely forgotten about the kid or the miners, etc. In retrospect it's just amazing it got made at all, given the lack of action.

I would love to see a re:View of 2010. Criminally underrated sf film from the mid-80's.

That's the most sincere Mike Stoklasa has ever been on this channel.

I am waiting for the end year catchup when you'll talk about Dune and Last Night in Soho for 20 seconds

I'll rewatch anything you make literally hundreds of times.

Rip Louis Gossett Jr.

Annoying people: why haven't you guys reviewed dune? Huh huh huh DUNE Mike: it's good to show contempt for your audience.

In the original novel, there are no miners (as mentioned in the previous message): they're rescued, and the human begins to worry when he doesn't hear anything about his 'son'. He makes a journey to the Drac homeworld to find out what's happened, and discovered that the child has been committed to a mental institution and heavily drugged by the Drac government because he said he loved a human. The human manages to convince his friend's family that he actually cared about 'Jerry' by reciting his family lineage in full, which his father realizes he would never have taught a hostile human under any circumstances. The child's grandfather wasn't told his son had a child; government bureaucrats insist that they were waiting to tell him once the child had been 'cured' and would no longer be a shame to his family. The ending is basically the same, except the human returns to the planet to raise other Drac children at the request of the Drac, to end the inability of the two races to accept each other as people.

I was very young when I first watched this, maybe 7 or 8. I didn't even know the name of it until watching this, but I instantly recognized it . Such a weird film that it has stuck with me today now that I'm 40. The pit monster scene in particular horrified me

Grew up with this movie. I remember watching it when I was around 6 at my grandparents. Loved it as a child.

Enemy Mine is severely underrated. Was a favorite of mine growing up.

I wish Mike watched more DS9. Cause there are so many camping with the enemy type episodes. Camping with Jemhedar, camping with Vorta, like 4 characters on separate occasions camp with Dukat.

One of the last movies i watched with my step dad before he passed away, super cool movie

Thank you, RLM, for this review. I watched Enemy Mine more times than I can remember as a kid, thought I was the only one!

"It's like the cute version of the Eraserhead baby."

How the hell did you get through this whole Re:View without referencing Darmok & Jalad at Tanagra? Shaka, when the falls fell, Mike.

Fun fact: The space station scenes were filmed in the Bavaria Film Studios near Munich. I visited them in the 90's. I don't know if they still are part of the tour (in the 2000's they appeared in the music video for Modern Talking's "TV makes the Superstar"). I learned for example that the corridors were extended by simply using mirrors at the end, tilted to the left/right for a couple of degrees.

I remember LOVING this movie, but it's one I haven't revisited since I was a kid. I'm SURE it can't live up to my memories of it. Still I feel movies like this helped inspire movies with similar themes like District 9. A remake of this film today with a focused script and modern special effects would work really well.

This was a good Dune review.

My thoughts and prayers for Mike in his time of therapy. We have witnessed another RLM 9/11 moment, never forget.

As a kid we did a school trip to the film studios in Munich and I walked through that "endless" space station corridor and a few small sets on display. I think there also were some computer consoles and the tortoise alien. The Das Boot set was there as well and all that really got me hooked on filmmaking and in-camera effects. I remember the movie was practically unknown to my classmates and it didn't do well in theatres here but it ran on TV a lot and I always liked the story and tone.

For the longest time i thought this film was a fever dream id had as a kid. Could never remember too much of the plot details, couldnt remember the human actor, and sure as shit didnt know the name. And then suddenlu, this past year or so, its come up several times, and i feel SO GODDAMN VINDICATED

I think it was a smart move for Mike to admit he messed up that joke that was perfectly set up for him, best to take care of this controversy as quickly and QUIETLY as possible before it turns ugly.

I did become a little upset when no 'Silence of the Lambs' pun was IMMEDIATELY made. Thank you RLM for addressing this so we can begin to move forward.

Awesome movie, awesome episode! I only don't rewatch this movie more because every time I cry like a baby.

Enemy Mine is my favorite movie of all time. I watched it everyday as a kid and never forgot about it. It stays with me and I love it.

For years, I thought Enemy Mine was a clever play on words, as in both enemy of mine and a literal enemy mine. I had no clue the latter was added because the studio thought the audience was stupid...

Doesn't talk about Dune in favor of Enemy Mine but spends the whole time talking about mimes.

Holy shit. This is a movie I've seen on and off countless times as a kid and never knew the name of, and had been thinking about it a lot recently. Hope they do Alien Nation next.

The entire film & story felt like the last episode of Battle star Galactica (1980), where Dirk Benedict (aka, Starbuck) crash lands on a planet with an enemy Cylon who befriend each other. That final episode was great

That Mime Idea that they discussed is an actual scene from Detective Pikachu where they interrogate Mr. Mime

Enemy Mine always reminded me of Hell in the Pacific with Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifuni as two WW2 airmen stranded on a Pacific island after shooting eachother down.

Without a doubt some of the best and most honest content on KZfaq and the internet. Never stop, thank you all

I remember watching this film not long after it was in theaters on cable… a lot! It’s stuck with me all these years for all the messages it conveyed and the bond formed by the two main characters. I know it is far from perfect, but I agree, it should be remade someday!

Release the hour and a half long cut of Mike talking about Enemy Mimes.

It's funny how Mike keeps calling Quaid's character "Dawwitch" because that's what Jerry called him. His name was Davidge.

THE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARE FANTASTIC

Mike Stoklasa is secretly journaling his inevitable decline into incontinence and then dementia with these videos, RIP Mike. we will never forget the beginning of the end.