Enemy mine - a survival flicked wrapped in Sci-Fi

Enemy Mine - kind of a cool flick in the survivalesque genera. There is actual "aviation" type survival gear; Knives etc. One thing I noticed is that Davidge made 2 different bows in the film. The 1st was made from parts salvaged off the crashed ships, and the 2nd appears to be made from a type of wood bound with leather made from the hides of the giant bugs they were eating. Kinda cool.

The Survival knife used in the flick is one of those hollow handled types that were popular with TV and faux survival types in the 80s. Yes, I owned a few also. I have forgotten the manufacturer but they were made of cheap steal, they were hard to sharpen, didnt keep and edge, had a weak hilt and a useless saw back.

Enemy Mine is a 1985 West German-American dark science fiction 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.

The film 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 bomb during the 1985 holiday season, earning only a little over $12 million. However, the film had a big success in the former Soviet Union, where it became the first Western sci-fi film shown in the theaters. It gained a cult following afterwards.