Dreamcatcher (2003)
Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante ... and then overcome a threat to the bond that unites the four of them.
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Wonderfully offbeat film!
Too much of everything
It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
Blistering performances.
I did not understand this movie at all. Why did the guy in the bathroom say he wasn't bleeding when he was bleeding? Also, no one else was bleeding. Why did the computerized alien stand there all of a sudden when he wasn't there before? I don't get it. He wasn't there before Jonsey went into the bathroom. Why are there two types of aliens? How did Duddits become an alien at the end? How come Duddits is a good alien and all the other ones are bad aliens? How come Duddits was picked on by two people in the childhood scenes and wasn't able to defend himself even though he has special powers and saves the world at the end of the movie? What does the scene where the guy gets hit by a car have anything to do with the movie? Each scene felt incomplete like outtakes where the scenes weren't finished and the actors had no personality or emotions. What does the memory warehouse mean? What does the dreamcatcher have anything to do with the movie? No one had bad dreams.
I only watched it because I'd just read the book and wanted to see how the film told the story. Such a lot of the best bits of the story missing. and the ridiculous finale is not in the book at all. The acting is mostly incredibly clunky (read - lousy), even Damian. I think the only reason Mr Gray had the posh English accent is because Damian went to Eton, and could put it on. I could go on. But you've been warned.
This is a movie adaptation of the novel Dreamcatcher written by Stephen King. It stars Thomas Jane, Damian Lewis, Jason Lee, Timothy Olyphant, and Morgan Freeman. It tells the story of childhood friends who go on a trip out into the snowy woods and come across a horrifying discovery. This film is not at all what I was expecting. I was expecting a weird but very interesting film about old childhood friends discovering this intriguing thing in the woods, what I got was something different than that. I got a film that really was not all that interesting. It was a movie with long stretches of very boring and uninteresting happenings. The aliens in the film that they come across are cardboard cut outs recycled from previous movies, they could've made them cool and mysterious, maybe reveal something we've never seen before, but no they decided to waste that opportunity. That truthfully is how I feel about this entire film, a big fat wasted opportunity. It could've been a thought provoking mysterious film, but instead it turned out to be uninteresting and disappointing. The acting is off and on, Freeman was good but other members of the cast were a little spotty, sometimes good and other times kinda laughable. 3/10 for Dreamcatcher. Just not worth your time.
Four buddies with superpowers given to them by an alien that may or may not be mentally handicapped, have to team up to stop poop monsters from making people get icky tummies. Really, that's the movie. Wow....Questions abound in this thing. It is more dubious than Wicker Man. How do the aliens work? What's their reproduction cycle? Are the *hit weasels actually the same species? Why is it called Dreamcatcher? Is Duddits mentally handicapped or just has a speech impediment? Who is Duddits? Did his mom screw an alien? Seriously, what's with Morgan Freeman's eyebrows...the list goes on and on. We were able to figure The Wicker Man out but this one defeated us. We just can't come up with theories to answer these....We all absolutely loved Dreamcatcher. Its got all the qualities fans of bad movies look for. It keeps moving and never loses your interest in what is on screen even when you can't make heads or tails of what you are seeing. The story and key events are so confusing and dubious that you can talk with other viewers about theories and try to answer questions for hours afterwards. There's entire forums dedicated to trying to hypothesize what the hell happens in this train wreck. It's highly recommended you spend the time to view this masterpiece of horrendous film-making.Read more at: http://www.stinkermadness.com/episodes/movie- reviews/entry/films/dreamcatcher