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Summary: Horrible, All Around!!!
Review: First of all I am not even sure if this movie had a plot at all. I fell asleep through most of this movie. The character development was horrible. Whenever I decide to watch a King movie I set my expectations low, because lets face it most of them aren't very good. I set my expectations very low and I still was disappointed. I recommmend tht you read the book. I can't even really recommend this movie to King fans because I am afraid it will disappoint fans and non-fans alike.
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Summary: Beware of Mr. Grey
Review: It is often near impossible to put the feeling of a long book into a single movie. This is no exception, but it does manage better than most.The movie follows two main stories. One concerns the military and their efforts to fight off alien invasion (they have been at it at least 25 years). The other concerns a group of four friends who each has paranormal powers. One of the four is injured in an accident when he thinks he sees an old friend. We next see him as the four retire to a cabin in Maine for an annual get together. Unknown to them, they are right near the latest attempt at alien invasion. An attempt different from all of the rest. Friends and military clash as each does what they think is right. This was well done and I especially liked the way the animal migration was handled. But, looking just at the movie, there are plenty of questions left unanswered. Was this the final invasion?
Just who is Duddits?
How did Duddits give the four their powers? Why were the four needed?
Why did they change the ending?
How did Duddits get sick?
One worm?
What about the spores? All in all though it was an enjoyable movie with a good amount of creep factor as well as a few gruesome moments (although not as many as one would expect from the story).
Rating: 
Summary: GOD AWFUL
Review: THIIS IS ONE OF THE ABSOLUTE WORST MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN. IT WAS PURE TORTURE SITTING AND WATCHING IT. I KEPT THINKING TO MYSELF THIS HAS TO GET BETTER IT CANT GET ANY WORSE. IT PROCEDED TO GET EVEN WORSE AND WORSE BY EVERY MOMENT, WATCHING THIS MOVIE IS A WASTE OF TIME, ENERGY, SANITY, AND MONEY. IF YOU LIKE STEPHEN AND I DO, PLEASE DO YOURSELF THE FAVOR AND DONT TORTURE YOURSELF WITH THIS POORLY ACTED, POORLY SCRIPTED, POORLY STUPID LOOKIN ALIENS..BY FAR ONE OF THE WORST THINGS I HAVE EVER SAT THROUGH IN MY LIFE. I GAVE THIS MOVIE 1 STAR SIMPLY BECAUSE ZERO WAS NOT AN OPTION. THIS MOVIE SUCKS!!!!!!
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Summary: Pretty crappy (pun intended)
Review: There are only two reasons I have to give this movie kudos.
(1) It starts out promisingly enough, as the likable characters are introduced and gather for their annual hunting trip. Their rapport is fine, and the actors (Jason Lee in particular) do a great job in these scenes.
(2) When I was reading the book in anticipation of the movie's release, I got to the part where the alien spawn emerges from a hapless man's buttocks as he sits on the toilet passing loud, obnoxious gas, and I thought, "How in the world are they going to film this scene without turning it into the world's biggest, sickest, stupidest poop joke?" To my surprise, the filmmakers managed to do it rather well. The scene is creepy and disturbing without being silly at all.
Too bad the rest of the movie sucks. Like the book, there is too much stuff crammed into a too-small container, and the result is a contrived mess. Breaking up the four lead characters may have worked in the book (sort of), but in the movie it's a mistake, creating too many story lines which will either confuse viewers or simply wear them out. The usually reliable Morgan Freeman seems rather unconvincing in his role as a sadistic military honcho who likes to call people "laddy-buck" (huh?) and does his best to turn an already uncontrollable situation into something out of "Dr. Strangelove." Tom Sizemore plays a decent guy for a change. One of the New Kids on the Block plays a Scooby Doo-obsessed "special person" whose transformation at the end of the movie creates far more head-scratching questions that it answers.
Nobody's a bigger Stephen King fan than I am, but the man needs to know when to quit. Some of his best work is also his simplest. I'm thinking about "The Body," "Cujo," "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," and his last--and best--collection of short stories. They work so well because they're simple stories, with little or nothing supernatural about them. You'll notice they all made great movies, too (well, except maybe "Cujo"), for the same reason. But "Dreamcatcher", although certainly not the worst King adaptation ("Christine", anyone?), gets bogged down trying to do too much in too short of a time frame.
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Summary: Could it get any worse?
Review: Starts out well, but all down hill from there. Terrible.
Rating:
Summary: Waste of time
Review: This was the worst movie I've seen in a while. I liked the cast, and the first part was not that bad. But then half way through the movie, it took a turn for the worse and never recoverd. I was going to turn it off about two-thirds of the way through, but I stuck through to the end hoping to see something that made this thing worth while. It never happened. The end is dumb.
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Summary: Eminently So-so Horror Movie
Review: Four guys go off to some New England forest every year to hang out and renew a friendship that stretches back to childhood. Something of this childhood is seen in flashback: we see how they successfully face down some much bigger kids who are bullying another kid, the strange, seemingly retarded 'Duddits'. Duddits becomes their friend and is able somehow to empower them to communicate without speaking and see into other people's heads. All this will turn out to be terribly significant but meanwhile here they are as adults hanging out in their cabin. And of course weird stuff starts to happen. Someone turns up at their doorstep who seems strangely sick. They see the animals evacuate the forest on mass. A man in a helicopter shouts something to them about a quarantine. What could be going on? Well, what is going on is a sort of mixture of a far less scary version of "Alien" and something like "Men in Black" played straight. From MiB we get the idea that aliens have been kicking around the place for decades now but are kept under control by a super-elite super-secret military unit. Here the aliens are all unambiguously hostile and the unit in question, led by Morgan Freeman's Col. Curtis, takes no prisoners. From "Alien" we have the idea of a nasty alien life form that infects people, grows inside them and then breaks out, killing them. In "Alien" the monsters broke out of the stomach, ripping it open. Here it comes out of one's bottom like an unmanageably large no. 2. There is rather a lot of emphasis on this with an emphatically scatological side to the horror scenes. Lots of farting, a long scene on a toilet seat, the scene where someone is bitten on his privates by an evil alien worm while taking an al fresco pee... I found this a bit puzzling when I watched it. What was all this scatological stuff supposed to be for? For a while I wondered if it was meant to be funny, a particularly unedifying example of so-called gross-out humour, a suspicion slightly reinforced by the one other possible, if feeble, comic touch where, one of our four friends, Jonesy, having been possessed by the alien, when the alien is in charge and speaking through him, speaks in a silly comic English accent, like a freshman drama student attempting Bertie Wooster. But this hypothesis did not survive the generally serious tone of everything else and the complete lack of funniness of absolutely everything. Enlightenment, if you can call it that, comes in a interview with Stephen King included in the DVD. Apparently he wanted to break through taboos and "do for the bathroom what "Psycho" did for the shower." Hmm, I see. Emphatically not one of your better ideas, Stephen, old boy. And the result is definitely no "Psycho". Comparisons with "Alien" or even MiB don't much flatter it either. It's not particularly bad, just very unremarkable. If you get a chance to see it one dull wet night when there is nothing much else to do, it might keep you mildly amused for a couple of hours and be significantly more interesting than watching the rain fall. But I wouldn't recommend going out of your way. Certainly, unless you are unbelievably easily pleased or unbelievably rich, it would be madness to buy it.
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Summary: typical Stephen King
Review: This movie reminds me of almost all movies Stephen Kings been associated with--it starts great and is really interesting for the first third--barely holds your interest for the second third-and falls apart by the final third. As he too frequently does-there's a gifted "special" person who plays a significant role in the movies outcome. That doesn't ruin the movie--but the covert military operation which is headed by Morgan Freeman is a total waste and takes what little suspense is left in the movie and thows it out for good.
The concept was good--some friends are isolated, and encounter a stranger who has a mysterious ailment--and that part of the story is quite entertaiining, but the ending is lame and ruins the initial story line. Suspense and horror are replaced by mayhem and firepower. Is it worth watching--sort of--but is it worth owning--no way!
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Summary: A decent horror movie I suppose
Review: I will say this...Dreamcatcher is a decent movie over all these STUPID horror movies that have been coming out in theatres (Cabin Fever, House of the Dead, etc...). This movie was a bit confusing when I saw it but when I bought it and watched it again, it came together in the end (although I preferred the ORIGINAL ending myself). Stephen King recently got in an accident with a car and that car accident in the beginning of the movie, portains to that (or so he claims). The dreamcatcher in the movie portains to four friends and their special friend Duddits. They were walking down to an old abandond Tractor Supply shop to look at a picture, when they found a shirt and a lunchbox. They found Duddits and found 3 teenagers picking on him. They scared them off and later in the movie, Duddits give them a special "ability". They have the ability to "know things" and one even had the ability to form a web, which looks like a dreamcatcher, that can "find things". A few of them diem but, they use their abilities to fight off a supernatural creature. It takes over the body of Jonsie (Damian Lewis) and he tries to enter his "memory warehouse". Also, if you are a fan of Morgan Freeman, you might hate him in this movie...he plays an alien hunter. The movie has an all-star cast: Morgan Freeman (SE7EN, Bruce Almighty), Thomas Jane (Deep Blue Sea), Jason Lee (Enemy Of The State, Dogma), Damian Lewis (Band Of Brothers), Timothy Olyphant (Scream 2), Tom Sizemore (Black Hawk Down, Enemy Of The State), & Donnie Wahlberg (Band Of Brothers). It's a sci-fi creature movie with a lot of mystery and a dash of humor to it. A lot of people thought it was dumb, but I thought it was one of the more better movies to come out (Along with 28 Days Later).
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Summary: DO NOT BUY!
Review: This movie is absolutely terrible! I had to ask myself if this is the downfall of Morgan Freeman. I don't know why a respected actor, such as Morgan Freeman, would take on such a script. This want to be "aliens" movie leaves much distaste with it's gorry scences and lack of script. Save your time and money! This movie starts out with a lot of potential. After the first alien comes out of the persons butt, with LOTS of blood, I was ready to turn my head and read a book, which I should've done. Graphic scene after graphic scene is what this movie is about. Unless you are into blood and evil creatures, do not buy this movie!!!!
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