Dreamcatcher

2003 "Four friends hung a dreamcatcher in their cabin. It's about to catch something it cannot stop."
5.5| 2h16m| R| en
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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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SunnyHello Nice effects though.
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
MJB784 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.
A Lazy Bear Although I didn't know while watching it, the story felt like something out of Stephen Kings mind, yet the way it is presented made me question that theory on many occasions, instead I started to think this movie was a motel-love-child between a Stephen King adaptation and a turd. First the bad: Worst of all is the dialogue that tries really hard to be funny, but never (intentionally) is. Usually because it is flat and/or clichè. None of the characters are really likable and I didn't care about any of them at all, especially if you can spot their incoming deaths from a mile away. There are also quite a few things that are either unexplained or just plain dumb. The beginning of the movie even had me puzzled about what genre I was watching, as there where traces of a thriller, a comedy, a drama and a horror-movie crammed into a few minutes. The creature-design was through and through poor and Im not talking about the quality of 2000s CGI, they were simply boring, uncreative and ugly(not the good kind of ugly, like a facehugger) designed.This movie also appears to like things coming out of butts (turds, farts, blood, alien-lempreys).Now about the good: Everything good I have to say about the movie, is pretty much everything that makes a terrible B-Movie a fun experience. The marks for great trash is that it stays engaging because it keeps things moving and changing, you have cheesy lines from laughable "heroes" with equally laughable conclusions and even a few entertaining fights and deaths, although i think 10-20 minutes less, would have served the movie well.This is a movie where there is a lot you can talk about, it is masterfully trashy without being self-aware. It was a silly entertainment, but a good one if you are in the mood for a campy horror.
Mikelikesnotlikes I would never have thought I'd give any film with Morgan Freeman in it a bad review.It was almost as if all the actors were directed to act badly. Even a poor script can be saved by great actors but not in this case. Pommy accent to indicate the alien speaking? What the freaking hell?It felt like a 90's tele-movie. Those flashback scenes with the vomit inducing 'nice' virtuous, telepathic young boys: straight out of a Disney film. No kid ever did stuff like that, especially when they are in a group.And what the hell was the Duddits transformation about?Good special FX and CGI.
bkoganbing Dreamcatcher is the story of one nasty alien invasion that's spawning up in the north Maine woods where four friends Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, and Timothy Olyphant have an annual guys get together for a hunting trip. In fact these aliens have tried a few times before and there's an elite military unit headed by Morgan Freeman and Tom Sizemore that's charged with keeping these large space worms off the planet.Experience has taught Freeman not to do anything by halves. He hears a report they've landed somewhere and he eradicates everything for miles around. That includes humans and the four hunters are in his radius.But as it turns out way back when they were kids they saved a mentally retarded young man from bullies. That random act of kindness proves to be their salvation as the four are given the power of mental telepathy. And the retarded young man played by Donnie Wahlberg as a grown man also proves to be their's and the world's salvation. I guess among other things Stephen King was trying to say you never know when a random act of kindness might pay great dividends. I'm agreeing with another reviewer who says that Dreamcatcher succeeds as drama, horror and even comedy. Check out the scene where two of the guys are trying to contain a worm inside a toilet bowl.Fans of Stephen King should like this film as well as others like me.