THIS ADDED BY ANDREW: **SPOILERS AHEAD**
Dreamcatcher has got to be my personal biggest waste of a cinema ticket
Plot:
bunch of 4 guys meet annually in the country to celebrate their special bond as they we're given psychic powers by a bullied handicapped child many years ago....
ill stranger (with bad flatulence) turns up and it soon turns out he was infested with an alien slug which he shat it out (killing him in the process and creating a terrible mess)
turns out these arse ripping slugs were merely pets of greater aliens (who also have psychic powers and happen to want to take over world) one of which kinda turns into a cloud of dust and takes over the body of one of the group members (who from there on talks in a British accent)
(still with me good...)
it turns out the military are aware of the aliens and are trying to secure the area - at one point they manage to destroy a saucer.
meanwhile the evil brit alien then decides to head off to a water reservoir to infect us all with pet arse slugs (why they didn't fly over the reservoir with their saucer is another thing)
anyway just as it looks like the brit alien is about to his evil deed the handicapped child makes a return - and as luck would have it he turns out to be a shape shifting alien and sacrifices himself to save all our arses (literally).
we've all seen bad films with some kind of redeeming element but no not this one... you sit in your seat quickly realising you're on a sinking ship (i really should have walked out when a character got his dick bitten by one of the arse slugs while he was p**sing outside) and though you wrestle with the idea of baling out you decide to hold on hoping one of the film's many sub-plots may bare something worthwhile but each one drags you further into the abyss.
You should put the word "SPOILERS" in your thread since you gave away the ending.
I read the book before I watched the film and there were parts of it that I loved and parts that I hated.
Matter of fact, I had no idea they were making it into a film and learned of it while I was on the last chapter of the book.
So naturally, I was pumped to see it.
The film was so-so.
If they had made the film like the book, it would've been at least 4 hours long. (the book is almost 700 pages)
What really blew me away was the fact that Stephen King wrote the entire first draft with a fountain pen.
Any scene in the book or the movie with Duddits was particularly annoying even though he's essential to the story.
I couldn't stand his character.
SPOILERS!!!
In the book, Duddits isn't an alien...he's just a retarded guy who gave them powers.
It usually comes down to "So many movies and so little time" for me. Plus, I tend to not worry about movies that get a lot of attention from mainstream critics.
This film was a huge disappointment for me when I first saw it. I came in expecting to cringe and jump all the way through what looked so awesome in the trailers...instead I got a bunch of fart gags, and crappy CGI monsters that looked like a cross between "Alien"s chestburster, and an over-clubbed baby seal.
I'll never forget the name that was given to them...the "s**t weasels"! How can you take such an awesome name as "s**t weasels" and attach it to something so lame and derivative? It's a crime, I tells ya! :teddyr:
I'm a fan of Stephen King's work and I really enjoyed reading Dreamcatcher, the movie not so much, it's very difficult to make a movie from a book and have it be equal to what you see while you're reading. Dreamcatcher is a prime example of this.
I guess I'm much more forgiving than most --
I enjoyed BOTH book and movie.
I think I have managed to develop a very fine sense of "book will not be movie" in myself, and tend to try to enjoy things on their own terms --
I liked both book and movie for different reasons. Yes, once you realise that the movie will be dropping certain aspects of the book, you simply try to experience the cinematica in and of itelf.
Remember: There are no "Warg Riders" in Tolkein's "Lord of The Rings", yet there they are in Peter Jackson's film.
Different Creatures/Different Features
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i dug dreamcatcher, was it a cinematic piece of art? no. was it a pretty decent way to kill some time? yes.
"pary's ova ista gay"
I sort of liked the movie. It had a lot of beautiful winter scenery, the plot kept me interested through the first half, and really the second half wasn't that bad. The gore effects were pretty gross and fairly effective.
It was a bit over the top in terms of gross factor but I went into with low expectations and rather enjoyed it for most of its running time. The winter scenery definitely helped.
The film version of Dreamcatcher equals the world's longest cinematic fart joke. :lookingup:
I liked Dreamcatcher (although I have yet to read the book), but it just felt like a great deal of it was being skimmed over, like it was a miniseries and some parts got lopped off or something. It was really uneven, even though I enjoyed the characters and setting.