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Dreamcatcher

Dreamcatcher

2003
Sci-fi
2h 14m
Dreamcatcher, the film based on Stephen King's best-selling novel, tells of four young friends who perform a heroic act -- and are changed forever by the uncanny powers they gain in return. Years later the friends, now men, are on a hunting trip in the Maine woods when they are overtaken by a blizzard, a vicious storm in which something much more ominous moves… (Warner Bros.)

Dreamcatcher

2003
Sci-fi
2h 14m
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Rated 14 Mar 2008
8
0th
I want to write this review directly to the person who edited the trailer for Dreamcatcher. You, whoever took this hunk of crap and crafted the most criminally deceptive movie trailer in the history of cinema; the guy who convinced me and my friends that somehow this steaming pile of rat crap was going to make an intense and scary movie, and that two hours of my life, as well as my hard earned money, would be well spent watching this stinking abortion of a film: to you, sir, I say: FUCK YOU.
Rated 24 Feb 2007
37
22nd
What could have been an interesting story about a group of children with supernatural powers growing up instead turns into a fight against an alien invasion force. Like a few of Stephen Kings novels the aliens feel tossed in as an excuse to end the story. The part with the children and their relationships with one another growing up is actually interesting and I would've loved to see much more focus on that.
Rated 10 Aug 2017
48
13th
Scat humor, British aliens, and King tropes. It spends fifteen minutes demonstrating its characters' psychic powers and an hour forty-five demonstrating their complete lack of common sense. Jason Lee dies way too early. The Duddits character never adds up. Morgan Freeman and Tom Sizemore get boatloads of screentime for no reason. Native American beliefs have nothing to do with any of it, of course. For all the Alien/Shining/Thing type of potential they really pinched off a double-flusher here.
Rated 09 Apr 2021
22
5th
Strong contender for the worst King adaptation of all time. It's unfocused, poorly paced, overlong, full of weird exposition dialogue, swerves wildly from bad drama to bad comedy and keeps asking the audience to compare it to much better movies... And the worst part is, all of that almost seems like a deliberate ploy to hide what is fundamentally a crap idea.
Rated 08 Feb 2014
30
6th
A truck smashes Stephen King into so many pieces all he can muster is SHIT WEASELS.
Rated 23 Sep 2008
20
6th
Aliens. From. Asses.
Rated 06 Nov 2016
25
2nd
(spoilers) Wow movie. You really caught me off guard with all this nonsense. You have a guy who would rather grab a toothpick than stay alive. Sinister farting. Shit weasels. Giant morgan freeman eyebrows. A British alien and a Retarded alien. Why do I feel like this movie came from a grab bag of adjectives and nouns rather than any sort of coherent writing process? I was dumbfounded throughout the whole film. Just stop it Stephen King. Stop it.
Rated 24 Jan 2012
4
0th
Saying this the worst Stephen King adaptation doesn't do this justice. That's like saying it's the worst STD Tommy Lee has. But the cast and the director and the writer. I mean, this definitely represents the prettiest girl that Tommy Lee got an STD from. Terrible from start to finish, much like the career of, wait for it, Vince Neil. Oh! Change-up humor!
Rated 04 Nov 2011
60
35th
A fascinating mess yes, but I have to confess that, from what is on screen, even the aspects faithfully transferred from the Stephen King novel, having not read it, feel misjudged and erratic. Tonal problems - serious yet with a main creature which forces bathroom humour on the plot - peculiar flights into magic realism and sci-fi, and Morgan Freeman's bizarre pointed eyebrows plague the film, making it memorable but in the end a car crash.
Rated 03 Oct 2009
30
13th
If you wanted to write a Stephen King parody you probably couldn't make it dumber than this
Rated 14 Aug 2007
1
5th
What the hell is this movie about someone explain it to me
Rated 09 Aug 2017
45
24th
Maybe it's a love for all this Stephen King, but I didn't think Dreamcatcher was terrible. Sloppy, long, and poorly written? Yes. But this became a kind of guilty pleasure for me from the beginning. Featuring some good acting from Freeman, Jane, and Lee in support, its just a kind of fun, mindless romp, even if it does suck.
Rated 30 Apr 2017
68
27th
The connection between the characters is great, the idea of 4 psychic friends is interesting, and even the general concept isn't too bad. But...well that's exactly it: aliens coming out of peoples butts! A wasted military subplot, Jason Lee's endless annoying lines, and acting so bad it makes high school plays look good, this is a far cry from a dream come true, unless of course you need something to make fun of.
Rated 04 Oct 2016
46
42nd
A hilarious confusing mess. I love how shitty this movie is (pun intended).
Rated 09 Dec 2012
30
8th
Wow! This was far worse than I remember... Calling Dreamcatcher "heavy handed" would be the understatement of the year, and between the "King's past stories - all of them!" plot, Morgan Freeman wearing R. Lee Ermey's eyebrows and the poop-joke alien species, it's amazing, that it manages to stay on the wrong side of the "so bad it's good" line.
Rated 28 Oct 2012
50
43rd
'Dreamcatcher' has too much going on for it's own good. On one hand it is prototypical King: Childhood friends reuniting over a trauma from their past, only to find themselves entangled in some extra terrestrial plot. On the other hand it's an alien invasion movie, with badass Freeman hunting badass aliens. It's not that either movie in itself would have been terrible, but somehow these two plot strains manage to cancel eachother out. Oh, and the bad guy is called Mr. Gay. True story.
Rated 16 Sep 2012
71
31st
Lotsof potential. No follow through.
Rated 12 Apr 2012
30
1st
Colossally bad in every respect. The beginning actually showed a bit of promise, and I actually wanted to believe that despite all the reviews, I might actually be able to sit through this without laughing at really inappropriate scenes, bad acting from decent actors, or the extremely bizarre sound effects.
Rated 22 Sep 2010
45
13th
Like any other Stephen King movie it loses far too much squashing it into a few hours. I am not sure that this movie ever would work in any sort of format though. Any book with shit weasels and prolonged farting might be a little too out there.
Rated 02 Jul 2010
44
2nd
When you look at the cast members this film has you think it is a sure fire hit where the acting is top notch. I respect most of the actors in this film, but they were all terrible, even the omnipresent Morgan Freeman could not turn in a good performance. Now the best scenes and the ones that advanced the plot the most were the ones when the four men were kids. I did not care much for them as grown men, but you could instantly buy into the bullying aspect from when they were kids.
Rated 09 Apr 2010
19
2nd
Stephen King must have been beaten up a whole lot as a kid. Seriously, just get over it. Anyway, arse-aliens, a magical tard and Morgan Freeman. What does it all mean? Not a clue.
Rated 02 Aug 2009
32
13th
Uhm...what?
Rated 31 Dec 2008
80
79th
First reel is stellar but it does slip in to standard B movie monster fair for much of the remainder. Still a good film that's definetly worth a look. It seems to jump a few times though, plot wise. Not sure if this was due to crappy novel writing or lost in translation. If anything it needs an extra half hour to flesh out some parts. And Affleck might be the bomb in Phantoms but Wahlberg is the bomb in Dreamcatched, yo.
Rated 15 Dec 2008
40
11th
The western world's fascination with and borderline fetishization of the mentally retarded goes back centuries. It was stupid then, it's stupid now, and it's REALLY stupid here. But hey, reptilian worms crawling out of people's asses can save a film, right? Right?
Rated 23 Jun 2008
19
6th
Adapted from a great Stephen King novel, the film version of "Dreamcatcher" lives impressively up to its potential for the first 45 minutes or so, building a creeping sense of dread with unique visual stylings and deliberate pacing. Once the villain at hand is revealed, in fact, to be a monster that looks like a giant vagina with teeth, things go laughably downhill.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
54
28th
Another average movie based from a good Stephen King book. That's all.
Rated 20 Mar 2007
20
3rd
You must be joking me Mr. Kasdan. Your sci-fi adaptation of Stephen King's novel even makes Morgan Freeman wreak. A bunch of ridiculous stories collide in one doomed movie about aliens and telepathy.
Rated 19 Mar 2007
43
14th
Pretty dumb considering the book is actually good.
Rated 24 Sep 2024
1
4th
Not even Damien Lewis can save this one. I do have a very specific memory tied to one scene but that's more related to a personal thing than any merit of the movie's.
Rated 09 Aug 2024
30
5th
Not so much SSDD (same shit different day) as SM (shit movie). Almost laughably bad (based on my distant memory of watching it in about 2003).
Rated 19 Oct 2023
57
22nd
Some of the sets and acting are good, but the scifi seems to be coming straight from some made for tv, D scifi movie. It's cheap and makes little sense, and overly big and dramatic. The whole army guy gig amounts to nothing.
Rated 15 Oct 2023
7
2nd
This was notable in my mind because back in 2003, people watched one of The Animatrix segments that was attached to the beginning of Dreamcatcher, then walked out. Seeing it now, it's not the worst King adaptation (Tommyknockers) but it's easily the most incomprehensible. I started giggling like an idiot when Damian Lewis began speaking in a posh English accent and there were random "fireball" sound effects between his lines.
Rated 24 Jan 2023
35
10th
A fantastic mess of a movie. Stephen King characters have zero sarcasm or realism. On paper this can work, as you can create missing circumstance and subtext in your head. But once put on film, it makes me think King is on the spectrum. As always there's the bully-backstory. There are as many bullies in SK's body of work as there are syllables, it's amazing. A laughably bad first half that is an entertaining incoherent trainwreck, becomes unwatchably dull once the focus shifts to the military.
Rated 17 Mar 2022
50
19th
Considering its reputation, I expected to hate Dreamcatcher as much as everyone else does. I have to admit, the film is not good by most definitions. It is, however, very entertaining. This falls under so-bad-it's-good territory for me, just not good enough for a high score. Middle of the road horror flick.
Rated 07 Nov 2020
82
26th
probably a little too "action blockbuster" for it's own good. i remember thinking the ending was really lame.
Rated 01 Nov 2020
35
15th
Based on Stephen King's novel, one would expect something special. I can't tell what went wrong with the movie. It's certainly very confusing. Otherwise it would have been good horror movie but the sci-fi element spoils it.
Rated 12 Jun 2020
70
20th
I can't say it's good, I can't say it's bad. It has some interesting horror-like parts, but the beginning is pointlessly gross. There was no need to put all those efforts in describing farts and burps. Gross. No reasons. Also, the dialogues are sometimes awkward. Weird "word" choices, at least in the Italian version. IDK if these were from the book or not, but in the movie they sound weird.
Rated 11 May 2020
20
4th
Pretty bad.
Rated 04 Jan 2019
45
3rd
People realize this is just one big fart joke, right?
Rated 09 Apr 2018
35
17th
Confusing.
Rated 28 Dec 2017
37
7th
All those talented people and this is what they came up with?
Rated 21 Apr 2017
60
42nd
There are some typical freaky King type things going on, but ultimately seems a little lost on which way it's going.
Rated 12 Nov 2016
65
32nd
B-
Rated 05 Nov 2016
57
45th
Weird, fucked up movie that starts well before going off the rails. That said, it's always entertaining and beautifully shot.
Rated 26 Sep 2016
69
55th
Yes, the first 45 minutes or so of setup feel like they belong to an entirely different movie from all that follows but i enjoyed both parts for what they were, even if id love more of the life long friends with unexplained powers being developed properly instead of a wild creature feature. I still enjoy creatures personally so wasnt to put out that the excellent opening didn't have great follow through. The cast was all very convincing throughout.
Rated 01 Aug 2016
92
94th
Exceptional work from the master of thrills himself.
Rated 17 Oct 2015
1
1st
Poop aliens. 'Nuff said.
Rated 21 Sep 2015
100
97th
I've never in my life seen any other movie even attempt what this one pulls off. It effortlessly switches between every genre known to man, maintaining cohesion, telling a compelling story start to finish. The sheer display of skill here is insane. These guys are showing off at this point. Imagine my surprise at finding out my favorite movie of all time is universally hated. I think it was so ahead of its time most people couldn't wrap their heads around the thing.
Rated 04 May 2015
45
4th
was really disappointed in this movie, nothing what i expected! the book was so much better!
Rated 10 Feb 2015
30
8th
This is one of the few Stephen King movies I've seen without reading the book first. This did not make me want to give it a try. Morgan Freeman's giant prosthetic eyebrows are easily the best character in the whole thing.
Rated 28 Feb 2014
90
81st
Really enjoyed this as just a movie viewer.
Rated 22 Dec 2013
50
28th
5- worth experiencing, alright :: some of this is well done, and not nearly as bad as some say
Rated 08 Nov 2013
50
24th
"The thing" is lonely, so he decides to take someone called "the gift" out on a date. They talk awkwardly, discover they have absolutely nothing in common, drink too much and fuck anyway. 9 months later, the gift calls, says they need to talk. The thing learns that he is father to a newborn, the "dreamcatcher", which sadly is horribly disfigured. They decide to give it to a shelter for unwanted offspring, hoping no one would ever find out. However, in the shelter, there lives a certain "king"...
Rated 19 Oct 2013
30
6th
dreamcatcher starts out interesting with the group of friends gaining supernatural abilities after protecting a mental-disabled child from bullies then showing them as men with not the greatest lives coming together for comradeship in a cabin in the woods. However, all the stuff relating to aliens, secret us military unit lead by Morgan freeman,alien possession,quarantine of us citizens infected by the aliens is just too much and weighs the film down, Worst film I've seen in theaters that year.
Rated 13 Jan 2013
50
10th
What struck me most was the super-inconsistent pacing and tone. Also noteworthy is Thomas Jane's shitty, shitty acting. Most of the others do a good job with a fucking goofy script and direction (Morgan Freeman phones it in a bit but who cares, it's Morgan Freeman, I'd watch him phone in reading the phone book (please kill me for that joke)), but Jane's just awful.
Rated 10 Jan 2013
90
78th
The most fun I've had at the movies all year!
Rated 26 Jul 2012
80
45th
Strange
Rated 10 Jul 2012
36
12th
An incoherent and overly long creature feature.
Rated 23 Jun 2012
48
13th
48.000
Rated 20 Jun 2012
30
0th
The book was somewhat enjoyable, but the film is a cinematic travesty of the highest order.
Rated 16 Jun 2012
24
10th
Stupid
Rated 26 May 2012
65
38th
haha good movie.
Rated 10 Nov 2011
40
12th
The bathroom scene near the beginning really scared the shit out of me when I was younger, but the rest of the movie just ranged from weird to laughable.
Rated 29 Sep 2011
29
2nd
Started out interesting, but once the monsters & aliens were introduced, it just went downhill. The characters & story don't follow any sort of logic. I expect much more from Goldman & Kasdan.
Rated 31 Aug 2011
41
17th
Without knowing what I was watching, I could tell that this was a Stephen King book adaptation.
Rated 02 Jul 2011
45
18th
I didn't hate it as much as some people, but this movie proves that some of Stephen King's novels just shouldn't be translated. Read the book instead as it's much more engaging.
Rated 17 Apr 2011
60
32nd
Acting is ok, but plot and how the story plans out is kinda lame. Felt like three stories had been meshed together - watchable with a couple of beers and not much expectation.
Rated 12 Apr 2011
10
5th
It's official: Stephen King's just mocking us now.
Rated 22 Mar 2011
35
27th
Lawrence Kasdan's adaptation of Stephen King's novel follows four friends through a sci-fi horror about aliens coming to earth and the power of friendship. While parts of the movie are great, particularly every part not involving the military, Dreamcatcher ends up becoming a movie too ambitious and absurd to ever be taken seriously. Damian Lewis stars on the heels of Band of Brothers but can't save this story from itself.
Rated 25 Jan 2011
20
12th
Just saw this again recently, and was appalled. It got extra points for having the guy from human Target in it :-)
Rated 19 Oct 2010
20
41st
"As in King's derivative novel, the story is overstuffed with too many unnecessary (if occasionally cool) elements." - Nick Schager
Rated 25 Sep 2010
18
2nd
Just a crappy story really.
Rated 06 Sep 2010
43
10th
So they tried to make an ironic book serious? Duddits is a huge anticlimax, they couldn't even get the interesting Wahlberg.
Rated 26 Aug 2010
24
16th
#00s#, story, (casting)
Rated 05 May 2010
55
13th
another bad stephen king shit
Rated 24 Apr 2010
72
24th
stephen king's writing style is pretty much impossible to pull of in a film
Rated 12 Mar 2010
90
53rd
I love Stephen King movies.
Rated 20 Dec 2009
45
36th
Not king's best work by far
Rated 23 Oct 2009
30
15th
Surprisingly recognizable cast, beautiful nature shots in winter, same old by the numbers B horror.
Rated 01 Aug 2009
7
6th
Terrible film. It feels unbalanced and a potentially interesting idea is wasted by some sloppy editing and storytelling. A film with no direction or purpose. Just dreadful.
Rated 28 Jul 2009
24
4th
OMG. It's so bad...seriously. What the hell?
Rated 12 Jun 2009
60
39th
Four childhood friends find a boy with special powers. Later in life they save the World. Quite good in a quirky sort of way.
Rated 11 May 2009
1
0th
From the shit weasels to the mentally challenge alien god, just terribly conceived from beginning to end.
Rated 28 Apr 2009
67
24th
It's not a very good movie but it still grosses the hell out of me.
Rated 23 Apr 2009
25
15th
The film does not begin bad, but gets ridiculous. Do not decide which genre is, if is drama, comedy, sci-fi. In all of them are unsuccessful.
Rated 26 Mar 2009
77
15th
didn't quite "catch" my fancy.
Rated 25 Jan 2009
60
13th
Amusing
Rated 06 Jan 2009
45
44th
Has one of the nastiest scenes I've ever seen in a movie. Not only is the scene horrifying, the actor they chose to have it happen to makes it all the more disgusting. Go see it...you know you want to.
Rated 01 Jan 2009
70
58th
Damian Lewis shows he's a damn good actor in this film. The story was great, a huge potential, but the film wasn't as good as I expected. Wasn't bad either though. Really enjoyed it, the suspense sometimes.
Rated 15 Nov 2008
30
31st
Almost decent film with an end that should have been left as a novel.
Rated 08 Nov 2008
85
85th
Thats good ! ı was in dream..
Rated 01 Nov 2008
33
10th
What could be great story about supernatural powers turns to be one of lamest alien invasion story ever. I mean... aliens from asses? That just not classy. Oh and another thing. In this movie there is rarely seen "more stories that movie can handle" effect. Because there is at least 3 screenplay that could be made from this, instead mixing all in one. Probably good in book, in movie, this is just confusing.
Rated 30 Oct 2008
60
35th
This adaption of a Stephen King novel is a mix of Stand By Me, It and Tommyknockers. It is a highly enloyable film but did not have enough in it to truly impress me. A large cast of at the time unknows who have since become successful. Some interesting ideas with sometimes worked but othertimes didn't. Not really a horror more of a sci-fi thriller
Rated 23 Oct 2008
5
5th
Terrible movie, stay as far away from it as possible.
Rated 23 Sep 2008
10
0th
rubbish never-understandable
Rated 14 Sep 2008
65
10th
God, please, noooooo! What did they do to the story!?!?! :( Sadly, this only works as a book. As a film, it's just a disaster. It was painful to watch. The only redeeming quality was Jason Lee playing Beaver, my favorite character from the book.
Rated 30 Jul 2008
20
5th
Thought this had a lot of potential, and it entertained me the first time, BUT, just doesn't hold up at all on subsequent viewings.
Rated 26 Jul 2008
23
3rd
Can't help but laugh at the very premise of this movie. Couldn't take any of this seriously.
Rated 16 Jul 2008
35
11th
A fantastically eerie first hour isn't nearly enough to save it from the bizarre, illogical wannabe-sci-fi rest of the film. It devolves quickly from the well-cultivated sense of dread it initially sets up to an exercise in ludicrousness. At times so shockingly bad that you half expect director Kasdan to jump out from behind your seat yelling "gotcha!"
Rated 25 Jun 2008
10
4th
bad movie

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