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		Stephen King, author of the book on which Dreamcatcher is based, has many fears: fear for others, fear of others, fear of death, fear of insects, especially spiders, flies, and beetles, fear of closed-in places, fear of rats and snakes, fear of deformity, fear of squishy things and lastly, fear of the dark.
		King's writings and subsequent films are characterized by "action" as well, but as expressed through fear, gore and horror while they explore the consequences for the lack of human kindness, guilt, and our utter lack of control over cosmic forces, especially evil ones.
		Dreamcatcher is a distilled version of about a 600 page book, so it is understandable that there will be some loose ends, but I think it is up to the individual viewer to decide what those are.
	www.daughtersofstpaul.com /mediastudies/reviews/dreamcatcher.html (1539 words)

	DVD Review: Dreamcatcher
		Well, that's another matter - the film is too odd to be at all spooky and it's so all-over-the-place (not to mention the constant presence of plot holes and underdeveloped subplots - for a 134 minute movie, there's a general lack of character development here, too) that little tension ever builds.
		The film's color palette remains extremely subdued throughout, which is expected, given the setting.
		Final Thoughts: I found "Dreamcatcher" to be a strangely watchable disaster - an odd train wreck of elements tied together into something surreal, unpredictable and unfortunately, not resembling the kind of thriller it had the potential of being.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/dreamcatcherdvd.html (703 words)

	Dreamcatcher (Soundtrack) by James Newton Howard
		Lawrence Kasdan’s Dreamcatcher faded from the box office barely after it was spooled in projectors around the nation.
		Critical response was quite negative, dubbing the film as yet another deplorable Alien spinoff, with a deceptive, disjointed plot, and weak screenplay.
		This is simply a prime example of a score that may certainly work well in the film (it certainly sounds as if it would), but translates poorly to album.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/dreamcatcher.htm (760 words)

	indielondon.co.uk - film - Dreamcatcher preview
		Dreamcatcher is based on the first novel King completed after his near-fatal car accident in 1999 and, according to Kasdan, it starts out as a character story 'and then goes off into spaceships and weird stuff'.
		But back to the film and Kasdan, who co-wrote the likes of Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, has this to say about it: "I think science fiction, fantasy and horror are at their most powerful if you believe in and care about the people involved.
		Film Threat, meanwhile, awarded it only two out of five, but declared that ‘Dreamcatcher is a triumph of big and slimy monster effects and a disaster of screenwriting, and yet it's so silly and unintentionally funny that I was never totally bored’.
	www.indielondon.co.uk /film/dreamcatcher_preview.html (934 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Dreamcatcher at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Dreamcatcher is the Lawrence Kasdan film based on the 2001 Stephen King novel by the same name.
		Dreamcatcher is classic King in that the story revolves around four men with somewhat troubled pasts and intertwined futures who grew up in the town of Derry, Maine.
		Dreamcatcher is a rousing, fun romp through the heart of friendship and the woods of Maine.
	www.epinions.com /content_93682044548 (1000 words)

	Dreamcatcher
		As such, I did not read Dreamcatcher but, still, the coming attractions of the film adaptation had intrigued me. This is especially the case considering the director (Lawrence Kasdan), the scripters (Kasdan and William Goldsmith) and the film's top billed star (Morgan Freeman) being involved.
		Judging by director Lawrence Kasdan ("Mumford") and cowriter William Goldman's ("Misery") adaptation, "Dreamcatcher" is kitchen-sink King with a broken garbage disposal.
		An obsession with excrement and effluvium throughout the film is "Dreamcatcher's" inadvertent self-critique - it stinks.
	www.reelingreviews.com /dreamcatcher.htm (1215 words)

	Dreamcatcher (2003): Reviews
		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.
		Dreamcatcher is a lark probably best enjoyed by 12-year-olds -- or anyone still able to get in touch with their inner 12-year-old.
		Perhaps due to the talent of everyone involved, Dreamcatcher moves with an oddly exhilarating awfulness that sets it apart from more run-of-the-mill horror films, which lack the imagination and budget to be so thoroughly misconceived.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/dreamcatcher2003 (1565 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Dreamcatcher
		Dreamcatcher tells the tale of four lifelong friends who, as kids, rescued a mentally handicapped boy nicknamed Duddits from being tormented by the local jocks; he repays the four by granting them psychic abilities comparable to his own.
		The creatures (aptly dubbed "shit weasels") feed off their human hosts from the inside out, using one's backdoor as an entrance and exit; the film's acute sense of the terror derived from penetration and expulsion—farting is used as ominous foreshadowing—is reminiscent of Alien.
		Kasdan brings a directorial professionalism to the film that it doesn't really deserve, and Morgan Freeman relishes his opportunity to play an unrepentant bad guy, using his commanding physical stature as a blunt weapon of imposing fierceness.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=642 (509 words)

	Dreamcatcher :: Film Review :: Backyard
		Dreamcatcher is the latest in a long line of Stephen King novels and stories to be adapted to the screen, the 70th in fact, with two more due for release next year, making the millionaire writer one of the most adapted authors of all time.
		Dreamcatcher is the story of four friends, likeable all American guys who have known each other since they were boys and, in classic Stephen King style, they share a remarkable gift; psychic powers that allow them to read people’s minds, find missing car keys and anticipate events before they happen.
		Dreamcatcher does have one attraction and that’s a short film that precedes it, The Flight of the Osiris, an animated sequel to The Matrix that sets up the story for the eagerly anticipated Matrix Reloaded, due out in May. But on its own terms, Dreamcatcher is simply a waste of time.
	www.abc.net.au /backyard/stories/s824544.htm (459 words)

	Dreamcatcher (2003) - A Review by David Nusair
		Though the film initially seems like it's going to be a riff on The Big Chill with some elements of Stand By Me thrown in, it's not long before it becomes a full-blown freak fest.
		And it's not as though the genre-hopping is the sole reason for Dreamcatcher's descent into crazy town; it's the manner by which the script approaches the unusual aspects of the story.
		Had the film been stripped of the more outrageous plot twists, it still wouldn't have worked all that well - mostly due to overlength and shoddy character development.
	www.reelfilm.com /dreamcat.htm (560 words)

	Dreamcatcher (2003) - Reviews - Moovees.com
		While Dreamcatcher is far from perfect, it's another one of those simplistic diversions that'll be forgotten soon after it's over.
		The aliens (a slug with razor-sharp teeth, and the "basic" alien with big eyes and a small mouth) look cool, even though they're obviously computer-generated (especially during the sequence when the military is shooting the hell out of an infested area).
		The film generates a fair amount of suspense, especially during an early scene with an alien being trapped in a toilet.
	www.moovees.com /review/danw/dreamcatcher.html (489 words)

	Movie-List - Reviews - Dreamcatcher
		With an unpredictable director like Lawrence Kasdan at the helm of the film it could be anywhere from the brilliance of the first two “Alien” films to the idiocy of Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 from Outer Space”.
		“Dreamcatcher”, the film jumps all over the map as it seems to suffer primarily from a massive identity crisis with way to many characters.
		Side Note: This film is accompanied by an animated sequence that is supposed to be a glimpse at the forthcoming “Matrix” sequels.
	www.movie-list.com /reviews/dreamcatcher.shtml (609 words)

	Filmtracks: Dreamcatcher (James Newton Howard)
		Dreamcatcher: (James Newton Howard) A story of courage and desperation, the Stephen King best-selling novel is transformed onto the big screen by acclaimed director Lawrence Kasdan.
		For Dreamcatcher, Howard would be able to employ the same orchestral and electronic ideas from those previous scores and strip them down to their basics, allowing the loneliness and helplessness of the film's primary characters to embed itself into the stark music for the production.
		Interestingly, given the Native American history of the dreamcatcher as a symbol, as well as the art for the film, there is no corresponding ethnicity to this score (alas, it is set in Maine).
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/dreamcatcher.html (716 words)

	Dreamcatcher is a fine mess
		Kasdan's film is too gory and confusing and certainly bound to be one of the year's major disappointments.
		The drama in the film comes out of an annual get together the four men are having in the deep of the woods when a blizzard sets into motion strange and horrendous happenings.
		The film has too many diverse elements competing for the attention of the script and director: a plague, an alien invasion, a devastating storm, destructive worms, a body snatcher, an insane colonel and a mysterious, idiot savant.
	www.rediff.com /movies/2003/mar/24dream.htm (657 words)

	Dreamcatcher (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dreamcatcher (2003) is a movie adapted from the Stephen King novel of the same name.
		The basic content of the movie very closely followed the original book, but the ending of the film did vary from Stephen King's original ending in the book.
		Duddits has a slightly different role at the finale of the film which serves to explain why he was dying when the boys encounter him as adults.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dreamcatcher_(film) (186 words)

	Dreamcatcher: Widescreen Edition DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		As it is, “Dreamcatcher” has some memorable moments and some beautiful photography, but it never draws the viewer in close enough to really be scared and to really care for the characters all that much.
		If “Dreamcatcher” succeeds in anything it is in the combination of practical and computer effects by ILM that create great eye candy and in thoroughly revolting the viewer with the “shit weasels” that exit through the anus once the viral like alien has gestated and emerges as vertical jawed snakelike creature.
		This widescreen edition presents “Dreamcatcher” with an anamorphic (2.35:1) aspect ratio that preserves the way the film was presented theatrically as close as possible for home video users.
	www.genreonline.net /Dreamcatcher_DVD.html (1248 words)

	Dreamcatcher movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		Dreamcatcher may give you a few jolts but it is nothing to write home about.
		Dreamcatcher is a film based on the novel by Stephen King that begins with some interest.
		Dreamcatcher is a film that had some interest, but lost it about forty minutes into the film.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/d/dreamcatcher.htm (2047 words)

	DREAMCATCHER - WIDESCREEN DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Dreamcatcher has no internal logic, in other words, and, free of the irritating bonds of coherence, it's also free of stakes and tension.
		Like the book, the film is overlong (at a slow 135 minutes) and only really engages during its prologue, providing maddening glimpses of promising storylines and character moments tossed aside in favour of being a cut-rate adaptation of a cut-rate King novel.
		A section containing four "lifted" scenes plus the film's original, more sombre, though hardly superior ending (at least the final third of Dreamcatcher is beyond repair), the film's surprisingly lengthy teaser trailer (2:25), and a cast and crew listing round out the disc.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/dreamcatcher.htm (1108 words)

	indielondon.co.uk - film - Dreamcatcher review
		Dreamcatcher has the dubious distinction of falling into both categories, starting off extremely brightly, but then descending into a complete mess about halfway through.
		Based upon the first novel that King completed after his near-fatal car accident in 1999, the film centres around four childhood friends who get together for a pilgrimage to their favourite deep-woods cabin, only to find themselves stuck, snow-deep, in the middle of an alien invasion.
		Dreamcatcher is by no means the worst of King’s book-to-screen translations, but in terms of the talent it squanders, its failings are made all the more glaring.
	www.indielondon.co.uk /film/dreamcatcher_rev.html (654 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Dreamcatcher (2003)
		Dreamcatcher is a film adaptation of a Stephen King novel.
		Despite the film's excellence of craft, I was wondering exactly what had been accomplished.
		I guess Dreamcatcher is so assaulting with noise, gore, and slimy CGI beasties that it should have achieved more to justify it.
	rinkworks.com /movies/m/dreamcatcher.2003.shtml (256 words)

	dreamcatcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		King said that those films didn't bother his children as much as the Joan Crawford character in "Mommie Dearest" because she was a "real" monster.
		There are plenty of monsters, both human and otherworldly, on view in "Dreamcatcher," the film version of King's first novel after the near-death accident that pitted him against a pick-up truck.
		Moments of dark, almost sadistic humor (one scene of a victim expunging the aliens from his system is both shocking and funny) fail to connect with the film's sense of humanity, creating a two-headed hydra that the director, writer, or cast can't slay.
	www.lightviews.com /dreamcatcher.htm (663 words)

	Dreamcatcher Entertainment
		Dreamcatcher Entertainment is a multi-faceted entertainment company with
		three separate operating divisions under the Dreamcatcher moniker;
		Dreamcatcher Records; Dreamcatcher Artist Management; and Dreamcatcher Film
	www.dreamcatcherenter.com (43 words)

	Dreamcatcher - Find out which Stephen King film adaptations are a must see!
		Stephen King’s novel Dreamcatcher is a very suspenseful horror sci-fi novel with a complex and exciting storyline.
		Some people say that the movie adaptation lacks of character development and though it may be true that the story isn’t fully explained in the film, the movie Dreamcatcher is still very watchable and actually quite a lot of fun.
		Dreamcatcher is a perfect combination of sci-fi, horror and humor.
	www.thedarkking.com /110/dreamcatcher (526 words)

	Dreamcatcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		It's a canny move to reintroduce The Matrix and its universe just prior to its sequels without resorting to extravagant re-releases (a special edition DVD was nixed at the eleventh hour for its spoilers) that too often reek of a cynical cash grab.
		In its tale of Asian Jue and her African-American captain Thaddeus, the picture is comfortably multi-cultural in a way that places the series as the appropriate successor to "Star Trek", while being a mature action film leavened by sexuality which, after all, is what the original film offered as well.
		Four childhood pals (The Body (retitled Stand By Me for film), united by an act of kindness toward a child afflicted with Down's Syndrome (the clumsily named "Duddits"), reunite annually as adults in a hunting trip in the woods of Maine.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/dreamcatcher.htm (985 words)

	U-WIRE.com/FILM REVIEW: 'Dreamcatcher' catches no attention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		But by far the leading failure of a King-to-screen endeavor is this latest installment, "Dreamcatcher," a story meant for a sharp imagination, too bizarre and fantastic that only a movie equally as deranged would suffice.
		"Dreamcatcher," on the other hand, is a disappointingly dull and stale visualization of a story that, if anywhere near as brilliant as King's 1978 "The Stand," must be a decent novel.
		"Dreamcatcher" the movie is a disappointment, dealing with King's wild imaginings in shallow Hollywood manner instead of giving it the pure extraterrestrial insanity it deserves.
	www.uwire.com /content/topae032703001.html (608 words)

	Movie Reviews
		On his heels is a blizzard in which something much more ominous moves--a deadly alien force that will consume some of the foursome and force those who make it to the end of the road to once again summon their forgotten strength--and confront an unparalleled horror.
		Writer William Goldman recently attacked director Martin Scorsese in Variety, vilifying the director for his film "Gangs of New York" in language that was provocative and mean-spirited.
		The film focuses on four adult men who have gathered at a Maine cabin for deer-hunting season.
	ccs.flatoday.com /fe/Movies/reviews/dreamcatcher.asp (670 words)

	Film dreamcatcher - Athak
		Dreamcatcher does retain a kind ofshame it’s not the film it could have been.
		and maintains that the film is suitably creepytrailers which have lent the film a strong advance word For the record, the dreamcatcher of the title refers tomadness.
		Film Threat, meanwhile, awardedfive, but declared that Dreamcatcher is a triumph of big and
	www.almeathak.com /film/film-dreamcatcher.html (278 words)

	Dreamcatcher (2003)
		Dreamcatcher, as the trailers aptly portray, begins as the story of some friends who share a commonality, which in this case is the gift of telepathy.
		The film opens strongly, telling the story of childhood friends who share telepathy unified by a mentally retarded kid they protect, and grow to learn how their telepathic powers can be both blessing and curse.
		As soon as I accepted the fact that what I was watching was indeed the same film and had indeed taken a wrong turn and was indeed becoming progressively more unwatchable with each passing minute.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/Dreamcatcher/Dreamcatcher.html (497 words)

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