Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Let's be realistic.

From my favorite movies..

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Not the blizzard of bulls#%^ we expected. Great twist! Love Duds ;-)

This film, based on a book by Stephen King is centred on four friends; Jonesy, Beaver, Pete, and Henry. There is something unusual about this quartet; they have a degree of telepathy following an incident in their childhood involving a fifth boy. Now, as adults they are taking part in their annual hunting trip to Maine and things are going to get disturbing. First Jonesy saves a man he finds wandering in the forest; he claims to have become separated from his companions and is ill because he ate some suspicious berries. Meanwhile Henry and Pete crash their car to avoid a woman sitting in the middle of the forest road; they assume she must be frozen to death but it turns out she is still alive. It later emerges that both of them are infected with parasitic alien worms that are soon attacking our four protagonists. The authorities are aware of what is going on and have quarantined the area; they later plan to exterminate everybody present to ensure the aliens don't infect the wider population. If that is to be avoided the survivors from our original foursome will have to use their telepathic powers and find the fifth boy before it is too late.This film contains several good elements but somehow manages to be a bit too messy and not really scary enough. The flashback scenes to the protagonists' childhood felt like very similar to 'Stand by Me'; a superior film also based on a Stephen King Story... the only real difference being that the boys in that film didn't get telepathic powers! The monster was decent enough; I particularly liked how we are introduced to it when one is trapped in a toilet before getting out and killing one of the group. The inclusion of telepaths, aliens and dubious military units felt like an attempt to shoehorn as many ideas into the story as possible; it would have been better with less. The military weren't really needed it would have been better just having our group facing some unexplained monster in the woods than making them obvious aliens that have been known about for some time. Overall I wouldn't say this was terrible; it was clearly trying to do something good but somehow fell a little short. It is still worth checking out if you are a fan of the genre; just don't expect a classic.

Bizarre!! A man poops out an alien. Yep, you read that correctly. That is not the end of the madness. The dialogue is so strange and so is the direction. It is just a weird film. It is enjoyable though and it looked and sounded really nice. It is even a bit scary in some places. It reminded me of Slither (2006) but less funny and more odd. Strangeness is afoot.

Dreamcatcher had a lot of missed potential, and unfortunately that all has to do with the fact that Stephen King's signature lackluster dialog made it into the script, which gave the actors hardly anything to work with. It's most notable... Well, throughout the film. Every bit of dialog is read as if they're teenagers in a high school play. The cinematography isn't anything we haven't seen before, and the "weasels" simply look like deformed lampreys. They're not huge criticisms, and these two things didn't really bother me, but the overall lack of original iconography leaves something (icons) to be desired. The Shining had brilliant cinematography, and wonderful acting, both of which spawned countless iconic images in popular culture today. IT had Pennywise, at least. What does Dreamcatcher have? Name one thing, I dare you. In my opinion, Donnie Wahlberg gives the best performance the entire film has to offer. He plays the --marginally offensive-- character exactly the way he needed to be played; he reads the lines exactly the way they needed to be read, his physicality has the exact rules they needed to have. Every mark is hit. What little screen time Donnie has is all the movie is worth, which amounts to about 4 or 5 minutes. Everybody who is not named "Donnie Wahlberg" must have had a hard time getting into character, because the lines are read with such little conviction they could have plea-bargained down to time served plus 500 hours community service. The group's in-jokes, "F--karee", "F--karow", and "F--k me Freddy" --which are never explained-- are things that no human being who is not named "Stephen King" would ever say aloud for fear of being beaten half to death by everyone around them --that is unless they're paid to. While the sayings might work on paper, they don't translate very well to actual, real human vocalization, and leave the viewer wondering if they've had a stroke. I just don't even want to mention the flashbacks to the group's childhood. I'm sure those kids were doing their best, and I hope they had a lot of fun filming their parts. I wish King would stop inflicting his flashback sequences on the child-acting community. Typically, they aren't good sequences when adapted to the screen. Just stop it, Steve. Stop. Whatever those young actors are doing now, I certainly hope it's better than Dreamcatcher.