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38How could director Lawrence Kasdan and writer William Goldman be responsible for a film that goes so awesomely wrong?
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38Dreamcatcher has no business being this bad.
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38Isn't worth the time, money, or effort. For Stephen King aficionados, it's just the latest cinematic nightmare.
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33So often out of control that it becomes absurd and exasperating.
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30Both character and metaphor have gone to the dogs, leaving a slew of fart and burp jokes and laying bare Dreamcatcher's driving purpose, which is to make multiplexes full of little boys yuk it up, then gross them out, creep them out.
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30It's a mystery how such a hodgepodge, at once incoherent and overfamiliar, could have come together on screen.
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30Overlong and unwieldy grab-bag of vintage monster-movie elements starts intriguingly as a snowbound deep-woods chiller, but gradually dissolves into a mess of other-worldly invasion and military counter-offensive.
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30This horror-free horror flick sent me wandering through my own memory warehouse, where, at every turn, I bumped into images from similar -- and mostly superior -- entertainments.
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25Could hardly be called a success -- it's rather a likable disaster.
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25A moviegoer's nightmare. The story is incoherent, inane and interminable.
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20Perhaps 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.
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20If hopeless literalist Kasdan could have decided on a tone this could have been a gynophobe's "Independence Day."
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20For most of the running time I was mainly confused, as well as mildly nauseated by the gross-out details of a tale that tends to be more slimy than scary.
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10As five or six bad movies squished together, it almost seems like a bargain.
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10In the end, Dreamcatcher is an abominable-worm picture. The movie is also an unholy mess, a miserably organized and redundant collection of arbitrary scares and thrills without a unifying visual or poetic idea. [31 March 2003, p. 106]
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0So much is going on, and so many bizarre and seemingly random subplots collide in Dreamcatcher, that the film feels like some crazy patchwork quilt sewn by a schizophrenic seamstress. It’s not only confusing, but dull, as well.
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Negative: 18 out of 43
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JacobB.0How did my favorite Steven King book turn into this crap, the ending was a slap in the face?
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JeremyB0Quite possibly the worst movie ever made!
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JustinS.0