"Dreamcatcher" begins as the intriguing story of friends who share a telepathic gift, and ends as a monster movie of stunning awfulness. What went wrong? How could director Lawrence Kasdan and writer William Goldman be responsible for a film that goes so awesomely wrong? How could even Morgan Freeman, an actor all but impervious to bad material, be brought down by the awfulness? Goldman, who has written insightfully about the screenwriters' trade, may get a long, sad book out of this one.
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The movie is based on a novel by Stephen King, unread by me, apparently much altered for the screen version, especially in the appalling closing sequences. I have just finished the audiobook of King's From a Buick 8 , was a fan of his Hearts in Atlantis , and like the way his heart tugs him away from horror ingredients and into the human element in his stories.
Here the story begins so promisingly that I hoped, or assumed, it would continue on the same track: Childhood friends, united in a form of telepathy by a mentally retarded kid they protect, grow up to share psychic gifts and to deal with the consequences. The problem of really being telepathic is a favorite science-fiction theme; if you could read minds, would you be undone by the despair and anguish being broadcast all around you? This is unfortunately not the problem explored by "Dreamcatcher." The movie does have a visualization of the memory process that is brilliant filmmaking; after the character Gary "Jonesy" Jones (Damian Lewis) has his mind occupied by an alien intelligence, he is able to survive hidden within it by concealing his presence inside a vast Memory Warehouse, visualized by Kasdan as an infinitely unfolding series of rooms containing Jonesy's memories. This idea is like a smaller, personal version of Jorge Luis Borges' "Library of Babel," the imaginary library which contains all possible editions of all possible books. I can imagine many scenes set in the Warehouse--it's such a good idea it could support an entire movie--but the film proceeds relentlessly to abandon this earlier inspirations in its quest for the barfable.
It would be well not to linger on plot details, since if you are going to see the movie, you will want them to be surprises. Let me just say that the aliens, who look like a cross between the creature in "Alien" and the things that crawled out of the drains in that David Cronenberg movie, exhibit the same problem I often have with such beings: How can an alien that consists primarily of teeth and an appetite, that apparently has no limbs, tools or language, travel to Earth in the first place? Are they little clone creatures for a superior race? Perhaps; an alien nicknamed Mr. Gray turns up, who looks and behaves quite differently, for a while.
For these aliens, space travel is a prologue for trips taking them where few have gone before; they explode from the business end of the intestinal track, through that orifice we would be least willing to lend them for their activities. The movie, perhaps as a result, has as many farts as the worst teenage comedy--which is to say, too many farts for a movie that keeps insisting, with mounting implausibility, that it is intended to be good. These creatures are given a name by the characters that translates into a family newspaper as Crap Weasels.
When Morgan Freeman turns up belatedly in a movie, that is usually a good sign, because no matter what has gone before, he is likely to import more wit and interest. Not this time. He plays Col. Abraham Kurtz, hard-line military man dedicated to doing what the military always does in alien movies, which is to blast the aliens to pieces and ask questions later. This is infinitely less interesting than a scene in King's Buick 8 where a curious state trooper dissects a bat-like thing that seems to have popped through a portal from another world. King's description of the autopsy of weird alien organs is scarier than all the gnashings and disembowelments in "Dreamcatcher." When the filmmakers are capable of the first half of "Dreamcatcher," what came over them in the second half? What inspired their descent into the absurd? On the evidence here, we can say what we already knew: Lawrence Kasdan is a wonderful director of personal dramas ("Grand Canyon," "The Accidental Tourist," "Mumford"). When it comes to Crap Weasels, his heart just doesn't seem to be in it.
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Speaking of Duddits, early in book and movie we get a flashback to when they met him for the first time. Duddits attended a special school for kids with mental disabilities and the school was near the high school. One day, they are walking to some trucker office area because they hear there is a dirty picture hanging up. They end up hearing crying and see Duddits being bullied. Beaver steps up and tells the kid to back off and all four of them get the teenager-a guy named Richie and two of his friends, to leave Duddits alone. From there they walk him back home and become friends with him. Walking to and from school together, playing cribbage, and just hanging out.
The movie leaves out that their first time at Hole in the Wall (the hunting cabin they go to), one night they wake up from a nightmare that had felt so real. They realize they all dreamt the same thing-that they had caused Richie and his friends to get in a car accident and die. They realize that through the power Duddits possessed, they had locked in together mentally, and unintentionally killed Richie because he had threatened to get them back, and so their subconscious killed him. They feel terrible about it, and never speak of it again.
The third major flashback is years after they meet Duddits (in the movie it seems to be around the same time, but in the book, it was like four years later) they see a girl from Duddits school is missing. They know that with Duddits they will be able to find her. They gather in a park and hold hands, and they once again all lock in mentally. After this, Pete is able to see a line, leading him to the girl and they save her.
In the book and movie, they had all lost touch with Duddits (though not really, because mentally they always felt that pull and he was often on their minds and especially so leading up to the hunting trip). Part way through the book, Henry goes to get him and we learn he is dying of cancer.
Beaver, who has the nickname because his whole life he chews on toothpicks and pencils, tries to reach for a toothpick, and he rises off the lid and the eel thing inside pushes its way out. The worm/eel thing looks pretty bad and this is when things take a negative turn in the movie due to the CGI. But Jonesy returns to see Beaver battling the worm and it eventually kills Beaver and Jonesy shuts the door.
Anyway, Henry knows something is wrong at the cabin and when he shows up, he sees Beavers dead body, and the worm guarding some eggs it has laid. Henry burns the place down, and then gets skis to head back to the store they had just come from. He knows that Jonesy has been taken over, and also senses that Jonesy picked up Pete along the way. Mr. Gray, the name of the alien intelligence, needs Pete to direct him to where the highway is. In the book, Pete is infected with the fungus (called Ripley by the soldiers, and byrus by the aliens) and he is dying as the mold grows over his body. Eventually he officially dies, but in the movie the alien kills him soon after picking him up.
In the movie, it also seems Mr. Gray chooses to keep Jonesy alive because he has found him useful. In the book, he wanted to kill Jonesy, but Jonesy was immune. The fact that he stays alive, locked away in part of his own brain, is infuriating to Mr. Gray in the book. In the book we also just get more with Jonesy in his mental office and the different ways Gray tries to lure him out and the ways Jonesy is able to outsmart Gray.
In the book, when the military goes to kill the remaining aliens, Owen purposefully plays their recorded pleas for the other men to hear as a way to soften them up. They are shot down anyway, and after this Kurtz has it out for Owen. In the movie, Owen and Curtis are on good terms until Owen leaves with Henry.
Meanwhile, in the book, Kurtz is following Owen with this other guy with him along with a third guy who is also growing a worm. Because he is growing the worm, his telepathy is stronger and they need him to guide them to Mr. Gray, which will lead them to Owen who Kurtz wants to kill. In the movie, Curtis put a tracker on Owens gun and that is how he is following him.
In the movie, Henry shows up and tries to find out if Mr. Gray is alive or not. He almost thinks it really is Jonesy, when Duddits walks in, and says it is still Mr. Gray. This is when Duddits transforms into an alien creature and he and Mr. Gray battle it out before they both die. It seems all is well, but then the egg from the worm hatches and the tiny worm is heading to the water, only to be stepped on in the last minute by Jonesy. 2ff7e9595c
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