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    If I may play "utilitarian" for a minute (and this logic only applies to these butt aliens), this movie also tries to make Morgan Freeman out to be a bad guy by wanting to kill potentially innocent/potentially infected people. At the same time they make Thomas Jane out to be a hero for having sympathy for them and wanting to set them free. However this movie establishes that:

    1) The aliens are stone cold killers with no hesitation taking human life

    2) Dudditz informs us that "One worm kills the world"

    3) The aliens will try to manipulate our sympathies to get what they want

    Morgan Freeman has been preventing an invasion for 25 years and in that time not a single infected person, animal nor worm has gotten anywhere near a major water source! Maybe there is a better way to handle it so that the innocent uninfected people don't have to die and infected people don't roam in the general populace, but I would side with Freeman over Jane on this issue. Thomas Jane is taking a huge risk in letting them out.

     

    There's also a bit of a connection to another HDTGM film: The Covenant. During an English class scene in The Covenant the teacher brings up Stephen King and the blonde witch yells out "Dreamcatcher is the shit!"

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    Ok. So a dreamcatcher is something that catches nightmares.

     

    That being said, can someone explain how that has any connection to this film... let alone be the title??

     

    During the 2nd flashback, we see the boys around a dreamcatcher they made. Duddits claims the center circle and the friends are represented by those circle around it. Great. This is represented a few moment later in the park, when they are trying to find the lost girl. They all stand around Duddits with a hand on him.

     

    But I ask you again... what meaning is meaning of a Dreamcatcher in this film? None of the events take place while they are sleeping. There's no explanation that they are living in a waking nightmare. And you can't say it has something to do with Jonesy's memory vault. Those are memories; not dreams.

     

    So someone. Anyone. Please help me understand this.

     

    The five of them combined prevent the alien invasion so they are clearly the dream catcher.

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    These guys make terrible use of their powers. From the best that I can tell, three of them get the ability to read minds and one gets some sort of supernatural finger swirl locator power. However, with these powers one becomes a lousy therapist, one a teacher and one a used car salesman. At minimum Jane should be a damn good therapist getting at the heart of people's problems and Olyphant would make a great detective. Instead Jane is forgetting that he's reading his clients minds and Olyphant is using his powers to creep out women, trying to leverage dates by finding missing car keys?

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    I had totally forgotten that Damien Lewis was in this movie. His beard makes his mouth look so proportional that my wife wouldn't believe me that it was him. I loved him in this, though! He went full-tilt, and I love it.

     

    You would think that he was just some guy doing a bad English accent and not from London. Why does the alien have a bad fake English accent anyway?

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    OK, maybe not a 'good movie,' but one I enjoy. Like Sleepaway Camp. When I first heard that episode I was kind of pissed at Jason for saying "This movie is terrible!" until I realized that everything they were saying was true.

     

    That was pretty much my reaction to the Demolition Man episode.

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    I am always sort of amused and annoyed at Hollywood's portrayals of sentient (read: emotional) machines. They seem to think that something like a single small change to code will unlock all of the complexity that are human emotions. That was one of the things that made the original Westworld work, that the safeguards were malfunctioning and they were just obeying their programming. (I have yet to see the HBO show though)

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    Wait a minute...this movie was just on Netflix a couple of weeks ago...

     

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    Did we seriously do Gods of Egypt when we could have been doing Dreamcatcher for free?

     

    I mean of course I watched it when I could--you guys know I did--but damn that sucks. Would have liked to watch it closer to the show :(/>

     

     

    Did Dreamcatcher already expire from Netflix? Well it looks like it's on Amazon Prime. I swear this movie is like a digital hot potato and jumps from streaming platform to streaming platform.

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