Recommended in Nathan Rabin’s wonderful “My Year of Flops” at the AV Club (this is #82), Dreamcatcher is an overreaching and often riotously funny film that includes from what I can tell every cliché particular to Stephen King’s writing. At least, watch it for the scene in which Thomas Jane uses a loaded pistol as a telephone to communicate telepathically with is friend who is literally hiding from an alien in his mind, which resembles a rather rustic and populated library. Get it? A library = thoughts and knowledge, and an alien is in there because it’s looking to steal the man’s knowledge.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Universal Studios DVD
10 Jan 2008 12:47 PM | Comments (1)
Mr. Rabin (sort of) concludes ‘My Year of Flops’:
When I turned in my first My Year Of Flops Case File, an 800-word write-up of Elizabethtown, A.V. Club editor Keith Phipps said “They aren’t all going to be this long, are they?” “Oh, heavens no,” I assured him. And they weren’t. Instead, the average My Year Of Flops entry quickly ballooned into a wildly digressive 2,000-word comic essay heavy on autobiographical asides, running jokes, pop-culture references, borderline nonsensical recurring characters, and oceans of decontextualized bad-movie dialogue. If nothing else, “My Year Of Flops” stands as one of the most complete repositories of out-of-context bad-movie dialogue known to man.
Rumsey
23 January 2008
8:15 AM
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