Which, once again, brings me back to the DVD. ) From there all resemblence to a Lawrence Kadan movie ends. Along comes Kasdan.who one would assume would rather retool this premise and find a way to keep all the monsters inside the characters heads and play out the movie in a therapists office (which, aptly, the movie actually does at the top.

So, here was have King wanting to fashion a sort of Stand By Me meets B-movie monster flick. While Webers performance was admirable in this retooling, I don't think anyones making the mistake of replacing Jack Nicholson on their AFI lists. I think it's also valuable to note that King also DID NOT endorse the Kubrick version of The Shining, but rather, put his seal of approval on the later tv-movie version starring Stephen Weber. So this tells me that somehow, somewhere at the sourse, there had to be something wrong in the batter. But no, here's King making a statement, which in itself by even agreeing to be seen associated with this free-wheeling catastrophe, is a sort of endoresment. His only bon mot seems to be a throw away comment that 'it's very good.' Yet, even with this slight endorsement from 'The King' one is dumbfounded that he isn't cracking the camera lense with a pipe in pure, irrational vengence for making such a prime embarrassment out of his novel.

First of all, King has little to say about the actual movie and more on his motivation on writing the book (the car accident in '99). It's quite telling that the Dreamcatcher DVD has included an interview with Stephen King after he has seen the rough cut of the film. In this case, with Dreamcatcher, that premise is put to the ultimate use. If there's any upside to the recent advent of DVDs adding audio-commentaries and documentaries to movies no one wanted to see in the first place, it's this One can, perhaps, glean what went wrong with a movie that seemed to have so much going for it.

Duddits