riley_dude

One of my favorite Writer/Directors of the 80's and 90's. Responsible for writing such gems as Empire Strikes Back, Raider of the Lost Arc, Big Chill and Silverado started off the 00's by Directing and writing Dreamcatcher??
What happened?

Mr. Cinema

No idea, but Dreamcatcher has officially put me in the "I'm never watching another Lawrence Kasdan directed movie again."

Of course, his next film "The Risk Pool" stars Tom Hanks.

BravesMG

Wasn't there some reason why Kasdan wanted his name off the Dreamcatcher credit? I tried looking but I couldn't find it, I could have sworn that he said that wasn't representative of his work or writing and wanted nothing to do with it. Or maybe he was just covering his ass because it was offensively awful.

riley_dude

How do you go from writing Raiders to Dreamcather. Maybe they studio re edited It?

Geofferson

Dreamcatcher was dreadful. To Kasdan's credit, the material was nothing to write home about (FYI), but that movie was just flat-out bad.

RichC2

The fact outtakes were shown at the end of Dreamcatcher proves it was intended to be an epic comedy. The fact nobody was to get the joke was intentional I'm sure.



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or not.

Terrell

Not that I'm aware of. I do know Lucas went to Kasdan to try and get him to write TPM, and Kasdan wasn't really interested. Told Lucas he should write them himself.

Maxflier

That is a lot nicer than how i would describe that POS movie.

ShagMan

Dang, was Dreamcatcher *that* bad? I thought it was semi-ok. But then again, I liked Moon 44.

riley_dude

Biggest mistake of his career (after Dreamcather that is). He could have pumped up the characters and given the story dramatic tension.

deadlax

All I know was Mumford was only a couple years before Dreamcatcher, and it was brilliant.

Terrell

Agreed! See, we have Kasdan to blame for Lucas' dialogue.

Sunday Morning

He's out spending the mad money he made off that Dreamcatcher picture.
And he's lauging all the way to the bank, especially at the expense of those who really liked that movie.

to fans of Mumford. Criminally underrated movie.

I'm not so sure about Risk Pool. I'm no fan of that russo guy's quirky yet strangely maudlin stuff.

Geofferson

Good call. Forgot all about that movie. Brilliant, indeed.

grifter

Yeah I'm sure he's really kicking himself over not doing TPM.

Terrell

It would have been a far better choice than doing Dreamcatcher. Jar-Jar farting the national anthem would have been better than Dreamcatcher.

Unclesnazzy

The book of Dreamcatcher was a great book by Stephen King who was quoted as to saying that Dreamcatcher was the closest adaptation to any of his books. He's 50% accurate the first half was almost exact, the last half sucked the crust off a donkey's ass. don't care if I spoiled it I may have saved 2 hours of your lives. I hope Kasdan redeems himself. And the Jar Jar comment Terrel..... BRILLIANT!

Mr. Cinema

I guarantee Morgan Freeman never talks about Dreamcatcher.

Schwenkstar

All artists have their slip-ups, even great film directors such as John Huston (Phobia), Robert Wise (Rooftops), Sidney Lumet (Gloria) and others. To say that Lawrence Kasdan has lost his artistic verve would be inappropriate; we can not judge a man soley by a single mistake. After all, no human is infallible and given by his past works one could conclude he does indeed possess the attributes of an artist.

BravesMG

Well there's that crusty old toilet that's passing as 'art' over in Paris, so the attributes of an artist could be in question But I don't think anybody here has said he's terrible, just that anybody that contributed to Dreamcatcher doesn't exactly highlight that one on their resume.

And I STILL can't find that piece with Kasdan about his problems with Dreamcatcher, this is driving me crazy.

Jason Bovberg

Aaaahhh! Don't tell me that! I hate Kasdan now!

PopcornTreeCt

IMO, Paul Thomas Anderson and David Gordon Green both have yet to make a bad movie. But yeah no one in Hollywoodland is infallible.

ChrisKnudsen

I loved Dreamcatcher. In 10 years from now, you guys are going to say it is awesome.

gfoots

Both of those guys have barely made three movies.

It seems pretty harsh to write off Kasdan based on one really shitty movie. Even though Dream catcher sucks pretty bad, I'm assuming that Kasdan had a lot of studio interference because it was a pretty high profile film. It is definitely worth seeing just for the performance of Damian Lewis. he is incredible in this and Band of Brothers.

Fincher Fan

Two words why Dreamcatcher sucked: ass aliens.