The book and movie of Dreamcatcher

**MyJadedEpiphany** · August 5th, 2009

Originally Posted by Ri The Lousy Translator

Read the entire book at one pull (around 5-6 hours). Enjoyed it ALOT.
I haven’t quite enjoyed the movie. Plus I took mom to convince her about the dark side of the King’s world, and she was a little horrified in a bad way. I kept stuttering to her “ummm the book is different the book is different”.

I had the exact same problem with my husband!! I loved the book so much and was super excited to see the movie....turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. I never expect movies to be the same as the books as I know they are different mediums (Harry Potter is another great example LoL) but it tends to be worse with SK movies. I think it's because people only try to categorize his movies as horror when his books are SOOOO much more than that.

**ama_li** · August 10th, 2009

I have read the book. By the way I don't like it much

**Mary Strickland** · August 10th, 2009

ama li,
I liked this book because of the relationship of the characters and their special care of the young boy.
Mary

**jlessl** · August 10th, 2009

Book was excellent, movie not so much. I was really disappointed.

**Cruze** · August 13th, 2009

YOu should listen to the audio (unabriged) now THAT is awesome!

**dav** · August 24th, 2009

That is why I love to read the books you get to come up with all kinds of stuff in your imagination. I think it is very hard sometimes to translate SK to a movie.

**dav** · August 24th, 2009

I would have loved to have had a SK class in school. Where do you go to school? I think there are always differences between the book and movie. That is sometimes what makes SK fans "hot" under the collar. We are true to his brilliance.

**littlekoala0519** · September 17th, 2009

I have just recently read the book for the first time and watched the movie. I love the book, took it with me everywhere and read it whenever I could. I go thte movie because I loved the book so much. I understand there is a difference between the books and movies and that some stuff needs to be changed and some stuff needs to be left out altogether. Seriously, this movie should have been called "Dreamcatcher - a movie loosely based on the novel" or "Dreamcatcher - a big disappointment for those of you who loved the book." There were things changed, both big and small, that did not need to be changed and that did not add anything with the change. The story lost so much of it's feeling and meaning in the movie. In my opinion the books are always better, but I know this going into the movie. This is the exact reason why I watched the remake of The Shining. There were things in the book that I really wanted to see in the movie that were left out of the original. However the original movie did not make drastic changes that made the story completely different from the book. King books are so incredible, in so many ways, that they really need to be made in to mini-series or double-length movies. With this said, the "Dreamcatcher" movie could have been a decent regular length movie without the drastic changes. I feel that I would not have known what was going on in the movie without reading the book first, but I just kept saying to myself that what I was seeing on the screen was not really the movie of the book but a spoof and the real movie would come on any minute. If the story is going to be changed so much than it just needs to get a different name when on screen!

**dwalters** · September 30th, 2009

When I heard that they were making Dreamcatcher into a movie, my first thought was that it couldn't possibly work. Any time there's a lot of interior dialogue going on in a person's head, I just don't think it's possible to express something like that in a movie the way the author intended. That said, they did make a few mistakes, but for the most part I didn't think it was that bad... until the ending. That completely ruined it for me.

The funny part is, I was working at a video rental store at the time it came out and overheard one of our customers talking about it. His exact words: "the ending was cool but the rest of it sucked". Obviously not a Constant Reader...

**Smikes** · October 9th, 2009

The movie fell far short of the book in my opinion. And although Morgan Freeman is an amazing actor, even he can't pull off a white Irishman...good lord, who made that casting decision?

The **** Weasels were much scarier in my head.

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