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Trailer—Dreamscape

Dreamscape

The whole concept of this movie was pretty interesting. The ability to go into someones dream and help them face their nightmares. But the only people who can do it are psychics. At first you are hook to a machine, but if you are strong enough, you can do it without the machine. The cast was pretty good. Dennis Quaid did a decent job. I guess you could say he had an enemy and it was David Patrick Kelly. He was pretty good too. More creepy than anything. The one thing this film lacked was story. It jumped around way too much. Plus it rushed a lot. The whole time you want to see Dennis Quaid in a dream, but when he finally gets into one, the scene doesn't last that long. That is the whole point to the movie; the dreams. The last dream he enters is longer, but still rushed. Maybe they were just afraid to extend the movie, I am not sure. But if done right, it could of been fantastic.

A young psychic (Dennis Quaid) on the run from himself is recruited by a government agency experimenting with the use of the dream-sharing technology and is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of the U.S. president. According to author Roger Zelazny, the film developed from an initial outline that he wrote in 1981, based in part upon his novella "He Who Shapes" and novel The Dream Master. He was not involved in the project after 20th Century Fox bought his outline. Because he did not write the film treatment or the script, his name does not appear in the credits. This really ought to be a bigger film today (2017), but I don't know that it has a very large cult following. Such a great concept, it would have perfectly called for sequels or perhaps an ongoing television series.

I watched both back-to-back and boy what a rip=off. They just copied the original idea. They must have thought WE were all "dreaming" to have missed that obvious charade. Larry Anderson.

Interesting premise, but very weirdly done. A lot of time is spent showing off Dennnis Quaid's great body. Apart from that, the film is slow moving and just plain weird at times and not very convincing either. The effects are not that great, but then again, it is supposed to be a dream world, so anything goes. The plot to kill the President and the means of executing this plan is brilliant, but there are just too many ingredients in this recipe to make it work.

the scene where the husband walks into the red lensed bedroom and finds his wife horse riding his bro got massacred for the DVD, unfortunately. i remember this scene explicitly. you can't mess with a 10 year old's sexual fantasy or recollection. the DVD , for whatever technical or political reason, does not bare the original beta and VHS American versions released in the eighties clear vision of a "totally pg-13" movie. the F word, boobies and heart ripping out of chest and severed snake heads and nuclear holocaust. man, today pg-13 is so mild, it's ridiculous. two words: kelly le friggin' brock in "woman in red". genital nudity. never seen again by these eyes in a pg-13. crazy eighties. what brass one's they had!

So the German Blu Ray promoted this as the movie that was there before Inception - and also being way better than the Nolan movie. Let's be clear, you can't deny this existed before Inception. Yet the movies are not the same things for once and Inception is the far superior movie. That being said, this has a few things going for it. The casting is one of them. More than stellar cast overall, with great performances. The movie worked even when it had some bumps/flaws along the road. The pacing and some inconsistencies along the way may deter some from viewing or make them annoyed. Cliches and more turns than some may expect, this still is as predictable as they come. But remains entertaining if you let yourself immerse into it

Excellent cast heading up this Fantasy/Horror film with excellent early F/X (seems amateurish to today's standards). The reason I love this film so much is that it spotlights the subconscious and its hidden agendas. It's a classic war between good and evil. The plot is solid, and it's a real headgame when you think about the dream world as another realm completely. Great chemistry between Quaid and Capshaw, and Sydow delivers his usual solid performance. Excellent conclusion!