Corrected entry: When Henry and Otto go to get Duds, his "mom" says he has leukemia. Isn't it odd that a doctor can find leukemia but not tell that he is really an alien in an assumed shape? Is his "mom" an alien in disguise too? Some say he's not an alien, but in the final scene he sheds his human form and resumes his true form, then he envelopes the other alien and self destructs himself and the other alien.
EMTurbo
8th Oct 2003
Dreamcatcher (2003)
8th Oct 2003
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Corrected entry: When Pete and Henry find the woman why did they insist on making her talk to them? Why didn't they just read her mind? It would have saved Pete a punch in the nads.
Correction: They can't read minds. The group is tuned in mainly to each other. The virus gives normal people the ability to communicate telepathically, so when Henry gets infected this ability is intensified.
8th Oct 2003
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Corrected entry: How was that electric fence supposed to contain the worms? The wires were 12-18" apart and the worms are only about 6" in diameter. They wouldn't have a wire too close to the ground or the snow would short it out. This would be easy for the worm to crawl under. The Army DID know about the worms because one of the head officers referred to them as the "s**t-worms".
Correction: The electric fence is not there to contain the worms - it's there to contain the people. Morgan Freeman and his team are concerned about citizens leaving the area and spreading the "ripley"(that red stuff,) as well as the worms, to other parts of the country. The symptoms of a worm infection are pretty obvious, so it would be a simple matter for one of the guards to remove an infected person from the general population and deal with it. Freeman has a line, something to the effect of: "no one will survive this." He doesn't mean that they will all be killed by the aliens - he means that he intends to kill all the survivors in the area, to prevent contamination of other areas. As usual, it's explained a little better in the book.
8th Oct 2003
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Corrected entry: If the guys can hear each others' thoughts why did Henry have to walk to go get the snowmobile? Why didn't he just have Beaver or Jonesy bring it, and oppositely why didn't Beav and Jonesy send Henry and Pete an S.O.S. about the "shit-worm"?
Correction: It is made clear near the end of the movie that they have to be within a certain range of each other for the messages to work. Near the end Henry is saying "Just get me in range". They may have tried to send a message but realised they were out of range.
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Correction: It is never stated that a "doctor" found Leukemia, she just says he has it. Most likely she is protecting Duds because a man she has never met is in her house, and might think of him a little strange without a cover story. Duds may have bestowed the same "gift" on his mom, and she looks after him the same way the 4 friends do. Even Henry doesn't give his identity away when he and Otto are in the car on the way, he just casually explains that Duds is special.
Jazetopher