Not perfect but the charm of this kind of movie of the 80s remains intact. Good story & nice casting. "Corbeau d'or" (=gold palm) at the International Fantastic Film Festival of Bruxelles 1985
Interesting and cool idea for a movie, but it did not work out in this movie.
Still decent and worth a watch, just to play with the thought of entering dreams and the ability to alter the reality in various ways.
Dreamscape is the OTHER Kate Capshaw movie in which someone rips another person's heart out. I smell double-feeeeeature! Somehow, even though I was a kid rabid for sci-fi in the 80s, this movie never fell on my radar. It has Dennis Quaid as a roguish psychic who learns to enter dreams to help people with their nightmares and is a fairly exciting scientific take on the Nightmare on Elm Street concept (both films out the same year). The problem with dreamscapes in movies is that they rarely match up to the reality - they're never as surreal, choppy, or fluid as real dreams (or at least, mine) - but they don't do a bad job of it here, considering. The 80s effects actually add a layer of oddness that I can take as "dream imagery". I was afraid the movie wouldn't fulfill the promises of its premise when the third act kicked off with government conspiracies and chase scenes, but I need not have been. In no way is Dreamscape really unpredictable, but it does pretty well for itself as a sci-fi thriller of the late Cold War era.
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beehivespirit
waste of a good premiseianjd
I was hoping to like this movie, but I was mostly bored.xrobin87x
Good premise, awful execution. Inception did it right though;)SpaceChief
The cover is more exciting than the movie.Sylaeon
Not perfect but the charm of this kind of movie of the 80s remains intact. Good story & nice casting. "Corbeau d'or" (=gold palm) at the International Fantastic Film Festival of Bruxelles 1985Ariph
Interesting and cool idea for a movie, but it did not work out in this movie.Still decent and worth a watch, just to play with the thought of entering dreams and the ability to alter the reality in various ways.
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Dreamscape is the OTHER Kate Capshaw movie in which someone rips another person's heart out. I smell double-feeeeeature! Somehow, even though I was a kid rabid for sci-fi in the 80s, this movie never fell on my radar. It has Dennis Quaid as a roguish psychic who learns to enter dreams to help people with their nightmares and is a fairly exciting scientific take on the Nightmare on Elm Street concept (both films out the same year). The problem with dreamscapes in movies is that they rarely match up to the reality - they're never as surreal, choppy, or fluid as real dreams (or at least, mine) - but they don't do a bad job of it here, considering. The 80s effects actually add a layer of oddness that I can take as "dream imagery". I was afraid the movie wouldn't fulfill the promises of its premise when the third act kicked off with government conspiracies and chase scenes, but I need not have been. In no way is Dreamscape really unpredictable, but it does pretty well for itself as a sci-fi thriller of the late Cold War era.ChrisReynolds
Alex Gardner is a dream-rapist.adastras
alright..