Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!dm@BBN-CLXX.ARPA From: dm@BBN-CLXX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Dreamscape Message-ID: <12525@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 10:49:14 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12525 Posted: Thu Aug 16 10:49:14 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 02:36:28 EDT Lines: 25 From: Dave MankinsSaw ``Dreamscape'' last night. A wonderful science-fiction movie speculating on what would happen if a psychic could enter into a person's dreams (as a participant). Stars Dennis Quaid (one of the astronauts in ``The Right Stuff''), Max von Sydow, and Kate Capshaw (gosh, she really can act, not just scream helplessly, what a pleasant surprise). The dream sequences are especially good, with just the right amount of eerie-dreaminess to them. The characters are good and believable, and the events of the movie, given the premise of "dream-linking", are good. In fact, having seen the movie, I can recall very few flaws, and thinking about the movie afterward, I haven't thought, "Why did they have to do that? Why didn't they just..." And the best part: NO CUTE FURRY CREATURES WITH BIG EYES. The characters in this movie earn your adulation (or distaste) instead of coming with handy labels of "good guy" or "bad guy". There is a cute kid, but he has a real problem, and he's only around to establish the character that Dennis Quaid plays. Go see it. Show those Hollywood executives that a real SF movie can do well.