just saw this preview tonight and havent heard anything about it before hand, but it definitely captivated me

looks really really interesting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUWKi0W5_g

10/24/2009 3:18:43 AM

The book was good.

10/24/2009 10:12:46 AM

well ive learned something new, sounds like i may have to get some new reading material

10/24/2009 12:48:31 PM

^they mentioned it was based on a book during the preview

10/24/2009 1:15:50 PM

I saw the trailer when I went to the movies a few wks ago...and it's kinda funny cuz I've been meaning to read the book for a long time and I finally bought it over a month ago. still have yet to read it. so when the trailer started I thought, "this has to be the lovely bones" and i was actually right! heh.

10/24/2009 2:03:10 PM

^^im illiterate

10/24/2009 3:41:55 PM

i just watched the trailer on the main website

i loved this book when i first read it years ago. it was one of the most depressingly good books i think i've ever read. and seeing that trailer got me so excited for the movie.

http://www.lovelybones.com/

(Saps, you can borrow my copy if you still wanna read it)

11/10/2009 2:36:21 PM

the movie comes out Friday and i'll be there

who else is going?

1/10/2010 1:22:12 PM

I more than likely will see this Friday as well.

1/10/2010 1:28:28 PM

watched last week while home for the holidays - what a horrible movie

my mom who read the book said the movie was a pretty big let down - especially the ending

1/10/2010 1:43:29 PM

did you pirate a copy somehow before it came out in theaters?

n/m it had limited release in december. i guess you did pirate it.

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1/10/2010 1:44:07 PM

I think I'm gonna go see a matinee of this on Tuesday after it comes out.

1/10/2010 2:06:33 PM

Be wary of any movies released in January & September. Movie attendance is way down and the studio dumps out their shit movies for this very reason. This year, take The Lovely Bones and The Book of Eli. If you're a studio, and you've just made a badass movie w/ Denzel Washington, why the fuck would you release it in January? Same goes for this movie. You've got Peter Jackson directing a best-selling novel w/ a pretty big-name cast (Wahlberg, Weisz, Imperioli). The release date tells me the suits simply don't have much confidence in the movie, hence it either isn't very marketable for it simply isn't good. The one major exception to my rule of thumb are movies being re-released by the studio for Oscar consideration.

1/10/2010 7:40:50 PM

anyone have any reviews about this movie???

1/17/2010 11:32:04 PM

I do

it wasn't fabulous

but it didn't suck

and I was pleasantly surprised by how they made her world looked in purgatory...


but they left a lot of the graphic details out I thought - I guess that's a good thing

1/17/2010 11:44:11 PM

Don't pay money for it. It was kind of blah.


Ninjavideo has a dvd rip.

1/18/2010 8:56:34 AM

I had such high hopes for the movie because I loved the book so much. I'm still going to see it in theaters, but I'm not nearly as excited about it now as I was a few months ago.

1/18/2010 9:07:33 AM

i dont think its purgatory i think it is paradise

purgatory is the "blah" part of heaven but its permanent, its like a punishment in heaven

paradise is the in between heaven and earth thing that susie was stuck in




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1/18/2010 9:39:32 AM

^yes, it's the "in between" world that she's stuck in, because she still has something left to do on Earth. at least, that's the way it's portrayed in the book AND that's what Peter Jackson has called it in all the "Lovely Bones: First Look" things i've watched.

1/18/2010 9:40:36 AM

i thought it was a good movie

the stoners are gnna love it but it was unsettling without being crass and overly graphic

1/18/2010 9:42:05 AM

I guess purgatory was the wrong thing to use since that denotes punishment... but I know her world wasn't always paradise - she would have a nightmare every night

1/18/2010 10:06:39 AM

well thats what that world is called biblically

it took me a while to realize what the holy fuck was going on in that movie, i had never seen a preview for it my girlfriend had just wanted to see it

1/18/2010 11:05:02 AM

^ yeah that's how I was thinking of it, in a biblical sense


the one thing I wish they would have explained more in the movie is that every person's "in between" world was different... in the book, iirc, the little asian girl would be in her own little world when she wasn't with Susie - it was like parts of their world overlapped but not all of it.

Also, I haven't read the book in forever - I thought he left her body in the underground place?

1/18/2010 11:57:58 AM

No, he forgot her elbow...but he chopped her up and put her body in a safe. Then disposed the safe in the sink hole just outside of town.

1/18/2010 12:03:47 PM

Ohhh ok... the sinkhole sounded familiar but I could've sworn she was in the underground thing - guess I was thinking of her elbow

didn't they find it though?

1/18/2010 3:00:58 PM

this movie was depressing, disturbing, boring, excessively long, and has an ending that made me laugh at how poorly it was done.

1/21/2010 7:28:45 PM

just got back from seeing this with my parents. my mom and i loved the book so we were kinda excited to see it. well they really really drug out several parts and it didn't add anything to the story. mr harvey was creepy and it really got my heart racing in several parts. i was a little disappointed because i didn't remember there being THAT much purgatory stuff and so little story in the real world. i could be wrong though. i didn't think mr harvey's story ended that way either, not going to spoil it.

overall it was good. my dad and i got a little impatient at parts but that's to be expected from us.

it did really make me want to beat in the skull of anyone who does stuff like that to little kids (even though they didn't show it).

1/24/2010 7:20:31 PM

I just read the book a little over a month ago, so everything was pretty fresh on my mind. That said, I really enjoyed the movie. A friend and I were discussing the book recently, as we both read it at the same time, and what we enjoyed most about purgatory in the book was the emotion Susie was experiencing while watching her family back on earth versus the purgatory imagery Sebold gave us. So, I thought the imagery used in the movie helped convey those emotions. I thought the whole "heaven is a high school" at first was kind of hokey (in the book), so I was glad that was left out.

A few plot elements that were changed/moved around or omitted was disappointing b/c a few of those elements or omissions I thought were a much needed layer to the pain and grief the Salmons went through. However, I didn't miss them entirely b/c the point was still there. I saw this with my mom, who hadn't read the book, so she asked me after about the comparison and one element I told her that was omitted she remarked, "You know, I thought that might have been the case and wondered about that...it makes sense now."

The ending was spot on with the book as well...which I love. The elements of that ending were all over purgatory. That was another thing I really enjoyed--the images of earth incorporated in the images of purgatory, and some of those images b4 she even knew what they meant.

Oh yeah, it was too long.

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1/26/2010 4:24:50 PM

Quote :

"so she asked me after about the comparison and one element I told her that was omitted she remarked, "You know, I thought that might have been the case and wondered about that...it makes sense now.""

what was missing? i don't remember. it's been 4ish year since i read the book

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