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    eatsshootsleaves: If anyone has seen this, please report back whether the ending remains the same. Because [spoiler] something REALLY bothers me about a book in which ... more »
    limber: It looks like The Lovely Bones is basically a Rorschach test -- everyone went in and saw something different and took away a different primary storyli... more »
    camera_obscura: I think Sophia Coppola would've done something awesome with this book... more »
    maude_flanders: Onscreen, however, The Lovely Bones is a hybrid of unmatching parts-shuffling between thriller, police procedural, family melodrama, and mystical fant... more »
    fiesty3toedsloth: That's really sad that the movie doesn't work. I enjoyed the book (other than the end). I had 10 friends/family members die the year I read it (only o... more »
    tiredfairy: Uhm, LOTR is not juvenile. Not the books, and not the films. Male-dominated, sure...but you can't tell me Sam and Frodo don't have some incredibly mov... more »
    TheExperience: I am one of the few people I know who loved this book, because it enveloped me with such a crushing sadness the entire time I was reading it. Everyon... more »
    Phyllis Nefler: I saw rough cut of it in the spring as a focus group showing. I haven't read the book, so I didn't have any ideas going into it. And I am not a Peter ... more »
    Understater: Call me a hater, but I'm not surprised that Peter Jackson has produced yet another CGI-ridden trainwreck. The man has little-to-no idea on how to tell... more »
    katie.scarlett.o'hara: I reread the book a few months ago and I didn't fall head over heels like the first time I read it (in high school), but I still felt the power in a f... more »
    moifauxmail: A movie from a year or so back that ran along many of the same themes (a period piece about children and violence, supernatural dread) was "Let the Ri... more »
    hughman: I really enjoyed the book and it doesn't surprise me in the least that the movie fails to recreate the same aura. One of the most engaging things abou... more »
    deeemer: I was curious why this was made into a movie in the first place. A 14 year old's rape and murder is impossible to depict on screen, and the chronicli... more »
    fatmonalisa: I thought the book was really awful. I could barely finish it. It tried way too hard to get an award. The book was the Tracy Flick of that year. more »
    GGobsessed: Perhaps this is off topic, but I'm a little undone by Rachel Weisz's being cast as the MOTHER of a teenager. Wow. I haven't seen the movie, but do th... more »
  • #criticalmass

    Peter Jackson Kills The Lovely Bones

    Critics were horrified by The Lovely Bones, and not because it deals with the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. In Peter Jackson's hands, the complex themes of Alice Sebold's award-winning book are reduced to a sentimental CGI whodunit. More »
  • #downers

    That's How They Tricked Us Into Requiem For A Dream

    Director Peter Jackson: "I found [The Lovely Bones] to be curiously optimistic...I felt inspired by Susie's struggle to come to terms with her own death. In the face of overwhelming grief, she finds hope." [USAToday]
  • #criticalmass

    Alice Sebold's Almost Moon: Almost Unreadable