So, who's seen "Lovely Bones"?

Well, I have. And let me tell you, that movie was effing weird. Maybe there's something in the book that explains it, but why is it called "Lovely Bones" again.

Well, I kind of liked it. It was pretty cheesy at points,especially at the pretty narmtastic Big "NO!" around the beginning.

Any thoughts on it?

That's weird... I just, literally just, like, a week ago, read that book, and while I know that there was an explanation, some tiny, metaphorical explanation, for why the title was "The Lovely Bones", I couldn't for the life of me tell you what it was.

edited 31st Jan '10 9:30:31 PM by DaeBrayk

The bones of young children are like those of birds; delicate and inexpressibly sad. That might be why it has that title.

To paraphrase the book, "The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life." hope that helps. I liked the movie, the book is wonderful.

part with the molester guy creeped me the hell out...

Apparently Ebert thinks this movie is creepy in a bad way. Link to his review on The Lovely Bones.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100113/REVIEWS/100119992/1023

This movie sounds terrifying, to be honest. Being killed isn't exactly supposed to be a good thing. Sheesh.

edited 7th May '10 11:57:50 AM by AirPump

Ebert is a nutty nutbag who's nuts. The film did not in any way make getting murdered look like a good thing...or even a not-that-bad thing.

I swear, that man is just trolling at this point.

I wouldn't go that far, but I do think this one where he completely missed what the director was going for in favor of his own navel-gazing.

I thought he was complaining about the "hey if you die you get to go to pretty sparkly heaven" thing.

That's what the trailers made the movie look like, anyway.

/still hasn't seen it

But if you die, you do get to go to a sparkly lovely heaven. Apparently. I read it in some book.

Yeah, but a pretty sparkly heaven with GOD. Any other kind of sparkly heaven is an illusion cast by the devil.

What I got was that his idea of what heaven might be was getting in the way of the fact that this was heaven for a 13-year-old girl in 1973. I think an endless group of new Facebook friends, and meadows full of wildflowers might be a fairly accurate representation of a kid's view of heaven. And complaining that "heaven is outside of space and time" and therefore wouldn't have color is just petty nitpicking.

Anyone know what the story behind the bicycle shadow that makes Mr Harvey drop the pile of stick is? I haven't read the book so I guess it might be a childhood thing?

If anyone still cares about why it's called The Lovely Bones, I recall a quote from the movie that went approximately "these are the lovely bones that grew around my absense." Or something. She was talking about the relationships that people, mainly her family, made once she was gone.

Also, the scene with the dirty bathroom thing and Harvey was just uhgg. Decent movie though.

I quite liked that movie, it had a happier 'tone' than the book, which was quite depressing, also I also hated that creepy bathroom scene with Mr Harvey