to be slightly sickened by anyone who wants to see the movie of The Lovely Bones?

[Buckets]

I mean really, why would anyone want to see that?

what is sickening about people wanting to see it??

In case anyone is interested - full cast list below.

It will be released in the US in November - not sure when we'll get it.

Steven Speilberg is an exec producer....fwiw.

Rachel Weisz Abigail Salmon
Mark Wahlberg Jack Salmon
Susan Sarandon Grandma Lynn
Stanley Tucci George Harvey
Michael Imperioli Len Fenerman
Saoirse Ronan Susie Salmon
Rose McIver Lindsey Salmon
Carolyn Dando Ruth Connors
Nikki SooHoo Holly
Andrew James Allen Sameul Heckler
Christian Thomas Ashdale Buckley Salmon

I think the timing isn't great for a film like this, that's for sure.

Apparently we are all much more inclined to watch a load of actors who can't sing and should know better, dance around like loons on a Greek island....

It's something to do with Captain Credit Crunch.

We just wanna be happeeeee!

LOL mark wahlberg -from the once a tree school of acting.he was rotten in Planet of Apes

susan sarandon usually ok though

Yes, he does stick out like a bit of a sore thumb amongst the rest of that crowd...

I think the team (director, writer, cast etc) sound promising.

I am very proud of the fact that I didn't go and see that Greek musical island thing you mentioned!
I wasted good £ on the stage version and couldn't believe what a load of tripe it was. A waste of good ABBA songs imo.
However, my FIL is 69 and has seen this film 4 times!

Unfortunately many of the subjects writers and film-makers will want to explore will sicken someone somewhere. But that's up to them.

Yes, I am sickened by thought of those women prancing around in badly fitting outfits, doing badly choreographed dancing and exchanging unspeakably shite dialogue to move along a moronic story.

But clearly I am in the minority!

Wonder when we'll be getting the sequel..

I loved the book, I like to think Heaven is like that

OK, my quetsion wording could have been better but I got tied up trying to get the grammar right LOL. I feel queasy at the notion of watching the film myself and wondered why other anyone would want to see it after reading the book. But that doesn't fit the grammar of an AIMBU question. Anyway, thanks for all your answers.

Someone mentioned Seven earlier. That's definitely one film I wish I could 'un-watch!'

I saw seven when it came out. I couldn't watch it now. I just haven't got the stomach for violent and upsetting things anymore.
Dp asked me the other if I wanted to watch Dances with Wolves.
I told him it was a great film but there were scenes in I found distressing and didn't want to see again.

I used to love the Sopranos. Now I can't handle it. I've become such a bloody wuss.

Yes sorry when I said it's not about death, I meant it's not about the blood, guts, gore aspect of death, which is the only reason I can imagine for being disgusted by the audience.

God I found 7 tedious and sick. And that was pre-children.

It's a beautiful book not about the violence etc imo but about a young girl watching over her family. It's been years since I read it but it is still fresh in my mind. However I wouldn't go to see the film as dh who doesn't read books would assume it was sick etc and I think it is very difficult explain without the other person having read it.

My social worker bought me this book.

Is it really about a child who was abused?

Yes, theresonlyme.

It is a young girl who is raped and murdered and you see her family trying to deal with it through her eyes, as if she were watching it from Heaven.

I'll watch it, just because I'm interested in how it will translate to screen.

Most fiction would be ruled out if no-one was ever allowed to write about tragedy. Hamlet/King Lear and the rest of Shakespeare except the comedies and sonnets, for instance. Most opera.

Although we would have been spared 'Titanic' and Celine Dion...

Why on eart would a SW buy a book for someone who was abused?

It is so going in the bin.

god, i thought it was a ghastly book, not well-written from what i recall, extremely obvious in its evocation of a heaven and thougtht the shag scene was just bonkers and a cruel abuse of the other girl.

I think yabu, tbh.
I didn't like the book, not because of the subject matter, but because it was naive and badly written.

thereisonlyme - there is a lot more to this book than the simplicity of your statement would imply - I wouldn't dismiss it that readily!

Read back the entire thread for a more balanced perspective on it (apologies if you already have, but your post seems to suggest otherwise).

Crikey, I don't remember it being as badly writtten as so many posters seem to think.

It's a grown up book - not some bit of sensationalist twaddle - and as many posters have said, born out of the authors own tragic experience.

Maurice - what do you mean by a cruel abuse of the other girl? (genuine question).

well, as i recall (and it was a while ago that i read the book) she jumped into her pal's body for a shag, without prior permission from pal? is that right?

LOL! Actually, I think you are right there is something like that near the end, but it's funny because I would never have thought to describe it quite like that! I thought it was a really powerful moment in the book!

Fascinating how poles apart folk can be on these things. Life's rich tapestry...or something

I'm perplexed by the people who say it was badly written. I thought it was very cleverly written - through the eyes of the 14-year old. Very disturbing in parts obviously.

Some reviews are quoted in the book:
"moving and compelling" Sunday Telegraph
"spare, beautiful and brutal prose" Sunday Times
"painfully fine and accomplished "Los Angeles Times"
"manages to transform it (the tragedy) into something hopeful and redemptive" Daily Mail

I'm sure the film will be well done with that cast list.