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?

lol at including critics' opinions as if that produces a . some of us could be critics, you know.

ST, i remember being really shocked by that bit, i could see that it was supposed to be powerful but i just kept on thinking 'so you're just using your pal's body for sex, you hypocrite...'

Personally I think it's a horrible idea that when a person dies they are still regretting everything they missed. That and having to watch the sorrow of your loved ones. Hell not heaven IMO.

I hate films about books unless the story really lends itself to the media of film.

I hated the book

has anyone reda her most recent - Almost Moon? thought that was quite good

Yes, I think I was wrong-footed by it, but I had really bought into the book by that stage, so I felt she was probably trying to make a point - that just because she's dead, just because she died in the tragic way she did, doesn't make her a saint. Also, said something about just how utterly desperate her desire to have back the life that was snatched away from her was. I sort of thought - fair play, I'd be fucking pissed off too....

Well Buckets - maybe that was her point...what kind of heaven for someone who dies in that way, so young?? Can any amount of angels and ice-cream vans make up for that? In her opinion, obviously not.

i think i'd been told by about fifteen people that they had sobbed from about page 50 onwards and i MUST read it, so i kinda read it thinking 'when's it going to get good?' and then turned the last page...

well it was her own stupid heaven, she shoulda thunk up something better.

Just seems the book was based on the gimmick of dead person's POV and the whole heaven concept was quite limited because of this. Seems a pretty punishing idea of heaven.

but what a gimmick, buckets... sell, sell, sell to anyone who's ever lost anyone. genius, manipulative genius imo. but really, a pretty crappy work of literature.

Disagree.

Not a life-long classic, admittedly, but not crappy either.

This book motivated me to consider many past experiences and relationships and I don't think that was manipulative writing - it just felt honest, to me.

YANBU.

Sorry, but I found that book as morally bankrupt as most of society is these days.

Well, it's fine to think this particular "gimmick" was shit, that's just personal taste, but I don't think you can argue against the very idea of "gimmick's" in film and literature...It's what they are built on - although more often referred to as devices, or contrivances, or indeed, literary conventions. They are the building blocks of many a great work of fiction (not saying this is one of them!).

What would you have to say about, say, A Matter Of Life And Death - you could just as easily levy that accusation at that film Buckets.

at expat! Come on - maybe you don't like the book but really, you agree with the arse clenchingly reactionist view of the original OP - that one ought to be SICKENED at the thought of wanting to watch the screen adaptation?

No, I don't agree, Sycamore. I think the premise of the entire book was a perverse, sickening and, worst of all, weak excuse for originality, in addition to being poorly written and trite.

Expat. No, I 'm not sickened by people wanting to watch this movie (or any other movie) but I like your review of the book

But can you tell me how you really feel?

I am so genuinely at these really strong reactions.

It means nothing to anyone on MN but I consider myself a seasoned disser of most stuff I read or watch...definitely didn't even get a whiff of all that when I read this....

Me? (sorry I'm a bit drunk, I'm loosing track...) How do I feel? I don't really have feelings towards other people's film choices .
I didn't like the book, therefore I don't think I'd want to watch the adaptation. I do like all film genres, and I watched and loved extremely harrowing movies in my life.

No, not you but your post has really put a smile on my face - bless you franca, and your large glass of vino

It was to expat - who did not mince her words - I was just being....erm, ironical

I thought so, but I couldn't help myself, I'm so keen of giving my opinion, especially after the wine

Give away! I think everyone else has fucked off now anyway

Morally bankrupt is a tad histrionic.

I don't think it was trite, I really don't, although I acknowledge it wouldn't stand as great literature.

Dependant on your relationship to the subject matter, it resonates, or not.

I am one of the most inarticulate people I know so I struggle to give this book all the praise I think it is due.

I was stunned by the beauty in the writing of this book and over-awed by the author's ability to word a subject in such a matter of fact way that that although horrifying, she does not scare spook or titilate. She simply tells the story. The life after her death is described in the same way. Simply and beautifully reassuring that the ones we lose stay with us and do find peace and happiness however sad the circumstances.

Interesting cast chosen for the film including Moretti from ER as Harvey. I think I will definately go see the film.

0f course it depends what you're referring to wrt the subject matter, but if you're talking about losing a loved one, then i found it really emotionally manipulative on that level. painful, but not healing. just pushy and desperate to make you FEEL. yuck.

yes, it was that reassuring element that seemed to appeal to so many people. i felt like i was being sold to. truth is, she no more knows what happens when we die than anyone else. could be pppfffft. nothing. could be ice cream vans and grannies. i thought it appealed to people at their most vulnerable, that's what stank for me. not a great deal more honourable than the pelzer canon.