<![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences - Defamer Comments]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences - Defamer Comments]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @RubySubmarine: Tiny teddy!

nick_r

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> I wonder if the tanking of the weirdly similar The Life Before Her Eyes had anything to do with the pressure on the set? And why did the ordinarily astute Sarandon not realize her role was supposed to be Old Lucille Ball when she saw the script?
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens, which is why it makes for bad movies...

regisgoat

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @Omelas:
Excuse me, do these effectively hide my thunder?

RubySubmarine

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> "...a lot of hair and jewellery (sic) and nails and liquor. I don't think I ever talk without a cigarette and a drink in my hand."

Sounds like a slice o' heaven to me.

Little Mintz Sunshine

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @nick_r: What a fun, sexy time for you!

Omelas

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> yep, lovely bones, got the politically-correct crowd juiced up. I mean HOW can you be against a book about a murdered girl who was raped and now tells you about it? Unless it's gratuitous drivel-crap. But of course it screamed 'film option' so off to the bookbinders!

MrRewrite

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @juniperjenny: I'm with you! It has to be one of the most overrated books I've ever been suckered into reading.

You know there's something wrong when you start wanting to know more about what's happening with the antagonist. Half way through, I was all, "Hey! Can we get back to the rapist's story line?"

moochia

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @Sleepyhead: I shot my wad prematurely on what was supposed to be a dry run, and now I have a bit of a mess on my hands.

nick_r

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @Sleepyhead: MR F!

pureblarney

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @nick_r: Has anyone in this family ever even seen a chicken?

Sleepyhead

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @juniperjenny: Whisper of Death is still the most depressing book I have ever read. It was so existential! He died during rough foreplay in a barn! Remember Me was also pretty fucking sad.

In the book, wasn't the main characters "heaven" like a swing set outside of a high school? I can't imagine what all the fuss is about.

whitekidinflatbush

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @britneyspearstears: ...I'll either tell him there's a cabin and take him, or tell him there's a cabin and then not take him. But the one thing I will NEVER do is not tell him there's a cabin and not take him!

nick_r

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @Sleepyhead: Nailed it!

britneyspearstears

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> This book was sentimental and contrived and lacks any satisfaction of closure. Why this book Peter?

SanFranBetsu

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @nick_r: That's what I was wondering too. It's pretty "this movie doesn't seem like it'll translate to the big screen afterall" fishy.

Benovite

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @PaisleyPajamas: I agree totally. I couldn't finish it. Opposite of my experience with The Time Traveler's Wife which I am so hoping Plan B does a great job with.

WGARefugee

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @Sleepyhead: *slow wink*

Sweet Panda Love

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> Shut down over creative differences with the art director?

We're talking about Peter freaking Jackson here. If God showed up on the set and disagreed with him, he could fire God. Why is the art director a problem?

nick_r

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @OldTowneTavern: STEVE HOLT!

Sleepyhead

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @juniperjenny: Nope, you are not the only one. I thought the first couple of chapters must have been the ones that hooked the lit agent, and the rest was done on a weekend bender of Ben & Jerry's and vodka. I thought it fell off the cliff after leading its lemming-like readers to it.

PaisleyPajamas

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> Am I the only person who thought "The Lovely Bones" was exactly like one of those trashy Christopher Pike books I used to read in middle school? Meaning not very good except for the creepy factor. Plus emotionally manipulative rather than moving. I'm a bad person. I'll shut up now.

juniperjenny

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> I got a lovely bone.

..I'm so sorry guys.

Benny

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> @pureblarney: Her?

OldTowneTavern

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> Well, production issues aside, Peter Jackson is really slimming down. It seems the worse things get, the better he looks. Maybe, if the entire set catches fire, he'll end up on People's Sexiest Man Alive.

OldTowneTavern

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> But she doesn't really seem like a real grandmother because she has a lot of hair and jewellery and nails and liquor.

This woman has clearly never seen an episode of Arrested Development.

pureblarney

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> How soon we all forget Jackson's moving portrayal of heaven in "The Frighteners."

FancyInk

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> "If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?"

"Hello, darlin'! I sure bet you didn't expect me to look just like Susan Sarandon with a lot of hair and jewellery and nails and liquor!"

La Cieca

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> ...I play the comic relief, an alcoholic grandmother - my first grandma...

I'm crying with you, Susan Sarandon.

PaisleyPajamas

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> Maybe it was the tone of her voice, but Sarandon doesn't sound dissatisfied - she just sounds like she's accurately describing the character as written in the book.

That being said, I always thought this was a bizarro choice for Jackson, but he did such a fine job with "Heavenly Creatures" that I'm looking forward to seeing this, Gosling or no.

Sweet Panda Love

]]> <![CDATA['Lovely Bones' Shuts Down Over Creative Afterlife Differences]]> "she doesn't really seem like a real grandmother because she has a lot of hair and jewellery (sic) and nails and liquor" - Well, Susan, maybe not where you come from. (See Spears, Lynne)

CourageousCoward

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