I went and saw “The Lovely Bones” over the weekend. Pretty good. The movie is actually based on a book, and everybody always says the book was WAY better than the movie. Even people who’ve never read the book say that – it’s like you’re trying to convince the world that you can read. I never read it, but I’m curious about how they might show some of the scenes that ended up in the movie.
A story about a teenage girl, murdered by a serial killer. But instead of going to heaven or hell she goes to… Wonderland. It’s not actually Wonderland, but it might as well be. She’s stuck in the “in-between”; this place where you can walk on water and it rains lollipops basically – it’s like a 2 and a half hour music video. She’s at her house, and then the house melts away and then suddenly she’s tobogganing on a rainbow. I’ve never been snuffed out by a serial killer, but if it’s really the fun, carefree acid trip THE movie portrayed it to be – I’d be doing a lot more hitchhiking.