[barend]

Funny, I don't remember anyone being raped and murdered in 'The Hobbit'. But then it is a long time since I read the book...

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i suppose you've forgotten about the car chase as well...

[Slade]

Sime, that comic is hilarious. And I don't know why you find being attracted to morbid things wierd, Jane. You're clearly big on the whole "I am psychopath, buddy, don't fuck with me or you get the knife" sort of thing.

To put it a different way for no real reason:

I like to cut out kitten's hearts and eat them. ^_^

Edit: Typos.

This post has been edited by Slade: 24 January 2005 - 01:28 AM

[DBrennan3333]

Hey, Peter Jackson seems to be picking sure-things of late, and there's nothing more of a sure thing than this cheesy Lifetime-television-caliber crap.

(Ever notice how the NYT Bestseller list ALWAYS has at least one book about a rape victim on it?)

[barend]

maybe he should do one about catholic church related pedophelia...

hmmm?

[ekm]

Not so sure about The Lovely Bones...While it has the potential (on some levels) to be another Heavenly Creatures, it also has the potential to be a cumstain on the mattress. I read the book this past year when I first heard Jackson was mulling over turning it into a film, and I thought it was a great idea ruined in execution. What little storyline exists is ruined by a sexy shower scene between a grown man and the ghost of a dead 14 year-old. Give me a fucking break, please.

PJ: if you don't wanna do the Hobbit, I understand. Just stay away from Lovely Bones, please.

[barend]

and do the hobbit anyway...

[Slade]

How do you have any shower scene with a man and 14 year old ghost? I don't see it at all...

Unless she appeared and said "Wooooo... Avenge my death, father!"

"Augh, the ghost of my raped and murdered daughter... couldn't you have waited until I got out of the shower? This is kind of wierd."

[Jen]

I don't remember the exact cirsumstances of the shower scene, but it did not feel creepy and explotative when I read it. Weird, yes. But you know ...

Seriously, the book isn't a fetishistic portrayal of rape and murder -- I didn't think so, anyway. The girl is raped and murdered, at the beginning of the book, which is why she is looking down from heaven, but it's really about a family dealing with their grief in the wake of her death. It's about rape and murder the same way "The Lord of the Rings" is about hobbits. It is, but it's more than that ...

[ekm]

I don't remember the exact cirsumstances of the shower scene, but it did not feel creepy and explotative when I read it. Weird, yes. But you know ...

Seriously, the book isn't a fetishistic portrayal of rape and murder -- I didn't think so, anyway. The girl is raped and murdered, at the beginning of the book, which is why she is looking down from heaven, but it's really about a family dealing with their grief in the wake of her death. It's about rape and murder the same way "The Lord of the Rings" is about hobbits. It is, but it's more than that ...

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I thought the shower scene was ridiculous rather than tasteless. I could deal with a story about a girl looking down from heaven at her greiving family, but having her possess a girl for a bit of steamy Supersoaker doggie-style? Check, please.

My biggest problem with the book is the way it rambles. There's no real structure, but instead of series of vignettes and secondary characters who perform no real function in the story.

[J m HofMarN]

What the fuck is with popular literature's obsession with ghosts having sexual encounters with people in the shower!?!? Blargh! Anne Rice did the same thing in her horrid novel Blackwood Farms (amid various other crimes against literature)