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‘The Lovely Bones’ is haunting at times but lacks emotional impact — movie review

Who’s in it?: Mark Wahlberg (The Funky Bunch, The Departed), Rachel Weisz (The Mummy, Brothers Bloom), Stanley Tucci (The Terminal, Captain America: The First Avenger) and Michael Imperioli (TV’s Soprano’s)

Who Directed it?: Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Heavenly Creatures)

Damn, Peter Jackson, I was really looking forward to this one.  But no, you had to go and let me down, didn’t you?  I haven’t read the book by Alice Sebold so I can’t make comparisons between the two but watching the movie you could just tell it wasn’t all there.  Not that its a bad thing.  After all, when you’re adapting a book into a movie, it’s nearly impossible to get it all on screen.  Some shit just doesn’t translate from book to screenplay to motion picture. Continue reading ‘The Lovely Bones’ is haunting at times but lacks emotional impact — movie review