Trailer!: The Lovely Bones

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Trailer!: The Lovely Bones

POSTED: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 9:45 PM

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(This version of the trailer is copied from the Apple.com trailer site. Go there if the embed gets taken down, because I haven't found an embeddable one yet.)

This is the much-anticipated trailer for Peter Jackson's locally shot (woohoo!) film The Lovely Bones, based on Alice Sebold's best-selling novel. Let's get to the nitty gritty: I haven't read this book but this trailer looks AWESOME. I wasn't a huge Lord of the Rings fan, mainly because I really just wanted to see some hardcore elf battles and because the movies wasn't three hours of that, I was annoyed. But what those hardcore elf battles (and the rest of Peter Jackson's oeuvre) has pointed to is a strong visual style that's worth reckoning with.

By the looks of this, Jackson and art directors Jules Cook and Chris Shriver (who worked with Jackson on LOTR, which had stunning art direction) nailed it. I don't mind that it looks CGI-y. It's heaven. Maybe heaven looks like that. It would kind of be badass if it did. I'm also digging the cast, from Marky Mark in his '70s wig to the cig-ed out Susan Sarandon to Saoirse Rose, whose performances in Atonement and I Could Never Be Your Woman make her one of the few child actors I actively don't want to slap. This girl is good. And that's not even discussing Stanley Tucci. Ah, Stan. Best character actor working today? Me thinks yes

Anyone who has read the book have an opinion? Let me know what you think!

FrÃ¤ulein Flem

Posted 2009-08-05 16:57:20

The book was meh but this trailer looks awesome. Can't wait.

Debi

Posted 2009-08-05 21:02:30

I look forward to seeing the movie, the book was very good.

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