The Lovely Bones

[Off the Heezay]

Directed by Peter Jackson, i dont know about you guys but this movie looks legit
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/thelovelybones/index.html

[Cacteur]

Yeah it sounds good. It was made here. Peter Jackson is a New Zealander, and there have been heaps of positive writeups about it. :)

[Off the Heezay]

no way thats so awesome. I cant wait :D
hey cacteur did you ever see a movie called "Dead Alive"? Im asking because its one of the goriest zombie movies made in history, directed by Peter Jackson and its also filmed in New Zealand.

[Cacteur]

no way thats so awesome. I cant wait :D
hey cacteur did you ever see a movie called "Dead Alive"? Im asking because its one of the goriest zombie movies made in history, directed by Peter Jackson and its also filmed in New Zealand.

I'm just listening to a review on "The Lovely Bones" on our evening TV news. The reviewer loves it.

Peter Jackson is a hero over here. "Dead/Alive" was called "Braindead" around the rest of the world, (someone in the US had a copywrite on Braindead) and it was his forth movie. His early stuff was called "splatstick", so gory that it was funny.

New Zealand, Australia and the UK got the whole 104 gory minutes. (They used 300 lbs of cow blood in the last scene!) Most other countries showed a 94 minute cut version

In the US, (as Dead/Alive) an R-Rated version was shown at 85 minutes, and an unrated version is in circulation at 97 minutes.

I love his 'splatstick films. Try and find them. The first came out in 1976, "The Valley", the second, "Bad Taste" was released in 1987. He got in trouble over that one with animal lovers. The plot is New Zealand getting taken over by militant sheep. (We had around 60 million sheep at the time, to 4 million people.) Anyway during the film hundreds of sheep get blown up with blood splattering everywhere. He insists the sheep were already dead. Bit of an irony in a country that slaughters millions of sheep ever year. Next was "Meet The Feebles", and "Braindead - Dead/Alive" finished that era off.

He then got a little more serious, and did "Heavenly Creatures", "Forgotten Silver" and "The Frighteners" before he did the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I thought that was awesome, but I'm an LoR tragic, having read the books in my teens.

I thought "King Kong" was a bit weak, "Crossing The Line" was much better, and now we have "The Lovely Bones".

Good stuff. can't wait to check it out. :violent: