My love for the book likely feeds off my obsession with decades past as it is set in the 1970s. Combine that with many parallels to my life (an Indian love interest, tragedy/death, and a girl named "Lindsey" in the story) and you begin to understand why I couldn't put this book down on my honeymoon. Poor Pratik! He kept threatening to take the book away so I would quit crying over it...only I bring along morbid stories to read on the happiest trip of our lives. Ah, well, the phase of learning about each other started early!
I was a little worried that I might be disappointed with the interpretation of the book, even in the hands of "the" Peter Jackson, especially because I'm NOT a Lord of the Rings/Hobbit fan. Plus, I wasn't sure how the afterlife theme of the story was going to play out, especially because it is described so uniquely in the book. The trailer only served to make me even more hyped up about this particular part of the story...
To top this whole day of movie trailer excitement off, I find out that one of my favorite childhood actresses, Anna Chlumsky, is making a comeback. She starred in the My Girl movies, the second of which was my favorite. I had a really bad summer when I was about 13 where I had casts on both of my legs after surgery and the only thing that would cheer me up was watching My Girl 2 on repeat, another movie that fed my obsession with decades past. I can still repeat the first line...I'll spare you.
I don't claim to have amazing taste in movies. I'll watch and generally enjoy anything that's not horror or sci-fi. I hate Lord of the Rings and I'm petrified to this day of ET...but I'm fairly confident in predicting Oscar nominations for this film. Do check out the trailer, the book, and eventually the movie! I'll be first in line at midnight on December 11th! Sorry, I won't be able to wait until I go back to Michigan for Christmas to see it with those of you that I've forced into reading the book...but I will be easily swayed to see it again!
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