I finally saw Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones yesterday, and it was indeed lovely and there were bones in it. As expected, recent BlackBook cover star Rachel Weisz turned in a wonderful performance as a grieving mother. Susan Sarandon was delicious, Annette Bening-style, as the family's alcoholic, chain-smoking grandmother, even if she seemed to reprise her roles in Igby Goes Down and Bernard and Doris. Stanley Tucci and Saoirse Ronan were revelations as the film's two main characters, and should both contend for some Oscar love. Jackson's heaven looked like the Kiwi Middle Earth of his Lord of the Rings empire. But there were five things that, for me, stood out about the film in a weird way. There could and should be more, I'm sure, but I'd been uptown shopping with Crispin Glover all day (more on that later), and I was a bit tired by the time I sat down to watch Susie Salmon watch her family from the afterlife.

1. I think I spotted a goof. Maybe not, but I love shit like this. There's a scene in which Stanley Tucci's creepy pedophile-murderer discards of his victim Susie Salmon's charm bracelet in the water after hanging on to one house charm. Then, in the afterlife, there's a scene in which those discarded charms expand, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid-style, either into ice sculptures or clouds or topiaries, and the house is still there -- even though Tucci kept it. Job opening, continuity department!

2. In real life, days before the Salmon girl swims upstream for one last time, she's reading Seventeen, but then, in her afterlife fantasy, she's only the cover girl of Groovy Teen. And it's sort of like, whatthefuck is Groovy Teen magazine, but also where can I get a copy?

3. In one of the film's final scenes, there's this part where Susie comes back to the real world -- sort of -- to switch bodies with a girl who reminds me of Emily the Strange, who is now dating the boy Susie loved before she died. In some sort of bizarre ghost possession ritual, the goth girl passes out, Susie appears, and she starts making out with Emily's man. They cut to another scene, and when we next see the Goth and her guy, Susie has gone to heaven once and for all, and they're now spooning -- no mention of the man-stealing Casper moment that just occurred.

4. I'm sort of puzzled by the fact that the cops didn't finger Tucci's character sooner: he's a middle-aged SWM who wears prescription molester glasses, gardens, and builds miniature dollhouses in his spare time. He might as well have taken Dakota Fanning to prom.

5. Finally, it was hard to stay in the world of the story at times because, in an upcoming interview for BlackBook, Saoirse told me, "“When we finished our most difficult scene, I went over to Stanley and gave him a big hug. He had his arm around me and we walked off and had a chat.”