Just watched Marley & Me

[nsrammstein]

I just watched that movie with my dog besides me, I cried like a baby

[IronMexican]

Fag

[angel_luv]

My friend told me the ending and saved me the nine bucks and unexpected tears.
I thought it was a happy holiday movie.

[MiamiHeat]

holy crap, it's a sad movie?

my wife and I were looking forward to watching this soon. we just talked about it yesterday

cute dog and jennifer aniston from friends.....

[Leetonidas]

Fag

:lmao

[ashbeeigh]

That was one of the saddest movies in the whole wide world. If you're a pet owner it pretty much sums up the life of a pet from puppyhood to senior dog status. Well, any animal really.

[MiamiHeat]

well that settles it

i'm going to tell my wife about this. we don't like to watch sad movies. especially one about a dog... we really love animals

[S_A_Longhorn]

The marketing of the movie really made it look like a happy dog movie. The book and the actual movie are very close in the nature of the real story - how Marley was there during the various parts of the author's life. The story, book, and movie all come from the author's newspaper column over many years.

It does make you think about things when it is over.

[JoeChalupa]

well that settles it

i'm going to tell my wife about this. we don't like to watch sad movies. especially one about a dog... we really love animals

Are you afraid of sad movies? Just because you shed a tear doesn't mean you are feminine does it? :lol

[JudynTX]

:lol

[MiamiHeat]

Are you afraid of sad movies? Just because you shed a tear doesn't mean you are feminine does it? :lol

what? do you bawl like a woman too?

lawl, poor joe.

it's ok to shed tears, i did it when I watched THE NOTEBOOK, but you can't bawl, joe, unless something really horrible in real life happened.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

I read the book almost a year before the movie came out (and I teared up a little bit), so I was kind of surprised to see the marketing campaign making it look like it was a revamping of the old Beethoven movies or something. My sister in law took my four year old niece to go see it without doing any research about the movie or the book. Let's just say it didn't end well at that theater.

[ashbeeigh]

My sister in law took my four year old niece to go see it without doing any research about the movie or the book. Let's just say it didn't end well at that theater.


:wow That would not have been pretty. My family, sans little sister went and saw it Christmas Day because we knew she would never recover. It's one I can live without seeing again. Although, it was a good movie and worth seeing at least once. It's good to know that so many people have the same feelings about their pets as you do.

[angel_luv]

I refuse to watch Old Yeller again.

I love movies like "Homeward Bound" where the pets are happily reunited with their owners, safe and sound.

[Frenzy]

yall just blew it for the non watchers.

[JudynTX]

yall just blew it for the non watchers.

So I guess the dog dies?

[Frenzy]

i have no idea i was just being jerky

[angel_luv]

yall just blew it for the non watchers.

Once a movie is out on dvd it is fair game to discuss. :)

[Spurminator]

I knew how it would end when I saw the preview. It's a PG-13 movie about a dog. It's not a kids movie like Air Bud, and it's not about some specific adventure a dog is having like Benji; it's a movie about the life of a dog, starting as a puppy, growing up, growing old and everything that comes with it. Of course he's going to die at the end of the movie.

That said, my wife and I still got uncontrollably weepy. Seeing it in the theater was a bad idea.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

So I guess the dog dies?

Yeah, they basically just rehash the last scene from Scarface.

[Spurminator]

The last 30 minutes is basically The Passion of the Dog.

[lebomb]

People get more upset by the passing of a Dog than a human being.

[Strike]

I refuse to watch Old Yeller again.

I love movies like "Homeward Bound" where the pets are happily reunited with their owners, safe and sound.

Yeah. Because life usually works that way. :rolleyes

[Strike]

The last 30 minutes is basically The Passion of the Dog.

The dog gets crucified, speared, and bloodied all the fuck up?

Gross. Dog snuff.

[angel_luv]

Yeah. Because life usually works that way. :rolleyes

And movies are all made to be realistic?

:lol

[JudynTX]

Yeah, they basically just rehash the last scene from Scarface.

What was this movie rated? Sheesh! :lol

[SpursWoman]

I had no idea what it was about, I thought it was a happy kid flick ... I had considered getting the DVD for my neice's Easter basket. I'm glad I went with My Little Pony instead. :lol

[sonic21]

PG -13 with a dog?
is it like Cujo?

[Strike]

And movies are all made to be realistic?

:lol

Did I say all? Find the word all in my previous post. It's ok, I'll wait. :wakeup

[angel_luv]

Did I say all? Find the word all in my previous post. It's ok, I'll wait. :wakeup

I like movies that inspire me to hope, not ones that remind me of the painful realities of life.
I have to deal with reality enough as it is.

And there are real life homeward bound stories- like the cat that took a trip in his owner's suitcase.

[Strike]

Fair enough. I'm in a crappy mood today. Nothing personal.

[ashbeeigh]

I like movies that inspire me to hope, not ones that remind me of the painful realities of life.
I have to deal with reality enough as it is.



To be fair, it inspired me to spend more time with my elderly cat when i knew she was dying..and to take more time to myself instead of going out and getting another one the next day.

The story isn't just about the end, it's about the whole life of Marley and how he was part of the family and how the family wasn't a family without him.

[angel_luv]

Cheer up! :toast

Cat missing after tornado comes home
http://www.itchmo.com/cat-finds-its-way-back-home-three-months-after-tornado-3010

Cat returns home from trip in suitcase
http://dogblog.dogster.com/2008/01/23/check-your-suitcase-florida-cat-gracie-mae-takes-looong-trip/


Dog reunited with owner five years later
http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=15496&z=3&p=

[angel_luv]

To be fair, it inspired me to spend more time with my elderly cat when i knew she was dying..and to take more time to myself instead of going out and getting another one the next day.

The story isn't just about the end, it's about the whole life of Marley and how he was part of the family and how the family wasn't a family without him.

Point taken. :)

I am sure the movie had many excellent life lessons. But with life lesson movies I like to know in advance that that is what I am in for.

I would have been crushed at Marley and Me because I expected it to have a family and dog live happily ever after type ending.

[Strike]

Cheer up! :toast

Cat missing after tornado comes home
http://www.itchmo.com/cat-finds-its-way-back-home-three-months-after-tornado-3010

Cat returns home from trip in suitcase
http://dogblog.dogster.com/2008/01/23/check-your-suitcase-florida-cat-gracie-mae-takes-looong-trip/


Dog reunited with owner five years later
http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=15496&z=3&p=

Your optimistic attitude is sickening. And yet, strangely motivational. I'm caught in a bit of quandary.

[Frenzy]

Yeah, they basically just rehash the last scene from Scarface.


:rollin

[angel_luv]

Your optimistic attitude is sickening. And yet, strangely motivational. I'm caught in a bit of quandary.

:lol I am not always optimistic. I do try though.

If you saw what I almost posted in the Spurs thread about the play offs you would know that I get grumpy/ apathetic just like everyone else. :)

[blizz]

Yeah it was rough at the end. Everyone in the theater was crying like a baby. It brought back bad memories of when we had to put my dog down.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

I've had to put down two of my great danes over the years, and those dogs are like children. I think I'll have to pass on seeing this one.

[NASCARdad]

So is this like Ole Yeller?

[tp2021]

http://www.themovieblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/marley-dies-2.jpg

[JoeChalupa]

Doggone it!! No spoiler alert!!!!?

[JudynTX]

I've had to put down two of my great danes over the years, and those dogs are like children. I think I'll have to pass on seeing this one.

:( Sorry to hear that. Our pets are like family members to us.

[SpursStalker]

http://www.themovieblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/marley-dies-2.jpg

:lol

[Bigzax]

damn, a Christmas release with a dead dog...that's just great.

[Taco]

a bit of a tear jerker

[angel_luv]

Strike, I thought of you and our conversation about real life happy endings in this thread when I read the following story.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_chihuahua_touchdown
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Tinker Bell has been reunited with her owners after a 70-mph gust of wind picked up the six-pound Chihuahua and tossed her out of sight. Dorothy and Lavern Utley credit a pet psychic for guiding them on Monday to a wooded area nearly a mile from where 8-month-old Tinker Bell had been last seen. The brown long-haired dog was dirty and hungry but otherwise OK.

The Utleys, of Rochester, had set up an outdoor display Saturday at a flea market in Waterford Township, 25 miles northwest of Detroit. Tinker Bell was standing on their platform trailer when she was swept away.

Dorothy Utley tells The Detroit News that her cherished pet "just went wild" upon seeing her.

[UltimA]

So is this like Ole Yeller?I doubt it's anywhere close to being that good, I heard Marley & Me was stupid.

[mookie2001]

whats better?

i heart huckabees
must love dogs
hotel for dogs
must heart dogs
or marley and me

[Bender]

I've had to put down two of my great danes over the years, and those dogs are like children. I think I'll have to pass on seeing this one.I have a 3-yr old great dane right now, since he was just a 6-week old puppy. I've read that they live short lives. I only feed him super-premium food, the kind you can't buy in the HEBs and Pet Smarts around town. Maybe he'll be healthier and live a couple years longer.
He is a huge big baby, and I'm very attached to him.
I will be devastated when he goes.

[TMTTRIO]

I thought it was a pretty good movie but yes it's a tear jerker and you'll be crying for a while.

[1Parker1]

The last 30 minutes is basically The Passion of the Dog.

:lol