Did any of you see this movie yet????





dont give it away - i just wanna know if anyone else saw it.

guys, i said, dont give it away!











[Edited 12/27/08 23:11pm]

Not yet, but my mom wants to see it. I'll have take her; it looks like a really cute movie.

saw it. the ending had everyone crying. my mom was in tears, she kept repeating in spanish, " no me gusta esta pelicula, esta muy triste" which means, i don't like this film, its too sad..it was fun.

Throw a spoiler alert on this.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

sorry

Is the spoiler that the movie is a gigantic turd?

I already knew that.

I had a huge problem with it.....too much info for kids....unnecessary information for a KIDS movie....

The book was Ok - the movie is bout the same

pardonme4livin said:

that was what i was thinking!!!

sure, it was very sad, but i kept thinking - 'surely they wont SHOW this shit' it was too late for me to get the kids out before they knew what was going to happen and on the spot i started to think that maybe their lil minds could somehow make it worse than it really was so i sat there crying with my kids and everyone else in the movie... when it was over, brianna said to me, 'momma, get rid of all of our animals, i cant handle it when they die'

just wish i would have had more notice or known what the movie was really about before i signed us up for a happy family christmas movie

What's the problem? Animals die. Yes, it's sad. Terribly so. I'm still not really over the loss of my two childhood dogs almost 4 years ago, nor do I think I ever will be.

But it's a fact of pet ownership. No matter how they go, it will happen. Everyone who loves a pet, even children, will one day have to contend with that.


And pardon my criticism -I've been accused of trying to tell people how to parent before -but isn't it your job to find out what's going on with a movie before you take your juniors to see it? Just because something has an animal in it does not mean it's going to be a cheery endeavour.

meow85 said:

ok.... breathe....




remember this year to let the small stuff roll off your back.....






its all good.

nakedpianoplayer said:

You complained about the content of a movie you brought your kids to see without finding out first whether it was something you thought they could handle. And obviously I'm the bad guy for pointing that out. Gotcha.

meow85 said:

Oh come onnnnn... They marketed it as a comedy for the fam.... there wasn't a way to investigate the ending initially.... Only after many saw it. Did you see the commercials? Sure death is a part of life, but the way they ran this one, it wasn't immediately evident.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

The book has been a best seller for years. I'm sure someone out there going to the movie had a handle on what was going to happen. Also, given that we live in the age of teh interwebz, access to any information we might like about any given movie is right at our fingertips. Considering even Disney movies can feature major character-related tragedy, shouldn't folks be investigating a bit if they think their short people can't handle what might be shown?

Ah, forgive me. My new-ish job at a movie theatre has given me sort of a hair-trigger reaction to parents (or guardians, older siblings, babysitters, whatever) who make questionable choices in flicks for the kiddies. Some guy brought a 5 year old in to see Repo today. I thought that movie was fucking awesome. But bringing a kindergartener in to see it?

Did somebody die??

meow85 said:

Some parents just don't fucking care. There were a bunch of kids in the theater when I went to see Role Models. I thought their parents should have been hit with a bag of nickels.

Vendetta1 said:

Don't even get me started on the number of kids at Role Models. Youngins have been showing up in droves for that movie, meanwhile Bolt and Madagascar 2 sit practically empty.

On the other hand, maybe the folks who make kid movies should be asking themselves why kids would rather see two overgrown man-children be crude for 2 hours than watch a talking dog or a set of oddly-geometrical zoo animals.

pardonme4livin said:

What kind of information are you referring to?

nakedpianoplayer said:

Hearing that coming out of my child's mouth would break my heart!

I have not seen it, I was busy watching Gran Torino~ http://prince.org/msg/100/293087

where's the benjamin button thread?

psychodelicide said:

if you dont want to know, stop reading this now....









































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it will give the movie away....





























































seriously, stop now!

























































































the dog gets old and sick, and has to be put down. i was surprised and i imagine the other folks were too when the showed the animal being put to sleep. the injection and everything, the iv, the checking for heartbeat afterwards, it was pretty intense. i think they could have done the whole thing without having to show that, thats the part that i had no idea they were going to show... it lasted a good 5 minutes and it was kinda hard to watch, the whole scene i mean - sad, very very sad.

I'm not going to read this thread, but since I've seen this thread title a few days ago, I saw the title somewhere and realized it was a movie.
Now I may want to see it. Boy the power of suggestion is strong.

nakedpianoplayer said:

If it was described in the book, why wouldn't it be in the movie?

meow85 said:

you are really trying to piss me off, arent you?

i didnt read the book! i didnt even know there WAS a book! excuse me for not doing homework on a movie before we went!

they show it as a good family movie - a funny one! therefore, i was a bit surprised when it turned out this way.... end of discussion its over now, it was really something to talk about, not something to argue about - move on now, find someone else.

meow85 said:

It's one thing to read about an animal being put to sleep, it's another thing entirely to actually witness it. At every veterinary hospital that I've worked at we have to prepare owners for what they are about to see if they choose to stay in the room when their animal is put to sleep. Then in veterinary school they lecture to us pretty intensely on how to handle it ourselves and how to help owners through it.

I could see the dog being put to sleep at the end of the movie as not being too horrible but to actually see the entire process is a bit much to experience without being prepared for it.

I've never read the book 'Marley and Me' but I do know that there were two versions of the book released, one for adults and one for children. Did the children's version include the detailed euthanasia scene?

JasmineFire said:

thank you

all i kept thinking about was my baby roxanne, she had to be put down after being hit by a car, it was the most horrible thing ever, she wasnt in any pain at all, but her back legs were totally useless, she just kept trying to get over to me, i was on the floor halfway laying in the pin with her, she died licking my arm - i will never forget that experience, i cried uncontrollably for like 30 minutes in there with her when it was over (my brother asked that we not cry for her last little bit of time here on earth, instead tell her what a good baby she was and try to be happy - break down afterwards)

that was like 12 years ago and it still breaks my heart to think of her, she was a good baby, i have never had another one quite like her.

nakedpianoplayer said:

I still get teary eyed when I think about Hannah, the dog I grew up with, getting put down. She was old and was on a very steep decline...she didn't really recognize familiar people anymore, she couldn't climb up the stairs, she wasn't interested in food.

They let me be with her while they did it and she went pretty quickly and easily. It's still one of the saddest things I've ever been through.

JasmineFire said:

im sorry

hey, maybe roxanne and hannah are playing together in heaven? im sure they have some of the biggest dog bones there, and a great big huge lake to swim in

Cinnie said:

Here: http://prince.org/msg/100/289762

It didn't do so well.