This movie disgusts me!

>>That's why it's especially troubling that these filmmakers chose to make this plot point. What other explanation is there, than that they wanted to create an impression in young minds that this behavior is normal? Do you honestly think they inserted the gay couple into the movie without deliberation?<<

Yes, becaause we all know how wrong and immoral homosexuality is.

I just got done watching this movie. It's not bad. It's not great either, but it sure was enjoyable, and I'll happily watch it again.

To a couple points that have been made in this thread besides the allegation that it's a bad movie:

It's obvious dog owners who have any sort of relationship with their animals see the universal questions. "What is my dog thinking?" "What would he say if he could talk" It shows the well known truth that all dogs have different persoalities. The play dead scene alone is worth it, just to see the training that they went through.

I sat watching the movie with my three dogs and they had the expected response - they got on their respective soft pieces of furniture and went to sleep. All they cared about was being with me. That's all this movie is about, enjoying each other, and all it should be about. There are a lot of other artistic, thought provoking, high explosive movies. Go watch those.

Now, that we're done talking aboug the merits of the movie. Other points were foisted upon the discussion by people who wish to drag forth their heterosexual agenda. There was one person missing when I watched this movie, my white partner of 16 years. I point that out because others seem to feel compelled to try & make me feel like less of a human being or at least a misbehaving, immoral sodomite. At one point in America based on societal norms, we'd have had rocks thrown at us or been lynched even if we were two heterorsexual people walking down the street. Since people seem to be culturally unaware of the real and obviously most secret homosexual agenda, I will explain it in simple terms.

I am a person and I will not let you forget that. I like seeing others of my culture properly portrayed in film and on TV. That is a tradition of self-respect that has been carried forward by blacks, latinos and other minorities. I'm sure it was a matter of debate to put a homosexual couple in the movie. It shouldn't have been. I our agenda involves getting up for work every day, feeding our famililies, dreaming of the same tax benefits, inheritance protections and vistitation rights our straight counterparts have and walking our dogs and being with our loved ones.

That wasn't hard, was it?

As for this particular couple in the film, they were just two guys living together. You make up what you want to. I'm sure that it's clear that Janet and Crissy were lesbians in Three's Company if you only see them for 3 minutes on screen. Yes, I had the same take, they're gay. My better-half's sister's kids have had me around since they were little. They're all out of high school or beyond now. We never talked about our relationship around them. We were just there, but I'm sure the quiet assumption has been made. They haven't turned out to be gay. They just love us like anyone else in the family. Being exposed to homosexuality didn't change their ability to love, just their ability to hate.

Anyone who thinks that is pushing a homosexual agenda obviously has too much time on their hands. I laud the film makers for putting this couple in there and just letting be like every other gay couple with dogs. We care about our dogs, have relationships and friendships with other people. Also, we can interact with young boys without trying to nab them. We don't get a toaster if we recruit 7-10 year olds (unless you're in NAMBLA)

For everyone's interest:
in·sid·i·ous ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-sd-s)
adj.
Working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner: insidious rumors; an insidious disease.
Intended to entrap; treacherous: insidious misinformation.
Beguiling but harmful; alluring: insidious pleasures.
[From Latin nsidisus, from nsidiae, ambush, from nsidre, to sit upon, lie in wait for : in-, in, on; see in-2 + sedre, to sit; see sed- in Indo-European Roots.]

Lastly, sodomy is practiced by heterosexuals too, and even though it's illegal in many states, I don't hear about cops busting in to straight households to enforce these needed laws. We need to define what we mean when we say "non-normative" behavior. On what basis are we defining "normal". Is it based on percentage of the population? Then being black is abnormal. Are we basing it on mental defect? The medical community has decided that homosexuality is not a mental defect and have proven it is genetically programmed in our DNA. I am not denying that some people choose to have sex with the same gender, but they are not gay, they play. If normal is defined as not like the attitudes that spawned this fear & hate, clearly that's a good thing!

The idea of this movie forwarding a homosexual agenda is ludicrous. The idea that this movie is bad is equally so. Dogs that can't speak make more sense than the words I've read on this page.