I cant watch films really where an animal ends up dead. I avoid them like the plague, thats why i cant watch that film called eight below as someone told me they dont all make it back.
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It is so funny, I am the same way. If I even suspect an animal like a dog or cat will be killed or hurt in a movie I can't bear to watch it even though I understand it's in a movie and make-believe. I am an animal lover, (live on 10 acres with 6 dogs and 5 cats).
shareYeah, the dog lives.
But a human is murdered. Doesn't that bother you?
Oddly enough, having personal connections to the subject matter (gay bashing) and also being a boston terrier owner, I also worried more about the dog than the human. Why is it easier to accept that human characters are just actors in a film, allowing us to tolerate all kinds of unspeakable events happening to them, than it is to imagine a dog being hurt?
shareto me it is becuase animals have no voice, and we want to speak for them and protect them.
shareThats a very intersting point of view.
I like animals but It does not really bother me if they are hurt in movies. Of course I care when they are hurt in real life.
I have never thought about this before. Hmm..
I was surprised and very grateful to find this thread. I also will not watch "entertainment" that includes any kind of animal mistreatment. It is impossible ever to justify that as entertainment. It adds nothing good to any story worth watching, even if the story is true. And it is impossible for me to believe that any person who genuinely loves animals can not mind seeing them hurt in a movie, as another poster claimed here. But maybe that poster is young and just didn't know any better until now.
The reason it is intolerable to see an animal hurt in a movie, but okay to see a human hurt, is very simple and reasonable. Every single animal that ever lived is innocent, and the same is not true of human beings. Any animal that even seems to be evil has been taught that behavior by the person who should have been caring for it but abused it instead. It's the owner who's guilty, not the animal.
No animal ever under any circumstances deserves mistreatment at the hands of humans; even pretending to do it for entertainment is deeply perverted and despicable. That applies to all creatures, not just the cute ones. Rats, snakes, bats, fish and lizards are just as innocent and just as deserving of respect and decent treatment as puppies and kittens are.
I was very grateful that very early in this movie, less than two minutes into the opening credits, a little Boston terrier is shown running through a park at night trailing its leash. I took that as an indication that it wasn't going to be hurt, and I was right.
I wish there were a web site that identified movies in which animals are mistreated, like the sites that warn about content that's inappropriate for children. If anybody knows of one, please post its URL here. Thanks.
Yeah let there be warnings. Im not into violence but animals being hurt does bother me, actually i end up being more loving to my own dogs when i have read or seen something about animal cruelty. They just look at me & wag their tails thinking mummy is nuts!!
I couldnt even watch Jurassic Park as they lowered a Cow into the Dinasour enclosure & then left a Goat shackled up as dinner!
I usually would enjoy watching things with Dinasours, it used to be an interest of mine.
Same here. I do not watch anything where animals are hurt. Period.
"Stalingrad. . . The fall of Stalingrad was the end of Europe. There's been a cataclysm."
The dog comes to no harm, although he remains very small.
Excuse My Dust...
I've read comments like this on several other posts of various movies and I really can't understand what's the fuss of seeing an animal 'dead'. It's all just acting and believe me, the dog gets its reward in the end (lots of biscuits!) I don't want to sound insensitive but in a movie you shouldn't pity anyone.
shareIt's very difficult because even the thought of an animal being hurt is unbearable to some of us. The thoughts are very painful to those of us who love animals.
shareThe dog runs away after his owner is brutally attacked with a baseball bat to the head. The dog runs back to his house and claws at the door, hoping to get ahold of one of his owners, seeing as one of them lays in park with his brains splattered all over the ground, and the other is about to find out that his partner is dead, the dog finally manages to almost disappear from the entire film. So, f' the dead guy, lets just make sure the bitch is ok.
shareI had the same question. I knew from the description and title the one guy probably ends up like Matthew Shepard but was curious if the dog was harmed since that's left blank.
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