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i hate it when they kill the dog.


I wish there was a warning on movies and books. The dog gets killed. A child dies.

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They should include it in the advertising.

I'll prefer a movie where a dog is shot.

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They should include it in the advertising.

I'll prefer a movie where a dog is shot.


 I like you.

I'd take all my friends to see that movie.

Can't stop the signal.

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I'm with you, sherrisomerville. It's almost always superfluous when a suffering animal is shown, like Riddick's "dog" (worst horror of the film IMO, though everything Riddick loves always dies). I would rather have seen Benjie shoot another kid (by accident and not fatally).

I'm only in Show Biz by injection

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Don't worry girls! The dog is fine! It's all make believe in movies. The red stain was tomato sauce. You can all relax now.

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I always hate it when they kill the dog, but it would have been physically traumatic if anything happened to Bob's puppy in The Drop. I think we're all pretty much aware that this is fiction -- we animal-lovers would just rather not see it. Knowing (from the blood trail) that John Wick's puppy crawled to him before she died was another scene that hurt.

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You do realise that you could just happen to witness a real animal death at any time in real life. You could be just walking down the street and suddenly a car runs over the dog that the guy in front of you was walking. A bird could fly full speed right into a window and smash its head. You could even witness a dog killing a cat, or a hedgehog, or a rat.
I just happen to have witnessed all of the above first hand. I could have let it traumatise me, but I chose to move on and use those unpleasant experiences to fortify my spirit against the nastiness that animals accidental deaths are.
The way you're reacting to this fictional pet's fictional demise is totally counterproductive, and very much exaggerated, imo.
No animal died, so let's move on, right?

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"Counterproductive"? Counter to what? If I have a negative emotional reaction to scenes of animal abuse, why is that your business and who are you to call my reaction exaggerated? I cry over commercials sometimes. Doesn't mean I'm traumatized, just hypersensitive to animal suffering.

Only in Show Biz by injection

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Yes, but since it's staged and no animal is actually suffering, you could easily get past and over it. That would show that you're smart enough to tell fact from fiction and save your suffering for when it's justified. But you don't. Not only you suffer at the sight of a sleeping dog with tomato sauce on it, you feel the need to come to these boards to share the burden of this suffering, as if you needed a shoulder to cry on.
Well, if that's not overreacting, I don't know what is.

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Sorry you find my "overreacting" so offensive, but I wasn't the original poster here. And it isn't like I'm losing sleep over those sad scenes. I just find them unnecessary. I don't like to think that awful things happen to innocent creatures, though I know they do, and would rather not have my face rubbed in it. But my "suffering" has plenty to be justified for in real life, and I don't need a shoulder to cry on. I do know the difference between fact and fiction, and you're making more of this than it deserves.

Only in Show Biz by injection

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Truce, okay?

Only in Show Biz by injection

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Okay.

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Just because she's sensitive to the fictitious death of a dog doesn't make her too sensitive OR stupid.

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She's the one who said she's hypersensitive, and no one called her stupid. So, why exactly are you talking?

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So um... because it could happen in life, you shouldn't be upset when you see it in a movie?

I COULD fall onto a nail and have it pierce my eye. I don't want to watch a nail going into a guy's eye in a movie. It's gross.

Your logic is dumb.

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Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

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YOUR logic is retarded. There's no scene in the movie where a dog is killed, just an image of a supposedly dead dog. Lasts about two seconds. And any sane person with half a brain knows that the dog isn't actually dead.
Way different from showing a nail piercing an eye... or a bullet piercing a dog, for that matter.
So where's the connection, what exactly is your point, and above all, why are you talking?

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It was a movie.

I'm relatively sure no one (person or dog) was actually purposely killed in this film.

Director yells 'CUT', and all dead forms are resurrected.

I'm watching 'John Wick' right now, and Keanu is making many humans pay for killing his dog.

But the dead will rise when the director yells 'CUT'.

Short Cut, Draw Blood

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It's just a dumb, fictitious dog. It's about the least important thing there is in fiction, get over it.

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Warnings can ruin the narrative, which both a dog and child death warning in this case would certainly accomplish. An R-rating should be enough.

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Amen!

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I don't even like dogs, but it was a pretty tasteless scene that really added nothing to the movie and didn't develop Benjie's character in any new way. Then, after that, there are never repercussions and the whole subplot with his friend is completely dropped after this scene and it's never mentioned again. One of many script/plot frustrations that I had with a movie with a talented director and cast.

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Really? The scene doesn't introduce Benji as a potentially dangerous person? Especially given what he does later? Wow. You can really analyse your films!
Of course, it would have been much better to see where his friendship with his dumb friend would go after that. Hopefully we could have seen more of yhe two groupie girls and listened more of their idiotic conversations. Who cares about Benji's sanity?

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It's contemptible how you're outraged over the dog dying while the death of a child is a distant secondary concern.

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Would you like a side order of cries with your waaaamburger?

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