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irisblue

(32,972 posts) Sun Jul 28, 2019, 01:52 PM Jul 2019

Movie Website I use

"Does The Dog Die?"

I can't watch movies with animal abuse/ death. It has helped me choose films

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Movie Website I use (Original Post) irisblue Jul 2019 OP

Thank you so much. Laffy Kat Jul 2019 #1

Very useful.. I can't bear it either. Amazon Prime has a show, Castrophe that made me furious hlthe2b Jul 2019 #2

Thank you! There are many of us that feel the same way you do about animals. FM123 Jul 2019 #3

It looks like I wasn't the only one Doc_Technical Jul 2019 #4

Those and Dumbo, both versions irisblue Jul 2019 #6

I'm with you Ron Obvious Jul 2019 #5

I'll quit movies midstream if writers are so damned lazy to use animal abuse... hunter Jul 2019 #7

Laffy Kat

(16,377 posts)

1. Thank you so much.

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2019, 01:54 PM

Jul 2019

I'm the same way. Of course, 99.9% of the time, the dog does, indeed, die.

hlthe2b

(102,247 posts)

2. Very useful.. I can't bear it either. Amazon Prime has a show, Castrophe that made me furious

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2019, 02:00 PM

Jul 2019

Season 1 had been "laugh out loud funny," then I started season 2... the same salty witty crosstalk and reactions to the bizarre people in their lives as well as the circumstances they find themselves living in, but then they have the most callous reaction I have ever seen in any tv show to the accidental death of their dog, complete with tossing his body in the trash with not a bit of remorse.

At least in comedies like Chevy Chase' National Lampoon Vacation movie, where the dog is likewise made a "fatal comedic device" they at least had the good sense to show regret.

Uggh. That's a line crossed too far. Who the hell thought audiences would appreciate THAT?

I will be using that site in the future.

FM123

(10,053 posts)

3. Thank you! There are many of us that feel the same way you do about animals.

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2019, 03:22 PM

Jul 2019

Doc_Technical

(3,526 posts)

4. It looks like I wasn't the only one

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2019, 04:01 PM

Jul 2019

who was traumatized by watching "Old Yeller" and "Bambi"

irisblue

(32,972 posts)

6. Those and Dumbo, both versions

Reply to Doc_Technical (Reply #4)

Sun Jul 28, 2019, 05:11 PM

Jul 2019

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

5. I'm with you

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2019, 04:50 PM

Jul 2019

I can watch people die by the score (well, I watch Midsummer Murders and the like, so there), but animals getting hurt is beyond the pale...

Of course, for the record, I am a hermit and misanthrope.

hunter

(38,311 posts)

7. I'll quit movies midstream if writers are so damned lazy to use animal abuse...

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2019, 05:42 PM

Jul 2019

... as a way to show the bad guy is bad, or as a cheap illustration that life is sometimes very difficult. I've got more than enough real world experience with that shit.

I've never seen or read "Old Yeller."

On the Netflix list I notice I've avoided most of it.

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/types/netflix

I saw Norseman got dinged for sexual content, but I thought it was funny.

Yes, people die...

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