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Westtexan
Member
07-16-2004
| Friday, December 26, 2008 - 7:30 pm
Saw it today. If you have read the book, you won't be disappointed. (That is, if you read the book and loved it like I did.) Very sweet, touching movie. I was actually surprised. I was prepared for Hollywood to cutesy-up the book and ruin it.
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Dlkuhn4
Member
07-14-2002
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 12:27 pm
We saw it to and everyone loved it. Just a warning though it is a tear jerker. I don't think there was a dry eye in the place. Even my 11 year old son was crying!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 9:10 pm
i will have to see this, since the golden retriever we bought last year turned out to be a golden lab. we did get half our money back after the AKC investigated. however, we did fall in love with our golden retriever 'wannabe' and he went from 13 to 102 pounds in the year since we got him. he is our marley for sure! one time he found a cardboard packet of sewing needles and had chewed the pack of 100 open. they were in his bed, all over the floor--i had to call back to work and tell them my lunch had to be extended and take the pupster in to be x-rayed. he sits on the ottoman that he had not fit on since last christmas. it takes a 4-point turn for him to turn around in the hallway if there is not an open doorway to provide more moving space. he is such a brat that we just love him! my college kids are going to see it tuesday and i hope to go soon.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 12:20 pm
needles?!! oh no! nice to see you on the board Tabby!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, January 01, 2009 - 12:12 am
thanks, happymom! sure wish i had more time! lately i have been working 12 hour shifts and get home and have maybe 2 hours before i have to go to bed!
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, January 01, 2009 - 9:08 am
My beagle (long long gone) once ate shattered glass!
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Thursday, January 01, 2009 - 6:19 pm
I went and saw this today - it is a funny movie, but it is a tearjerker. I cried during the movie, cried in the lobby waiting for girlfriend to use bathroom after the movie, and cried on the way home. It was a very good movie, but it is very emotional if you have ever had to put a furbaby to sleep. I had to put my Beloved Lexie to sleep in May 2007, and I've still never gotten over losing her so this movie just really tore me up.
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Countrydaze
Member
11-07-2003
| Thursday, January 01, 2009 - 6:43 pm
Don't think I will be seeing this movie since I just found out what happens to the dog. It just so happens I lost my sweet girl on Christmas Eve to the very same thing. She was old and they didn't think she would make it through the operation. My heart is broken and I miss her so very much.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Thursday, January 01, 2009 - 6:52 pm
(((((((((((((((((Countrydaze))))))))))))))))))))
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Countrydaze
Member
11-07-2003
| Thursday, January 01, 2009 - 8:12 pm
Thank you Ketchulover. My house is way to quiet, I keep waiting for her to come into a room or put her big head in my lap.
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Friday, January 02, 2009 - 6:14 pm
saw this movie today. as soon as the slow steps came...i knew what was happening. it made me remember so many things in my life. i can still remember what it felt like when i was 9 and lost my first dog that i had had since i was a baby. i can remember even what those kids were going through. my mom came and got me from school...i didn't even know that it was happening that day. it was a definite tear jerker...and i do believe that it is true...you give them your heart and they'll never leave your side. ((((countrydaze)))) your story made me tear up again. i wish you best of luck. and i know what you're feeling... unfortunately, i know it won't get any easier when i lose another animal.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 5:55 pm
The book made me so angry; I won't be seeing the movie. I really believe that you make a committment when you get a pet and then you work with the pet, you train the pet and you also keep it safe (no, you don't let any pet ride loose in a car, even a well-behaved one, but especially not if they aren't trained. 'Nuff said. Country, Lexie, I hear you on the pain of loss. I've been there often enough.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, March 30, 2009 - 5:20 pm
There is no bleeding freaking way I will see this movie. Its hard enough going through it in real life. Why would I want to pay good money to have such painful memories brought back? Shit, I'm tearing up now even as I type!
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, March 30, 2009 - 5:28 pm
It annoys me, having gone through a big loss recently, that they are marketing this DVD as a "feel good family" movie.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, March 30, 2009 - 7:07 pm
It is a beautiful movie, the love the family shared with their dog for so many years. Yeah, the ending is very sad but not the whole movie. 99% of the movie IS a feel good family movie. Yes, I cried my eyes out at the end but I'm so glad I didn't miss the movie. It was very good.
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Emmy
Member
05-04-2004
| Monday, March 30, 2009 - 8:21 pm
Who! I've always felt the exact same way. Everyone gave me that book to read and I really don't want to. I won't see dog movies because they always die in the end and why on earth would I want to go through that? Only good dog movie is Good Boy. Have you seen that?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, May 01, 2009 - 2:46 pm
I still haven't seen this movie, but I have recently started watching "Dog Whisperer" reruns on NATGEO channel. To my surprise, the guy who wrote the book was on one of the reruns asking for help with his new dog. After watching that episode, you could completely see why Marley was so misbehaved...LOL That guy and his family had no idea how train dogs.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, May 08, 2009 - 3:32 pm
I loved the movie at the theater and was first in line to buy it when it came out on dvd. Of course the pupster dies--otherwise, he'd be about 25 years old at this point! What was good about the movie is that the dog's life paralleled the family's. They went through hard and easy times together.
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 6:42 am
Read the book a month or so ago and loved it, saw the movie last week and it was great with a lot of lol moments.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 10:36 am
I wished I'd rented this over the weekend. I rented "The Dark Knight" instead, and I hated it. Heath Ledger was great now doubt, but I hated the movie. So did Colossus. Next time I'll get Marley and Me.
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