What Movies, and or Programs Are Difficult to Watch?

Any Disney animal movie, i.e., Bambi, Old Yeller, the Lion King, the Fox and the Hound, etc., etc., etc.

These movies made such a terrible impression on me as a child I never allowed my children to see them. I mean, Bambi pretty much opens up with her mom getting shot. I never got over that.

I don't understand why children's movies can't all be good, happy, etc. Don't tell me it's just life. Three and four year olds don't need to learn that at that age.

I once complained to the literature teachers at school about the required reading books. My one teacher friend said she didn't have any books like that on her reading list. Score. Plenty of other material out there.

Dale

A Dog's Purpose
I cried.

I've never seen Bambi or Old Yeller, and don't know if I'll see A Dog's Purpose. I know they're just movies, but I still don't want to see them. I use to watch Animal Cops... cried every time. The Will Smith movie, I Am Legend, was sad too. Agnes

I read there is a website that tells you which movies to avoid that
have animal deaths in them. I did a search and this is what I came up with. I am not sure how up-to-date it is.

Does the Dog Die?

1995brave wrote:
A Dog's Purpose
I cried.

I won't even watch that - I KNOW it will require an entire box of Kleenex :-(

I watched "Dances With Wolves" once - and said "never again" due to the heart-wrenching loss of the wolf and the horse....

brewjaz wrote:
I read there is a website that tells you which movies to avoid that
have animal deaths in them. I did a search and this is what I came up with. I am not sure how up-to-date it is.

Does the Dog Die?

This is awesome!!

I also won't re-see movies where there is wanton death of humans - "Schindler's List" and "Amistad" come to mind. But seeing an animal die just triggers all those painful feelings from losing my own pets.....

brewjaz wrote:
I read there is a website that tells you which movies to avoid that
have animal deaths in them. I did a search and this is what I came up with. I am not sure how up-to-date it is.

Does the Dog Die?

Thanks for that info. Never thought of searching for that.

Dale

Marley & Me. Saw it once, great moments, but I can't watch it again.

I have issues with most animal movies. If they're not killing off the animal to "teach kids about death", then they're feeding cats milk and showing the hero dog with its puppies at the end of the movie. Drives me insane!

Cartoon-wise, Balto is the best. Even my shepherd-lab and Akita watched it all the way through (OK, as soon as Balto started getting hugged by the little girl, the Akita got up off the couch and left...).

The first K-9 with Jim Belushi was good. The second one ended with the litter of puppies, but the first one was well done. After that, Belushi actually became enamoured with shepherd.

Hatchi with Richard Gere was good. They look a lot of liberties with the true story, but they did well with the dog.

I find that's the hardest part - movies and TV tend to make caricatures of the animals. Few let the animals be true to their realities.

Oh, the first Incredible Journey is wonderful. The remakes don't hold a candle to it.

I don't like Youtube videos of dogs being tortured in the Middle East. I have no Idea why they show them, so sick.