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Dead animal one, 'cause I don't feel like watching a bunch of "Chick-Flicks." Better movies win.
Thank you for not putting either of the sad Futurama episodes on here, I can't watch either of them without crying.

You people have to be fucking kidding me. The dead people movies are AWFUL FUCKING MOVIES! Beaches! Really, you're rather watch Beaches then Neverending Story? Fucking crazy talk.

Steel Magnolias? Fucking ingrates.

Kill me a human on film anytime...just don't hurt the dog. Cats are okay though. Kill the cats.

I really am a softie when it comes to animal deaths on film. I Am Legend seriously bothered me.

I'll never watch Barbara Hershey's collagened lips again.

Wait, Turner died in Turner & Hooch? SHIT

All the dead dogs movies are heartwrenching, but they have nothing on real life. I was crying into my pillow for an hour over something I saw on Animal Planet. Even talking about it puts me in 'Sad Panda' mode.

HE CAN'T SEE WITHOUT HIS GLASSES!

Eat a dick, My Girl slammers! When I first saw that movie I was very small and in love with my best friend (a crush that replaced my love for Macaulay Culkin, I might ad) and I burned through an entire box of tissues. I still love the film for dan akroyd, culkin, curtis, and even anna chlumsky, as well as the plot's unusual focus on death. I even kind of liked the sequel, which is admittedly DUMB!

So I'm the only one who thought the end of Marley & Me was fucking hysterical?

Those Dead Person movies suck, I wouldn't want to sit through them regardless of how easy it would be. And retrospectively, isn't it kind of nice to watch Macauley Culkin die?

Dammit! Spoilers! I've never seen any of those movies. And now I never shall.

I will watch both. My spirit was broken when I read the words "newborn porn."

Hmm. How about the funeral in 4 Weddings and a Funeral.

The father in Life is Beautiful

Debra Winger in Terms of Endearment

And I KNOW it is TV (but it was a miniseries, LIKE a movie), but Ianto, Children of Earth.

I'd have chosen dogs if you didn't include Where the Red Fern Grows. You could have just chosen Red or any number of less manipulative and equally well-made dead dog films.

It hasn't been often in my academic career that I've blacked out with rage during a class, but that book followed by that film set me off. No one has ever told me what I said or did and I think it's better that way.

So, bad dead people movies it is.

Whenever I watch an animal movie, the animals usually come off as so coached that I can never suspend my belief enough to forget that there's a trained actor dog up there that's probably getting some tasty treat for pretending to die. So I probably wouldn't mind the dead dog marathon. But I would actually get kind of sad watching My Girl, sad to realize that a movie I loved as a child is actually crap. This is why I avoid most childhood favorites now that I'm an adult.

The Neverending Story is the only movie on this list I like. So fuck your dumb dead dog and fuck your cancer babies. I choose neither.

what if I fast forward through the animal death scenes? cause those are better movies HANDS DOWN! but I CANNOT handle watching the poor animals die!!!

I chose dead animal movies due to the words:

"No animals were harmed in the making of this film."

People are generally messed up anyways, so we don't care when they snuff it.

Considering that I've sat through most of these anyway, I went with the Dead People marathon.

ESPECIALLY SINCE MY PARENTS' DOG DIED TWO WEEKS AGO THANKS FOR REMINDING ME YOU HEARTLESS BASTARDS.

Ahem. Excuse me. Forgot where I was for just a second. I do know that heartless bastards is a compliment around these here parts. However, since I can't come up with anything pithy ("Compassionate Legits"? just doesn't have the right ring to it), I will just say that I probably would have taken the decent cinema with dead animals and bad cinema with dead humans, except that you put Where the Red Fern Grows on the list.

Considering that I was given the book to read at the tender age of seven, just seeing the title (thirty-mumble) years later is enough to have me sobbing in the corner.

Thanks ever so.

It doesn't really matter which marathon now as it's cold emotionless numbness for those of us that foolishly decided to read the Wikipedia page for A Serbian Film after poor Brian had his soul devoured and somehow managed to write a review. (If for no other reason than to save us all.)

DAMN!

HOOCH is crazy!

Stupid f-f-f-f-reezing office and nearly numb fingers.

Aislinn said it: Grave of the Fireflies will make you lose your mind. There is not one single good feeling in that movie from beginning to end. If you don't cry at the end of that film, you are not human. Fine, forget end, if you don't start crying during the film, you're not human.

You could've made this hard and if you had, perhaps I would have questioned my dislike of humans. However, you included Stepmom in the human list, the only movie I've ever shouted 'Oh for fuck's sake just die already' at. So humans lose.

YOU JUST HAD TO PUT THAT CHILDHOOD FUCKING TRAUMA THAT IS THE WHERE THE FUCKING RED FERN GROWS, DIDN'T YOU?!?!??!

I hate that book. I do. I hate the movie. I hate the fact that it makes me go into the fetal position sobbing so loudly that I can't breathe. That book/movie is CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT. I'll NEVER forgive my 5th grade teacher for making us read that. NEVER. And then, we watched the movie. The entire class cried. The damned teacher cried. I want to burn every single solitary copy of the book and movie so no child has to witness that shit EVER AGAIN. Old Yeller isn't even that sad. If you don't cry at that movie, you are a heartless, oil for blood, robot droid who doesn't deserve any form of happiness that a pet can bring. You are a miserable, horrible person if that fails to make you cry.

*Clearly I have stronger feelings than I thought on this subject.

dead people..I balled during Marley and ME and refused to see I am legend, I would never see a movie if I knew in advance an animal would die..even if it won an 20 oscars

I picked the dead people.

I won't even see movies where I know the animal is going to die (ex. I am Legend).

The fact that the dead people movie suck so much just makes it easier - you don't care about the characters = you laugh when they die.

Or is that just me?

For me, it isn't just the movies that I pick animal survival over people. Yeah I cry when people die in sad movies - watching "Wit" drains me. But watching animals "die" in a movie can push me into dangerous depression territory. Especially if it an animal that dies while trying to save their human.

I remember reading a book called "Sasha My Friend" about a girl who raises a wolf and *spoiler, but not really* she has to shoot the wolf at the end. The wolf trusts her and dies. Like "Old Shep" but catered to a preteen girls sensibilities... I read it enough to virtually memorize it, but after the death of one pet and euthanasia of another, I will probably never be able to read it again.

IRL, I always feel more sympathy for the animals killed on the side of the road with collars on than all of the horrible news stories about abused children.

Maybe it is because I do not have children. I don't know why it is this way, it just is. And even though the Humane Society and other organizations exist, I still feel animals get the short end of the stick in this lifetime.

Trick question. Watching Julia Roberts die IS watching a dog die.

Oh come on, My Girl was good. I haven't seen it since I was ten years old, but it was good, dammit.

I had to go with the better movies. It's a movie and I'm 99% capable of compartmentalizing that with entertainment and keeping it separate from real life. That said...

Girl that played Pan - Pan's Labyrinth

this fucking ended me. I hated everyone and everything for like a week after that.

I cant watch any of these movies. I cant.
I dont understand the mentality of watching movies that make you cry and think of real life dead people and animals. My mum and sister love a good weepie and often try to drag me into their cocoon of emotion but damn it I'm an OWL(slight in joke if you haven't FB added me yet...and if not WHY THE HELL NOT?) I dont truck with emotions!!!!!!

That said I cant decide which is sadder. Neither, I hate both these types of films, they're cruel and nothing more than attempts to steal our money by making us emotional.

Up made me cry like a child, though. But then again Finding Nemo makes me sad so...fifty fifty...if it's done right, either film can drag your heart out through your belly button and grind it into dust

No Where the Red Fern Grows ever again, not ever. I feel that way about Amorres Peros too. And dear god, my aunt made me watch a movie called Pharr Lap when I was about 9, along with my several cousins, mostly girls between 7 and 16, so I think she learned her lesson about showing us a dead horse movie.

And anyway I've seen al the dead people movies already. You know the one that always kills me? Believe me I know *i know* what a terrible movie it is but Meet Joe Black reduces me to a puddle every damn time. Something about daddies and daughters. If that were on the list I might reconsider. Oh wait, no I wouldn't. No dead coonhounds! Ever!

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I'll have to go with watching the animals movies, at least the movies are compelling...

Damn you, both are horrible! The people dead ones are really just BAD...I'd probably take the dog ones just out of principle because those movies are at least better than the dead people one. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was beautifully made! What are you talking about?! (Sorry person was saying that the movie made them feel terrible...but I digress).

You wanna cry? Watch the Barbaro special that was on HBO last year. Poor Barbaro.