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11-07-2012, 05:08 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | Hachi: a Dog's Tale Anyone else watching Hallmark channel tonight? They're showing dog movies.
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11-07-2012, 05:15 PM | #2 |
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| I will never watch that movie again. The way it ended is too, too sad. That is one of the saddest endings EVER! Can't do it again. Poor, poor, poor Hachi. And they just left him there waiting. I could & would have taken that poor dog and given him another life. Of course he didn't want to go - he' a dog - but if only someone - say the guy's daugher - had made him, he would have come to love a good, loving home with fun, some slow walks, a place by the fire, loving talk, cuddles and a good chew bone. Sad, sad story.
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11-07-2012, 05:20 PM | #3 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | Uhm...you know the commercial for swiffers where tbe mom gets to read a book...you just played the daughter's part! Thanks though, if it's that sad maybe I don't wanna watch! (It just started)
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11-07-2012, 05:21 PM | #4 |
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| I saw it twice and my heart broke for that dog. I gravitate towards happy movies but not anything like Beverly Hills Chihuahua. lol |
11-07-2012, 05:24 PM | #5 |
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| LOL. Well, it was a true, but sad story in reality and when they redid the story for that movie, they kept the story ending like the real story. I like dog stories that end well and leave me happy not wanting to get inside my TV and do something about what is going on in there! LOL.
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11-07-2012, 05:31 PM | #6 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | I rarely watch television so I haven't seen any of these dog movies. I saw Richard Gere & thought it'd be upbeat. *sigh*
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11-07-2012, 05:37 PM | #7 |
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| Sorry I wouldn't have posted anything if you had said in your OP you hadn't seen it. It is worse ending than Marley and Me - that was normal. But since all doglovers know the story of the real Hachi, it gives you a good idea of how this one ends - very heartbreakingly. But I just didn't think they would follow that story so closely for an American audience. I was bummed even the next day! It was so bad I won't ever watch it again. Unless you like very sad movies about pets, I wouldn't watch it.
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11-07-2012, 05:44 PM | #8 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | Oh no. I meant it when I thanked you. I don't know the story behind the movie since I'm relatively "new" to being a dog person. I had cats all my life but Tuffy is my first dog.
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11-07-2012, 05:51 PM | #9 |
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| Oh, whew! Well, I'm a tenderhearted person when it comes to dog and pets and a show that ends with an old dog dying alone outside in the weather and pining over its dead owner, with the former owner's daughter and the whole village just letting him stay there waiting alone for his dead owner, it's awful. I mean they stopped by and visited him, fed him, etc. but walked away and just left him. Night would come and there he would wait and wait and wait - night after night after night. I would have taken that poor dog, gotten him good vet care for an elderly dog, and given him a warm, loving rest of his life and walked him frequently to where he waited for his former owner but then back home where a warm dinner by the fire awaited and a warm bed inside and lots of hugs. Heck, he could have slept with me in my own bed if he preferred. I know any dog would prefer to live out his last days in the warmth of a loving home. Hachi deserved better in real life and in that movie!
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11-07-2012, 07:06 PM | #10 |
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| I loved it, but it was terribly sad. But an amazing story of loyalty and the bond between human and dog! Tearjerker for sure though, I cried more during that than Marley & Me!
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11-07-2012, 07:08 PM | #11 | |
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11-07-2012, 07:14 PM | #12 | |
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11-07-2012, 07:17 PM | #13 |
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| Same was true with real Hachi and Greyfriars Bobby. People thought all that "loyalty" was noble and wonderful. It was bloody sad and lonely for the dog that nobody really worked at really showing them another life could be had - another real bond, other loyalty.
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11-07-2012, 07:34 PM | #14 |
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| You definitely need to watch Hachi!!! (once).
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11-07-2012, 07:49 PM | #15 |
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| Hahaha. True. Once is all a doglover can take. In the movie, that poor old arthritic thing needed someone who really cared enough to intervene, lots of TLC, some Rimadyl, a raised, heated, soft bed, nutritious meals other than hotdog handouts, some good caring behavior reshaping and he could have died in his warm bed overnight or painlessly in someone's loving arms at the vet, being told how loved he was as he passed on. Hachi was worth real help in life and in that movie, not idealism. I'd have loved that movie if a real doglover had come along, petitioned the court for ownership and taken him in to help him make the difficult transition to a new life filled with love and gentle, interesting things for him to do. A true doglover could have gotten even young Hachi to play fetch and wouldn't have let him run loose!
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