Question about if I should watch "I am Legend", SPOILER ALERT

[a pretty girl is like]

I think he smothered her

It looked more like a neck breaking deal to me.

[RoninFox]

I haven't seen it yet, but I know one of my roommates was pretty disturbed by that part.

[RVR II]

Is this a movie I should watch, or is the dog's death not that traumatic?

Well, I've got the movie showing up today that I'll back up & capture in preps for the Riff, though I won't be able to get the RiffTrax till I return next month.. My wife's family in Mexico want to see it so I may be forced to watch it while down there *adds 'Have Tequila in standby to numb the pain' to list*

[Minnesota]

Fictional violence isnt usually hard to watch. Real violence (against people) is disturbing, and can pretty much get glued to your memory forever. It's best to avoid seeing real violence at all costs in my opinion.

As far as animals? Watching Discovery Channel or Cannibal Holocaust is pretty forgettable (more of a 'yuck, they chopped that turtles head off' or 'damn I kinda feel sorry for that Lions prey, hope he gets aw-- ... nope sucks for him' than actual horror (like you feel when its people violence). For the record, the two most disturbing fictional films (because of the realistic portrayal of people violence) are Cannibal Holocaust and Visitor Q (pretty horroric, those two).

Hope none of that makes me sound cold hearted, but its not like I'm a vegetarian or anything.

[SuperMappy]

I havent seen the movie yet, but I know that no animal is actually going to REALLY die. Not to discount what you're all saying, but I always thought it was kinda strange that if several people get killed on screen it's no biggy, but if one animals bites it people are practically ready to trash the cinema.

Remember several years ago when some terrorist group released a video of them testing a nerve gas on a puppy and the explosive uproar that caused?

My guess is that the basic reason people go through this is the simple fact the people can screw you over, let you down, cheat you, but animals rarely, if ever, do.

[Junkyard]

This is me explaining the "don't kill the dog" phenominon, not me de-valueing human life:

We get squemish about the deaths of animals in movies because they're innocent. We inherintly know that humans can both cause and understand suffering, but dogs are our loyal, dimwitted friends, who ask only for food, a place to sleep, and love. Any given human is probably a bastard to some degree, but dogs are almost never what we'd consider evil. So them dying in a film where humans are the focus, and usually the cause of a given problem, it's upsetting.

[Tripe]

Plus due to domestication Dogs, no matter how big and scary looking are really babies at heart, they're like little needy children that crave attention and love.

Oh but I don't have a problem seeing animals killing other animals in a nature documentary, it's when a human hurts an animal or something of that sort that I get bothered.

[Scrivener]

It's a choking, not a neck-breaking.  Though the camera is solely on Will Smith's face, you do hear the dog's paws scrabbling frantically on the floor as it tries to fight free, slowly giving way to stillness.  Most wrenching part of the movie, easily.  Still gets to me, weeks after I watched the DVD.

Don't know how Mike and company are going to handle this.  This is much more serious stuff than any death that happened in, say, 300.

[Tripe]

Christ on a bike! Yeah I'm going to absolutly not watch that.

[MrTorso]

... (because of the realistic portrayal of people violence) are Cannibal Holocaust and Visitor Q (pretty horroric, those two).

Or the first flick in the Guinea Pig series. It fooled Charlie Sheen into calling the FBI because he thought it was real.

[Queen Shadowrama]

Don't know how Mike and company are going to handle this.  This is much more serious stuff than any death that happened in, say, 300.

Well, mabey Boomer will rush the studio at that point and start biting the crap out of Mike, Kevin and Bill in protest of the scene. Then, the army of invisible doggies will rush in until there's just a sea of deafenng barks amongs the Riffer's screams. If anything, it will distract you from what's going on! 

[RoninFox]

Perhaps a nervous failed distraction, the riffers talking directly to the audience "hey look behind you, isn't whatever that is interesting?"

[Minnesota]

... (because of the realistic portrayal of people violence) are Cannibal Holocaust and Visitor Q (pretty horroric, those two).

Or the first flick in the Guinea Pig series. It fooled Charlie Sheen into calling the FBI because he thought it was real.

Never heard of those films before ... after a quick internet search I added Flower of Flesh and Blood to the top of my Netflix Q, and grabbed Mermaid in a Manhole/He Never Dies off of ebay for cheap. Damn you MrTorso for corrupting me further

[Cibernético II]

Cannibal Holocaust didn't just feature realistic human violence, it featured scenes of actual animal killing.

[Nick]

My sister was all torn up about that scene, She's seen it twice and she cried both times. It is a rally sad scene, considering about a year ago my family had to put down our beloved dog, it was very sad.