Does Watchmen count, or do the dogs have to die of natural causes?
The dogs that are tracking Rambo in First Blood get it.
Not all 8 of the dogs in Eight Below make it back.
Dogs are subjected to unnatural indignities before dying in Alien3 and The Hulk.
And of course, any movie with dogfighting (Fresh, Amores Perros) will have a dead canine or two.
I’m sick of these motherfuckin’ dogs on this motherfuckin’ plane!
He did get payback for what he did for that dog, though.
A dog dies as a key plot point in the new short “Tender as Hellfire”
Holy cow! Just realized nobody mentioned Jaws yet. Mars Attacks!, too.
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The animated film The Plague Dogs ends with an assumption that the two canine protagonists die – drowning while trying to escape the Biritsh military. The novel contains an extra chapter in which the dogs are rescued by a passing boat but the film gives no hint to that.
Actually, I believe he does die. But of old age–not some horrific accident or rabies. Its after the boy is grown.
I’m not sure what happened to that puppy in Apocalypse Now, but the outlook wasn’t looking rosy.
I know. But his death isn’t depicted in the movie. It’s just mentioned by the character that the dog lived to see him off to college and lived to a ripe old age. It’s not a dramatic scene important to the plot. It’s not a tragic death like Old Yeller’s.
In The Osterman Weekend, not only does the dog die, its head gets chopped off and then put in the refrigerator.
Yeah. I mean, we accept that dogs are going to die eventually. Having to kill your own dog that’s gone rabid after it saved your life is pretty horrifying, though.
This wasn’t a movie, but the book Where the Red Fern Grows is another sad one with not one, but TWO doggie deaths. I cried.
Amores Perros
T2, but it’s off screen, IIRC.
That’s correct. My mom didn’t want to watch the movie if it showed the dog dying a tragic death before the movie’s end. She wasn’t interested in watching a sad movie. I had to spoil it for her. The dog gets hurt and its life is in jeopardy, but survives for many more years and dies a natural death. Of course the death of any animal is sad, but an animal dying in a horrible accident or as a result of a human killing it is ten thousand times more upsetting.
The more I think about this, the less sure I am.
Well, thank goodness the dog didn’t die in the movie they made out of Harlan Ellison’s A Boy and His Dog, y’know?
I love that movie.
“She may have had bad judgment, but she had really good taste.”
39 posts and no mention of Snakes on a Plane?
What is wrong with you folks?
ETA: Oops. I see that a tangential reference was made. Never mind. My faith has been restored.