Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:05 pm Post subject: Marley & Me
Hello
I watched this film at the weekend - has anyone else seen it?
It's not exactly an Oscar-winner, but Marley the dog was very funny - especially the part where he ran off with his lead still attached to the cafe table! And he made my dog look well behaved in comparison!
Has anyone named their lab Marley after seeing the film - or found that their children want a lab as a result?!
ooo how ironic, as Baxter (my nearly 8 week old puppy) are sat on the sofa watching this now! I have seen it before but thought I'd watch it again on Sky movies (hubby recorded it for me).
We didn't get Baxter as a result of watching it tho.... I still had my St. Bernard at the time :0(
I like the bit where he is walking/hanging out of the car window :0)
It's exactly the life and times of my old boy DINO. We lost Dino in the October and the blessed book was a stocking filler from someone that christmas - 3 attempts and a few months later i sat up one sunday night to finish the G** Damn thing and wailed until i couldn't breathe.
Then wailed again when i saw the film, and again when i watched it with my mother.
But great book, great story, great film - just get the tissues out.
Yes, I watched it with Sam (the puppy) I think he learnt a whole lot of new naughty tricks though... only kidding. It was alright for a winter Sunday afternoon lazing about.
I did cry all the way through the film (and I was at the cinema) but I thought it was very poor compared to the book. The casting was all wrong especially the labs who changed by the scene and sometimes went from older to younger looking rather then the other way round.
Saying that films are never as good as the books are they?
yes i have watched it and yes i cried. i to was in the cinema and came out red faced, teary eyed and hair stuck to my face. I sobbed 2 mins after it started .
I agree that the book is much better than the film - but i did still like the film as I'm a total softie! I read the book ages before I got Poppy so it certainly didn't affect my decision - i already liked labs! I believe that one of Poppy's sisters is called Marley.
I absoloutly love the film, i think the book is better but the film is just fab, so so sad and i cried...a lot!! but i can watch it over and over We got Hunter after Marley and Me came out but not because it came out, it means all the more now we have a dog of our own and i cried all the more when me and hubby watched it with him!
When we watched this even my other half was in tears We'd just decided to get a lab at the time, and funnily enough we'd considered the name Marley until we watched the film
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only kidding. It was alright for a winter Sunday afternoon lazing about. 
We'd just decided to get a lab at the time, and funnily enough we'd considered the name Marley until we watched the film 
