Marley & Me, staring Owen Wilson and the special one, Jennifer Aniston, opens on Christmas Day 2008. That sets a dilemma. Do you really want to see a fantastic story set to film when the ending is where the Labrador dies? You’re going to cry and cry a lot.
Thankfully you’re also going to laugh and laugh a lot.
Of course you’ll want to see it. You’ll be taken to both extremes of human emotion. Not many films move you to both extremes. I think I’ll wait until a few days after Christmas, because it might be too much for the emotional strains in one day. I’ll also need to check out whether it’s suitable for my six year old daughter who asks every day, for a new puppy.
The movie is based on the book of the same name. It’s the story of a Labrador, called, well, Marley. The trailer gives you the impression that the movie is going to be true to the book.
Go see the trailer at http://www.marleyandmemovie.com/
The original book was written by John Grogan. It’s a sensational read and should be on almost everyone’s bookshelf. You can read it over and over again and find new parts about Marley’s life you missed the first time around. I would guess that many readers will have once had a Labrador in their family or perhaps another breed. Go see John’s website at: http://www.marleyandme.com/ You can see pictures of Marley and read stories of other astonishing Labradors
So why do we love our Labradors so much? From John’s ‘question and answer’ page on his site:
Q. What was the biggest lesson you took away from your relationship with Marley?
A. That commitment matters. That “in good times and bad, in sickness and in health” really means something. We didn’t give up on Marley when it would have been easy to, and in the end he came through and proved himself a great and memorable pet.
It all brings back so many happy memories of our Jodie, our black Labrador, with us for fifteen years, three months and five days. We could have written a book about her grand life; the commitment she gave to us and the commitment we returned to her, but John got there first. We’ll watch the movie and think of Jodie. Stock up on the tissues, dear.
Humans have a lot to learn from Labradors.
November 27th, 2009 at 5:11 am
As far as dogs goes, those are remarkable.
February 12th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Avatar was a great movie, I just watched it a few day ago. I don’t usually go to the theather because I get nervious around a lot people but I think I’ll give this one a shot because people are saying that it’s even better on the big screen, I think it might be in 3D. Anyway the movie Avatar get two thumbs up from me, I watch all of my movies at voobymovies,com if anyone was wondering and it’s free