Sadness
Sadness: (Adjective) Causing or characterized by sorrow or regret; unfortunate and regrettable.Mickey Rourke's beloved Chihuahua "Loki" has passed away at the ripe old doggy age of 18. Rourke has famously carried Loki around with him on red carpets and even thanked his dogs during his Golden Globe speech.
"I'd like to thank all my dogs, the ones who are here and the ones who aren't here anymore," The Wrestler star said when accepting his Globe for Best Actor last month.
"Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog. And they've meant the world to me." (Source)
I'm not going to make a joke about a dog dying; not even Crazy Old Man Rourke's weird little chihuahua who kind of looked like him. Because there is nothing funny about dogs dying. That's why if a director really wants to fuck with your heartstrings in a movie, they kill the dog. Sure, they could always kill a person or a child, but really? It's just not the same. Everybody knows it.
More of Crazy Old Man Rourke and Loki, R.I.P., at the Venice Film Vestival last fall:
That made me cry.
I won't watch I Am Legend because of the dog. My sister cried for a solid 10 minutes in the cinema - I'd probably have to be led out and put on a saline drip because of the sheer amount of fluid loss through TEARS.
god that is so true. i can't watch any movie where an animal gets killed. glad its not only me.
Not only can I not watch movies where animals are killed, I can't watch movies where they die peacefully of old age. "My Dog Skip" had me sobbing uncontrollably.