"For Victoria Alvarez, Marley & Me (2008) was worse than The Texas Chain Saw Massacre pure horror. She saw it on a streaming platform, inspired by its cheery thumbnail of Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson, who star in the rom-com alongside a labrador named Marley. Indeed, Alvarez found the classic comedy entertaining and sweet until Marley got sick. Nothing too tragic happens, the dog simply gets old."
"But nonetheless, it was at this point that the movie turned into a nightmare for Alvarez. She hugged her pitbull close and couldn't stop crying until the end. When Marley can no longer go up the stairs and Wilson sleeps with him on the floor, I broke down, that is something that I've done myself. I couldn't watch it again. She's not the only one to hold this opinion."
"Careful; this paragraph contains a spoiler: The happy-go-lucky, slobbering, joyful dog symbolic of everything that is right with the world fucking dies. And it's not a quick death either, under the wheel of a bus or at the hands of an evil geneticist. It's a slow, natural death, one that feels like it lasts half the film, they write on Shiznit. Worse, it works only a man of stone could remain emotionless witnessing this cute doggie barking its last."
Marley & Me centers on a joyful Labrador whose gradual aging and natural death transforms a rom-com into an emotionally devastating experience for many viewers. Personal parallels—such as hugging a pet, witnessing loss, or sleeping beside ailing animals—amplify audience responses. Social media repeatedly erupts when the film airs, and several other movies evoke similar reactions, including A Dog's Purpose, The Art of Racing in the Rain, and Hachi: A Dog's Tale. Viewers describe these films as among the most upsetting, citing the slow, realistic depiction of pet decline as especially wrenching.
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