This movie is not for animal lovers

What about the pig in the begining of the movie? Or 'animal lovers' care only for dogs' welfare?

for real! exactly what i thought when i watched it for the forst time today! ohh gosh poor animals! eh

i care, so don't do it

Yeah and what about the humans? Any human lovers out there that would have trouble seeing humans get slaughtered left and right for 80s years?

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Why are so many people upset about the pig?! Doesn't ANYONE like bacon? YES it was slaughtered...how do you think you get pork?? You just walk it past a fire and then eat it alive?

And, for Christ's sake, it's a movie! The animals weren't ACTUALLY killed.

Sheesh...

Oder: Wie ich aufhören, sich Sorgen und Liebe die Bombe gelernt!

agreed. I know no animals were REALLY harmed, but it's still brutal...

"The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity"

Animal lovers should watch Cujo instead. That dog gets a lot of good meals. Or Jaws; that's one well-fed shark, and I'm pretty sure it never realizes what happens when it's finally put down quite humanely by officer Brody.

I'm an animal lover (the sensitive, activist type) and the whole reason I looked this movie up is because I saw a gif on Tumblr of a gory-looking horse. I thought it might look cool, and maybe if I'm lucky, be a most excellent animatronic puppet or somesuch.

Fake is fake, and as long as it's not too realistic and seemingly cruel, I don't really see how I would have a problem with it myself. However, everyone is different, of course.

How brutal are we talking about here? I mean, I refuse to watch Bambi again, because the movie focuses on how sad and messed up Bambi's mother being shot and him being alone as a baby is. But I'm probably being a baby about it, because I remember that a bunch of other cute stuff happened in the movie too.

I've seen Nekromantic, which has an actual rabbit killing and skinning (filmed at a farm where it was going to be killed either way) at the beginning and end of it (backwards at the end). I did not like that at all.
There is also a (fake) cat scene, in which, after he kills the cat by bashing it in a bag, right after feeding and petting it (which bothered me a lot, because the cat being fed and pet was real, which I'm sure was the point); he cuts it up and bathes with parts of it, rubbing it on his body. Not really my favourite thing. :/

But like, in Cloud Atlas, a dog gets shot off-screen, pretty quickly, so I wouldn't call something like that brutal by comparison to other things I've seen. I don't like it, but it's moved past pretty quickly and goes on to something else.

However, in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, even though she shoots the puppy off-screen, because of the way they make a big deal about it, in the way that it's directed/shot, it was pretty disturbing. Also, it's not like it was attacking or barking or anything. She just brought it to kill it; to desensitize herself.

I get that it's sometimes necessary to portray a character being cruel to an animal, to show that they are cruel/lack empathy; for instance, in Splice, when Dren kills her cat, to show that she as becoming aggressive, homicidal and so on. That was difficult to sit through; I guess because it was pretty realistic and Dren was being cruel. It was also a bit overlong for that kind of thing. (Plus, I'm a cat person on top of being an animal person in general.)

Basically, what I'm getting at, is that it's how it's portrayed that gets to me. If we're talking like possessed/zombie animals that are attacking a character, who then kills them, well that just makes sense, but if they are killing them for fun or something, or it's really focused on, then it would bother me. It also matters how long it is seen and how much is shown. I wouldn't want to watch a movie if a lot of the movie was about killing animals, even if they were just zombies or something.

Companion animals, like cats, dogs, horses, etc, seem to be difficult for most people to see die in a movie. I don't even like to see a fake spider get squashed though. It's silly, but I'm just a really nice person who loves animals (and humans, who are also animals) and tries to let myself get completely caught up in a movie. I'll still sit through a lot of things anyway, but I do often look away from stuff like that.

Interesting to think about. I wonder how other people feel about it; like if it's more psychological (like it seems to be for me), or if it's more visual or what.