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Fcrate:
Hello there weirdest of the weird :D
How's everybody doing?
@Dina: Somehow, animals suffering always hits me harder than when people suffer. Riddick wasn't so bad, because they didn't dwell on the scene, and it was a quick one. Having to put down your own animal is... Ouch...
Question: did you see "Solace"? It's a 2015ish movie with Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrel.

Regenbogen:
Hello!!!
In movies like Riddick, the focus is not on characters or deep emotions. Honestly I can't remember there being any dog at all.
But it is a pattern in some movies: if you see the main character being attached to his pet, especially dogs, and it is a movie with at least a little bit of depth beside all the action, then you can be almost sure, the dog will die and they show the mourning. I think it is, because almost everyone can relate to something similar in real life.
In Riddick I think there was no time to dwell on one's feelings.
I can remember, I watched Pitch Black and Riddick and each time I thought, there would have been potential to go deeper with the character, but was disappointed that they didn't.


I can't remember if I've seen Solace.
But we watched "Meg" yesterday. There was a dog, but as it didn't belong to one of the main characters, I predicted it's survival though it didn't seem so at first, and I was right, lol. It also was clear that there would be a love story involved.
I liked the sharks. Though of course they often didn't behave like real sharks would, but it's fiction, so why not, lol.



Apropos real life: my older daughter was a hero today in my eyes. The little one screamed and I wasn't fast enough to get to her, but she went there and protected her from a big spider until I could come and remove it. Both kids and myself are afraid of spiders. And it was a really big one. I think it's the biggest spider there is in Germany. It is not dangerous but ugly, lol. And my daughter was very courageous standing barefooted only one metre apart from it, while hugging her little sister, who was sitting on her bed.

Edit:
Oops, I forgot to warn about the spider picture in the following link. -->

https://www.nabu.de/imperia/md/nabu/images/arten/tiere/spinnen/170912-nabu-winkelspinne-helge-may.jpeg

Edit#2:
My father always told me that the best countermeasure against fear is information, so I informed myself a lot about spiders in my youth and they ARE fascinating creatures. BUT I am still afraid, lol.
I can be fascinated looking at a spider , but once it moves, the fear kicks in. Especially if it moves towards me or if it appears suddenly out of nowhere, like they often do, especially those fast spiders from the link I sent.

Dina:
Oh Regen, that is amazing! I am afraid of spiders too (I did not click the link) so I totally get it. You must be very proud of your daughter!

Riddick, I still do not remember the name of the movie. It was not a real dog, it was an alien more like a hyena, but he had more or less tamed him (or her, I do not remember). So it made me sad. IIRC Riddick greeted his teeth and killed the one who killed the dog, but showed no more emotion than that, because he is Riddick.

In my childhood, my parents always (gently) laughed at me because I always cried when an animal was killed on screen, but never when humans died. They used to say things like "you will like this movie, it is only people who died". But it was and still it is true. I never had trouble understanding actors were acting, but animals, even when I rationally knew they were acting too (or even their deaths were not shown) always hurt me in the emotional level. Oh, let's not talk about Artax! Also, there is an animated movie about LOTR. In it, the old pony Bill is killed by the monster near Moria. I do not think I cried but I was very sad. Many years later, i've read the book, and I was becoming apprehensive when reaching that part...and Bill survives! I was so happy  :)

I had not seen "Solace", no. And I agree with Regen about the patter in "serious" movies.

Fcrate:
@Regen: I don't really fear spiders, but that beast is quite scary tbh. We only have small, flimsy and harmless spiders here. Kudos to your daughter.
@Dina: it's just called Riddick, I think.
About Solace:
(click to show/hide)The plot line is that Anthony Hopkins is a retired psychic that the FBI uses from time to time, only in his last case, the serial killer is always one step ahead, because he's an even better psychic. However, he chooses only the mortally ill as his victims, and he thinks it's mercy. Using his power to see the future to find the victims before the terminal disease even manifests symptoms, and putting them out of their misery.
The point is, it was revealed at the end that the killer was baiting Anthony Hopkins towards a specific future, where he'll be able to take over the Euthinasia business because the killer himself has terminal cancer. The reason why he chose Anthony was because Anthony's daughter died from Cancer. And it was later revealed that Anthony himself gave her an overdose of morphine to ease her suffering. The scene hit me hard, but it was nothing compared to the impact of watching Will Smith put his dog down in I am Legend.

Regenbogen:

--- Quote from: Fcrate on August 18, 2022, 04:29:19 PM ---@Regen: I don't really fear spiders, but that beast is quite scary tbh. We only have small, flimsy and harmless spiders here. Kudos to your daughter.
@Dina: it's just called Riddick, I think.
About Solace:
(click to show/hide)The plot line is that Anthony Hopkins is a retired psychic that the FBI uses from time to time, only in his last case, the serial killer is always one step ahead, because he's an even better psychic. However, he chooses only the mortally ill as his victims, and he thinks it's mercy. Using his power to see the future to find the victims before the terminal disease even manifests symptoms, and putting them out of their misery.
The point is, it was revealed at the end that the killer was baiting Anthony Hopkins towards a specific future, where he'll be able to take over the Euthinasia business because the killer himself has terminal cancer. The reason why he chose Anthony was because Anthony's daughter died from Cancer. And it was later revealed that Anthony himself gave her an overdose of morphine to ease her suffering. The scene hit me hard, but it was nothing compared to the impact of watching Will Smith put his dog down in I am Legend.

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Solace sounds very sad.
Tbh, before I had children myself the death of a child in fiction didn't have much impact on me. I was also the one to cry at the death of a dog. OK, I pretended not to cry, but I can't really hide it that well. My face gets blotchy, my eyes stay red and swollen for at least a quarter of an hour after crying and my upper lip swells.
But now I am the same with children.

We watched the newer "It" a few days ago and I didn't cry about the child, I think because they didn't show the aftermath/the impact on the family at all, but I was afraid for the cat who was watching the child's death. If I were the clown, I would go for the witness. But to my relief the cat survived.

About the spiders: they can run 50cm/s  :o That's why they seem to appear out of nowhere.

Edit:
@Dina: I have purchased the first Sandman comic as eBook  now. Just looked at the first pages. Looks good. I think I will like this.

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