Jun 19 2009Girl Seeing 'Up' Creates More Touching Story Than 'Up' Itself

Fix the typo in the title... its confusing!

Girl Seeing 'Up' Creates More Touching Store Than 'Up' Itself

you misspelled story...

Consider it fixed (because it's fixed).

the title of the article should have been "10-Year-Old Girl Dies After Watching Up". some journalists are just sleeping on the job. and as you touched on, why didn't she make a pristine copy to upload to the net?? the net police would never have been able to catch her! the perfect crime.

oh my god, that's so sad... and sweet, and and...
damn you horrible people and your corrective spelling comments!

Too bad Sam Peckinpaugh isn't alive to read this: I would have liked to see that grizzled bastard cry just once. Tough stuff.

Untrue, it was a copy of Delgo.
Hence the death 7 hours later.

That's sad, but only because her dying wish was to see a new film. Doesn't that seem a bit desensitised?
"I’m ready [to die], but I’m going to wait for the movie."
What about waiting to have a photograph with all your loved ones, telling them all you love them and how much they mean to you? Or SOMETHING vaguely meaningful? I mean, I'm not in her situation, and yes, she's a 10 year old - but surely somethings gone wrong somewhere if her dying wish becomes 'to watch Pixar's latest film, "Up"'.

@matt: your reaction to the story is what seems a bit desensitized; it's like telling the kids at the Make A WIsh Foundation to ask for more practical dying wishes.

This is about fulfilling childhood wonderment before it's too late, and making their last days exciting instead of frightening. Watching the movie and telling her family that she loves them are not mutually exclusive acts; she did both.

It's really nice to see the empathic side of humanity in the news now and then.

Its nice to see that people can still make pointless remarks and grammar attacks in light of such a sad story. Its makes Matt's comment about desensitization seem even more ridiculous.

Pixar doesn't make movies, they make masterpieces. 'Up' touched on feelings and emotions that not only are very relevant to that little girls life, but are things most people nowadays are ignorant of. This story makes me love Pixar so much more, and the fact that he brought the scrapbook...that was just really amazing.

Matt, I am sure she had plenty of photo's with her family. Photo's that were taken when she was healthy and innocent, not dealing with the confusion and burden of an early death. This was her Disneyland, her vacation to Paris, her sail across the sea's. But since she was ten and home bound, 'Up' was her wish, and we should just be happy that she got it.
Most of us won't get the same opportunity to ask for one last thing.

I think my favorite part about this situation is Matt seems to feel qualified to critique the dying wish of a 10 year old. If only this girl had asked Mr. Genius Matt what a more meaningful dying wish would be she wouldn't have wasted it.

You are the desensitized one, my friend.

Sad shit. Most of you justify impending doom.

well, thinking about Matt's comment i think that the girl asking to watch a movie, just a movie is alot better than what other people consider meaningful, think about it, what do kids ask for, to meet their favorite actor/actress, to go to disney world, stuff like that, stuff that involves a lot of effort from everyone involved and well i am not saying is bad, poor babies have enough to deal with, but this girl just wanted to see a movie, something that everyone thinks of as a normal thing to do in your spare time, after all that she probably went trough after the treatments and everything else, all she wanted to ask was to see a film, i think that shows more maturity than youll ever have Matt, she didnt care for anything big, or didnt have a super meaningful wish, all she wanted before she left was that,

ill even like to ask, what do you consider meaningful? going around the world like jack Nicholson did? having a fundraiser after her to help the treatments for cancer? meeting obama? have Bono do a concert in her name?? what exactly do you consider meaningful,
i dont know, i even get a feeling of humbleness and humility from the act itself, something i dont think you are even capable to understand let alone feel it

maybe i sounded mean and more like attacking that i wanted to, what i wrote was just what i felt when i read the article and the comments from everyone, i dont want to come of as thinking im better than Matt or anyone else, im not, i just wanted to share my view and the opinion i have,

I really dont want to seem like im attacking matt, is just that his comment come across as hard and heartless, nothing more

I see your point, I can consider it from a different perspective now, and to be honest, you lot are right, I was wrong.
Sorry if it sounded heartless-that wasn't intended at all. The reason I went off in that direction was because I took the bit about "waiting until I see the film to die" all too literally.
Earlier I was thinking along the lines of "I hope if I were in the same situation, I'd wish for something else other than a movie". But firsty, I'd probably just ask for something simple (like a film) to get over how overwhelming the whole situation is. And secondly, it's her decision, not mine.
Thanks for your sensible comments,

well matt, im glad you answered, and i also thinking about it realized where you were coming from, took me a little but i know why you wrote it like that, in today's culture where girls worship the jonas brothers, hannah montana and cry at the very sight of a Twilight poster, this also could seem like one of those cases, a girl wanting to watch a cartoon movie instead of asking for something more memorable, i dont understand why hannah montana and stuff like high school musical is SOO worshiped, i mean im not a kid but even when i was little, i dont think i could even bother to notice any of that, the brainwashing that kids go trough today is even a little scary

And this is the first time i answer to a post like this, most of the time posts are funny or silly,

but i see your point matt :)

Haha yeah that was the point I was trying to get it-it was something that had been annoying me for some time, and so i guess I took this as an excuse to have a rant about it, even though it wasn't one of those cases, looking at it now. Nevertheless, I'll try and put a point like that better next time, and where its relevant.
Nice to know the internet isn't just for arguments!

This Story is like FANBOYS' plot.... but girlier

... aaand I just read that the comment has already been made in the post XD

quote from the article, "Colby couldn't see the screen because the pain kept her eyes closed so her mother gave her a play-by-play of the film."

WHATTHEFUCK THAT SUCKS. she didnt even get to really 'see' it. :C

that article is one of the saddest things i have ever read
poor kid
its so unfair that she had to die so young much less have it hurt like hell
that was super nice of pixar to do ad not at all what i would have expected from a major company like that
i bet that kid was thrilled no matter how much it hurt

This is a heartwarming move of Pixar.And great marketing!

AND # 22 nails it!!!

Sam,

The author's comment about uploading the movie to the internet was just brief enough to be tolerable...u going on about it wasn't tolerable. get a heart,sir!

Man that sucks, what a practical child though, out of all the things she could have chosen she chose something that would be relatively simple and not too strenuous. Considering this film was also about loosing loved ones and that the main character is carrying his wife or "home" the whole time, I can't imagine being able to hold it together as her parents.

honestly, that's super sad, sweet, all those things that everyone said. And c'mon, if it were the next Batman movie, don't act like you wouldn't make-a-wish for that shit.

The sad thing is it took 5 comments before anyone even acknowledged the girl.

It's always a terrible thing for a child to die. May God be with the family in this difficult time.

:(