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Marley The Dog. I find hilarious the depths movie marketers will go to to sell their films. I was watching the Cardinals game on Fox Sports Cincinnati on Sunday, and I saw repeated ads for the DVD release of Marley and Me. When this was in theaters, it was a romantic comedy with a cute dog. Now, it's a brodawg dude's movie, scored to "Bad To The Bone," with Owen Wilson at a baseball game while his big badass Man Dog roams through the stands. Though the scene at the baseball game in the film is only a minute or two, the commercial plays it up like the whole movie is Owen Wilson chilling with his dog at a ballgame while Jennifer Aniston lies around in a bikini. I love it when marketers completely lie about what a movie actually is when DVD/video comes around. My favorite is Six Degrees Of Separation, which put the famous play's title in Fresh Prince Of Bel Air font and featured Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland with cartoonishly shocked O-faces while Will Smith, that rappin' wiseacre, smiled into the camera. This, for a film, in the official description, about "a con artist who, out of the blue, prevails upon the good graces of a New York City couple in the wake of his supposed mugging in Central Park, claiming to be Sidney Poitier's son and masquerading flamboyantly as a close friend & classmate of their Harvard-enrolled kids, and in the process upsetting their shallow upper crust world."A crowd pleasing hip-hop dope hit!