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Watership Down

 
 
Rage
17:06 / 27.10.01
Saw this for the first time a few nights ago. Was fascinated. Anyone else have the pleasure of viewing this movie? I know it was a book first, though I've never read it.
 
 
Sebastain M
18:41 / 27.10.01
I saw the movie when I was young, I belive I was 9 . I didn't read the book until I was well into my teens. The movie is wonderful, but as always the book is so much better , although it is nice to hear the voices of John Hurt and Denholm Elliot echoing the words back in your mind as you read the book.
 
 
Sandy Haired Bruce Wayne
03:22 / 28.10.01
I love that movie. It still shocks me to find it in the children's section though, considering how disturbing it is in some parts. Rage, I highly recommend the book. Easily one of the greatest adventure novels I have ever read.

And the Plague Dogs movie gave one of my friends nightmares.
 
 
Seth
03:22 / 28.10.01
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant film. Makes me bawl my eyes out. Want to see it again now!
 
 
Chuckling Duck
19:20 / 29.10.01
Scared the pants off of me at age four. Memories of Fiver’s hallucinations still give me the chills.

It was a novel first, IMHO the best of Richard Adams’ novels. He really needs to get away from the talking animals schtick. I can’t believe I read an entire history of the civil war from the perspective of Robert E. Lee’s horse.
 
 
Ganesh
19:27 / 29.10.01
God yeah, scary. The Black Rabbit. Brrr...
 
 
Mystery Gypt
01:23 / 30.10.01
i saw that movie in the theaters, whenever the hell that was. i was tiny. it gave me nightmares for a fucking month! i could sleep for a month, you hear me! i saw the black rabbit of death in every shadow. the apacolypse part... the tearing of the ears... christ. i wonder if the rabbit of death thing was a inspiration for donnie darko?

book's great too.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
07:38 / 30.10.01
saw this age six - must fight tears - a great film. Still great. Awesomely powerful. Ghost Rabbit visiting the soon to die is so, so sad and beautiful.

wow.
 
 
Fra Dolcino
14:59 / 30.10.01
Saw it at the pictures when I was 5 (first premier?). It scared me shitless, and I didn't understand it. Worse, my Mum complained to the foyer chappie that it wasn't suitable for kids, so add embarrassed to the list.

Saw it again recently, good, but there's so much more in the book.
 
 
Opalfruit
07:02 / 31.10.01
Absolutely adore this cartoon. Love the book. It's absolutley wonderful, when I first saw it at the pictures I bawled.

Only read the book a couple of years ago when found a signed copy in Age Concern in Bolton for 20p....

Book or Film? Can't I like them both?
 
 
Tamayyurt
03:34 / 22.12.04
I just saw this for the first time and I've never read the book, basically I rented it cause it was one of the "clues" on Lost. What I can't figure out is why is it called Watership Down? Is it something in the book that didn't make it to the movie?
 
 
modern maenad
09:11 / 22.12.04
First film I ever saw (aged 5ish) and as I remember it was a 'full' emotional experience (joy, fear, tears, delight, chocolate) and made a big impression. Have never rewatched, but this thread has inspired me to make it a christmas goal, to track down and revisit.
 
 
Foust is SO authentic
10:47 / 22.12.04
The name of their new warren is Watership Down. "Down" being a hill, "Watership" being the name of the hill.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
11:26 / 22.12.04
I hate Watership Down with a passion that consumes me. It's horrible, nasty, evil and I can't believe people expose their children to it. I wish it didn't exist.
 
 
Tamayyurt
11:43 / 22.12.04
Why so much hatered, Anna?
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
16:13 / 22.12.04
There's a dog...loose...in the woods.
There's a dog...loose...in the woods.

Would it have anything to do with Simon and Garfunkel, Anna?

Woooh-ooooh, is it a dream?
 
 
Sekhmet
17:01 / 22.12.04
Does Anna hate sentimental folk music? "Bright Eyes" does always kinda make my skin crawl...

Love the movie, though not as much as the book, which is on my list of Top Five Favorite Books Ever. Possibly the most-reread book I own.
 
 
Imaginary Mongoose Solutions
02:00 / 24.12.04
It's my all time favourite book, and the movie still manages to rip me up everytime I watch it.
 
 
eddie thirteen
19:05 / 24.12.04
Yeah, I love that book, and for me as well it's one of the few I've read several times. There's one part (I think it's when he's warning the other rabbits about the dangers of hanging around the hutch) where Fiver gets all intense and is described as "a witch hare" that created an image that's stuck with me ever since. I have real, real vague memories of seeing the movie when I was a kid (long before I read the book)...I seem to remember (probably) Bigwig caught in a snare around the throat, hacking up black bile or some shit; that traumatized the hell out of me. I'd really like to see the movie now, as an adult.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:10 / 24.12.04
Both book and film I find incredibly haunting.

The thing that most sticks with me about the film is that it made my dad cry. I was a little kid, and my dad wasn't supposed to cry. It seemed wrong.

R4 recently had it as their afternoon play, and it still got me.
 
 
Seth
16:45 / 26.12.04
It's the only animated feature that comes anything close to the work of Miyazaki in terms of themes, narrative and ideas. I haven't seen it since my last post to this thread three years ago, and I'm really thinking about tracking it down.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:18 / 26.12.04
Strangely enough, and totally by coincidence, I watched part of it this morning round at lilly's house... I really must get a copy.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
21:31 / 26.12.04
Anna obviously hates it because it made her cry. Hell it made me weep like an oscar winning American.

But Plague Dogs!? Jumping fuck, my brother had to lie to me that the end of that film wasn't the end, to stop the bawling 7 year old me from topping myself with despair. Seriously grim social commentary masquerading as a cartoon for kids. Also a salty antidote to Disney's valium soaked wimp-fests, and a contribution to the thin ranks of British animated films.
 
 
Liger Null
22:37 / 26.12.04
There was a film made of Plague Dogs?!?!?!

It's google time...
 
 
Seth
00:13 / 27.12.04
After you've seen Plague Dogs follow it with Grave of the Fireflies. The double-bill to end all double bills.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
09:28 / 27.12.04
Saw that whilst semi-drunk at a late night showing at the Duke of York's. Promptly sobered up. In fact was more sober than normal. Utterly brilliant - one of the most heart-wrenchingly bleak animations ever, and proof that anything is possible within the medium. Made by the Japanese equivalent of Disney, so a huge hit in Japan, relegated to one-off novelty showings here.
 
  
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