to think that anyone moaning about Watership Down....

[Ohbehave1]

...... Should have simply switched the bloody TV off.

[ConfuciousSayWhat]

Yanbu

[ilovevegcrisps]

It's my favourite film.

My religious parents made me watch Jesus of Nazareth when I was about 6. Traumatised me for months!

[OSETmum]

YANBU!

[0phelia]

Watership Down makes me physically sick. I couldn't switch the telly off because I was only 7yo and it wasn't my house.

It's a horribly gorid film.

[londonrach]

Yanbu. Dont understand why people dont either turn the tv off or change the channel. Love the song though but cant watch the film. m.youtube.com/watch?v=cGyQmH9NZcw

[FuzzyOwl]

I remember Watership Down and finding it incredibly sad as a child. Surely it has been around long enough for parents to know what it is like and, as you say, to turn the television off.

[ghostyslovesheep]

yanbu at all - I saw it as a child and I liked it and understood it - I was 8

I'm not sure I would be upset if my 7 year old watched it - but as you say - I'd just turn over!

[MumOnTheRunCatchingUp]

What's wrong with it? Never seen it!

[ilovevegcrisps]

There's a few bunny deaths but mostly the bad bunnies.

[londonrach]

Mum...its very graphic with bunny deaths.

[Boogers]

Apart from Fiver. He was a good bunny.

[CockacidalManiac]

It's like Texas chainsaw massacre, but with rabbits

[PacificDogwod]

I don't get why it is considered that awfully sad - and I didn't get it as a child either. Even though I had much loved rabbits as pets at the time
YANBU.

[BreakfastLunchPasta]

My mum took me and my friends to see Watership Down for my 5th birthday, I don't think she'd done her research :o I don't think any of us were traumatised, although it's such a long time ago - I probably wouldn't remember if we were

YANBU. Never did me any harm 😜

[MilkTwoSugarsThanks]

Didn't even watch it. It traumatised me enough when I saw it the first time, I was only 19 fgs! I had to fast forward through the scary bits and then rewind and watch it properly (yes I am that old).

[PacificDogwod]

See, now, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there's a movie I cannot (and will never!) watch.
Phew.
I am not a psychopath after all - I had been worried.

[MilkTwoSugarsThanks]

What's so sad about it????

THE END!!!!! Hazel gets called to the god-rabbit!!!!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

[ouryve]

YANBU.

It was released when I was 7. I saw it at the cinema and loved it although I cried when Fiver died. Not all good stories have to be sanitised, happy ones but surely most adults know what it's about and whether their kids will be able to tolerate the rather more than "mild peril" in the film.

The book and plague dogs are both very good reading for mature tweens and teens. Very thought provoking.

[Purplestarssparkle]

Remembers watching with my mum when I was 8 was fine till bright eyes came and looked at my mum who was wailing into a tissue

[ilovevegcrisps]

I just think the end is beautiful. I watched it on YouTube before my dads funeral

[ilovevegcrisps]

Oi, Fiver doesn't die!

Although it was written in 1973, I think, so I imagine Fiver has joined Hazel! But you needn't worry: he'll be all right, and thousands like him

my middle name is from WD.

[MilkTwoSugarsThanks]

Oh iloveveg it is beautiful... but so saaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

[ilovevegcrisps]

[ijustwannadance]

Didn't bother me as a child at all. 7 year old me thought the seagull saying 'piss off' was hilarious. Even more so as we watched it in school.
🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇

[MilkTwoSugarsThanks]

And... and... and... and... when the ghost rabbit calls Fiver back to Hazel because Hazel isn't dead, just injured....

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

Is it a kind of dree-ee-ee-eam...