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Just putting this here....

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FloydWasACat · 17/12/2024 21:26

Haaaaaaaa!!!

Just putting this here....
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HappiestSleeping · 16/03/2025 09:13

UndeniablyGenX · 19/12/2024 07:55

Also notable, as a previously 'U' rated film, that it contains the line 'Piss off' 😄

Amazing really that this has been reclassified up when everything else has gone the other way.

Fantastic book, and fantastic film. I wonder what films released for today's generation will still be under discussion nearly 50 years on.

ChristmasFluff · 19/12/2024 08:32

Watership Down the book was horrific, but I had to keep reading so I knew how it ended. I warned my little sister not to go when our school held a charity showing, but she insisted, so I had to go with her and experience that too. She was of course distraught.

Still not as traumatising to me as Bambi - the endless death and suffering was so completely unexpected as a small child. Whoever thought that was a suitable film for children? A bit of icy fun does not change anything!

Stuffineed · 19/12/2024 08:18

Wasn’t allowed to watch it, never read the book, don’t know what I’m missing but I’d rather not know having read the posts

Pashazade · 19/12/2024 08:18

@braaaiiins I started reading Plague Dogs as a teenager and had to give up the opening sequence was so harrowing. I should maybe try it again but I'm still wary. Then again Z for Zachariah at age 11 wasn't a good choice either!

MrsToothyBitch · 19/12/2024 08:17

I have two bunny lovers in my life who avoid this film. I can't work out if this mug is genuis or a perpetuation of the trauma!

rightoguvnor · 19/12/2024 08:17

What made it even worse, same aunt had requested Bright Eyes be played at her funeral.

rightoguvnor · 19/12/2024 08:16

As a 10 yr old in 1978 I was in hospital for an extended period.
My aunt sent me the book 'to cheer me up'
I'm sure it caused another few days in the hospital isolation ward.
Poor DS, now in his 30s, still goes pale at the mention.

Pashazade · 19/12/2024 08:15

I love this mug! I frog marched my son out of a room when I realised this was in the telly. No way I was letting him see it. If he wanted to watch it now as a teenager fair enough but under ten no way! It's just so brutal. Maybe we all watched it much too young.

CyranoDeBergerQuack · 19/12/2024 08:13

I obviously have my brain-dead head on this morning, as I cannot fathom if this 'lasting trauma' resulting from a cartoon film in which a rabbit or two died, is true or not!

Lossyfloss · 19/12/2024 08:09

@FloydWasACat I have this mug! It made me laugh so much. I was traumatised as a kid.

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FloydWasACat · 19/12/2024 08:05

I'm not sure if it worse than 'When The Wind Blows' or Bambi and Dumbo.

CyranoDeBergerQuack I shared it because it resonated with me and I knew it would for others too, that's why I liked it.

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UndeniablyGenX · 19/12/2024 07:55

Also notable, as a previously 'U' rated film, that it contains the line 'Piss off' 😄

ItsyourSam · 19/12/2024 07:54

My DD15 loves Watership Down (the book)! She's got several different editions. She didn't see or read it as a young child though, so that probably makes a difference!

UndeniablyGenX · 19/12/2024 07:53

Interestingly, it was only about a year ago the BBFC reclassified this film as PG - it had been 'U' since the original release in 1978.

braaaiiins · 19/12/2024 07:52

The other Richard Adams books are excellent though. Plague Dogs is much much better than Watership Down. Definitely not a happy puppy story either though.

MrsSethGecko · 19/12/2024 07:52

I love the film and the book, the film is beautiful. Hazel at the endSad

UndeniablyGenX · 19/12/2024 07:52

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 19/12/2024 07:43

Traumatized me at the age of 4. Bastards. Cute bunny film indeed 🐰🗡😧

Snap!

Mollymalone123 · 19/12/2024 07:51

Bright eyes burning like fire ……

i too loved the book,told the kids what a fab story it was-They’ve never forgiven me 😂 saw the mug on fb and was tempted to buy my adult children one each 😂😂

BeCyanSloth · 19/12/2024 07:47

Another traumatized child here
Also still can’t watch Bambi ,Original Dumbo or Fox and the hound

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 19/12/2024 07:43

Traumatized me at the age of 4. Bastards. Cute bunny film indeed 🐰🗡😧

MaryGreenhill · 19/12/2024 07:43

My poor husband can't watch it , or listen to 'bright eyes'.
His grandmother died when it was released and he just associates her death with it 😭

KalinkaMalinka · 19/12/2024 07:42

We went to see Bambi with school and there is a moment when his leg slide outwards as he slips, still freaked out by that a hundred years later.

DoWhatIDo · 19/12/2024 07:40

LauderSyme · 18/12/2024 02:06

That book - and especially the film with it's heartwrenching soundtrack - are a fucking gut punch alright. Not sure I'd want to give the mug house room, it'd stir up too many uncomfortable emotions when I'd just want a nice cuppa.

Yep.

I was a banned as a child from watching this film.

Sobbed to the point I was sick.

No way do I need any reminder of this film.

Dampfnudeln · 19/12/2024 07:40

Most traumatic "kids" film ever. I still can't listen to Bright Eyes

MaggieBsBoat · 19/12/2024 07:39

Now I’m sad.
Screw you OP!

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