There are going to be nightmares

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DH is watching Watership Down with our 4 year old DD.

What is wrong with the TV schedulers?

I know I watched it as a kid, I can vaguely recall some nasty-eyed rabbit scratching the crap out of another rabbit but aside from that I can't really remember it. So I'm either not traumatised at all or so traumatised that my subconscious has wiped it from my memory...

I saw the film as a kid in the late 1980s. It was sad but it shows children the reality of nature and how human beings destroy wildlife and the natural environment around us.

I found, When the Wind Blows far more disturbing.

Has everyone here seen Mary & Max?

OMFG!!

:(

I am 42 and still traumatised by this film!

KingJoffrey No but I've just read the synopsis & that was sad enough.

That film scarred me for life. Still won't watch it.

Saw the film when young. Can only remember bits of it. Had read the book several times before I was 12. Loved the book, still do. Just glad I didn't read The Plague Dogs at that age.
Didn't know the film was on today, no way of watching it, dd has taken over the tv to play Minecraft. No nightmares from that

I can't even listen to Bright Eyes without getting a bit emotional.

I put Dumbo on for DD1 when she was about 5 . I can still hear her hysterical wails: "Waaaaaah...his mummy's gone, nooooooooooo!" and she's now nearly 12.

i can read the book but not watch the film!

apparently it got its film classification because he didn't watch the film if it was submitted today it would have a higher rating no one has ever resubmitted it

Watched it as a kid and not seen it since. Dd (11) was sobbing at the good dinosaur this afternoon so I think watership down would finish her off

But no one is forced to watch it . Just turn over or turn off.

WD was one of my reading books in primary school. I can remember reading it out loud to my teacher. I found the swearing seagull in my own reading time and other kids were begging me to go back to it so it would be the next bit I had to read to her. I was too goody-two-shoes for that.

Shortly after the film came out it was shown on a flight my dad was on & he told me the usually well behaved but admittedly half pissed group of business men he was with started a chant of "We don't want the wabbits."

Years later he told me that it wasn't as much that it was considered a children's film, more that they found the story too upsetting.

mrsemma is that the nuclear one? That was fucked up!

I love Watership Down and caught the second half earlier. DD and DS were in and out of the room, but DD watched the end of it with me; she's almost 7.

Our whole primary school went and saw it at the cinema when it first came out ( in NZ) I was 7. Most of us were upset and cried a lot. What were our teachers thinking !!!

I found, When the Wind Blows far more disturbing

I'm not particularly surprised that a film about nuclear warfare was disturbing.

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today... Heartbreaking book (one of my favourites) but the film is traumatising to say the least! 70's drug induced bunny death montage scenes.

Terrifying. I might see if it's on catch up though so I can see if it has the same effect now 30 odd years later. I'm welling up thinking about it tbh.

Richard Adams books are so poignant. Even now, impossible to read them without tears. Bright Eyes, and Memory from Cats, are my favourite songs to play on piano :)

When I was about 8 I was really into rabbits and my mum came home with watership down on vhs thinking it would be a lovely happy film.

When the Wind Blows gave me nightmares for years. Classic example of why animation doesn't equal kids film. I should never have been allowed to watch it.

Dumbo is so sad. The poor little baby elephant, teased for ears and taken away from his mummy. The bond between elephant and calf is very very close, in any case, so imagine that happening IRL abx the poor little baby wanting his mummy.

Seven. Well your mum would think it was a lovely happy film wouldn't she with bunnies on the cover. It's not an unreasonable assumtion, is it.

I've never watched this or read it. Just googled and IMDB parent advisory bit says it should be a 12A. It sounds horrific so don't think I'll bother watching it, definitely not my sort of thing!

Has anyone else read The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams? Seriously. Fucked. Up.