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

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

Oh this film makes me so sad I can't watch it, I watched it a few times as a kid but the songs make me cry and the bit where the evil rabbits scratch the other one makes me shudder. DD won't be watching, likewise bambi, purely because mummy can't hack it

I've got the song in my head and even that's threatening tears poor bunnies

Anyone who complains about something on the telly of this ilk is a total twat.

Switch the tv over. No one is forcing you to watch it. You aren't tied to a sodding chair with your eyes taped open. ffs

I'm with you Chinks. No Bambi film in this house. Bambi stuffed toys are permitted though. Thumper is at the end of the bed atm. 🐰

I did however switch off willy wonka on sunday as I still find it creepy as fuck and didn't want my 5yo watching it.

Traumatised me as a child

Found it sad as a child, but not as sad as Bambi.

What I don't get is these people didn't know how horrible it is have they been in space or something did they really think it was a fluffy bunny film and obviously they lost the remote

My mum was a bit sadistic when it came to approving viewing choices for my sensitive younger self.

I had bad times.

I was watching a countdown thing on Sunday and Bambi was no 9 or there about I was wellling up at the clip

Oh, was it on today? Bugger, would have recorded it for my older two.

Am about to start reading DS1 the book funnily enough.

I remember me and my siblings loving the fact that Kee-ha says 'piss off' to one of the rabbits. Did they edit that out?

It was the first film I ever saw at the cinema and I was just six. Loved it. It's a fantastic film. I went and bought Bright Eyes on 7" single afterwards with some birthday money - first ever record purchase on the same day.

Bambi was my first experience of cinema rage. I was 8. The girl sitting in front of me (same kind of age) constantly demanded I want juice I want popcorn I want sweets attention. She was loud. She was bad mannered. So when Bambi died and she started howling, I laughed my socks off.

I may have been a bit evil. I have never encountered such an entitled princess since - nearly 40 years later.

I actually really like watership down but my DDS didn't get to see it till they were 10ish dd2 hasn't seen it right through

I think there's something wrong with me. I remain untraumatised despite having seen water ship down, animals of farthing wood, bambi, dumbo

I never got the hype on any of it. not as a kid or an adult

It's like 'the walking dead', but with bunnies. Strange apocalyptic disease. Moving from settlement to settlement, thinking they have found a haven then realising something is off.

One of my all time favourite films.

The scene with the rabbits dying after being trapped underground was so powerful.

I also loved the general lunging at the dog before being killed.

It was the first cinema film I saw - at 2 1/2. My DF still refuses to take me to the cinema (40 cough years later) in case I cry and have to be carried out: I didn't like that the bad rabbits got their come-uppance, and as a result, haven't watched it since. But where would MN be for threads if grown adults always behaved like grown adults and - oh, I don't know, turned the television off. Or parented their children and said, "No". However, OP, you're still NBU, because idiots like that fuck me off too

Giles, I'm not one for getting emotional at films. ET left me cold. The ex blubbed through Ghost ffs.

The only film that makes me feel truly sad is Schindler's List.

Veg crisps Sorry, my mistake. It's been so long since I watched it I can't remember who dies, though I vividly remember one good bunny being beaten up by a bad bunny and a good bunny being caught with a wire around its neck. Brilliant film but DD won't be watching it as she'd be too upset by those scenes.

I've not seen that.

I was so excited to be able to watch texas chain. saw.massacre after all the hype about it being banned. I was extremely underwhelmed. ditto, Blair witch, all paranormal activity films etc

they must just film.the drama kings and Queens on the adverts

Watership Down isn't a story about cute fluffy rabbits. It's more about war, authoritarianism and blind faith than anything else. A good story for adolescents, and an even better one for young adults.

I have a memory of reading an interview with Richard Adams (the author) which references his time in the Army, in the time of the Cold War - I may be wrong.

The good bunny with wire round his neck was Bigwig and he survived, worry not, although in the book he has a touch of PTSD.

The film invents violet who is killed by a hawk.

Blackavaar is the good rabbit killed by the bad rabbits. That's not a good moment. It's like th bit in Jaws 2 where Marge dies.

I've never seen it, nor did I realise it wasn't suit able for anyone. I recorded it for my DD as I assumed it was a lovely film that we could watch but she's only 4 so don't think I'll be putting it on for her.

Those female rabbits who were so institutionalised that they refused freedom when offered were pretty sinister IMO.