Watership Down, I feel traumatised, won't someone think of the children?

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If you ever wondered what would have happened if Walt Disney decided to make a dark, noir, thiller based on a terrifying journey through a hostile land with a kind of concentration camp in it.
The weird CGI rabbits make it even creepier.

never watched it and after reading opening post i don't intend to !

It’s brilliant.
It is, however, also very sad and disturbing.

It felt a bit like the rabbit version of the walking dead, except the rabbits had hare ears, even creepier !

The new bbc one? I was traumatised for life by the original film. I’ve watched the bbc one from behind a cushion and there’s less death and blood than I remember.

The story is brilliant (read the book many years ago), the cgi rabbits are just weird. They look like hares and are moving all wrong and there's something strange going on with the eyes! I can't get past the weirdness to enjoy the story!

I haven’t watched the new version. The original was such a classic - I loved that film so much. No need for a new version.

The original is a classic the new version is an insult.

Ohh, DD said, and I quote, when I saw this was on at xmas, "so that's another generation of children scared for life". She's 48, so I took her (ashamed) when she was about seven. She's a v sensitive person. She wept buckets when I took her, about a year later, to see a live version of "oliver, the musical". When Fagin was arrested at the end, she was inconsolable. Apparently, it wasn't his fault he he was just an old poor man.

She's a fan woman,and always has had a social conscious.

Proud, me? You better believe it

Loved it, it's my favourite book

They did think of the children though. It was originally scheduled to be broadcast on Christmas day! Luckily the bbc realised their massive error in judgement and moved it to the 22nd instead. Thus preventing thousands of children from being traumatized and needing therapy by boxing day.

Wasn't there a bit of a hooha one year when channel 5 decided to show it on Easter Sunday?

Loads of parents settled down to watch a lovely seasonal cartoon (graded U, so suitable for all) and there a million complaints.

Love the original but yeah, it's quite dark. I don't even see how it's a U rating.

This is what kids nowadays need. Stark fear. Keeps the little blighters in check.

A handy environmental message too ☺

I hated the old film & the book - so depressing...

I explained a brief outline of the story to mine and played them bright eyes on Spotify. Just that was enough to reduce both to tears. So no not watched

The book is one of my favourites and the old film is disturbing but brilliant.
The new bbc version cuts a load of characters and scenes and is a bit of a whistle-stop your - not good.

I am not going anywhere near it

No chance

I was traumatised by the original film st school as a child. I remember it in vivid, horrible detail, the classroom I was in, the people I sat with, the teacher, and more importantly the feelings it instilled in me.

My boys can watch when they are 18 as long as they have left home first.

I remember loving the original, but my friends and I played watership down afterwards and we role played a lot of dying and going to heaven. In retrospect I find it really scary and anything remotely like it (such as the John Lewis ad one year) gives me flashbacks of blood red claw marks

Loved the book and the original film.

Saw Watership Down on the tv guide and put it on to snuggle and watch with 7 year old DD (who loved the idea of bunny horror ) only to find it is some awful CGI remake. FFS.

It was unbearable and we turned it off after 2 minutes

Damn you BBC, why cant you put on the proper blood and guts version for Christmas

It's the terrible CGI rabbits that are horrifying in this remake.

I dont understand how modern CGI animals can be so shit when films from several years ago like the Golden Compass had really good animals with quite realistic movement in them.

There's really no excuse now for bunnies moving like robots

Really disappointing.

The only thing worse than the rabbits is the dog? It seems to have been created by an animator that has never actually seen a dog move or behave!

The original film scarred me for life. All I remember is dead bunnies, blood everywhere

No way am I watching the remake. Not a chance.

I'm also scarred for life by the original. It's not a snuggly Christmas movie.

Says it all

Sorry, I was trying to send the picture of a rabbit reading Watership Down and saying ‘fucking hell”
Ballsed it right up🙄