Just putting this here....

[FloydWasACat]

Haaaaaaaa!!!

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.

Why?

😆
Caused serious trauma as a child OP.

Me too, I don't think I could ever watch it again

I’ve never seen the film, but I thought the novel was brilliant when I was a child. The escape from Efrafa part for me outclassed The Great Escape or any human ‘escape from a POW camp’ drama ever.

Now I’m sad.
Screw you OP!

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

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.

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.

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 😭

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

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

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 😂😂

Snap!

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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