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How did you hear of this film??

posted 15 years ago by boondock11387
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I have yet to see this and have found it uploaded on youtube. I cant wait to watch it, but how i came across it is really random. I was watching Flight of the Choncords, an HBO comedy show, just a little bit ago and there in this one scene this guy mentions Watership Down as being a film that "chicks love" and i figured it had to be some kid of inside joke. i've never heard of the film so i looked it up. I haven't been so intrigued by a film in ages and i really look forward to seeing it, although i have a feeling it will be very disturbing, especially since i love animals.

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[–] Est-Warria 15 years ago

I saw it on VHS when I was about four years old. I don't know how or when our family got it, but it remained untouched, at least by me, for about a decade afterwards. Fiver's visions had really frightened me. I watched it again only about a year ago and now it's my absolute favorite movie and brings back a lot of memories, good and bad, about the first time I saw it.

[–] ManicWolf 15 years ago

I can't really remember, I saw it for the first time when I was about 5, and (despite being creeped out by a few bits in it) totally loved it, and have loved it ever since.

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[–] PhantomWolf123 15 years ago

I saw it on HBO

[–] captain_campion 15 years ago

My dad is the bad influence on this one for me. He loved the book and recommended it to me one day when I was bored. I read it in a day and then he rented the movie (on Betamax, lol) about a week later since I loved the book so much.

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[–] thesecrethour 15 years ago

My dad and I were talking about these screen shots we hang over the tv and we were talking about what kind to put up next. We'd already done dramatic and comedic animation and I didn't want to put the same dramatic picture back up, I wanted to do new ones. He says, "Well, we've already done drama and comedy, what else is there?" So I said, "There are many film genres out there, I'll find some. And we didn't do comedy, we did fun animation. They do make dramatic animation." And he brought up Watership down and was shocked that I hadn't seen it (because I've seen way too many movies) and he pulled it up on YouTube and we watched it together.
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[–] Kevin_mon 15 years ago

I heard about it from the movie Donnie Darko.

[–] rob1970 15 years ago

We were shown it in elementary school. I must have been about 7 or 8.

[–] xPhenomenusx 15 years ago

Same here.

I'm watching it for the first time right now.

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[–] fantasyescapist 15 years ago

I saw it on telly(I think on ITV - this was in the 90s), early in the morning aged 9. I thought it was very good but quite scary - years later, I still do...

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[–] FrankBooth_DeLarge 15 years ago

The first time I ever heard about it was when I was looking up a list of adult animated movies online around age 14. This one stuck out because it looked like a kids' movie but the reviewer noted that it was bloody and violent. Then I kind of forgot about it until 2006, when I was 17, and I came across the name on the animation boards. I posted a thread about the most disturbing kids' cartoons, and this one came up quite a few times even though it's not exactly a kids movie. So after that I read about it alot on here, then borrowed it from the library. I liked it so much that I ended up buying the DVD a few months later.

[–] MC1-Bjornson 15 years ago

I saw "Watership Down" when it premiered on HBO in 1980.
I've been a fan of this movie ever since!

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[–] findingnemo-3 15 years ago

It's a little disturbing only if you don't know what to expect I think. I'd read the book before I saw it so I knew what was coming, but my sister hadn't and was a little frightened during her first viewing (but we were both very young at the time).
I actually heard about the film after I read the book. I'd dared to hope they'd made a movie of it and looked it up online as fast as I could.

[–] kralvarez1987 15 years ago

first heard about it on Donnie Darko; then was able to see the movie on tv a couple of years later.