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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.

[–] crisco_1492 13 years ago

I read an article about the most traumatizing "children's" movies on Cracked, and this one made me laugh the hardest. After reading about Watership Down on Wikipedia, I decided to go find it and watched it with my wife. We enjoyed it a lot, and I ended up reading the book too.

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[–] kralvarez1987 13 years ago

I...don't know. But I read the book first.

It just popped on on the tv and I started watching it. I've heard about it before, vaguely and never really grasped my interest, but it wasn't until I actually saw it did it interested me.

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[–] noogee 12 years ago

Saw a news article only yesterday about the most disturbing children's movies; Watership Down got my attention, so I just watched it; was brilliant!

[–] ryanr-1 12 years ago

Watership Down and The Secret of NIMH were both in heavy rotation in the early days of HBO, late 70s early 80s. I just started reading the Watership Down book (excellent so far).

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[–] J_Charles 12 years ago

My wife was given a box of children's VHS tapes from an old neighbour who was moving. We kept all the Disney ones and trashed the rest except for this one. Not sure why. My daughter watched it and she has a thing for rabbits after we purchased a pair for her birthday. She's only five and seemed to handle the rabbit-on-rabbit violence fairly well. I on the other hand was traumatized for hours.

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[–] fifth-of-forth 11 years ago

I was four. I saw it at daycare (possibly several times), but I remembered very little except snippets of rabbits killing each other, blood and violence, death. My older sister reintroduced me in my late teens (she had remembered more clearly), and all the memories came rushing back. I would say it's the one movie that certainly changed my life. It's absolutely inappropriate at that age, too many adult concepts presented in such a child-friendly way, too shocking, maybe even traumatizing to see, but I don't regret it.

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[–] StarskyandChinaHutch 11 years ago

From my very good friend and sister-in-spirit... we'll just call her Stars.

Everyday when you're walking down the street
everybody that you meet has an original point of view