Watership Down re-release 4k restoration and limited cinemas

[Mannginger]

Not sure if I can face watching it at the cinema but will definitely get a digital copy in November

[rossub]

The most depressing animated film ever made and scarred a whole generation of kids - I’ll give it a miss!

[toasty]

rossub said:

The most depressing animated film ever made and scarred a whole generation of kids - I’ll give it a miss!

Not even close. Check out The Plague Dogs and When the Wind Blows.

[rossub]

toasty said:

Not even close. Check out The Plague Dogs and When the Wind Blows.

Nope, it’s those poor bunnies… and ‘Hazel’ that snuffs it at the end is my mum’s name

[fuzzymonkey]

I'm happy they have done this but I'm not going to watch it

[BUG4LIFE]

My wife was going through some old DVD's at her parents house a good while and said she'd found a film for our young boys to watch with rabbits. When she got home and handed me Watership Down, I quickly hid it from the boys and let her know how much it traumatised me watching it as a kid!!! Either she hasn't watched it before or she'd wiped all existence of it from her memory

[Timothy Bucktu]

I'm 52 and still emotionally scarred!

[C5_Steve]

It's beautifully animated but not sure I could handle the amount of dust likely to be in the cinema...

[CT05 Nose Cone]

toasty said:

rossub said:

The most depressing animated film ever made and scarred a whole generation of kids - I’ll give it a miss!

Not even close. Check out The Plague Dogs and When the Wind Blows.

Or Grave of the Fireflies

[P-Jay]

Oh hell no, I also still carry the scars 40 years later. Can't listen to 'Bright Eyes' now.

I've just read that after 4 decades of complaints, the BBFC reclassified it a PG film (from a U) in 2022.

[JimmyD78]

I seem to remember the animation being frighteningly realistic (to a child anyway) and getting thoroughly spooked by the storyline...think I'll give it a miss!

'Bright Eyes....burning like fire....etc'

[JamesW]

50 and completely scarred by it. My mum bought it on DVD to show to my kids, and I strategically moved it from the house before she had a chance to show them

[ajprice]

CT05 Nose Cone said:

Or Grave of the Fireflies

On Netflix on Monday.

[JamesW]

The other one of course was the umbilical cord scene in Threads - which they made us all watch at school when we were 10

[thegreenhell]

How can a light that burned so brightly suddenly burn so pale?

I cannot watch this film or hear that song without welling up.

[Jasandjules]

rossub said:

The most depressing animated film ever made and scarred a whole generation of kids - I’ll give it a miss!

Yup, I was one. Still haunts me now 40 years later.

[ChocolateFrog]

rossub said:

toasty said:

Not even close. Check out The Plague Dogs and When the Wind Blows.

Nope, it’s those poor bunnies… and ‘Hazel’ that snuffs it at the end is my mum’s name

The scene where they're all trapped in the burrow foaming at the mouth.

Childhood ruined

[Digger]

RANT

There is no 4K option when watching the trailer!!!



I may just buy this.

[Mezzanine]

<shudder>

A brilliant film I can never watch again.

[Steve vRS]

thegreenhell said:

How can a light that burned so brightly suddenly burn so pale?

I cannot watch this film or hear that song without welling up.

I think that this applies to everyone who has read this thread!