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Has anyone seen this movie or read the book? I'm reading the book right now. I think it's a pretty good book. I've seen some parts from the movie and it scared the crap out of me. Poor bunnies.

At junior school, they sat us all down in the main hall, wheeled in the TV and made us watch it.
There were a lot of tears - that would most likely count as child cruelty now.

It is a very good book though

Yeah I saw it at the cinema for my birthday when I was about 11. Not a dry seat^H^H^H^H eye in the house.

The book is quite similar to the film IIRC - although a bit darker if anything.

One of Richard Adams other books, The Plague Dogs, is well worth a read too.

I heard of The Plague Dogs, I'm thinking of reading it. And I think General Woundwort made me somewhat afraid of bunnies. He's pretty scary.

It's a great book/film, looking back on it now though several years older, it's just not a kids film. At all.

I remember watching the movie back when I was a child and...holy s**t... I had never seen such a cruel and touching animation movie for children.

I cried my eyes out during the ending scene, where they play "Bright Eyes" by Art Garfunkel...and I named the rabbits I got for christmas around a year later "Blackberry" and "Hazel".

Been my favourite movie for quite a while back then.

It wasn't until I saw that film that I started eating rabbits.
Only the evil ones though.

Pista wrote:It wasn't until I saw that film that I started eating rabbits.
Only the evil ones though.

As long as it's sure, that they are evil...you might get away with it.

The film's pretty faithful to the book - and no, probably not meant for children considerng both have Keehar shouting "p*ss off!" at cute bunnies. Who get savaged by dogs, flattened by bulldozers, throttled by snares and rip each other's throats out. The animation looks cheap even for its time but it's got a cast of top British thesps and has great source material.

Richard Adams seemed to specialise in brutal animal books, having also written Shardik and Traveller.

our whole school went to see it when it came out. i knew the book really well but most didn't so were a bit shocked, i think. it's definitely darker than the book.

We watched it last summer at 'Film Club'. I knew when the sweary bit was going to happen - so I coughed really loudly The kids still heard but their response was 'just to look at each other, then me doubting themselves as to whether they did actually hear what they thought they had heard.

I preferred Plague Dogs myself.

Oh and any excuse for this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p5_lcVduQE

I rememberJames chose to sing it on the Dermot O'Leary show. They happened to be playing Birmingham the day it was on, no-one had a radio so they all piled in to the back of mi Mondeo to listen. Very surreal

I remember being taken to the cinema to see the film when it came out (I was only a little lad - a PG certificate meant something very different in them days!) - cried almost all the way through it. Watched it against recently and discovered that my apartment suddenly got very dusty - can be the only explanation for my eyes tearing up and getting a lump in my throat (terrible allergies, you know).

I got it on DVD. Great movie!

I liked the bit were they all turned into robots....

weebleswobble wrote:I liked the bit were they all turned into robots....

Haven't seen the movie, haven't read the book
But this topic made me enough curious to download it and watch tonite at home. Just found a nice demonoid torr of it

iesus wrote:Haven't seen the movie, haven't read the book
But this topic made me enough curious to download it and watch tonite at home. Just found a nice demonoid torr of it

Enjoy!

EvilBastard wrote:a PG certificate meant something very different in them days!

Didn't exist in those days. You may be thinking of the old A certificate (anyone over 5 could be admitted but not recommended for those under 14. In some areas children had to be accompanied by an adult) but Watership Down was, remarkably, a U. The BBFC has apparently received complaints about the certificate every year since its release!

I'm still sorta surprised it's PG.

Bright Eyes was probably the first single that was bought for me as a child... I think that made me want to see the movie and so that was probably the first film i went to as well. Very trippy in parts though. I got it on dvd for my daughter a while ago but i don't remember her being that impressed funnily enough, although it could have been that she was distracted by my sobbing...

Today is my birthday and tomorrow night I'm having a birthday party. Is it bad that part of me wants to rent this movie on Netflicks for me and my friends, who probably have never heard of it, to watch?

And for anyone who wants to know, I'm 17 now.

xxKyo13xx wrote:Today is my birthday and tomorrow night I'm having a birthday party. Is it bad that part of me wants to rent this movie on Netflicks for me and my friends, who probably have never heard of it, to watch?

And for anyone who wants to know, I'm 17 now.

Happy Birthday, Kyo!

SINsister wrote:

xxKyo13xx wrote:Today is my birthday and tomorrow night I'm having a birthday party. Is it bad that part of me wants to rent this movie on Netflicks for me and my friends, who probably have never heard of it, to watch?

And for anyone who wants to know, I'm 17 now.

Happy Birthday, Kyo!

Thank you.

xxKyo13xx wrote:Today is my birthday and tomorrow night I'm having a birthday party. Is it bad that part of me wants to rent this movie on Netflicks for me and my friends, who probably have never heard of it, to watch?

And for anyone who wants to know, I'm 17 now.

Congrats! And why not give it a try and let your plans just succeed ... ...

Anyway, I wish you the best of fun at your party ... ...

If we do watch it they're probably gonna be like, "Aww, look at the cute little bun--wait, why are they bleeding? OH MAH GOD! TURN IT TO SOMETHING ELSE!"

And I'd be in the corner like, "Why did I think that this would be a good idea?!"