Unironically a fantastic film and book though
Pairs well with a brave little appliance
Still my favorite animated film but I am a simple man.
I still wonder how the power cord bled when the bad man chopped it, or is that a false memory?
But what IS a watership?
Like an airship but for, you know, water.
Buoyancy Operated Aquatic Transport?
It’s old English meaning kind of “uplands near a watery place”. Its an actual place near where I live, about 5 miles south of Newbury, Berkshire, England.
Andrew Lloyd Webber lives just to the North of it and De Haviland did his maiden flight to the West of it just on the other side of the A34 road.
The author lived there as a child, interestingly so did the author of Paddington Bear
Yo Paddington is wicked sick. He’s a rare sort of bear
I don’t know how but somehow I managed to avoid this one as a kid. I rented tons of videos and this one was square in the middle of them, but something about it made me avoid it like the plague. And this was long before internet, nor did any of my peers see it and tell me about it. Knowing how frail my mind was at that age, that was undoubtedly a good thing.
Watch it now, tell us if you are any less frail
Considering my current tastes in media, i doubt it’d do much. Although I’ve always had a soft spot for animals, even the animated kind.
Same here, I have no clue how I avoided this one either. Maybe my parents guided me away every time I reached for it and I just don’t remember? I honestly don’t know.
My parents had it for us at home. What does that say?
Depends. Did they just put you in front of it when you were 4 or did they wait until you had reached a certain mental maturity and watched it with you?
I think they had the same view as the British rating agency : animation removes all worries
Did your parents get a kickback from your therapist?
They might have been after something. Alien proceeded the Empire Strikes Back on our childhood copy
Yep, Dr. Lipschitz was definitely giving parents kickbacks.
Maybe the place where you rented movies had a version with this cover
Lol it did, this brings back memories. I also seem to remember a still image of a roadkilled bunny(?) on the back which threw me off. But maybe that’s just Mandela effect.
I was about to snark that parents that give a fuck can refer to a movie’s age rating but then I learnt that, until recently, it was classified in the UK as U (universal, suitable for all) because “Animation removes the realistic gory horror in the occasional scenes of violence and bloodshed”. That’s certainly a view. Good thing to know that I just have to animate all of the fucked-up shit in my head and that makes it okay to sell to children. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down_(film))
Edit: 6 and up in Germany. Cool. Cool cool cool.
I remember watching this in school… as a treat
I think you misspelled “threat”…
What did you do to that poor substitute teacher???
So Heavy Metal rates U?
Only if you blur all the boobs. Remember, grotesque violence is okay but the human body is an abomination never to be seen
The Animals of Farthing Wood was the hot shit when I was in elementary school.
To be fair it is not that gory, it is mostly just genocide
Lol, stuff like Hellsing Ultimate must’ve given them a reality check.
Kids going to watch the bunny movie and instead learning what happens when you accidentally put male and female hamsters in the same cage.
They hug 🤗
really fast
After they hug too many times, the girl hamster starts to get a bigger belly and then tells the boy hamster to go away. Since the boy hamster can’t go anywhere, the girl hamster eats his face while you’re at school. The end.
Still to this day this is one of my favorite books. I was given it as a kid because I had a pet rabbit. Bigwig is badass.
“Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!”
I still remember that even though it’s been over a decade since I last read the book. XD
Harden the fuck up, kids! It’s time to grow up.
Now available as a double pack with The Plague Dogs!
The horrors …
In a similar vein, the opening credits to Animals of Farthing Wood will stick with me forever.
I’m fuckin traumatized from this damn movie
Suffocating rabbits and rabbit murder gave me nightmares as a kid. I literally haven’t watched it in probably 40+ years.
NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
This movie about fireflies also looks cute, and it’s made by Studio Ghibli!
Just like this lovely story about a husband and wife living their best life.
