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Watership Down / BBC-NETFLIX PRODUCTION OUT IN 2017
« on: December 16, 2015, 10:04:03 PM »


Oh come on, I had to eventually make a thread about my favorite movie (and book), right?

Ever since the beginning of my stay here at DTF, my avatar has been the movie version of Blackavar (also my online handle basically everywhere but here), my favorite character in the book, with quite a bit less spotlight in the movie (where he has a horrific death for God-knows-why).

What an awesome movie. It's about a group of rabbits that leave their home in search of another after one among the group has a terrible vision of their home's destruction. If you haven't seen it before, it really doesn't matter if you watch the movie or read the book first, as they both improve the perspective of the other, and aren't extremely different (except a few storytellings in the book not in the movie and a few differences in chronology). It's a cartoon, but it's not made by Disney and was rated PG in 1978, and if it were released today, it would easily be PG-13.

Reason being is that it's pretty violent. Lots of blood and death. Many people in youtube comments, etc, talk about how disturbing the movie was to them as a child. Personally, I don't remember being disturbed by the movie or the book (which I remember was read to me at my bed as a child).

Now why did I make a thread now, of all times? Well, I recently found this article, which was then followed by this article. I've been half-wanting a remake of Watership Down for years. I searched up "watership down remake" jokingly online the other day, and nearly fell out of my chair in surprise. And this was information unveiled in March! And it's almost "next year".

"Stephenson describes the animation as “incredibly detailed” and says that the violent nature of the story will also be maintained."

I'm excited. Discuss the movie (and the book), as well as the upcoming 4-part remake.

And don't talk about the late-90's TV series.
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Re: Watership Down / Something New?
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2015, 11:02:42 PM »
I feel like i should watch this movie. Sounds pretty good.
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Re: Watership Down / Something New?
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2015, 12:12:41 AM »
All this time I had no idea what Watership Down was.

It sounded like a bad SyFi channel movie (based on the name).

Now I am interested in watching it
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Re: Watership Down / Something New?
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2015, 08:45:07 AM »
 :tup
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Re: Watership Down / Something New?
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2015, 01:53:48 PM »
You wanna see disturbing...see the follow up film The Plague Dogs. Same director, same animation company, and I think another novel by Adams.

It's the story of two dogs that escape from an animal testing facility, and it goes into how mentally messed up they are and the nightmares they have because of the torture they've endured.
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Re: Watership Down / Something New?
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2015, 04:01:09 AM »
Plague Dogs is fantastic.



Watership Down, a top 5 all time novel for me, and the movie adaptation is a stunner.

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Re: Watership Down / Something New?
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2016, 10:18:23 AM »
It's HAPPENING! And that voice cast though...
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Re: Watership Down / BBC-NETFLIX PRODUCTION OUT IN 2017
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2016, 11:08:50 AM »
Amazing book.  I have it and have read it at least three or four times.  Good movie too, but yeah, sure not what a lot of parents were expecting when they took their little ones to see the cartoon movie with the bunnies.

I saw it on TV and wasn't "traumatized" or anything, but I do remember thinking that it was about the most intense cartoon I'd ever seen.  I mean, there's Wile E. Coyote getting himself blown up trying to catch the Road Runner, or Elmer Fudd taking a shotgun to the face when Bugs Bunny outwits him again, but they're always back the next day for more abuse.  You know it's just "cartoon violence".  This is "real" violence that just happens to be animated.  Rabbits ripping the shit out of each other and other adventures.  A bunny odyssey.

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Re: Watership Down / BBC-NETFLIX PRODUCTION OUT IN 2017
« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2016, 12:08:52 PM »
Watership Down ? ::)


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Re: Watership Down / BBC-NETFLIX PRODUCTION OUT IN 2017
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2016, 05:29:52 PM »
I need to rewatch this movie. I couldn't handle it as a child, and never looked back.

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Re: Watership Down / BBC-NETFLIX PRODUCTION OUT IN 2017
« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2016, 06:19:24 PM »
I need to rewatch this movie. I couldn't handle it as a child, and never looked back.

While it does have its disturbing moments, it's certainly not much worse than anything that comes out these days. It's certainly not gratuitous. I just hope the new miniseries is rated PG-13 instead of PG.
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Re: Watership Down / BBC-NETFLIX PRODUCTION OUT IN 2017
« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2016, 08:18:33 PM »
Just  as a follow-up to what I said earlier, I managed to find a bootleg copy of the plague dogs at comic con a couple of weeks ago.
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Re: Watership Down / Something New?
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2016, 08:21:02 AM »
It's HAPPENING! And that voice cast though...

Damn, I hope Kingsley is doing General Woundwart.

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Re: Watership Down / Something New?
« Reply #13 on: April 30, 2016, 11:18:03 AM »
It's HAPPENING! And that voice cast though...

Damn, I hope Kingsley is doing General Woundwart.

according to this, he is
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Re: Watership Down / BBC-NETFLIX PRODUCTION OUT IN 2017
« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2016, 02:46:26 PM »
Sounds like I need to do a re-read. It's been a while