Watership Down FULL Reaction
Added 2022-09-11 17:04:17 +0000 UTCNot what I expected...
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Based of my favorite novel of all time, I think I've read it 4 times. The movie is fairly close to the book, seeing as altought they cut alot of the 500 pages out, the relevant stuff are actuarlly really well adapted. The only thing I wasnt a fan of was how fast paced cowslips warren was. That was my favorite part of the book, it was so intense, it took a while for the rabbits to find out what was actuarlly going on, and you just got this really uncomfortable feeling that something was terribly wrong and when we finally got to the part where Bigwig was caught in the snare the impact of the build up was imediate. That whole sequence felt way to rushed in the movie, and I wish they'd added an extra 10-15 minutes to get that scene right. I have seen people refer to this story as The odessy of animals, and it really is one of those grand adventure stories about life and death, only with rabbits as lead characters. I really really recomend reading the book, it dives a lot more in to the lore of rabbit, and also have a lapin dictionary, that explains all the rabbit words like Homba, Silflay and hrududu. General Woundwort is okay, I think a mix of movie- and Netflix Woundwort would have been perfect. The Netflix series is good as a stand alone, but I dont really like it as a book adaptation. It took to many liberties and it felt like they didnt understand the essence of the story. Also the reason this traumatized an entire generation was because parents who had not read the book thought "great, a cute film about rabbits", and then took their five year olds to see it. You are an adult 😉 (Also, sorry if my comment is posted multible times, it keeps disappearing from my feed....)
Yrsa S. Hagström
2022-09-18 18:52:09 +0000 UTCWow, I liked the book, but really disliked the movie.
Yrsa S. Hagström
2022-09-18 10:51:16 +0000 UTCI recommend The Plague Dogs by the same director and based on a book by the same author, Richard Adams. It is even more grown up than Watership Down and genuinely heartbreaking. I also recommend The Last Unicorn, The Secret of NIMH, and Chirin's Bell.
Eric C. Johnson
2022-09-11 21:50:28 +0000 UTCIn the Buffy episode Phases (the werewolf reveal episode) Oz says to Willow “oh don’t worry, bunnies can really take care of themselves” and I flashed to this movie. I read this book in my early teens and my young brain was shook.
Miss Timi Fantastico
2022-09-11 17:37:31 +0000 UTCNo idea what you were expecting , but welcome to my childhood trauma 😭
Flora Smith
2022-09-11 17:37:08 +0000 UTC
