What's The Problem With Showing Watership Down At Easter?

[sp1814]

Pretty scary for young kids whenever it's shown, surely?

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/watership-down-parents-left-horrified-as-1978-animated-film-traumatises-children-on-easter-sunday-a6956061.html

[jim360]

I don't think I was able to get past Mufasa's death scene in the Lion King for a long time...

[anotheoldgit]

wolf63

/// Some of the old cartoons had people blown up and decapitated. ///

I blame it on the parents of the IS mob, should never have let their young watch those cartoons.

[campbellking]

My Mum agonised for some time before she let me go to see a double bill at the cinema when I was younger as she thought I would find 'Treasure Island' scary. No problems with 'Treasure Island', 'Sleeping Beauty' on the other hand scared the living daylights out of me.

[sp1814]

wolf63

Yes - that's the one.

Totally freaked me out.

It's not really a horror film, but that didn't really matter. Scared the living snot out of me.

[sp1814]

AOG

On a thread concerning Watership Down, you introduce ISIS.

On a thread concerning rugby hooligans, you introduce fights at refugee camps.

Yesterday someone said that I was overtaking you in the league of those perusing a certain agenda.

My congratulations on you decisively retaking the lead.

[douglas9401]

I really can't see that it's any more disturbing than the tale of the kindly hippie being nailed to a couple of planks, stabbed, left to die then become a zombie a short time later and known thereafter as The Holy Ghost, ready to right all wrongs at some vague future date.

[mushroom25]

always look on the bright side of life, douglas.

[viv41]

Not a suitable Easter film for kids imo.

[Peter Pedant]

who is the bunny boiler in watership down

and incred journey - I read the book ( erm the film was shown too far away ) and I dont recollect any canine horrors .... they aall get there in the end innit ?

( it was 1963 )

[Peter Pedant]

Now come on SP
be fair

you did a Paul Burrell routine on the locked phone thread
and I have it on good authority that the Queen ( whoever it may be ) doesnt use a phone but sends a footman with a written and sealed message ....

[jourdain2]

You must be about my age retrocop, I still remember, and shudder about, 'Quatermass and the Pit' - the sand rippling round the poor guy trying to make it to the sanctuary of the church door! I was frightened to bits, when very young, by the wicked queen in 'Snow White'. There were other things I hid behind the settee and peeked out on.

A children's story I submitted was rejected as 'not being scary enough'. Children need to be frightened, but they have to be in a safe situation at the time. That way they learn to cope with fear. Today's lot are, generally speaking, mollycoddled. I cried buckets over Bambi.

Kids are far too [protect

[jourdain2]

^^ protected.

I read 'The Incredible Journey' before I was 10 and loved it, can't see a problem. All of them showed courage and stickability and they got there - I'm giving it to my granddaughter.