Watership Down film recommendation?

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  • March 30, 2015 at 8:08 am
    Sue
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    Has anyone here viewed the 2008 film adaptation of Watership Down? Can you recommend it & why or why not? It was distributed by Warner Home Video and stars John Hurt and Nigel Hawthorne.

    March 30, 2015 at 2:42 pm
    suzukimom
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    I have not seen the 2008 adaptation.

    Do NOT have kids watch the one from 1978.  Nightmares are common – it is VERY graphic of the violence.   (This is noted on boards where people discuss this book – there are many adults out there that watched the movie and had horrible nightmares that they still remember.)

    March 30, 2015 at 10:23 pm
    Sue
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    Thanks for letting me know about that.  If I decide to get the 2008 version, I’ll have to preview that, too.

    March 31, 2015 at 9:17 am
    Sue
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    I just discovered that the “2008 version” that my library has is actually the 1978 animated one that gave suzukimom nightmares!  They released a deluxe edition with special features in 2008, and that’s the dvd our library has.

    Darn! We like to watch well-done film adaptations of books we’ve read. Maybe we’ll have a better chance of finding a good film version of David Copperfield (as I mentioned in my other thread)!

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