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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 1, 2023 8:27:54 GMT
We just watched Watership Down on tv, and on vhs recorded off tv. I had a little rabbit I called Pippin. It got eaten by a fox  |
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Post by deekyfun on Jun 1, 2023 9:42:05 GMT
We had a rabbit called Snowy. My cousin came over for Christmas with his new Alsatian and it promptly killed him. Fun times.
Anyway, the first film I saw at the cinema was An American Tail, I think.
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Post by wunty on Jun 1, 2023 9:47:32 GMT
We just watched Watership Down on tv, and on vhs recorded off tv. I had a little rabbit I called Pippin. It got eaten by a fox That's really sad. We had a rabbit that got eaten by a polecat |
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Post by rawshark on Jun 1, 2023 9:50:50 GMT
Oh god it’s the rabbit death thread.
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 1, 2023 9:54:40 GMT
Lets change that, I too saw Watership Down when it first came out, Plague Dogs was much more cheery as a kid. No, wait...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2023 10:07:33 GMT
We had the Bright Eyes single as well, so we could listen to the song again and again and again. Can't remember what the B side was. A hop-hop version maybe.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 1, 2023 10:09:47 GMT
Despite watership down being scary AF, we rewatched it a load of times.
Dunno how old my little sister was at that point, but little.
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Post by ekz on Jun 1, 2023 10:26:39 GMT
Couldn't have been the first, but the first movie I distinctly remember seeing in a cinema was Pokemon: The First Movie.
Lil me cried like a bitch
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Post by wunty on Jun 1, 2023 10:37:00 GMT
We had Watership Down on tape and watched it all the time. So violent and heartbreaking. I also had the Snowman which had a second animated feature about the statue of a prince and a swallow (I think). The statue was inhabited by the spirit of the prince who the swallow could hear, and he instructed the bird to peel off all the gold leaf from the statue and distribute it amongst the poor, after also plucking the gemstones from his eyes and belt. The swallow diligently did as he was instructed, missing his migration to do so and as winter set in, the now barren statue was pulled down as the body of the swallow lay down below in the snow. What a cheerful day that was if I watched all three. Fucking welling up now even thinking about it.
Edit: Just googled it for the first time and it's The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. The version I had was animated in the same style as The Snowman.
Another edit: Found it! It wasn't even animated in the same style at all, stupid brain.
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Post by rawshark on Jun 1, 2023 10:59:30 GMT
Yeah kids stories were fucking bleak back then. See also The Devoted Friend for an example of Oscar Wilde trying to instil a deep sadness into the lives of every child.
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Post by deekyfun on Jun 1, 2023 11:23:14 GMT
I mean the central message of Watership Down is that rabbits are constantly getting wrecked and their superpower is making more rabbits to deal with the constant death that stalks them. That was it, right?
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 1, 2023 12:04:01 GMT
We had Watership Down on tape and watched it all the time. So violent and heartbreaking. I also had the Snowman which had a second animated feature about the statue of a prince and a swallow (I think). The statue was inhabited by the spirit of the prince who the swallow could hear, and he instructed the bird to peel off all the gold leaf from the statue and distribute it amongst the poor, after also plucking the gemstones from his eyes and belt. The swallow diligently did as he was instructed, missing his migration to do so and as winter set in, the now barren statue was pulled down as the body of the swallow lay down below in the snow. What a cheerful day that was if I watched all three. Fucking welling up now even thinking about it.
Edit: Just googled it for the first time and it's The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. The version I had was animated in the same style as The Snowman.
Another edit: Found it! It wasn't even animated in the same style at all, stupid brain.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2023 12:14:20 GMT
I've only ever read the original graphic novel of When the Wind Blows but I remember it blindsided me when I was a kid and haunted me for days. The only other Raymond Briggs book I'd ever read was Father Christmas and I thought Wind was something along those lines.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2023 12:16:31 GMT
Ok so I have no idea why the title is coming up as "The Belsnickel"
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 1, 2023 12:21:31 GMT
I mean the central message of Watership Down is that rabbits are constantly getting wrecked and their superpower is making more rabbits to deal with the constant death that stalks them. That was it, right? Plus Hazel is sun-Jesus |
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 1, 2023 12:56:14 GMT
I've only ever read the original graphic novel of When the Wind Blows but I remember it blindsided me when I was a kid and haunted me for days. The only other Raymond Briggs book I'd ever read was The Belsnickel and I thought Wind was something along those lines. The film is very good, obviously not exactly cheery, John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft are superb, great Bowie title track too.
Growing up when the chances of the nukes flying was ever present the bleakness of some stuff aimed at kids didn't feel that unusual. It's so nice that the mad twat in the Kremlin has brought threats of nuking things back, it's a blast (hopefully not literal) of the past.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2023 13:23:55 GMT
Yeah, I like to think that the 1-2 punch of When the Wind Blows plus Threads kickstarted the end of the cold war. I may well be talking utter shite though
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 1, 2023 14:55:05 GMT
Ok so I have no idea why the title is coming up as "The Belsnickel" There used to be a mod here who was quite fun |
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Post by lukasz on Jun 20, 2023 12:05:12 GMT
Possibly little mermaid. It was with subtitles and I was not able to read it quickly enough so family member had to read it for me.
My earliest memory from cinema and it makes me 7 years old. Next year was Aladdin in my country and that was dubbed.
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Post by rawshark on Jul 12, 2023 9:37:24 GMT
A lot of Raymond Brigg' stuff was just deeply sad. Even Fungus the Bogeyman was an exercise in existential dread. Then you've got Ethel & Ernest which is possibly the most I've ever cried during a film (not on a plane).
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Post by baihu1983 on Jul 12, 2023 9:46:50 GMT
Maybe The Land Before Time.
Can't remember.
But I do know Jurassic Park is the first and only film I've seen that had the entire audience clapping as the end credits started.
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