Piss off!

Me...sit...on ecks! Lots...of...ecks!

Ahh... good ol' Zero!

He was quite the looker, too:
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Plague Dogs was great, too -- only much, much sadder. *sniff*

I vaguely remember seeing Watership Down as a young child and being scared silly. Is it actually scary, or was I just a weird child? What's it about, anyway? Is it a political allegory?

I think it would be scary to a child. There's a lot about death in it, much as in the life of rabbits.

It suffers from talking animals in a story syndrome in that it came after Animal Farm, so everyone thinks it's written along similar lines. It's not, though people have interpreted it as such and it's not as if there isn't some socio-political stuff going on.

The short plot is that it's a bunch of bunnies who want to go live on a hill.

Is it actually scary, or was I just a weird child?

Well, this is what the villain looks like:
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I remember seeing it an bawling my eyes out, from start to end basically. And then watching it again the next day. Me and my friends must have been masochists. I thought it was fantastic.
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This image still stirs up a lot of feelings. Must get kleenex now.

Bright eyes...Burning like fire...Bright eyes

Oh, I loved this book! I first got it in 1978, at a garage sale in Berkeley, California, where I was seeing my father for the first time in two years. I still have that battered copy. I was, like, twelve at the time. Bigwig always was my favorite.

Miko, the movie is pretty tough on kids - not in a "boo! scary!" kind of way that you can laugh off, but because it is pretty unflinching about showing pain - pain that looks like it's real, not pretend. It outdoes Mononoke in that respect, which is right at the borderline of what I'd think of sharing with a kid, especially a sensitive one.

Also, the visions in the movie are pretty succesful at conveying the sense of dread they're supposed to.

And then there's Plague Dogs. Lord knows how traumatic that might be.

it's totally scary--tons of wounding and stuff.

(Watership Down was the first "big" book i read--i'll never forget it)

Movies like this, and Bambi, and Old Yeller are specifically made to traumatize kids and I hate them all.

/was traumatized by those movies as a kid.

Especially Bambi. I mean, shit, the kid identifies with the fawn and then the fawn's mother gets killed, so of course the kid is gonna think its mother is gonna get killed soon. Shitfuck.