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Watership Down (2018) [BBC1]

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  • 04-12-2018 12:58pm
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    Mr E
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    Out this Christmas - the trailer just came out.

    Nice cast, but people seem to be taking issue with the animation...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3gQ117IKkM


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    ThePott
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    Yikes, not really a Watership Down fan but had a passing interest in this cause of the cast but..

    That animation looks unfinished, like a PS2 game, that's crazy.


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    pixelburp
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    A jolly tale for Christmas then :D

    The animation is a bit cheap looking; seems to be a BBC / Netflix joint production (it's appearing on the service as well), you'd think they'd spring out for better CGI than the kind you saw fadó fadó in the early 2000s.


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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Yeah, that animation looks not great.

    Is hand drawn animation more expensive to produce, I wonder?


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    ThePott
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    When this was announced they it was touted as one of the most expensive mini-series ever for the small-screen.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/27/bbc-remake-watership-down-with-less-violence-to-avoid-scarring-c/
    I guess most of that money went at the cast.

    Less violence too so I guess it will only be dodgy CGI that gives kid's nightmares for this version.


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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    ThePott wrote: »
    When this was announced they it was touted as one of the most expensive mini-series ever for the small-screen.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/27/bbc-remake-watership-down-with-less-violence-to-avoid-scarring-c/
    I guess most of that money went at the cast.
    i

    Bit like the John Lewis advert apparently being the most expensive one they've made at about 7 million, but about 5 of that went in Elton John's back pocket.


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    JP Liz V1
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Bit like the John Lewis advert apparently being the most expensive one they've made at about 7 million, but about 5 of that went in Elton John's back pocket.

    He's a pocket man :D

    It airs as two feature length episodes on BBC 1 on Saturday 22 December and Sunday 23 December


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    Mr.Nice Guy
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    I read the book a couple of years back not knowing what the story was about. I'd seen it listed in one of those '100 books you must read' lists. I thought it was brilliant. Wish I'd read it when I was younger. I'll give this a look.


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    Arcsurvivor
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    I have been waiting for this. I tried watching the cartoon movie, but I did not like it at all.


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    gimli2112
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    Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »
    I read the book a couple of years back not knowing what the story was about. I'd seen it listed in one of those '100 books you must read' lists. I thought it was brilliant. Wish I'd read it when I was younger. I'll give this a look.

    when I was a kid I always put it as the 2nd best book I ever read after LOTR, now I'm an adult I can admit it was the best
    Read it again recently for the first time in years


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