“Watership Down” and “The Wild Geese” came out about the same time in 1978. I was at Ft. Huachuca, AZ, at the time and a couple of us went to see “The Wild Geese” knowing it was about mercenaries in Africa. A couple of marines chided my friend and I about ‘going to see a nature movie about birds.’ The said they were going to see “Watership Down” because it was about people escaping from a sinking ship, or so they thought. Afterwards, we asked them how there movie was and they said “It was about a bunch of (word deleted) bunnies.”
That’s funny.