01.02Avatar is FernGully

Last night, Row and I went to the movies for the first time since Samuel was born. It was good fun. We got to wear these crazy 3D glasses while watching Avatar. I really enjoyed it, visually quite spectacular. As we left the cinema Row’s assessment was that it was just a more sexied up version of the 1992 Australian movie, FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Check out this mash-up: Avatar trailer audio, with snippets from FernGully.

Here’s the real Avatar trailer | Here’s Rich Beeston’s Fervr review

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12 Responses to “Avatar is FernGully”

  1. Tim says:

    I knew it :P

    January 2nd, 2010 at 7:36 pm

  2. Julie says:

    Went to see it last night too. I had forgotten about Ferngully – don’t think I saw it since year 8. Avatar is so Ferngully – with the score of Titanic thrown in ;)

    January 2nd, 2010 at 8:05 pm

  3. Timothy Lee says:

    oh wow…

    January 2nd, 2010 at 8:50 pm

  4. Avatar v Fern Gully » St. Eutychus says:

    [...] a few people – davemiers.com included – have been saying it’s just a pretty version of Fern [...]

    January 2nd, 2010 at 9:29 pm

  5. davemiers says:

    with the score of Titanic thrown in

    haha – i started singing the celine dion song on the way out of the cinema!!!!

    January 3rd, 2010 at 11:48 pm

  6. movie: Avatar — cafedave.net says:

    [...] between two worlds blog – a NYT op-ed piece Heaven and Nature by Ross Douthat. Sorry to say dave, that the fervr review of Avatar doesn’t actually review the film: perhaps not being able to [...]

    January 4th, 2010 at 1:10 am

  7. Tim Clemens says:

    classic!
    good pick!
    Thanks again for today dude

    January 6th, 2010 at 6:27 pm

  8. davemiers says:

    no worries timmy c. great to hang with you guys!!

    January 7th, 2010 at 1:03 pm

  9. Nathan says:

    It’s also a Pocahontas rip off…

    January 8th, 2010 at 12:44 pm

  10. davemiers says:

    that’s gold!!!

    January 8th, 2010 at 12:56 pm

  11. Domenica says:

    While I really enjoyed Avatar all I could keep thinking the entire time was, “this is a high tech adult version of ferngully.” I really loved Avatar, was happy I saw it, thought the special effects were incredible, but didn’t see why people were so affected by the plot and message of the movie…It’s like he watched ferngully and thought how can i spend more money and get people to watch this???

    February 2nd, 2010 at 2:07 am

  12. Domenica says:

    really funny to see how many people thought the same thing

    February 2nd, 2010 at 2:08 am

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