Hot Trailer: ‘Fireflies In The Garden’

COMMENTS (26)

• I almost walked out on the trailer. The whole movie would be agonizing.

  Comment by TomF — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 10:58am PDT  Reply to this post

  • I pushed the pause button pronto. I’d rather watch a 2 hour vivisection of puppies.

    Comment by Grant — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 1:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Much as I hate the retreads, remakes and regurgitation the studios are forcing on us, films like this are not the answer. Looks like a cloying insight into a typically disfunctional family. Pass.

  Comment by Fan — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 10:59am PDT  Reply to this post

• I would pass as well. I’m sure the acting if great but I don’t think I’d be sitting around Friday night, saying let’s go see that movie where Julia Roberts dies, and Ryan Reynolds isn’t funny. I rather see another Incredible Hulk variation.

  Comment by Nick — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 11:17am PDT  Reply to this post

• To answer your question… hell to the no!

  Comment by Mr. B — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 12:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’d see it. Great cast…

  Comment by Adam — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 12:29pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It looks well done, and there must be something there or it wouldn’t have drawn such a good cast.

  This is one of those films that needs a chance with the audience, before anyone can know if it will resonate.

  It’s always tough to market films that don’t scream “I’m high-concept”, but I’ll give this a chance over the cookie cutter juvenile dreck that’s offered weekend after weekend.

  Comment by Tentoes — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 12:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• OMG. This looks awful. Dreadful. Who on earth would sit through this?

  Comment by jarlerguy — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 12:40pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Pass.

  Comment by HG — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 12:40pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yikes. Julia, why oh why? Better yet, Willem, why or why? Oh, right… you guys get paid, I forgot about that part.

  This ain’t exactly Affliction, that’s for sure.

  It looks like a snooze fest.

  And I don’t think the world is ready for Ryan Reynolds as a “serious actor”. Talk about someone with very limited talent and not exactly “movie star good looks” and yet he manages to keep making movies… the only logical explanation is Ryan made a deal with Satan himself. Somewhere on a crossroad up in Canada.

  Comment by wake me up when it's over — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 12:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Another BOMB for Ryan Reynolds. This looks so overwrought and cheesy.

  Comment by Rick — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 12:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Thanks for the warning…

  Comment by Junk — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 1:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Are they killing those fireflies by hitting them with rackets while happy music plays?

  Comment by Firefly — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 1:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • That’s exactly what I was thinking. Even the “uplifting” parts are about abuse of innocents.

    Comment by Cassie — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 2:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Looks that way, but I can’t imagine that it’s actually the case. I grew up in the South – we carefully caught them, temporarily put them in a jar with holes, then let them go after an hour. Had we swatted them with a tennis/badminton racket, our parents would not have been happy.

    Comment by MexyMartini — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 4:54pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This trailer starts as a thriller and ends as a drama with happy ending? Feels like I’ve seen this film before. Many times. Not even Emily Watson will draw me to it.

  Comment by Alex — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 1:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I wouldn’t see this movie at gun point!

  Comment by Naaa — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 1:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Based on this trailer, I wouldn’t put up 20 to 30 million for prints and advertising to release this either.

  Pass.

  Comment by tom — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 1:40pm PDT  Reply to this post

• See everybody has to go wide, come guys think about it. what about spending 1million and have all the rights?

  Comment by ace — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 2:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• These boards kill me. (No pun intended.)

  All everyone does here is complain about remakes being terrible and wishing originals would get a chance.

  Does it look like a $100m box-office draw? – No.

  But it definitely looks interesting.

  Reynolds is solid. Comedy or drama. I’ll see it.

  (But I do have a harder time imagining him as Roberts’ son.)

  Comment by WOW — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 3:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • The problem is, though, that it DOESN’T look interesting. It looks obvious and tedious. It looks like a parody of the Ordinary People / Ice Storm / etc. genre.

    Comment by TomF — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 5:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I don’t mind the Reynolds/Roberts age “thing” – it has been a Hollywood tradition to cast actors in such a manner. How many times throughout film history, has somebody’s “parent” been only ten years older than they?

  Comment by MexyMartini — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 4:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Looked ok until they poured on the sap at the end. Pass.

  Comment by Dan — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 5:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I thought that trailer looked great until they had Dafoe’s line at the end “I think your mother would have been happy”. It just pushed it over the edge of sappiness.

  I can;t imagine the movie is that great, though, if it took this long to find someone willing to release it.

  Comment by No one of Consequence — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 7:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Almost looks as bad as that Magic Mud Boy Disney flick.

  Comment by Lincoln — Monday August 29, 2011 @ 7:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Read the script and it was phenom. Like most trailers it reveals too much but I’m siked to see!

  Comment by Marilyn — Tuesday August 30, 2011 @ 6:13pm PDT  Reply to this post