The Extinction Of Fireflies
Just finished watching "The Extinction Of Fireflies" released by Gravitas Ventures back in 2024, which I'm just now gotten around to watching and reviewing.
"The Extinction Of Fireflies" originally saw life as a stage play by James Andrew Walsh, who also wrote the screen play adaptation of his play and produced and directed the movie version of his stage play for his Rhode Trip Pictures production company.
"The Extinction of Fireflies" comes across as a too well rehearsed stage play set on the stage which is the home of a middle-aged play write. The movie stars Michael Urie, Drew Droege, Tracie Bennett, and Kario Marcel.
"The Extinction of Fireflies" is set over Labor Day Weekend in coastal New England, a middle-aged playwright invites longtime friend, legendary TV diva, Charlotte Christian, and occasionally-working actor friend, Jay Mulch, to read his latest dramatic effort, "The Extinction of Fireflies", a mythological comedy based on the epic romance of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his teenage lover Antinous. But when Jay brings along his new and younger lover Callisto, the feedback is spectacular, but the tragedy of Antinous is on the horizon.
I think "The Extinction Of Fireflies" would work better on stage performed for an audience - and I have not seen this play performed on stage. The film version comes across as too crafted, far too clever and you have to be familiar with the story of Hadrian and Antinous to understand the various contexts mentioned throughout the movie.
Should you take a chance on this movie? Probably not.
Two and-a-half Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Extinction-Fir...
"The Extinction Of Fireflies" originally saw life as a stage play by James Andrew Walsh, who also wrote the screen play adaptation of his play and produced and directed the movie version of his stage play for his Rhode Trip Pictures production company.
"The Extinction of Fireflies" comes across as a too well rehearsed stage play set on the stage which is the home of a middle-aged play write. The movie stars Michael Urie, Drew Droege, Tracie Bennett, and Kario Marcel.
"The Extinction of Fireflies" is set over Labor Day Weekend in coastal New England, a middle-aged playwright invites longtime friend, legendary TV diva, Charlotte Christian, and occasionally-working actor friend, Jay Mulch, to read his latest dramatic effort, "The Extinction of Fireflies", a mythological comedy based on the epic romance of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his teenage lover Antinous. But when Jay brings along his new and younger lover Callisto, the feedback is spectacular, but the tragedy of Antinous is on the horizon.
I think "The Extinction Of Fireflies" would work better on stage performed for an audience - and I have not seen this play performed on stage. The film version comes across as too crafted, far too clever and you have to be familiar with the story of Hadrian and Antinous to understand the various contexts mentioned throughout the movie.
Should you take a chance on this movie? Probably not.
Two and-a-half Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Extinction-Fir...
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