I went to see it last night (23/09) in my home town Barnsley and it was stunning ! The cinema manager is a Queen fan so put extra speakers in to ensure the sound was top notch.
Firstly the picture was stunning in the full stage shots it really looked like the band was there on stage in the cinema !
As someone said Freddie looked amazing he was at the top of his game and in my opinion untouchable.
The sound mix was great a little bass heavy but all instruments came through loud and clear.
All in all a great job has been done on this and is a perfect document to prove that in 1986 Queen were the best band on the planet !
Hang On In There · Member since
saw it at a late night showing as part of the Cambridge Film Festival - we didn't get the documentary but the concert film was awesome! I'm sorry so many people experienced problems with the sound - we didn't have any. I have seen the film before,a long a time ago, and I'd forgotten how good it was, and how much better it is, as a film of the Magic Tour, than the Wembley show. Best ever performance of Who Wants To Live Forever? As soon as Amazon lists this I'm buying it.
malicedoom · Member since
Saw it in Rosemont, IL - USA on Thursday night.
Documentary was VERY quiet, but the concert was decent (not great, could have definitely been louder) volume.
Hardly anyone there, but those that were made sure we all clapped and cheered.
A very nice time.
Battler · Member since
I'm appalled. How come noone of the people with access to the film is showing any kind of solidarity towards those of us that can't watch it because it simply isn't shown in our countries? Not a single person decided to eg. boycott the screening in protest to this kind of treatment or show ANY kind of support. Instead, we're being simply ignored.
I see plenty of people going here, saying "yes I saw it", and not a single person bothering to even reply to our plea! Had US and UK been excluded, we'd have seen tons of people here complaining and calling for boycotts, but when Eastern Europe gets excluded, NONE of them even cares.
Come on people, support our plea! Don't leave us alone!
Fireplace · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Battler wrote:[/b]
I'm appalled. How come noone of the people with access to the film is showing any kind of solidarity towards those of us that can't watch it because it simply isn't shown in our countries? Not a single person decided to eg. boycott the screening in protest to this kind of treatment or show ANY kind of support. Instead, we're being simply ignored.
I see plenty of people going here, saying "yes I saw it", and not a single person bothering to even reply to our plea! Had US and UK been excluded, we'd have seen tons of people here complaining and calling for boycotts, but when Eastern Europe gets excluded, NONE of them even cares.
Come on people, support our plea! Don't leave us alone![/QUOTE]
I support your plea! As we Westerners all know Brian May personally, I will make sure he is cane-whipped tomorrow while being forced to watch 10 professional wrestlers eat live badgers with brown sauce. It is an outrage that Lithuania does not show the movie, as we all know that Lithunian support kept Queen in business almost singlehandedly in 1986. How dare they ignore a country that, errrm, did not yet exist in 1986?
Battler · Member since
>>I support your plea! As we Westerners all know Brian May personally, I will make sure he is cane-whipped tomorrow while being forced to watch 10 professional wrestlers eat live badgers with brown sauce. It is an outrage that Lithuania does not show the movie, as we all know that Lithunian support kept Queen in business almost singlehandedly in 1986. How dare they ignore a country that, errrm, did not yet exist in 1986?<<
First, it's not just Lithuania that's being ignored, but the entire Eastern Europe, including countries that existed in 1986, such as Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria.
Second, Lithuania existed as the Lithuanian SSR of the USSR. All countries existed, just some were part of bigger ones. Contrary to your belief, there wasn't a sea between West Germany and the Russian SFSR of the USSR with just the Island of Hungary floating on it - there was the same land there is now, just parts of it were controlled by entities such as Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the USSR which now no longer exist.
Also what justification is that, to ignore a country because it's small or because it "didn't yet exist in 1986"? Especially if the country is part of the EU, which is supposed to have a single market, which in my interpretaton, means every part of EU should have the same access to everything. So by not showing the film in half of the EU, Queen are violating the EU single market.
But well if they have the same attitude you showed here, then I'm not surprised at all that the situation is as it is. It's the very same old typical Western attitude after all, to consider anything east of Germany to be second-rate.
Also I never said anyone knew Brian May personally or that he should be whipped - all I asked for was showing support by eg. refusing to go watch the film until the missing parts get it shown too. Or at the very least by commenting on Queenonline, sharing our concern and plea.
Fireplace · Member since
Valid points and eloquently stated. You may however have missed my point: this is Queen-friggin'-Zone. No one here will refuse to go see the film just because some other parts of the world do not have access to it. I haven't seen it myself since it's not in any cinema near me, and I won't until the Blu-Ray is released. I sincerely hope you will get to see it soon, but an appeal to this kind of solidarity may be too much to ask.
Missreclusive · Member since
Now I feel guilty, I saw it twice, again tonight. I did ask the manager of theater to turn up the sound. A few minutes into the documentary someone else complained and they turned it up. Sound was much better but not perfect, still wasnt loud enough for me! Love love love seeing Queen on a big screen. Ah well, I did enjoy it very much, even if the crowd was pretty sedate...again.
malicedoom · Member since
"Not a single person decided to eg. boycott the screening in protest to this kind of treatment or show ANY kind of support. Instead, we're being simply ignored."
Yeah, OK. There were barely any people in the theatre there as it was, and I'm going to go out of my way NOT to see Queen on the big screen (in AMERICA, of all places, where it used to be impossible to find them at all), especially considering I have NEVER had that chance before??
What are you smoking...
Battler · Member since
Well, at least comment on Queenonline in support of us and of our please? The problem is, none of you even comment on Queenonline in support of us. Basically if American gets it, who cares about the rest of the world...
DLCVinnuendo · Member since
here in brazil on 10/24!!!!
http://www.ucicinemas.com.br/filme-4264-queen+em+budapeste+86
brunogorski · Member since
:)
Wiley · Member since
Saw the movie during a business trip to Ft. Lauderdale, FL. It was a very old, small, yet artsy theater called Cinema Paradiso. Small screen but the sound was loud and very good throughout the whole show. No complains from me.
After seeing everybody's comments, apparently I was lucky.
mr feller 7777 · Member since
I saw it in Adelaide and the sound was also low at the start of the concert but got louder as it went on. The audience got right into it but went to far when people lit their cigarette lighters during Love Of My Life which set the fire sprinkler system off but the show went on and it was like watching the concert in the rain.
Missreclusive · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]mr feller 7777 wrote:[/b]
I saw it in Adelaide and the sound was also low at the start of the concert but got louder as it went on. The audience got right into it but went to far when people lit their cigarette lighters during Love Of My Life which set the fire sprinkler system off but the show went on and it was like watching the concert in the rain. [/QUOTE]
