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AlbaNo1
The best
Doga
Wait, what? Food from Iceland is bad??
Costa86
Haha!
hachiman
[url=https://www.facebook.com/blunt.fanpageintheworld/videos/1875381352677984/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE] [/url]Here's the trailer on John Blunt's fb page.
[url=https://www.facebook.com/blunt.fanpageintheworld/videos/1875381352677984/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE] [/url][url=https://www.facebook.com/blunt.fanpageintheworld/videos/1875381352677984/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE]https://www.facebook.com/blunt.fanpageintheworld/videos/1875381352677984/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE[/url]
[url=https://www.facebook.com/blunt.fanpageintheworld/videos/1875381352677984/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE] [/url][url=https://www.facebook.com/blunt.fanpageintheworld/videos/1875381352677984/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE]https://www.facebook.com/blunt.fanpageintheworld/videos/1875381352677984/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE[/url]
matt z
I appreciate the effort but the channel 5 page says "not yet available in your region"
bummer. I totally get the desire to see something corny on a "lifetime" (do THEY have lifetime channel in the UK?) style budget
hopefully it'll be ported over onto bbc */palladia/vh1(however unlikely)
bummer. I totally get the desire to see something corny on a "lifetime" (do THEY have lifetime channel in the UK?) style budget
hopefully it'll be ported over onto bbc */palladia/vh1(however unlikely)
hachiman
It's on YT now, try that.
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-vbVn0vjU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-vbVn0vjU[/url]
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-vbVn0vjU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-vbVn0vjU[/url]
Ivo-1976
This looks pretty awful. They even use a "fake freddie" to put in fictional scenes, so it seems.
The Fairy King
The Fairy King
Here you can see a summary.
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_z62e2wCDw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_z62e2wCDw[/url]
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_z62e2wCDw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_z62e2wCDw[/url]
NickGreen
It's a bit meh..
Another Roger (re)
[QUOTE] [b]The Fairy King wrote:[/b]
Here you can see a summary.
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_z62e2wCDw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_z62e2wCDw[/url][/QUOTE]
Hehe. Good one. ;)
Here you can see a summary.
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_z62e2wCDw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_z62e2wCDw[/url][/QUOTE]
Hehe. Good one. ;)
Costa86
Currently watching this on 5 On Demand. A lot of this documentary centres around Freddie's illness - so much so that's it's over the top. They even dramatise Freddie having his KS lesion sampled for biopsy... in very bad taste. A very depressing look at the last years of Freddie's life, and really unnecessary. Not really a "Freddie Mercury Story" so much as a "Freddie's HIV Story".
Supposedly Freddie knew Rock Hudson, and met him. I'd never heard this before - wonder if it's true. Nothing to substantiate it that I know of.
Another useless tidbit - Paul Prenter, according to Reinhold Mack, gave "something" to Freddie during his 39th birthday party in Munich, just before he was filmed blowing the candles out on his cake, and whatever he gave him (poppers says Mack) temporarily blinded him (poppers don't do that AFAIK) and Prenter had to hold him up as he blew out the candles (you can see this in the Living On My Own video, where Prenter hold Freddie by the arm as he blows the candles).
Every other word Freddie says in this documentary is "darling". All in all, the acting is bad. The worst is Roger Taylor, who is portrayed as a sort of superficial, dumb, mindless twerp.
The biggest croc-of-shit moment in the re-enactments was when Freddie told Mary, Jim and Phoebe, all seated around a table, that he had AIDS, to which Mary responded "oh God, Freddie, you poor thing". Yes, because Freddie would place Mary knowing the truth on the same level as Phoebe knowing, and he'd tell them all at the same time - what rubbish. When they can't even get the basics right, then it's clear the documentary is a joke.
Supposedly Freddie knew Rock Hudson, and met him. I'd never heard this before - wonder if it's true. Nothing to substantiate it that I know of.
Another useless tidbit - Paul Prenter, according to Reinhold Mack, gave "something" to Freddie during his 39th birthday party in Munich, just before he was filmed blowing the candles out on his cake, and whatever he gave him (poppers says Mack) temporarily blinded him (poppers don't do that AFAIK) and Prenter had to hold him up as he blew out the candles (you can see this in the Living On My Own video, where Prenter hold Freddie by the arm as he blows the candles).
Every other word Freddie says in this documentary is "darling". All in all, the acting is bad. The worst is Roger Taylor, who is portrayed as a sort of superficial, dumb, mindless twerp.
The biggest croc-of-shit moment in the re-enactments was when Freddie told Mary, Jim and Phoebe, all seated around a table, that he had AIDS, to which Mary responded "oh God, Freddie, you poor thing". Yes, because Freddie would place Mary knowing the truth on the same level as Phoebe knowing, and he'd tell them all at the same time - what rubbish. When they can't even get the basics right, then it's clear the documentary is a joke.
beemack74
Phoebe does say in his book that he doubts that Freddie and Rock Hudson ever met. He says that given how Freddie loved to tell of any celebrities he had met, even once, they would have heard about it.
I also noticed in this rather grim programme that Freddie is diagnosed as HIV positive in Autumn 1986,then informed that he has full blown AIDS around easter 1987.
I had read about the '87 diagnosis in Huttons book, amongst other publications. First time I'd ever heard of this late' 86 HIV result... where did they get this information? Not that it really matters now, but there's a danger of scripted/dramatised events in Freddies life becoming "facts" in the future. Programmes like this are the television equivalent of photoshopped pictures. In years to come, how will they know what is actually real or not?
I also noticed in this rather grim programme that Freddie is diagnosed as HIV positive in Autumn 1986,then informed that he has full blown AIDS around easter 1987.
I had read about the '87 diagnosis in Huttons book, amongst other publications. First time I'd ever heard of this late' 86 HIV result... where did they get this information? Not that it really matters now, but there's a danger of scripted/dramatised events in Freddies life becoming "facts" in the future. Programmes like this are the television equivalent of photoshopped pictures. In years to come, how will they know what is actually real or not?
Costa86
[QUOTE] [b]beemack74 wrote:[/b]
Phoebe does say in his book that he doubts that Freddie and Rock Hudson ever met. He says that given how Freddie loved to tell of any celebrities he had met, even once, they would have heard about it.
I also noticed in this rather grim programme that Freddie is diagnosed as HIV positive in Autumn 1986,then informed that he has full blown AIDS around easter 1987.
I had read about the '87 diagnosis in Huttons book, amongst other publications. First time I'd ever heard of this late' 86 HIV result... where did they get this information? Not that it really matters now, but there's a danger of scripted/dramatised events in Freddies life becoming "facts" in the future. Programmes like this are the television equivalent of photoshopped pictures. In years to come, how will they know what is actually real or not? [/QUOTE]
I think all that matters from a Queen fan's point of view is that Mary said he knew during the Magic Tour that he was infected, but still put on all those good shows, knowing fully well that he had so little time.
Phoebe does say in his book that he doubts that Freddie and Rock Hudson ever met. He says that given how Freddie loved to tell of any celebrities he had met, even once, they would have heard about it.
I also noticed in this rather grim programme that Freddie is diagnosed as HIV positive in Autumn 1986,then informed that he has full blown AIDS around easter 1987.
I had read about the '87 diagnosis in Huttons book, amongst other publications. First time I'd ever heard of this late' 86 HIV result... where did they get this information? Not that it really matters now, but there's a danger of scripted/dramatised events in Freddies life becoming "facts" in the future. Programmes like this are the television equivalent of photoshopped pictures. In years to come, how will they know what is actually real or not? [/QUOTE]
I think all that matters from a Queen fan's point of view is that Mary said he knew during the Magic Tour that he was infected, but still put on all those good shows, knowing fully well that he had so little time.