bucsateflon
Who reads reviews before seeing this movie for himself is dumb.
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dysan
This I agree with.
runner_70
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[QUOTE] [b]Shvili wrote:[/b]
Saw the movie.
Regret to say,but it was bad. ..daytime soap-opera bad.
Guarantee, Malek is not getting nominated for anything. He was laughable as Freddie.
I'd suggest waiting till it's streaming on Netflix, which shouldn't take that long considering the poor quality.
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Rami was ok but way off awards. The movie was a retribution of Brian may and his jealousy towards freddie. He came across as inscure, non reliable dick., And for the scene where he is begging them to get his job back Brian should be punished.[/QUOTE]
You’re confusing Brian (who was jointly responsible for the soundtrack) with the director, writer script editor and producer, who were the people responsible for the film). Is it the make up artist’s fault that the costumes weren’t truly accurate?
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I am sure Maylor could have voted against certain things. This scene makes me vomit and is clearly a betrayalof Freddie.
[QUOTE] [b]runner_70 wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]Shvili wrote:[/b]
Saw the movie.
Regret to say,but it was bad. ..daytime soap-opera bad.
Guarantee, Malek is not getting nominated for anything. He was laughable as Freddie.
I'd suggest waiting till it's streaming on Netflix, which shouldn't take that long considering the poor quality.
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Rami was ok but way off awards. The movie was a retribution of Brian may and his jealousy towards freddie. He came across as inscure, non reliable dick., And for the scene where he is begging them to get his job back Brian should be punished.[/QUOTE]
You’re confusing Brian (who was jointly responsible for the soundtrack) with the director, writer script editor and producer, who were the people responsible for the film). Is it the make up artist’s fault that the costumes weren’t truly accurate?
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I am sure Maylor could have voted against certain things. This scene makes me vomit and is clearly a betrayalof Freddie.
runner_70
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[QUOTE] [b]mike hunt wrote:[/b]
Most die hards hate the movie, but causal fans seem to like it...I know I would have done it different, but I'll still watch it, and hoping It does well at the box office. It's good seeing Queen getting so much attention again..Just wish the movie was brilliant. [/QUOTE]
Most fans are casual fans. Brian and Roger don't care about so-called die-hards. They've gotten our money and plenty of us will still give them money even if they made a 60 minute video of Adam Lamberace taking a shit if it had Queen music as a soundtrack.
Brian and Roger have been all about new money and new fans and re-writing history for nearly two decades to these newer fans. It'll work too. The general public/surface fans will have the Brian/Roger version of events but thank goodness for the critical thinkers who will preserve the truth even if it takes effort to find it. It's only entertainment in the end. They don't owe fans anything. Yeah it'd be cool even this was a fan-friendly band but it's not. Hey no one forced anyone to patronize the band for it's goods. I've been satisfactorily amused and entertained. I've gotten more than my money's worth because the band is just extraordinarily great.
While I'm annoyed about what these two clowns have done to their legacy and how they used Lamberace and this flick as opportunities to elevate themselves at the expense of Freddie it really has nothing to do with all the genuine Queen albums and video I enjoy. This movie just won't be an addition to my collection. The movie is for the easily-impressed and the quick to forgive crowd. I will not begrudgingly go and support this thing just because. I can't come up with a good reason to go see it. I've seen and read more than enough to know it's the kind of simplistic, MOR drivel I don't enjoy no matter what it's about. It's clear the recreated performances are the only true special thing the film has but I have the far superior originals so...hey maybe when it's on Netflix or something i'll watch it but I'm in no rush.
QUEEN FOREVER (oh because of recent events I have to define Queen. Queen is Freddie Mercury/John Deacon/Brian May/Roger Taylor ONLY)[/QUOTE]
Spot on mate - exactly what I feel! And I saw it twice!!!!
[QUOTE] [b]mike hunt wrote:[/b]
Most die hards hate the movie, but causal fans seem to like it...I know I would have done it different, but I'll still watch it, and hoping It does well at the box office. It's good seeing Queen getting so much attention again..Just wish the movie was brilliant. [/QUOTE]
Most fans are casual fans. Brian and Roger don't care about so-called die-hards. They've gotten our money and plenty of us will still give them money even if they made a 60 minute video of Adam Lamberace taking a shit if it had Queen music as a soundtrack.
Brian and Roger have been all about new money and new fans and re-writing history for nearly two decades to these newer fans. It'll work too. The general public/surface fans will have the Brian/Roger version of events but thank goodness for the critical thinkers who will preserve the truth even if it takes effort to find it. It's only entertainment in the end. They don't owe fans anything. Yeah it'd be cool even this was a fan-friendly band but it's not. Hey no one forced anyone to patronize the band for it's goods. I've been satisfactorily amused and entertained. I've gotten more than my money's worth because the band is just extraordinarily great.
While I'm annoyed about what these two clowns have done to their legacy and how they used Lamberace and this flick as opportunities to elevate themselves at the expense of Freddie it really has nothing to do with all the genuine Queen albums and video I enjoy. This movie just won't be an addition to my collection. The movie is for the easily-impressed and the quick to forgive crowd. I will not begrudgingly go and support this thing just because. I can't come up with a good reason to go see it. I've seen and read more than enough to know it's the kind of simplistic, MOR drivel I don't enjoy no matter what it's about. It's clear the recreated performances are the only true special thing the film has but I have the far superior originals so...hey maybe when it's on Netflix or something i'll watch it but I'm in no rush.
QUEEN FOREVER (oh because of recent events I have to define Queen. Queen is Freddie Mercury/John Deacon/Brian May/Roger Taylor ONLY)[/QUOTE]
Spot on mate - exactly what I feel! And I saw it twice!!!!
ggo1
Well as a historical account of the band... it's quite a bit off. But I feckin loved the movie. Act two drags a bit... but the first and third acts are really good. I expected to hate it, my wife thought I'd be too close to it and wouldn't be able to just watch it as a movie but I managed to avoid that pitfall and I recommend trying that yourself. I just got back now from the IMAX showing. I hope when it's released properly tomorrow that people go see it. Not that many in the theatre tonight, I expected more bums on seats but everyone there seemed to enjoy it. I say again... I LIKED IT. Now let me stew on WWRY being written in 1980 and FBG being played In 1974.. and... nope don't care. I Still like it.
ggo1
Well as a historical account of the band... it's quite a bit off. But I feckin loved the movie. Act two drags a bit... but the first and third acts are really good. I expected to hate it, my wife thought I'd be too close to it and wouldn't be able to just watch it as a movie but I managed to avoid that pitfall and I recommend trying that yourself. I just got back now from the IMAX showing. I hope when it's released properly tomorrow that people go see it. Not that many in the theatre tonight, I expected more bums on seats but everyone there seemed to enjoy it. I say again... I LIKED IT. Now let me stew on WWRY being written in 1980 and FBG being played In 1974.. and... nope don't care. I Still like it.
LucasDiego
Yeah, the way that they tried put the stories in a sense in many moments was odd, for diehard fan like me, but as a movie, well, i think it´s a good movie, the live aid scenes was really great!
Donna13
I saw it tonight in the RPX theater (big screen, big sound), and from the very first moment to the final credits, I was completely in love with this movie. It was like an alternate universe of Queen, as if all elements had been put into a jar, shaken, and magically spilled out in a perfectly fitting new combination. I was shaking with excitement at one point, crying and laughing at other points, and just really could not believe how well they were able to capture the overall essence of the personalities and the excitement of the music and the performances. The acting was so perfect. And those cats! I loved it!
runner_70
I still think it is disgusting showing Freddie as unreliable druggy who is always late while the other band members are at home with their wives. And showing Freddie begging for his job is simply disrespectful and just made to big Maylor up. The music scenes are great but what is the point in watching actors pretending to be Queen when i can watch the original footage instead. The Roger actor was bad. And lots of cringeworthy scenes like being in contact with Mary by switching the lights on and off? Wtf. Or all they can come up with after Freddie tells them about his illness is "you re a Legend Fred"? Or when he walks past an Aids patient at the doctor after he got his diagnosis singing "deedop"? Ridiculous. I could go on forever. And the historical faults are endless. About 2/3 is wrong. Wwry in 1980? Rock in Rio in the 70s. FBG in 1974? Why. I would give it a 4/10 Maximum. Rami is ok and the Live Aid shots are well done. Best parts of the movie: the 20th century fox fanfare with the Red Special and the original dsmn Video when the credits are starting. I felt relieved to see the real deal after all this nonsense before. Overall a huge disappointment
Sheldon
As I wrote in another thread, why make a film about real events and real people if you're gonna make it fiction anyway?
* There was absolutely no need to be in Rio in the 70s, they could have been in any cool location where the band actually perform at that time.
* Two-year break before Live Aid really ruins the movie for me. They had a two-month break!
* Paul Prenter's role is extremely over-emphasized and he comes into the picture way too early.
* That whole fake press conference, where Freddie is attacked by journalists. That never happened and gives an entirely distorted picture of his behavior. Yes, the press was mean to Queen, but not like that.
* Freddie is portrayed here as a total dickhead in many ways:
- the whole pathetic scene where he apologizes to the band and they kind-of allow him to rejoin
- when he realized that he had AIDS and decided that he needed someone to nurse him and to feel sorry for him, he found Jim (not true! he did not know about having AIDS when he met Jim)
- totally unprofessional way Freddie worked
* Why the hell couldn't they keep Roger's hair up to date as time passed?
* Freddie never crowd surfed, this is something I would imagine would have terrified him.
* Numerous totally unnecessary wrong dates for songs and gigs.
* Live Aid was not their huge comeback! They had a large tour literally the same year and huge hits (outside of the US) the previous year.
* When Rami walks around in the gay clubs he looks like he is a little kid, who is totally lost and walked in by accident. There's no way Freddie would have looked like this in the same situation.
What I liked about this film and what many people seem to have disliked is the portrayal of Mary. From everything I've read she was the most important person in Freddie's life and he was kind-of obsessed with her and this is exactly what we see in the film. I'm not gonna criticize the fact that they faked Freddie finding out that he had AIDS, because obviously there was pressure to include this about him in the film, which they could not have done in a film that ends in 1985 without faking. For some reason there is this enormous need to always associate Freddie with AIDS, but that is another topic for discussion.
* There was absolutely no need to be in Rio in the 70s, they could have been in any cool location where the band actually perform at that time.
* Two-year break before Live Aid really ruins the movie for me. They had a two-month break!
* Paul Prenter's role is extremely over-emphasized and he comes into the picture way too early.
* That whole fake press conference, where Freddie is attacked by journalists. That never happened and gives an entirely distorted picture of his behavior. Yes, the press was mean to Queen, but not like that.
* Freddie is portrayed here as a total dickhead in many ways:
- the whole pathetic scene where he apologizes to the band and they kind-of allow him to rejoin
- when he realized that he had AIDS and decided that he needed someone to nurse him and to feel sorry for him, he found Jim (not true! he did not know about having AIDS when he met Jim)
- totally unprofessional way Freddie worked
* Why the hell couldn't they keep Roger's hair up to date as time passed?
* Freddie never crowd surfed, this is something I would imagine would have terrified him.
* Numerous totally unnecessary wrong dates for songs and gigs.
* Live Aid was not their huge comeback! They had a large tour literally the same year and huge hits (outside of the US) the previous year.
* When Rami walks around in the gay clubs he looks like he is a little kid, who is totally lost and walked in by accident. There's no way Freddie would have looked like this in the same situation.
What I liked about this film and what many people seem to have disliked is the portrayal of Mary. From everything I've read she was the most important person in Freddie's life and he was kind-of obsessed with her and this is exactly what we see in the film. I'm not gonna criticize the fact that they faked Freddie finding out that he had AIDS, because obviously there was pressure to include this about him in the film, which they could not have done in a film that ends in 1985 without faking. For some reason there is this enormous need to always associate Freddie with AIDS, but that is another topic for discussion.
runner_70
Sheldon you are spot on....
Sheldon
Donna13, I also felt what you are trying to explain. The way I explained the same thing to myself was that this is an cubist painting. They absolutely wanted to feature certain episodes and even quotes from Freddie's life, but did not feel like doing it in the correct sequence. Instead, they tried to show everything at once, just like in a cubist painting. In addition to what I write above, it is worth mentioning how nicely Jim was portrayed in the film as a kind-of counter force to the nasty side of the same coin (hedonistic lifestyle, Paul Prenter...).
runner_70
Mary and Jim are the few Highlights in the movie
emrabt
I thought it was going to be terrible, but I’ve seen it and it's not that bad, lot's of events have obviously been amalgamated, simplified, streamlined and totally fabricated, but they’ve managed to get a lot of stuff into the 2 hour time frame.
It's basicly a very whitewashed version of history "remember we practised so much for Live Aid because Freddie was ill, not because we played Sun City the year before..."
Jim Hutton seems to be an amalgamation of Jim Hutton and Winnie Kirchberger, and Paul Prenter seems to be an amalgamation of every bad person who ever lived and is portrayed as being
the puppeteer behind every bad decision the band ever made...
I was expecting it to be like that village people Biopic, but it wasn't as bad as that.
It's basicly a very whitewashed version of history "remember we practised so much for Live Aid because Freddie was ill, not because we played Sun City the year before..."
Jim Hutton seems to be an amalgamation of Jim Hutton and Winnie Kirchberger, and Paul Prenter seems to be an amalgamation of every bad person who ever lived and is portrayed as being
the puppeteer behind every bad decision the band ever made...
I was expecting it to be like that village people Biopic, but it wasn't as bad as that.
Dr Magus
I'm actually looking forward to seeing it again next week. Makes me happy that film audiences are treated to songs like Doing All Right and Keep Yourself Alive. Great exposure for songs that should be much bigger than they are.