'Bohemian Rhapsody' movie reviews & impressions

"The Channel 5 Docu drama was more accurate but lacked the music of the movie. "

is this what he's talking about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_34hw39yYA

if not can someone post a link? i've only see TGP for docs about Queen.

also, so there's this website called Fanedit.org and im SURE someone on there will do an edit of the film maybe include deleted scenes and take out the begging, wrong timelines.

one user made an edit of Love and Mercy the BRILLIANT Beach Boys/Brian Wilson film, so i'm sure this will get the treatment a few times over on that site. esp. if were given lots of deleted scenes.

to the user named Vail, YES! i thought the same thing "oh GOD dont yall dare eff up the Elton movie!!!!!"

also why is no one mentioning they didn't play WWRY in the movie's Live Aid?

@THRILLHO

They omitted WWRY from Live Aid because it was already featured it earlier on.

Which sucked, since it was one of the highlights at Live Aid.

[QUOTE] [b]THRILLHO wrote:[/b]

haha thanks.


no one seems to get my username, i use this on a lot of fan forums.

and in regards to most post, maybe he was a jerk? but most of what i'm reading here points out that May was a jealous child about FM.[/QUOTE]

YUp that's absolutely obvious. Queen thru the eyes of Brian May. You could call the movie "Maylor's revenge"

Really not seeing the May jealous child thing at all, in interviews he talks about Freddie a lot and he's not saying anything bad about him, in fact the opposite. Are we saying Brian would be an Oscar worthy actor?

[QUOTE] [b]rockchic65 wrote:[/b]


Really not seeing the May jealous child thing at all, in interviews he talks about Freddie a lot and he's not saying anything bad about him, in fact the opposite. Are we saying Brian would be an Oscar worthy actor?[/QUOTE]

You obviously havent seen the movie then

[QUOTE] [b]runner_70 wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]rockchic65 wrote:[/b]


Really not seeing the May jealous child thing at all, in interviews he talks about Freddie a lot and he's not saying anything bad about him, in fact the opposite. Are we saying Brian would be an Oscar worthy actor?[/QUOTE]

You obviously havent seen the movie then[/QUOTE]

I have and I didn't see it in the same light some people apparently do. They always fought in the studio, sometimes in soundcheck etc, that's the nature of people in bands who are all strong characters and want their own way to an extent but I think the reason it seems like the focus was all on Freddie is because as Brian said the movie is mainly about Freddie. In their press conference at Vegas he said "of course we're in it but it's really about Freddie". I think in the limited time they have to portray things they focused it mostly on Freddie and that skewed things slightly but I don't think it was done with any malicious intent. I think they underdeveloped the other characters in favour of Freddie's and it did make it a bit one sided, IMO it was good intentions that didn't quite work out.

Yeah it is about Freddie and ONLY about the DARK Sides of Freddie in the second half as well. Brian and Roger appear as the faultless saints who are always going back to wife and Kids. And Freddie is the bad Guy (no pun intended!) who is dragged away from them by the gay villains. I think the movie is very homophobic as well.

I can live with timeline inaccuracies but the film is flawed..

As someone pointed out at the beginning of this thread, the major flaw of the film is that they couldn't decide whether they will tell story about Freddie or story about the band - you just can't cram both stories into a 2 hour feature, it could work as a TV series but not as a film - that's why there is so much left untold about Freddie and the band..

they definitely downplayed the disagreements and fightings in the band in the 1st half of the 80s, we see almost none of it

if you are not a die hard Queen fan you would in no way know that Freddie and Roger got along very well and that they were friends.. their relationship in the film is hostile and the actor chosen for the Roger part is a total fail, unlike those chosen to play Brian and John

they made a stark contrast between party beast Freddie and other members - were portrayed as quiet family men (apart from few hints at Roger for his womanizing side) which I can attribute to the 1stpoint I stated above that left no room for their character development but nonetheless, it really isn't fair towards Freddie, as they represented him as the only one in the band that got fame struck while the others remained down to earth.. as much as I was afraid that they will sanitize Freddie too much, it turned out they did that with the rest of the band

and they should have included the Sun City controversy..

however it is not that bad, I think it's a decent watch.. we are all a bit biased here.. my husband, who is not that much into Queen told me that the film is good and (after I showed him couple of posts here on Queenzone) said that we are a bit too judgemental, it could have been done much worse in his opinion

And I think that Rami really nailed it, excellent performance!

Probably i am the last one to see the movie... th 12:20 show this sunday afternoon.. even then.. they halv filled the cinema.

What to say? I wasnt bored. For me as loooong time queenfan it is indeed a weird storyline. My two mates however did really enjoy that one.

Plus:
an amazing copy of Brian.
Freddie is portayed being gay.

Minus:
Storyline.
I missed the beauty of Queens music. Using f.e. you take make breath away in a movie setting would be so easy and in this case fitting.

Anybody else noticed that HTF becomes a singalong in the movie? Brian must have put forward that song really hard. The weakest song in their liveaid set did really get a makeover. How is that on the OST?

And.. who sings O mio babbino caro? Is it montserrat?

^haha yeah. EVERY BODY KNOWS THE WORDS TO HAMMER TO FALL! !!

-SUUUUUUURE---

I wonder when hammer to fall and radio gaga were released in this new timeline and the break free video. 82 ish. so in other words they made the works hot space.....

I enjoyed it. parts that others gasped at, i laughed as knew it was made up, sad part being those same people will leave and think thats the truth and preach blue thats the gospel...

the whole " i know i betrayed you all, please let me back in the band" was hilarious as so hammy. and they could have easily fixed the rio part as a obvious green screen, could have made it new york for example.

[QUOTE] [b]darcy-wright wrote:[/b]

I wonder when hammer to fall and radio gaga were released in this new timeline and the break free video. 82 ish. so in other words they made the works hot space.....

I enjoyed it. parts that others gasped at, i laughed as knew it was made up, sad part being those same people will leave and think thats the truth and preach blue thats the gospel...

the whole " i know i betrayed you all, please let me back in the band" was hilarious as so hammy. and they could have easily fixed the rio part as a obvious green screen, could have made it new york for example.[/QUOTE]

I agree!