'Bohemian Rhapsody' movie reviews & impressions

The bit with Another One Bites the Dust head enough sweat and looks intense. Also, he seems to be really pushing it out vocally as the veins on Rami's neck seem to be popping. Looks good. I think.

I noticed that in the Live Aid scene, the movie Brian May looked sceptical at Freddie when the crowd reacted well to his performance. In the actual Live Aid video, Brian May looked really happy at Freddie when the crowd reacted well with him.

I was waiting for a long time for this movie to be released. I took my teenaged kids, and they loved it. The movie got a few things wrong, of course, but my kids enjoyed the story and the music.

It's a fun movie, but it's inaccurate, and they made Freddie out to be a lost sad case. Roger's friendship with Freddie in the movie seemed totally off.

I bet Roger Talyor secretly doesn't think much of it.

[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]

Something felt wrong to me about the depiction of Live Aid and I've just figured it out - nobody was sweaty in the film version. Look at the audience shots in the real footage - everyone is soaked in sweat. Freddie has sweat on his face the moment he steps on stage. [/QUOTE]
Yup...good catch...That's one of those head scratching moments that I noticed right away...Why not fix that? It looked fake...I'm not a hater of this movie, but some moments are cringe worthy...There was plenty of good moments as well.

As long as we're talking about the cgi audience. It looked fake as hell and i was prepared for an AMAZING EXPERIENCE feeling AS IF YOU WERE ON STAGE with the band....instead the performance was truly shortened and non eventful to me really.

I know the preferred word is uneventful but i mean that it didn't rank as big as the lead up was. Hell...the first 8 minutes of the film got it all right except for covering up Bowies face.

I still think the film is a mess and i saw it in IMAX so i was fully immersed in it. Something tells me I'm gonna watch it again soon if not in a year or so and nothing will have changed.

Kinda like the Times i tried to take a break and return to THE COSMOS ROCKS. .....it's just not good. But I'm glad that a new generation loves it somehow

I agree with that Matt...The new generation loves It..and old casual fans. I Just watched The Freddie Mack review and thought It was on point.

Yeah, the Live Aid scene definitely felt smaller than it should've. All the other concert scenes were very good though, I thought.

In Germany it will catch that damn Star Wars spin off "SOLO" next week in the 2018 rankings. Walking into the 2018 top ten in December I guess.

Star Wars ist tot!

Never thought it had a chance to catch Straight Out Of Compton, but It has a good chance now If It has another decent week...152 million domestic...It needs 10 more million, which is possible by next sunday. Unless it completely drops off.

I saw a film yesterday and I liked it very much.

Real life is one thing and the movie is other. Is every biopic true? No.
I'm not surprised that movie was made in this way. For decades, media and managment has created an image of Mary as Freddie's only love and the most important person in his life, why would the movie be different then? I don't know is this movie biopic of Queen or Freddie or Mary Austin...
People will believe in things and events from this movie, although it's not true.
But the movie has make money, band has many new fans, Mary is again promoted as a "love oh his life", Jim Hutton in this movie is some irrelevant person in Freddie's life... and the goal is achieved.
I said before that this movie will not change my opinion about Freddie and Queen's music. Of course will not.
It's just a movie.
But, from now, I will doubt in every Brian's and Roger's word which they said in past and what will be say in future about Freddie.

[QUOTE] [b]Invisible Woman wrote:[/b]

Real life is one thing and the movie is other. Is every biopic true? No.
I'm not surprised that movie was made in this way. For decades, media and managment has created an image of Mary as Freddie's only love and the most important person in his life, why would the movie be different then? I don't know is this movie biopic of Queen or Freddie or Mary Austin...
People will believe in things and events from this movie, although it's not true.
But the movie has make money, band has many new fans, Mary is again promoted as a "love oh his life", Jim Hutton in this movie is some irrelevant person in Freddie's life... and the goal is achieved.
I said before that this movie will not change my opinion about Freddie and Queen's music. Of course will not.
It's just a movie.
But, from now, I will doubt in every Brian's and Roger's word which they said in past and what will be say in future about Freddie.
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Inaccurate yes, but the events were true just not the timelines...And there is some fiction to build up drama as well...I hate that fact...but what is accurate is Freddie wrote Love Of My Life for Mary...No one could replace Mary In Freddie's own words...That's not made up or fiction...Jim was short changed for sure, but the closing credits did say that they were together till the end...

To tail ride here. ....how could they have not found a better generation copy of that Freddie and Jim shot for the end?

Same goes for DSMN. Had it been shot on magnetic tape? Maybe I'm deceived by the grit in the face forward shots of Freddie that it was shot on film.

I thought when watching: "What a cheap abrupt ending" oh okay, here's the epilogue:....."oh God, that felt like some high school assignment writing"

Aka: "Poochie died on the way back to his home planet"