Bohemian Rhapsody

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was a tad annoyed to hear that they were a little loose with historical facts, but I'll probably see it.

They wanted to get a PG-13 rating, not an R -- hence the soft-pedaling on a lot of the partying details.

+1

That was obvious!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was a tad annoyed to hear that they were a little loose with historical facts, but I'll probably see it.

Like what? Curious. Not much shows from Wiki, that I can see. Didn't Sacha Baron Cohen quit because the story did not parallel real life enough? He would have been great!

He pulled out because of pretty significant creative differences between him and Queen, Brian May in particular. Here is SBC on Stern talking about it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq-M4JA3fIU

+1

This filled in the enormous gaps, thank you.

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This movie is rocking a 49 on Metacritic yet of y'all loved it. Weird.

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I just read Somebody To Love, a Freddie Mercury biography that matches up his career ascendancy and life with the AIDS epidemic. Fascinating. I said when I left the movie, "He just happened to be at y the wrong place at precisely the wrong time." If he'd have lived a bit longer, the drugs might have saved him. So sad. I didn't realize what a lost generation of gay men that got hit so hard with it because I'm from the south and I don't think we had underground "scenes" like the did in NYC, SF and LA. It sounds like there were specific scenes like that where almost all the regulars were in lethal dart because of when it hit and how it spread.

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lethal danger

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was a tad annoyed to hear that they were a little loose with historical facts, but I'll probably see it.

Like what? Curious. Not much shows from Wiki, that I can see. Didn't Sacha Baron Cohen quit because the story did not parallel real life enough? He would have been great!

He pulled out because of pretty significant creative differences between him and Queen, Brian May in particular. Here is SBC on Stern talking about it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq-M4JA3fIU

+1

This filled in the enormous gaps, thank you.

Yes, thank you. Saw it last night and loved it but I thought the way they dealt with him getting in touch with his sexuality was very hazy. Not that we needed to see him whoring it up at gay clubs or anything but I thought the movie glossed over that. And I was annoyed but The whole day of Live Aid stuff - finding the waiter guy and making up with his parents, it was a bit much.

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Anonymous wrote:This movie is rocking a 49 on Metacritic yet of y'all loved it. Weird.

Critics are completely out of touch with the audience. I mean they were paid to like the Last Jedi. I watched the movie with my teen DD and she loved it too. And it made me addicted to Queen again! If you follow some media you will see that people are listening to Queen non stop since watching the movie. But, off topic, do our kids, teens and other young adults have anything that is similar to our experience with Live Aid? I still remember it, it was iconic, broadcast all over the world, it was fantastic for me being a teen in 1985. Is there anything that compares to that for younger people today? What is their/your Live Aid moment in life?

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I thought it got the bad reviews it deserved. Where was the deep character development? It was just a surface view of Freddie Mercury's life with no exploration of his hurts and hang-ups. Malek also gave his performance a weird speech pattern that I thought made Mercury sound like he had an intellectual disability. The music scenes were great but I was so underwhelmed.

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I was entertained, I did not go to learn facts, and I got my moneys worth.

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I thought it was a hot mess. The costumes and teeth were so bad as to be distracting. I was really, really disturbed by how heavily they emphasized his relationship with Mary. I get that she was important to him, but I read that they played that up to sort of de=emphasize his gayness. I mean, was there ever anyone gayer?

I loved seeing the depiction of how some of the songs came together, and the Live Aid scene was incredible. Overall, entertaining, but a clunky mess.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought it was a hot mess. The costumes and teeth were so bad as to be distracting. I was really, really disturbed by how heavily they emphasized his relationship with Mary. I get that she was important to him, but I read that they played that up to sort of de=emphasize his gayness. I mean, was there ever anyone gayer?

I loved seeing the depiction of how some of the songs came together, and the Live Aid scene was incredible. Overall, entertaining, but a clunky mess.

I don't think it was to make him appear more straight, but I do think it was a missed opportunity to explore how complex human sexuality can be and try to get at the root of his sexual identify conflict. However, the movie didn't even try to get to that deep of a level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was a hot mess. The costumes and teeth were so bad as to be distracting. I was really, really disturbed by how heavily they emphasized his relationship with Mary. I get that she was important to him, but I read that they played that up to sort of de=emphasize his gayness. I mean, was there ever anyone gayer?

I loved seeing the depiction of how some of the songs came together, and the Live Aid scene was incredible. Overall, entertaining, but a clunky mess.

Uh Liberace?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just read Somebody To Love, a Freddie Mercury biography that matches up his career ascendancy and life with the AIDS epidemic. Fascinating. I said when I left the movie, "He just happened to be at y the wrong place at precisely the wrong time." If he'd have lived a bit longer, the drugs might have saved him. So sad. I didn't realize what a lost generation of gay men that got hit so hard with it because I'm from the south and I don't think we had underground "scenes" like the did in NYC, SF and LA. It sounds like there were specific scenes like that where almost all the regulars were in lethal dart because of when it hit and how it spread.

Well, you really were living under a rock.

Try Atlanta. And then in my region there was a fairly vibrant Gay community which only got stronger as AIDS took hold.

And then lots of Gay men moved back from big cities to my hometown and region when the epidemic hit. Ones who were sick and dying, and those who were healthy.

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Overall, I found it disappointing. Freddie Mercury's story has more than enough drama when told accurately--no need to create fictional scenes and timelines. Clearly they were going for a general audience, not crabby music nerds like me, so I guess it worked, as the movie is doing really well.

My DD loved it. If it leads to her listening to more Queen, I'm happy.