Rocketman

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't care if he's a jerk. I'll never meet him! I love his music. Reminds me of good times.

Looking forward to seeing the movie.

+1

[Anonymous]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3694149/amp/Elton-John-settles-sex-harassment-case-British-male-employee-loses-four-month-battle-secret.html

"Uncle Elton"? Yuck.

[Anonymous]

Some of his songs I love but I have never been a fan of him as a person. I have to wonder what kind of dad he is to his two boys?

[Anonymous]

Yeah, he has issues alright.

One thing I wondered about the movie is why they decided to stop where they did? I supposed it is because the timeline stops about where he got clean? It left out the Disney part - when Lion King and those big contracts got him on his feet again. Wasn't he broke before that time?

Rolling Stone covered some obvious inconsistencies and disorder of the timeline, but I was not sure about the end choice.

[Anonymous]

I loved the movie- it was very entertaining and well done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't care if he's a jerk. I'll never meet him! I love his music. Reminds me of good times.

Looking forward to seeing the movie.

I agree. I don’t judge entertainers on their charity.

I love his music.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't care if he's a jerk. I'll never meet him! I love his music. Reminds me of good times.

Looking forward to seeing the movie.

I agree. I don’t judge entertainers on their charity.

I love his music.

How about the multiple fairly recent sexual harassment lawsuits he quietly settled? Pretty sure that's why they ended the movie where they did since both he and his husband were involved in some rather scandalous stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ I agree. My impression of him is that he is rude and not very nice. He has a reputation of being incredibly cruel to staff members and people around him, publicity folks, people on talk shows etc

I love his music, but his reputation was always being a nasty, narcissist. I grew up in the 70s and there were always awful stories about how he treated people. Then, he latched onto Lady Di and was absolved.

This! Precisely this!

He's still a jerk. He just wised up and figured he needed to play the PR machine better in order to remain relevant, liked and profitable. He's still pompous. And while his foundation does a lot, he basically launched it to recreate his image and relaunch his career. I'm sure his handlers worked hard to convince him to do it.

Ya know, we can like someone's music without putting them on a pedestal.

Exactly, just like Angelina Jolie when she decided to drop the nut job persona and wearing blood vials around her neck.

[Anonymous]

Looks like a decent movie.

As an aside, given all the recent biopics, it's interesting how no one has managed to do a Beatles biopic that's anything but horrible (for the atrocious ones I'm thinking of Backbeat and a couple others from the 70s/80s).

There have been some good documentaries (esp. the Martin Scorsese one about George Harrison) and one semi-biopic about John Lennon I thought was pretty good (Nowhere Boy).

But no one has been able to do an equivalent to Rocketman or the Queen one. I wonder why?

[Anonymous]

Even if someone is a monumental jerk -

Sometimes their talent is SO huge that it overrides their egos.

I mean God....
Look at Jerry Lewis.
Incredibly talented, funny + charitable.

But horrific and abusive Father who hit, then disowned his own sons.
Didn’t even attend a funeral of one of them.

[Anonymous]

^ Oh.....
And left them not one red cent in the will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like a decent movie.

As an aside, given all the recent biopics, it's interesting how no one has managed to do a Beatles biopic that's anything but horrible (for the atrocious ones I'm thinking of Backbeat and a couple others from the 70s/80s).

There have been some good documentaries (esp. the Martin Scorsese one about George Harrison) and one semi-biopic about John Lennon I thought was pretty good (Nowhere Boy).

But no one has been able to do an equivalent to Rocketman or the Queen one. I wonder why?

They are doing a Beatles movie that is to be released this summer, but it is not a biopic - it is more of a "what if" premise. It looks entertaining.

[Anonymous]

Finally saw it. I didn't like it much. It could have been fascinating, but I got the impression he really didn't want to tell too much about his actual life. I thought it was going to be a biopic-- not a fantasy musical. I love his music, but hated the way they did this movie. Though I suspect Bohemian Rhapsody would have been a lot more like this movie had Freddy been producing it like Elton was.