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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone seen it?  What did people think?

I loved the music, the costumes, the glimpse into the life of Freddie Mercury and the band.  Fun seeing Mike Meyers. The Live Aid scenes at the end were a complete joy.  The fake teeth on Rami Malek were a bit much (no need for extreme close-ups when they stick out so much to begin with!), and in some scenes Rami Malek looked like an escapee from the set of Planet of the Apes.  Rami is no Freddie, but then again nobody is. The movie could have been better but was still a fun time.

But for some reason, afterwards it has left me feeling really sad.  Maybe it was the way the movie shaded the story to make him seem lonely.  Maybe it's the utter tragedy of his too-early death, and the sad circumstances of life as a gay public figure back then, not to mention the devastation of AIDS and how scary that was.  "Love of My Life" is so poignant that it tugged at my heartstrings during the movie and again all the next day or so.

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I'm excited for "Rocketman"![/quote]

Regarding the teeth -- we watched a couple of documentaries about Queen (check YouTube, Queen fans) recently, and Freddie Mercury really did have a very prominent overbite, more prominent than I remembered from back in the day. So the prosthetic teeth I'm seeing used for Rami Malek in the ads look pretty accurate. Apparently Freddie did consider having his teeth fixed once Queen was making money, but decided against it because it might have altered the way he sang, according to one good documentary.

We're looking forward to the film despite the fact that most reviews were lukewarm at best. This film had at least two false starts and several different casting announcements before finally getting made, so I kind of want to see what was so important to the rest of Queen that they kept on plugging even despite the difficulties of getting the movie produced. (Ben Whishaw and Sasha Baron Cohen both were mentioned as Freddie over the years, and Baron Cohen actually got quite a way toward making the film before pulling out. But now I can't see anyone but Rami Malek doing that role.)[/quote]

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