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Blaendulais · October 2018

Saw Bohemian Rhapsody today. Enjoyable, great to see and listen to the music from the early albums . Remi Malek very convincing as Freddie Mercury. Brian May's actor also a doppelganger. The story was clearly fiction in large parts and I wonder how much of the Paul Prenter stuff was true. It implied no-one donated a penny at live aid until Queen played which is clearly bollocks.

However that said well worth a visit even if just to catch a glimpse of May playing a Les Paul whilst recording Another One Bites the Dust

terada · October 2018

Doesn't really matter to me

Blaendulais · October 2018

tooooo meeeeeee dun dun dun dun dun dun

darthed1981 · October 2018

My favourite Queen song is "The Show Must Go On"

Thought I'd share that with you...

Freebird · October 2018

The first few albums were good, but they went downhill after that.

Kilgore · October 2018

I'm not a massive Queen fan but the wife has been badgering me to take her to see it.

Sporky · October 2018

I don't understand why they bothered making a second Queen film. They peaked with Flash Gordon.

ICBM · October 2018

I really hated the idea of this until I saw the trailer... but now I'm hooked and will be going to see it. It's hard to believe the transformation of Remi Malek - who I hadn't thought would be convincing from what he looks like in real life, but he is.

(For what it's worth I think they were consistently great from Sheer Heart Attack to News Of The World, although there's good stuff before and afterwards too.)

Blaendulais · October 2018

ICBM said:

I really hated the idea of this until I saw the trailer... but now I'm hooked and will be going to see it. It's hard to believe the transformation of Remi Malek - who I hadn't thought would be convincing from what he looks like in real life, but he is.

(For what it's worth I think they were consistently great from Sheer Heart Attack to News Of The World, although there's good stuff before and afterwards too.)

I think you're right the good stuff did fall off after News of the World by and large. Sheer Heart Attack is such a good album

Philly_Q · October 2018

I read a lot of reviews of the film last night, most of them quite negative. Of course that's not a reason to avoid it, but I've seen the trailer and find it a bit cringey. Rami Malek looks tiny (although apparently he's only an inch shorter than Freddie) and his false teeth look like they came from a Kinder surprise egg.

But then I'm not generally a fan of biopics anyway.

rawk100 · October 2018

Sporky said:

I don't understand why they bothered making a second Queen film. They peaked with Flash Gordon.

I'm surprised nobody has made another Flash Gordon movie yet....

Sporky · October 2018

rawk100 said:

Sporky said:

I don't understand why they bothered making a second Queen film. They peaked with Flash Gordon.

I'm surprised nobody has made another Flash Gordon movie yet....

Why bother? The original already had Brian Blessed so you're never going to top it.

thecolourbox · October 2018

Sporky said:

I don't understand why they bothered making a second Queen film. They peaked with Flash Gordon.

Especially after Helen Mirren's failed attempt at playing Freddy alongside Tony Blair

Dominic · October 2018

Probably the greatest Frontman of all time

Handsome_Chris · October 2018

I'm with @Blaendulais on the fiction part. There are parts where I thought "How do we know that?". I think that there was a lot of artistic licence taken to make a watchable film.

axisus · October 2018

Hmmnnnn ...... I'd have preferred if they stuck to the facts. Will be seeing though, I was a massive Queen fan late 70s.

stephen.wood125 · October 2018

Philly_Q said:

...his false teeth look like they came from a Kinder surprise egg...

That made me snort my tea out

DannyP · October 2018

Dominic said:

Probably the greatest Front-teeth of all time

FTFY

FelineGuitars · October 2018

My big gripes are timeline issues , which I'm a bit shocked got by someone as anally obsessive as Brian May

For example - playing Fat Bottomed Girls during the Queen 2 era (1974) when it was written till '78

and showing We will rock you to Freddie with short hair and a moustache when he didn't grow the 'tache till about April 1980

Philly_Q · October 2018

FelineGuitars said:

My big gripes are timeline issues , which I'm a bit shocked got by someone as anally obsessive as Brian May

For example - playing Fat Bottomed Girls during the Queen 2 era (1974) when it was written till '78
and showing We will rock you to Freddie with short hair and a moustache when he didn't grow the 'tache till about April 1980

I read that the film also refers to Freddie's AIDS diagnosis pre-Live Aid, when in fact he wasn't diagnosed until two years after that.

(One of the reviews referred to it as "Live AID", perhaps under the impression it was an AIDS benefit concert...!)

Bygone_Tones · October 2018

Dont be put off by the negative reviews, go and watch it. I would give it a good 8/10.

It is a movie, not a documentary. If you are going to be put off by fictional scenes and factual inaccuracies then it is not for you.

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