I don't think i expect this to be good at all really, but Queen music and his seemingly perfect performance of Mercury is enough to get me there.
Enjoyed it a lot. If I wasn’t a queen/rami fan I would have probably hated it. I liked the band members actually, and Mary, but pretty much no one else fit their role. I think this could have been truly great in the hands of a better director.
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Pretty formulaic, which a few strange camera shots/angles, along with some scenes that didn't really do anything. But yeah that Live Aid scene was incredible; I literally got goosebumps watching that, pretending I was in that crowd myself singing along to Freddie, clapping, feeling the energy of 100,000 people in unison. As we've all been at concerts for our favorite bands, there's almost no better feeling in the world than being with other people, singing/screaming along to music everybody knows by heart.
Looking forward to seeing it for the Live Aid sequence plus Rami’s performance, and also Gwylim Lee does a spot-on Brian May so i’m curious to see his fullperformance.
I think I'm gonna just sneak in for the last 20 minutes and not bother with the rest of the revisionist history. Opinion | Freddie Mercury deserves so much better than biased "Bohemian Rhapsody"
A lot of enthusiastic audience members in my theater. People clapping along during songs, hootin’ and hollering during Live Aid, and standing ovations once the credits started rolling. But who am I to judge people enjoying themselves?
A single woman was clapping along to the Live Aid sequence and I got second hand embarrassment. That sequence alone was amazing.
I'm glad people are enjoying Queen's music being played loud in a theater but it really is a shame they won't know the true greatness behind Freddie and the band. But apparently that's what the surviving members wanted.
Even how they showed coming up with the songs seemed forced... oh the band's fighting in the studio so I'm gonna start playing the bass line to Another One Bites The Dust and poof, another hit song!
Yeah, some of the band biopic beats they hit felt forced at times, such as the Another One Bites The Dust scene. I give this movie a B-. Would have been a C but the last 20 minutes alone bumped it up. It was so fun to watch in a nearly packed theater.