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"Bohemian Rhapsody" -- Movie about Queen (trailer inside) (1 Viewer)

eoMMan said:
@Dentist

Does having additional incisors in your mouth really give you more range?

What is this condition called (being born with additional incisors)?
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I had this same condition as does my son.  Not sure about it's effect on my range, but I can hold my own in a karaoke bar.

 
Really a bit surprised that most of you liked it so much. I thought the acting was amazing, and the music alone makes it worth seeing (especially the way they did Live Aid), but from what I look for in a movie I thought it was pretty awful. It really didn't get deep into anything... just sort of passed by. 

The theater I watched it at had excellent sound, so I found myself wishing I could just listen to Queen music halfway through. Which I guess made the end satisfying. 

 
Saw it over the weekend. Good, not great. The best thing about it was the music, which you don't need the movie for.

 
Softballguy said:
Really a bit surprised that most of you liked it so much. I thought the acting was amazing, and the music alone makes it worth seeing (especially the way they did Live Aid), but from what I look for in a movie I thought it was pretty awful. It really didn't get deep into anything... just sort of passed by. 

The theater I watched it at had excellent sound, so I found myself wishing I could just listen to Queen music halfway through. Which I guess made the end satisfying. 
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Well, you summed it up. Great acting and great music. It seems most people who liked it, myself included, don’t really care about the depth/PG-13 rating thing. I wanted to see a story about the band and hear some great music. I got that. I really enjoyed it.

 
Really enjoyed it.  Funny when Mike Myers told the band "We need a song teenagers can bang their heads to in a car... Bohemian Rhapsody is not that song."

:headbang:

 
They used Freddie Mercury's voice?  I just thought that guy was really good lol.

Loved it by the way.  The haters are looking for behind the music (I think of Weird Al..then my third album didn't go platinum! ? ? )

The movie was produced by the band, who loved the guy.  They wanted it to reflect their own perspective on him, which was clearly positive.  So what?  In real life, it you're doing it right, the good times endure and the bad times are things you triumph over, not dwell on.  It was a tribute to Mercury imo, and I really enjoyed it.  And I only cried 3 times (although I grant that the second and third time may just have been one really long dust storm in the theater).

 
My biggest critism is they took too many liberties with the facts around well-known events to create movie drama.  But still a very good well-made entertaining movie.  It was not the movie critics wanted to see, but the public loves it.  

 
Liked it. I doubt the events on the Live Aid day really happen like that - Found the dude from his party, stopped by to see his folks all on the way to that show. 

Didn’t know the set they played at Live Aid and hoped ‘Dont Stop me know’ was in it. Glad they ended with that. 

 
jon_mx said:
My biggest critism is they took too many liberties with the facts around well-known events to create movie drama.  But still a very good well-made entertaining movie.  It was not the movie critics wanted to see, but the public loves it.  
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I struggled some with how to rate this movie. It was entertaining and covered a lot of the basic story of Queen. I was a fan back in the day and knew more about the band than the average film goer all these years later. I liked the premise of the story and certainly liked the music. I tried to look the other way on the things that didn't really happen as depicted in the movie. My wife, on the other hand, was never a huge Queen fan and loved it so much she is going again today (we went last night).

I get that it's Hollywood and they try to create drama where there many times isn't any. It's a creative license to tell a story and put fannies in the seats. Should the retelling of stories and events in an alternative timeline or out of sequence diminish the enjoyment of a movie? How about narratives that flat out never happened in real life (because there were some things in that category as well)?

Given that the surviving members of the band were involved in the making of the movie, I guess we all shouldn't care if they didn't care. They mostly got the spirit of Queen right, and they certainly had a lot of their music in the film (which is what many of us were there for).

 
kutta said:
Are you sure they used Freddie’s voice? This article says they used Queen tapes (for the music I assume) and a Canadian dudes voice. https://www.google.com/amp/s/wzlx.iheart.com/alternate/amp/2018-07-12-who-will-sing-the-queen-songs-in-the-movie-bohemian-rhapsody/
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Thanks for this.  Marc Martel is phenomenal and sounds a lot like Freddie.  He was selected by the band to provide some of the vocals for the movie.  I did not know this. From what I understand, they used Freddie's voice from tapes during scenes in the recording studio and a mix of Freddie's and Martel's voice at other times in the movie.  The Live Aid concert at the end was apparently Martel or a mix of the two.  

Even the guy who played Freddie, Rami Malek, sang a little (the Happy Birthday to me song).  I hadn't heard of Marc Martel but, wow... his voice is up there with Freddie Mercury.  

Martel's We Are the Champions.  Amazing.  I think Adam Lambert is fantastic, but this guy sounds more like the front man for Queen.  

 
Meh.  I didn't like it.  I thought the story jumped all over the place and really wasn't that interesting.  They took a ton of liberties, like he didn't tell the band he had AIDS prior to Live Aid and no one treated that as a farewell performance.  They toured the year after that.

And I just couldn't get behind the cheesy scenes "Oh, THAT'S how they came up with Bohemian Rhapsody" type stuff.

Had heard the script and production of this bounced around a lot over the years and I think that showed.  It just isn't a great story.  It's a great last 20 minute imitation by Malek though.

 
Upon further review, I would say that the movie served a purpose even if the movie itself wasn't great or if they took a lot of creative liberties in the storytelling. My wife knew a few Queen songs and now has been listening to Queen almost non-stop. Our two daughters saw the movie and only knew Boh Rhap / We Will Rock You / We Are The Champs. They are now both Queen fans. Fourteen Queen songs have re-entered the rock charts 30-40 years after being originally released. Queen was pretty underrated here in the States, so anything that gets more fans or gets the band back in the limelight is a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

 
Anarchy99 said:
I was a fan back in the day and knew more about the band than the average film goer all these years later. I liked the premise of the story and certainly liked the music. I tried to look the other way on the things that didn't really happen as depicted in the movie. 
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Same here.  I've been a fan since before my dad wouldn't let me buy "News of the World" because he didn't like the cover.
Sure they introduced songs and events out of order, but I'm ok with that.  They framed the move around the Live Aid performance, so they had to throw in the AIDS discovery early.  The rush of closure was my least favorite part: finding Jim, coming out to his parents, reconciling with Mary, all on the way to the show.

I do like that they pointed out that they were all college students, and not just "basket weaving" majors.

 
Loved it.  

Shortsighted Critics are totally off on this one.  The critics often forget that the objective of movies is to entertain and feel...this flick did both.  

BTW, how do I get to see the original live aid coverage. 

 
Movie was good.  I would have liked to see some real footage too.  However I watched the real Live Aid Queen set when I got home and couldn't believe how close they nailed it on the screen.

Sounds like they took a few liberties to make the film more interesting which I'm not a fan of but if you are just judging the entertainment factor, its fine.

 
Jayrok said:
Thanks for this.  Marc Martel is phenomenal and sounds a lot like Freddie.  He was selected by the band to provide some of the vocals for the movie.  I did not know this. From what I understand, they used Freddie's voice from tapes during scenes in the recording studio and a mix of Freddie's and Martel's voice at other times in the movie.  The Live Aid concert at the end was apparently Martel or a mix of the two.  

Even the guy who played Freddie, Rami Malek, sang a little (the Happy Birthday to me song).  I hadn't heard of Marc Martel but, wow... his voice is up there with Freddie Mercury.  

Martel's We Are the Champions.  Amazing.  I think Adam Lambert is fantastic, but this guy sounds more like the front man for Queen.  
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Here's him doing Bohemian Rhapsody. Really good stuff.

https://youtu.be/QkCxE2Lh458

 
TripItUp said:
Loved it.  

Shortsighted Critics are totally off on this one.  The critics often forget that the objective of movies is to entertain and feel...this flick did both.  

BTW, how do I get to see the original live aid coverage. 
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there is is this online video uploading thing called "youtube".  It is cool.

 
Saw this again and clearly people are really enjoying it. At the showing I went to, people in the crowd started singing We Are The Champions at the end. My 16 year old kid is trying to learn how to play Bohemian Rhapsody on the piano. We had Queen cranked up most of Turkey Day at my in-laws, which I would never have imagined in my wildest dreams.

 
Wife and I saw this yesterday. We were the only ones in the theater.  :thumbup:

Loved the movie. Got emotional in several parts. Just sad to think about the joy and pain he must have experienced.

Favorite part of the movie was during the farm scene as they begin recording the operatic part of Bohemian Rhapsody... the edit from the chicken to Roger Taylor's high-pitch vocal was brilliant.

ETA: This movie reminded me of Oliver Stone's The Doors, which is my personal favorite musician/band movie.

 
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Channeling my inner get-off-my-lawn, it’s great to see Queen resonating with the new generation. But for us old time fans,  the incessant Queen overplay - about 100x more prevalent than Wayne’s World - is starting to wear.

 
peaces said:
Both my kids raved about it but I didn't think it was that great... Honestly I liked the dirt better
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My daughter enjoyed the movie.  I thought spending 20 minutes to recreate a set that we can see on YouTube was stupid. 

There has to be so much more to Freddy's story left on the table.  His life couldn't have been that easy. 

 
peaces said:
Both my kids raved about it but I didn't think it was that great... Honestly I liked the dirt better
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I wish they would have made this movie much more like The Dirt, but then they would not have been able to cater to all audiences and cash in on the PG 13 rating. 

There was still a lot to enjoy with this film though. 

 
Arizona Ron said:
My daughter enjoyed the movie.  I thought spending 20 minutes to recreate a set that we can see on YouTube was stupid. 

There has to be so much more to Freddy's story left on the table.  His life couldn't have been that easy. 
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Agreed, I'm left to wonder what the Sasha Baron Cohen version would have been.

 
Arizona Ron said:
My daughter enjoyed the movie.  I thought spending 20 minutes to recreate a set that we can see on YouTube was stupid. 

There has to be so much more to Freddy's story left on the table.  His life couldn't have been that easy. 
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Okay, a fair point but how many people were watching that YouTube video prior to this film?

For me the story was absolutely basic, but the performances we're amazing, not just Malek, and that elevated the entire project.

 
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