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Bohemian Rhapsody RT Score 53% 30 Reviews In
Posted on 10/23/18 at 5:12 pm
Posted on 10/23/18 at 5:12 pm
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Posted on 10/23/18 at 5:19 pm to dawgfan24348
The one review that I read trashed it for being formulaic. Hopefully that's all that's wrong with it.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 5:24 pm to dawgfan24348
Someone who gave it a fresh rating said it was "cheesy and vanilla". That's pretty disappointing.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 5:32 pm to dawgfan24348
A fellow teacher saw it. She said outside of Malek’s performance it’s pretty much a standard biopic.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 5:42 pm to Fewer Kilometers
They're all pretty much formulaic from La Bamba to the Buddy Holly Story to Ray to Walk the Line hell - to Walk Hard.
But usually they get good reviews - so this has to be pretty bland and paint by the numbers to be getting bad reviews.
But usually they get good reviews - so this has to be pretty bland and paint by the numbers to be getting bad reviews.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 5:45 pm to dawgfan24348
The trailer does give me the sense that they are trying to Showcase licensed music more than they're actually trying to tell the story of Mercury or even the band.
This post was edited on 10/23/18 at 5:54 pm
Posted on 10/23/18 at 5:47 pm to dawgfan24348
I know it is a biopic and not a documentary, but from what I have read it sounds like the movie went away from just telling Queen's story.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 5:49 pm to dawgfan24348
Maybe they should have stuck with Borat's vision
Posted on 10/23/18 at 6:58 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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so this has to be pretty bland and paint by the numbers to be getting bad reviews.
That's what the USA Today reviewer said: "Other than a solid job by Rami Malek ... and a couple of moments of actual greatness, the film is mostly a paint-by-numbers behind-the-music journey through the ups and downs of the iconoclastic British rock band."
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Posted on 10/23/18 at 6:59 pm to dawgfan24348
I knew there would be issues with it when they went the pg 13 route.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 7:32 pm to dawgfan24348
I suspect the media is not praising it because it doesn't go harder on the Mercury-AIDS issue to shite on Reagan.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 7:40 pm to dawgfan24348
Mercury is a gay hero, because he heroically died of AIDS, so this movie was never not getting made. But how good could it have been? It's just the story of their biggest hit being made? And the "conflict" is that people thought it was too long, in an era of prog-rock in which marathon songs were common (Yes released an album a year earlier consisting of only FOUR tracks)?
I guess they threw in some personal background on Mercury, but so what? It just doesn't sound like an interesting enough story. I mean, Buddy Holly died like a boss in a plane crash, not from taking too much cock.
I guess they threw in some personal background on Mercury, but so what? It just doesn't sound like an interesting enough story. I mean, Buddy Holly died like a boss in a plane crash, not from taking too much cock.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 7:48 pm to blueboy
It's only 6 minutes.
Isn't that half of Led Zep songs?
Hell Light my Fire is fricking 7 minutes long by the Doors and that song was released during the Beatles 2-minute song reign in 1967.
I didn't know the movie made a big deal about this song; I thought they just used it as the title for a biopic...like Walk the Line, sounded better than Another One Bites the Dust.
Isn't that half of Led Zep songs?
Hell Light my Fire is fricking 7 minutes long by the Doors and that song was released during the Beatles 2-minute song reign in 1967.
I didn't know the movie made a big deal about this song; I thought they just used it as the title for a biopic...like Walk the Line, sounded better than Another One Bites the Dust.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 7:55 pm to udtiger
damn this is disappointing. I did have the red flag out on some of the screening reviews.
many people said it was very meh
many people said it was very meh
Posted on 10/23/18 at 9:11 pm to Fewer Kilometers
It's pretty obvious from tbe trailers that it's very paintvby numbers musical biopic that's mainly "man he looks just like Freddie Mercury"
It's obviously much more glam and sizzle than some deep Character study. The Elton john film looks just the same.
In a way, if you look at films about fictional mu is stars - Tender Mercies, A Star is Born, etc. - they can dive so much deeper into characters and their relationships and not have to shoehorn in numerous famous songsin a real story.
It's obviously much more glam and sizzle than some deep Character study. The Elton john film looks just the same.
In a way, if you look at films about fictional mu is stars - Tender Mercies, A Star is Born, etc. - they can dive so much deeper into characters and their relationships and not have to shoehorn in numerous famous songsin a real story.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 9:14 pm to Tactical1
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they are trying to Showcase licensed music more than they're actually trying to tell the story of Mercury or even the band.
Well frick this. Already saw A Star Is Born.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 10:16 pm to Tactical1
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The trailer does give me the sense that they are trying to Showcase licensed music more than they're actually trying to tell the story of Mercury or even the band.
Agree. And a couple of the clips of normal scenes seemed kinda cheesy
Posted on 10/23/18 at 11:24 pm to blueboy
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Mercury is a gay hero, because he heroically died of AIDS, so this movie was never not getting made.
That's one of the problems many of the critics are having with it. It's not portraying him as a gay hero. His biggest relationship in the film is actually with his one time girlfriend Mary Austin, who Freddie loved more than anyone until his dying day. He left her everything and was godfather to her first child.
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It's just the story of their biggest hit being made? And the "conflict" is that people thought it was too long, in an era of prog-rock in which marathon songs were common (Yes released an album a year earlier consisting of only FOUR tracks)?
Incorrect. The film chronicles the band from its formation in 1971 and climaxes with their performance at Live Aid in 1985. Bohemian Rhapsody was released in 1975.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 11:29 pm to VinegarStrokes
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Maybe they should have stuck with Borat's vision
frick him.
Posted on 10/23/18 at 11:33 pm to Rhames
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I knew there would be issues with it when they went the pg 13 route.
Why the hell would you need nudity and violence to tell a Queen biopic? We don't have to see a parade of dicks to know the guy was gay.
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