QueenZone discussion #1326651

zippo112 wrote: any extras?can you tell me what?

ParisNair wrote: Any comments/opinions from the original singer of The Great Pretender?

e-man wrote: link this review offers some interesting thoughts. a refreshing read imo. the reviewer is probably not a huge fan, so it's neither "this is the best release ever and freddie rocks", nor is it "could have been good, but where are the extras?"

Holly2003 wrote: That is a really good piece of musical journalism right there

pittrek wrote: I'm sorry to be so negative, but I am seriously disappointed with this release

bootLuca wrote:

pittrek wrote: I'm sorry to be so negative, but I am seriously disappointed with this release

I totally agree with you Peter, this is a movie that the only goal is to promote the new Barcelona album. Another thing, where is the promised full Royal Ballet?

plumrach wrote: Just posted the new screening date in the other forum link Is the dvd and the tv program kinda the same thing???? not got the dvd yet

Bo Alex wrote: I couldn't see it yet. Argentinian TV didn't broadcast it (of course), I didn't see it in any store neither. Also, I can't find a link or a torrent to download it or watch it online.

Aleks wrote: Please tell me, this film has English subtitles? subtitles - it is a good help to those not English as a native language.

davidt548 wrote: I can't buy it, because is not available in spain. Why???. And of course, i can't see it on BBC1 next tuesday...

pittrek wrote: I don't remember when I was the last time bored watching a Queen-related documentary. The only interesting bits were from the "Made In Heaven" interview. The rest ? I got the feeling that I'm reading wikipedia, and not WATCHING a documentary. The strangest thing is that despite its name it's not a documentary about "The Great Pretender" nor about Freddie Mercury. It's a "making of Mr. Bad Guy and Barcelona" type of documentary. After watching the documentary I have the feeling that Freddie was in some band, I think it was called Queen or something, then he suddenly realized he's gay and started to fuck guys, made a crap album which he knew was crap, fell in love with Montserrat Caballe and wanted to do an album with her, he hated Queen members and especially Brian, made the Barcelona album and then he probably died or something. I don't know why, but I start to have "negative thoughts" about Paul "everybody is my best friend" Gambaccini and Jim "I can do anything with Freddie's music" Beach. The biggest part of this documentary is about the Barcelona album, why wasn't this documentary released as a bonus disc on the "deluxe" release of Barcelona ? If this documentary was done for the fans, why did they left out all interesting, or used just a few seconds of it ? (Like the audience footage from Queen from 1979, the David Wigg interview, the 1976 interviews, the Rod Stewart/MJ demos ...) If this documentary was made for the "average Joe", why didn't they at least mention WHO Freddie was or at least the fact that he died because of AIDS ? After watching the "Days of our lives" documentary I downloaded it as DVD (from BBC broadcast) and watched it again. Then I downloaded a HD capture of the BBC broadcast and watched it again. And later again and again and again. And then I bought the BluRay and watched it again, again and again and .... After downloading the leaked copy of The Great Pretender I watched it once and deleted it. I didn't like it but I thought it's because I got it as crappy low-res flv files and that I'm definitely going to like it on BD. Now I bought the BD. It took me 3 days (!) to watch it till the end and I really don't believe I will watch it again. I'm sorry to be so negative, but I am seriously disappointed with this release

LUI RISER wrote:

pittrek wrote: I don't remember when I was the last time bored watching a Queen-related documentary. The only interesting bits were from the "Made In Heaven" interview. The rest ? I got the feeling that I'm reading wikipedia, and not WATCHING a documentary. The strangest thing is that despite its name it's not a documentary about "The Great Pretender" nor about Freddie Mercury. It's a "making of Mr. Bad Guy and Barcelona" type of documentary. After watching the documentary I have the feeling that Freddie was in some band, I think it was called Queen or something, then he suddenly realized he's gay and started to fuck guys, made a crap album which he knew was crap, fell in love with Montserrat Caballe and wanted to do an album with her, he hated Queen members and especially Brian, made the Barcelona album and then he probably died or something. I don't know why, but I start to have "negative thoughts" about Paul "everybody is my best friend" Gambaccini and Jim "I can do anything with Freddie's music" Beach. The biggest part of this documentary is about the Barcelona album, why wasn't this documentary released as a bonus disc on the "deluxe" release of Barcelona ? If this documentary was done for the fans, why did they left out all interesting, or used just a few seconds of it ? (Like the audience footage from Queen from 1979, the David Wigg interview, the 1976 interviews, the Rod Stewart/MJ demos ...) If this documentary was made for the "average Joe", why didn't they at least mention WHO Freddie was or at least the fact that he died because of AIDS ? After watching the "Days of our lives" documentary I downloaded it as DVD (from BBC broadcast) and watched it again. Then I downloaded a HD capture of the BBC broadcast and watched it again. And later again and again and again. And then I bought the BluRay and watched it again, again and again and .... After downloading the leaked copy of The Great Pretender I watched it once and deleted it. I didn't like it but I thought it's because I got it as crappy low-res flv files and that I'm definitely going to like it on BD. Now I bought the BD. It took me 3 days (!) to watch it till the end and I really don't believe I will watch it again. I'm sorry to be so negative, but I am seriously disappointed with this release

As anyone can see, i am very aware of Freddie and his magic brilliance. It is to my utter astonishment therefore, that anyone and I mean "anyone" COULD ACTUALLY drain him of all LIFE with All HIS powerful MAGIC and actually make him appear mediocre, Boring ! and produce such a DOWNER OF A DOCUMENTARY. The highlights were the very little scenes where you actually heard him sing, the rest was youtube clips and the same tired old eugenics lie of HIV =AIDS The documentary was the first assualt on his Magic The biopic will be the MAJOR ASSUALT

Holly2003 wrote:

LUI RISER wrote:

pittrek wrote: I don't remember when I was the last time bored watching a Queen-related documentary. The only interesting bits were from the "Made In Heaven" interview. The rest ? I got the feeling that I'm reading wikipedia, and not WATCHING a documentary. The strangest thing is that despite its name it's not a documentary about "The Great Pretender" nor about Freddie Mercury. It's a "making of Mr. Bad Guy and Barcelona" type of documentary. After watching the documentary I have the feeling that Freddie was in some band, I think it was called Queen or something, then he suddenly realized he's gay and started to fuck guys, made a crap album which he knew was crap, fell in love with Montserrat Caballe and wanted to do an album with her, he hated Queen members and especially Brian, made the Barcelona album and then he probably died or something. I don't know why, but I start to have "negative thoughts" about Paul "everybody is my best friend" Gambaccini and Jim "I can do anything with Freddie's music" Beach. The biggest part of this documentary is about the Barcelona album, why wasn't this documentary released as a bonus disc on the "deluxe" release of Barcelona ? If this documentary was done for the fans, why did they left out all interesting, or used just a few seconds of it ? (Like the audience footage from Queen from 1979, the David Wigg interview, the 1976 interviews, the Rod Stewart/MJ demos ...) If this documentary was made for the "average Joe", why didn't they at least mention WHO Freddie was or at least the fact that he died because of AIDS ? After watching the "Days of our lives" documentary I downloaded it as DVD (from BBC broadcast) and watched it again. Then I downloaded a HD capture of the BBC broadcast and watched it again. And later again and again and again. And then I bought the BluRay and watched it again, again and again and .... After downloading the leaked copy of The Great Pretender I watched it once and deleted it. I didn't like it but I thought it's because I got it as crappy low-res flv files and that I'm definitely going to like it on BD. Now I bought the BD. It took me 3 days (!) to watch it till the end and I really don't believe I will watch it again. I'm sorry to be so negative, but I am seriously disappointed with this release

As anyone can see, i am very aware of Freddie and his magic brilliance. It is to my utter astonishment therefore, that anyone and I mean "anyone" COULD ACTUALLY drain him of all LIFE with All HIS powerful MAGIC and actually make him appear mediocre, Boring ! and produce such a DOWNER OF A DOCUMENTARY. The highlights were the very little scenes where you actually heard him sing, the rest was youtube clips and the same tired old eugenics lie of HIV =AIDS The documentary was the first assualt on his Magic The biopic will be the MAJOR ASSUALT

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