Fredfan 08.10.2018 12:52 |
Seems mixed. Outstanding praise for Rami Malek as Freddie but not so much for the movie itself.... link |
bucsateflon 08.10.2018 13:21 |
cause they are a mixed audience |
people on streets 08.10.2018 16:33 |
Only two reviews of the list you posted are really positive about the film as a whole. The rest is not impressed by anything other than Malek's performance. Still looking forward to see it tho... :) |
kosimodo 08.10.2018 18:13 |
Queen, the press and reviews... i bet it is going to be great. |
Richard Orchard 08.10.2018 18:32 |
i think it is going to be a bit average. unfortunately. it is only pg13 - and the problems they had making it don't bode well. wondering if Sasha Baron Cohen's comments about it turn out to be true. |
snelly1 08.10.2018 18:59 |
Three of the negative ones hail from the same outfit “Indiewire” |
Fredfan 08.10.2018 19:02 |
yes I did say the praise mostly was for Rami Malek, not the movie. But i'm still hoping it would be great! |
musicland munich 08.10.2018 23:56 |
Supervised by two guys who THINK they can make a movie and directed by the one and only Alan Smithee :) Sorry for my bitter humour. The "Wiesn" is still working on me. |
Golden Salmon 09.10.2018 07:06 |
I don't think it'll be an objectively great movie. Then again, I don't think it'll satisfy the most fastidious Queen fans. It will absolutely fall in the middle ground where I hope to be. |
k-m 09.10.2018 21:20 |
As I said before, it will be exactly what it says on the tin. But that's just me guessing, ok? I have not seen it yet and I do look forward to Rami's heartfelt portrayal, which I think it deserves to be. From the sounds of it, he did manage to capture Freddie's insecurities, but on the other hand, I was hoping for a much braver approach than PG13. In other words, I think they could have simply introduced more nitty-gritty and have had the audiences make up their own mind. Ultimately, Freddie wasn't the most middle of the road person, was he? |
Fredfan 10.10.2018 02:04 |
yeah, its hard to make it gritty with a PG-13 constraint. that said, i think the goal is to reintroduce Queen to the new generation....so yeah basically, it won't really satisfy diehard Queen fans. |
runner_70 10.10.2018 06:03 |
It will be a disaster, false facts and praising Maylor to the max. As expected |
Nathan H 10.10.2018 07:00 |
It's still going to be a hit anyway. |
Nathan H 11.10.2018 05:57 |
This is quite a good review about the film on The Huntington News. It's very detailed.
The Huntington News (link The long overdue biopic about legendary rock n’ roll band Queen immortalizes Freddie Mercury in full glory. Actor Rami Malek embodies Mercury’s quirks and insecurities, even details like his ability to play piano backward. Malek did his homework to genuinely portray this eccentric, gritty virtuoso in “Bohemian Rhapsody.” We first see Brian May, played by Gwilym Lee, and Roger Taylor, played by Ben Hardy, who study physics and dentistry respectively, in an ordinary college band that needs a new lead singer. After the show, a foreign boy with buck teeth tries out for the part. They are reluctant to let him sing but are then impressed by his vocal talent. He introduces himself as Freddie. After hiring John Deacon as their bass player, Mercury takes charge of the band. He changes the band’s name to ‘Queen’ and sells the group’s van to buy time at a recording studio. Queen’s titular first album was a hit, and the success rolled on from there. Their most ambitious undertaking, “A Night at the Opera,” received friction from their record label’s executive Ray Foster. Foster, played by Mike Meyers, opposed the avant-garde direction and firmly believed the song “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which was cut down to six minutes, would never play on the radio. Watching a recreation of Queen’s experimental music style, which was testing the limits of the rock genre by fusing it with classical and opera, was fascinating, as was witnessing the painstaking process of making ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ which required layering multiple layers of vocals and instrumentals. The entire cast was great, but the film definitely focused more on Mercury, following his ups and downs with the band and during his solo career. We see him change his given name, Farrokh Bulsara, to legally adopt his stage persona. The viewer also sees Mercury mature as an artist. By his energetic Live Aid performance at iconic Wembley Stadium, he has transformed from a 60’s beatnik to a a ‘Castro clone’ — a mustachioed-greaser look popular among gay men in the 1970s. Serving as the movie’s final scene, the Live Aid performance was a visual masterpiece that made you feel like you were at Wembley. The film portrayed the homophobic and racist discrimination Mercury suffered throughout his career and his emotional AIDS diagnosis. Fans and critics accused the studio of ignoring Mercury’s sexuality in the recent trailer. Malek refuted these claims, calling it “absurd” to judge the film from a brief trailer. Mercury’s personal life is part of the story with less emphasis on the nuances of his sexuality and more on his iconoclastic personality. Mercury often went against people’s expectations, but it was the confidence of Queen, and the acceptance of his individual bandmates, that empowered him to succeed. Mercury fans will enjoy this true-to-life portrayal of one of the most elusive and talented rock stars accompanied by an outstanding soundtrack authentically transporting viewers back to the peak of the rock era. It is a journey through Mercury’s career, littered with factual tidbits but also serving as a sentimental biography of Queen. |
Golden Salmon 11.10.2018 07:18 |
^Spoilers! LOL. |
Voice of Reason 2018 11.10.2018 12:27 |
Where do I start? 'Queen's first titular album was a hit' It wasn't. I wonder if Trident were ready to get rid of Queen if Seven Seas and Queen II weren't a hit. I think the importance of this cannot be overstated. Is Ray Foster a real person? Bohemian Rhapsody cut down to six minutes? It wasn't. Mercury fans will enjoy this. We'll see. |
tenenementdrowse 11.10.2018 13:58 |
Queen wasn't a hit. Queen II barely made it thanks to "Seven Seas of Rhye" spot at #10 on the UK charts. They didn't hit big until Sheer Heart Attack. Ray Foster is really just a renaming of Norman Sheffield. |
Golden Salmon 11.10.2018 14:21 |
^Wait a minute: do they not have the permission to use Norman Sheffield's name? I'd rather have them say "the manager" rather than renaming him completely. I can do with some fiction, but making names up is something else. |
Voice of Reason 2018 11.10.2018 14:34 |
tenenementdrowse wrote: Queen wasn't a hit. Queen II barely made it thanks to "Seven Seas of Rhye" spot at #10 on the UK charts. They didn't hit big until Sheer Heart Attack. Ray Foster is really just a renaming of Norman Sheffield.Thanks Tenement. Had Queen wrapped up with Norman Sheffield by the time of Bo Rhap? |
tenenementdrowse 11.10.2018 14:51 |
Golden Salmon: It's legal issues. After "Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)" was released, they're were some legal issues. Voice of Reason 2018: No, he was with them for A Night at the Opera. They split after that. |
bucsateflon 11.10.2018 15:59 |
Does it make it clear in the movie that BM created the guitar solo in Boh Rhap? ...cause lots of idiots mistaken the riff story with the solo |
popy 12.10.2018 04:51 |
Again, Ray Foster is not Sheffield. Ray Foster is a fake name and is presented as an EMI record executive (check Malek interview on Kimmel and check the big EMI sign in the trailer). It's the story about the label not wanting to release BR as a single, hence the line "6 bloody minutes". |
raucousmonster 15.10.2018 18:20 |
I'm looking forward to the movie though I don't have high hopes. I'll just be pleased to see a version of the Queen story being put out there for a mass audience. I'm very impressed with the sheer amount of publicity and marketing that's been done and whilst I'm sure once I've 10 minutes in the actors will do a good enough job to transport most viewers I'm struggling to get past Rami's mustache. It looks like a Muppet's eyebrow rather than anything resembling one of the world's most iconic pieces of face furniture. Wish the production team had spent a bit less time asking Phoebe what was in Freddie's luggage and more time on sorting out Fred's flavour saver. |
*goodco* 16.10.2018 13:49 |
^ Yup. 'We' will be the harshest critics. I'm going in expecting a few 'face palm' moments. I am also going in knowing that there will be moments, from the time we hear the 'Queenified' 20th Century Fox theme, hearing the new 'Doing Alright', and seeing the 'Live Aid' recreation, that should make it more than a worthwhile experience. At least that's what I'm hoping for. |