Dysan I lasted a bit longer than you. Although I pretty quickly went from “Great” to “OK, not great, but still fun” to “Sheesh this is contrived Hollywood BS”. In fact the “lonely Freddie” in the scene up thread might have been the moment I thought that. I honestly don’t remember.
And I confess to having watched the opening sequence more than once on youtube.
dysan wrote:
I'm trying to remember up until what point I was still thinking 'THIS IS GREAT'. Probably the first 8 minutes or so.
Same here. Felt like "oh, cool! This really happened!"
Then it became at the end: "That REALLY happened uh? .... what a piece of crap. They really made it. "
I enjoyed it thoroughly with a couple of minor annoyances all the way up to the "lonely Freddie calls Mary" scene. I hated that part. Freddie could have been lonely at times but it should have been depicted in a more introspective way and not so flagrantly obvious. Also, visually, that scene reeks of TV drama.
The movie picks back up again when Freddie reaches out to Jim Beach, the band getting back together, his (timing-inaccurate but poignant) AIDS diagnosis scene and the rehearsals for Live Aid... but the movie does have a big slump in the middle with lonely Freddie in Munich.
So much more could have been made in that middle part. Make it so that Freddie did have friends during those days and maybe have Mack play a role rather than just a silent, unidentified "yes-man" engineer. It is the lack of success that should have brought him back, rather than the "I'm so lost" melodrama that we got.
I also thought BoRhap recording sessions were great, including Ray Foster's "lack of enthusiasm", to put it mildly. Mike Myers does a fantastic job there. "And as for Bohemian Rhapsody... What is that???". Lol.
^ i couldn't even enjoy the credits because they looked like they'd been sourced from a DVD or YouTube rip. I hate to use the word, but I was flabbergasted
Best part for me is the scene where they are discussing the single with the record manager (Mike Myers). From Myers's suggestion of IILWMC (and the attendant expressions from the band) to his statement that Bo Rhap will "never be that single", still cracks me up.