richard_r_strauss
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I had no intention of seeing this in theatres, until my wife booked it as a 41st birthday date night.
How could anyone possibly pretend to be Freddie Mercury? This movie will surely be a sad, cringeworthy, awful disaster, right?
Rami Malek quickly set me right about that misconception!
I think this movie was intended to be *A* Freddie Mercury & Queen story, not THE DEFINITIVE and encyclopedic Freddie Mercury and Queen documentary that some critics seemed to be expecting.
This is a band that brought a message of fun, irreverence, a bit of slightly edgy sexiness, but always an overarching goodness, at a time when homosexuality was still technically a criminal offense in my country, and "gay" was a byword for "stupid" or "disgusting" even among children.
Their songs are bangers that you want to sing along to, but there are poignant moments in them too.
This film does a beautiful job of recapturing that spirit, while telling a reader's digest condensed version of their story that seems to get the bits that matter right. These guys made our world a bit better than it would have been without them, this movie celebrates that while filling in enough interesting behind-the-scenes gaps that someone like myself with only average knowledge of their off-stage story will walk out feeling like I not only know more about them, but I understand them better.
How could anyone possibly pretend to be Freddie Mercury? This movie will surely be a sad, cringeworthy, awful disaster, right?
Rami Malek quickly set me right about that misconception!
I think this movie was intended to be *A* Freddie Mercury & Queen story, not THE DEFINITIVE and encyclopedic Freddie Mercury and Queen documentary that some critics seemed to be expecting.
This is a band that brought a message of fun, irreverence, a bit of slightly edgy sexiness, but always an overarching goodness, at a time when homosexuality was still technically a criminal offense in my country, and "gay" was a byword for "stupid" or "disgusting" even among children.
Their songs are bangers that you want to sing along to, but there are poignant moments in them too.
This film does a beautiful job of recapturing that spirit, while telling a reader's digest condensed version of their story that seems to get the bits that matter right. These guys made our world a bit better than it would have been without them, this movie celebrates that while filling in enough interesting behind-the-scenes gaps that someone like myself with only average knowledge of their off-stage story will walk out feeling like I not only know more about them, but I understand them better.
Great to see a film where it's all about the acting and not an explosion a minute.
I wish they would speak up though; the atmospheric music is so loud, and all of their dialogue is so quiet and so mumbled.
I wish they would speak up though; the atmospheric music is so loud, and all of their dialogue is so quiet and so mumbled.