It was entertaining, the music was great, though I thought the film was pretty flawed in a lot of ways, I feel it could have been a lot better than what it was 6/10.
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Obviously Freddie was the most outrageous of the lot, but was a bit ridiculous the way they made the other 3 seem like well behaved bores. Guess that's what happens when they are involved in making it.I enjoyed it, I didn't have an issue with the lack of outrageous-nous, at the end of the day, despite being huge rockstars, they were relatively sane people. I think theres varied reports from Freddie parties as opposed to the band themselves, (dinners vs wild parties). The others get painted got painted as a bit too clean though IMO.
That being said, one issue I had with the film is that it flows between a quasi Queen 'Road to Live Aid', and a Freddie biopic. Never really settled on what it wanted to be.
That being said, the production values on this film were amazing, and on top of the soundtrack makes it worth seeing. Get why some people might not have enjoyed it though.
Thought this movie was awesome. Aware it's not fully accurate like every biopic. Remi malek slowly becoming one of my favourite actors.
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Thought it was good, not great, and Rami was brilliant, especially in the music scenes.
But gee,
Sacha Baron Cohen version please!!!
Was really looking forward to this but in then end I found it a bit boring. Knew the backstory of Freddie and being gay and aids etc but not much about the band. Still don't know much about the band.
Of course the music was awesome but felt the story was a bit bland - as my missus said, told a story that didn't need to be told.
Was interested in the bits where it showed who wrote what song etc and how they made some songs. The bass line for another one bites the dust was great to see he wrote the song and lyrics etc.
This is why Sacha Baron Cohen would have been a better fit, similar build and looks to Freddie. But May and Co got their knickers in a twist and so instead we have this sanitised and inaccurate PG version.Saw it last night. Entertaining but very sanitised and clearly not how some of it played out.
The other thing that bothered me was how different Malek’s build was to Mercury’s. Seriously, there’s video of the Live Aid gig next to the footage from this and Mercury looks about a foot taller and much broader.
He did a good job otherwise. Apparently they mixed his voice with Freddie’s and another singer’s. I wonder if that impacts on his awards prospects - others who have played famous singers have used their own voices but you couldn’t get away with that with Freddie.
I've seen it twice. Just as good the second time aroundi want to watch it again