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Old 06-06-2018, 07:58 AM   #21
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I wish it was a two part movie so we could get the whole story. Maybe they will if this one does really well.

If they tried to do it all in one, people would complain they glossed over too many important aspects of his life. If they put it all in the movie would be too long. You're not going to please everyone. I'm just happy we're getting a movie about part of his life so more people can see how awesome he was.
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Old 06-06-2018, 12:44 PM   #22
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Don't really have a strong opinion on a trailer, but if they end the story at Live Aid that really is shameful in my opinion.
i was thinking that ending the movie as the band is about to take the stage would really leave you wanting a part two to the movie
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Old 06-06-2018, 12:55 PM   #23
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i was thinking that ending the movie as the band is about to take the stage would really leave you wanting a part two to the movie
Depends...if the movie is about Queen and the influence of Mercury on the group/music then that is a great place to end the movie. They were very much on the down swing before that live aid performance. That performance put them back, well maybe not on the map, but put them back up on the pedestal of one the greatest bands. It was one of the more stunning performances in rock history and one that at the time wasn't really expected.

It was also perhaps THE performance that showed everyone in the world how powerful a performer Mercury was. It is the highlight of their careers. They stole show on a day that included strong performances by Dire Straits, U2, Sting, Elton John, The Who and Bowie.

If it's a Mercury biography then I'd agree but I believe it's more the former (despite the marketing).

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Queen was always huge in Europe and around the world. The last American tour with Freddie was in 1982, and it was like Queen and the US forgot about each other.
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Old 06-06-2018, 02:25 PM   #25
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Queen was always huge in Europe and around the world. The last American tour with Freddie was in 1982, and it was like Queen and the US forgot about each other.
Yes they were big in Europe and they had one final tour after Live aid.

Live aid is considered their greatest ever performance (thanks mostly to Freddie). If it's a film about Queen then it makes sense that is where the movie ends. At the pinnacle of their career. I don't particulary want to see Brian May painful divorce and Freddie Mercury's death post Live-aid played out on a movie looking at the formation and rise of the band.

Again a personal biography would be different. Then I want to see Freddie in his last moments played out on screen and how he continued to impact music until that time and, well, continuing into today.

We'll have to see how the movie plays to decide if they did the first one and accomplished what they wanted, or if they did the latter (or got caught in the middle) and dropped the ball.

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Old 06-06-2018, 07:45 PM   #26
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If you're in here you're probably a fan and have seen the Live Aid concert. If not, here's a good version of it to give you an idea of what everyone is talking about. The crowd they were playing to and the performance they gave. I still get chills watching it. He had the audience eating out of his hand.


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Queen was always huge in Europe and around the world. The last American tour with Freddie was in 1982, and it was like Queen and the US forgot about each other.
combination of things I think.
to me Hot Space is a steaming pile of crap. that killed them.
plus I think the states didn't like the gay/bisexual Freddie, and the I want to Break Free video put the final nail in the coffin.
probably didn't help for that video that the states likely never got the sense of humor of the band and didn't know what coronation street was.
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Old 06-08-2018, 01:58 PM   #28
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I remember a Brian May interview where he mentioned how the Wayne's World scene got them America back and how happy that would have made Freddy (he died the year prior to WW release).
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trailer #2 would seem to suggest that they will delve into freddie's personal life

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Old 07-18-2018, 07:58 AM   #31
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Sweet. I would go to a theater to watch that.
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Old 10-03-2018, 08:58 AM   #32
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The movie may or may not be good, but it looks like Rami Malek gave a great performance. People are saying Oscar worthy.
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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Early Buzz: Rami Malek Will Rock You, the Rest of the Movie Not So Much

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Reactions from early screenings of Bohemian Rhapsody have hit the interwebs, and even as the Bryan Singer film received mixed reviews, most critics have found something to love about this by-the-numbers biopic. Or rather, somebody to love. Namely, star Rami Malek, whose performance as the legendary Queen frontman Freddie Mercury has already begun to gather Oscar buzz. A few critics praised the film’s Live Aid sequence.
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Old 10-23-2018, 09:28 AM   #34
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The 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Film Soundtrack Has Arrived: Listen


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The original soundtrack for the upcoming movie Bohemian Rhapsody is now available for streaming and purchase. The career-spanning 22-song album features new versions of Queen classics and five tracks from a previously unreleased performance at Live Aid.
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Old 10-23-2018, 11:39 AM   #35
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i have been looking forward to seeing this movie for months; however, i will ahve to wait a little longer as my son has a hockey tourney on opening weekend.

i guess i will be able to get some additional reviews; however, i will likely go see it even if the reviews are horrible.

i am even a little more excited to see it as my daughter is also interested, and it has been quite some time since her and i have had a date night
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Old 10-23-2018, 01:13 PM   #36
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Well would it be reviewed any other way? This is the type of movie that will probably polarise people. Either love it or hate it....because people have to be critical and just can't suspend themselves enough to just enjoy a show without tearing it apart.
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Old 10-23-2018, 03:11 PM   #37
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I don't care what crap any reviewer spouts. I'm going to this movie no matter what.
it's going to be awesome.

glad Malek is the star and not borat.
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Well the early reviews make it seem more like a Queen promo vehicle rather than an actual examination of Mercury's life. But that was going to be the Baron Cohen movie, which they scraped. I'm sure Malek is probably great, it just sounds like the movie as a whole is pretty lacking.
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https://uproxx.com/movies/bohemian-rhapsody-review/

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Bohemian Rhapsody feels like dirty pool. Either one of the next two things are true: Either the surviving members of Queen still resent the fact that so much of their legacy is wrapped up in Freddie Mercury that they had to make this revisionist history of a movie, or the surviving members are so cinematically tone deaf they inadvertently made a movie that sure comes off like that’s what they were trying to do.

Before we get too far, let’s get this out of the way: Rami Malek is really great as Freddie Mercury. He’s so great that he almost sells what this movie is trying to pawn off on us. I do wish he could have, somehow, been in a movie that was kinder to the legacy of Freddie Mercury – one the band didn’t control – but that’s not the way it went down. So what we get is Rami Malek performing his ass off as Freddie Mercury in what’s essentially a Brian May and Roger Taylor propaganda film.

Look, I get it, scripted films are not documentaries. And, sometimes, creative license has to be used to move a story forward. But I’ve never seen a film distort its facts in such a punitive way. It’s like the movie wants to punish Freddie Mercury.
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If what we read from Sasha Baron Cohen was true, that movie was destined to be a disaster from the beginning. The band has an ego and they wanted to stretch things to talk about themselves, which for all intents and purposes, it was Freddie and the band, not equals. Video stream it is.
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