The kind of biopic that leaves one knowing LESS about it's subject matter somehow.

Also, Rami Malek's performance was bullshit. He got an Oscar for moping about with prosthetic teeth for two hours. I lived in the time of Freddie Mercury and Malek didn't even vaguely remind me of the man. It's actually really hurt my opinion of Brian May and Roger Taylor that they had the gall to go on their whole charade about, "Oh, he's captured Freddie so well, it's eerie, it's like Freddie's in the room..." That movie is total horseshit from stem to stern. Money-grabbing liars.

I'm still insulted that Freddie told another character "make the music more rocking". And the other character reacts like it was pure genius.


WTF is "more rocking" supposed to mean? These are professional musicians! That sounds like a stage direction from a 6 year old.

Re: biopics that didn't work
 

Re: biopics that didn't work
 

How about we just list the three or four that did work, and be done with it.

that's no fun

Sid and Nancy, Amadeus, 24 Hour Party People, Coal Miner's Daughter, Control


You're right, that wasn't fun.

Re: biopics that didn't work
 

I thought Rocketman was particularly hideous.

The worst I've come across in my life so far :

https://i.postimg.cc/3NCD7qrG/wired.jpg

Yes. 100%. Possibly one of the most shockingly bad movies I've ever seen. Of any type.

No argument here…Wired sucked

Just thought of another one….Gable and Lombard…a real mess where the facts are a mess and the performances are lifeless

I was just thinking the same and the only thing I could think of was Amadeus.
Coal Miner's Daughter is a good call, though.

Originally Posted by matt72582 (Post 2483358)

JFK (1990)

JFK wasn’t a biopic; it was a crime procedural.

Worst hour that I've sat through.

To be fair, it was bullshit. There are real videos of Jim Garrison on YouTube, luckily.

I liked both of these movies

Originally Posted by matt72582 (Post 2559444)

To be fair, it was bullshit.

From a historical perspective, I totally agree with you. But from a cinematic perspective, I thought JFK was out of this world. It will go down as Oliver Stone’s magnum opus.
Btw, I liked The Doors. It contains Val Kilmer’s greatest performance.

I can’t believe anyone would include The Doors in this category.

You can fault the movie for not being a documentary if you want, but it is one of the absolute greatest biopics ever made in terms of recreating the spirit of the person and the overall vibe of their era, which helps explain why things went the way they did; it also features an absolute knockout performance by Val Kilmer (doing his own singing for most of the film) and the most breathtakingly accurate period detail of practically any movie set in the 60s (Stone reportedly went to the extreme of having special Marlboro packs printed for the movie, because apparently the shade of red used in that era was different from the modern-day shade).

Stone also made a staggeringly great use of multiple aspect ratios, which not many directors were doing at the time.

I was very lucky to watch a 70mm print of the film at the Cinerama Dome; I also watched the regular version of the movie multiple times in the best auditoriums that existed at that time (they were the THX-certified ones).

If anything it’s a shame this hasn’t ever been reissued for IMAX theatres because it would really be a mind-blowing experience - the closest you can ever get to actually being back in the 60s, the Height-Ashbury milieu and just everything that made the late 60s wild.