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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
I thought the movie was okay when I first saw it (I thought I learned a lot of things about Freddie and the band that I never knew), but then later, when I learned that about 90% of the stuff depicted never happened the way it was portrayed in the film, it stopped working for me.
I like biopics where the drama is built around facts and things that happened the way they happened, not just made up stuff to make an already dramatic life MORE dramatic.
I thought the movie was okay when I first saw it (I thought I learned a lot of things about Freddie and the band that I never knew), but then later, when I learned that about 90% of the stuff depicted never happened the way it was portrayed in the film, it stopped working for me.
I like biopics where the drama is built around facts and things that happened the way they happened, not just made up stuff to make an already dramatic life MORE dramatic.
Last edited by Wooley; 08-30-24 at 08:15 AM.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
I thought the movie was okay when I first saw it (I thought I learned a lot of things about Freddie and the band that I never knew), but then later, when I learned that about 90% of the stuff depicted never happened the way it was portrayed in the film, it stopped working for me.
I like biopics where the drama is built around facts and things that happened the way they happened, not just made up stuff to make an already dramatic life MORE dramatic.
I thought the movie was okay when I first saw it (I thought I learned a lot of things about Freddie and the band that I never knew), but then later, when I learned that about 90% of the stuff depicted never happened the way it was portrayed in the film, it stopped working for me.
I like biopics where the drama is built around facts and things that happened the way they happened, not just made up stuff to make an already dramatic life MORE dramatic.
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.
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How about we just list the three or four that did work, and be done with it.
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that's no fun
Sid and Nancy, Amadeus, 24 Hour Party People, Coal Miner's Daughter, Control
You're right, that wasn't fun.
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Yes. 100%. Possibly one of the most shockingly bad movies I've ever seen. Of any type.
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Yes. 100%. Possibly one of the most shockingly bad movies I've ever seen. Of any type.
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Just thought of another one….Gable and Lombard…a real mess where the facts are a mess and the performances are lifeless
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How about we just list the three or four that did work, and be done with it.
Coal Miner's Daughter is a good call, though.
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JFK wasn’t a biopic; it was a crime procedural.
To be fair, it was bullshit. There are real videos of Jim Garrison on YouTube, luckily.
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To be fair, it was bullshit.
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.
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.