Can't believe no one has posted about this yet.

 

Reviews were middle of the road so I lowered my expectations going in. Movie was pretty good, but the music made it much better. The actors were pretty spot on with Freddie and the rest of the band.

 

Best part of the movie was that they did the entire Live Aid performance.

 

Brian May was one of the executive producers on the movie which probably means a lot of the behind the scenes stuff is fairly accurate. He wanted the movie to have Freddie die half way through and the second day half focus on the band moving forward...I'm glad they didn't follow his wishes.

Just saw it, very solid movie. The actor who played Freddy crushed it. Good film to see in the theater for true music enthusiasts.

Saw it... Loved it.

 

Sometimes I forgot that I was watching an actor and not the real Mercury. It moved along where I was captivated the entire time, and it had its emotional moments that really moved me.

 

With that said, as a band/music timeline purist, there were two timeline issues that stood out to me.

 

First one:

 

When they were first touring the states around 1974 they showed them on stage where they said "We love you Atlanta" and the song they were performing in the film was "Fat Bottomed Girls" which wasn't released until 1978 on their Jazz album.

 

Second one:

 

In the film when Freddie had cut his hair short, and was sporting that porn-stache gay leather look, this was his look on the 1980 release of The Game with the singles "Another One Bites the Dust", and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", yet in the movie they have him looking like this when walking into the studio where Brian May was beginning to write "We Will Rock" you with the clapping thing that he had envisioned would generate audience participation.

 

"We Will Rock You" was on the 1977 album News of the World, and 3 years before The Game was released when Mercury started with his short haired, mustached gay leather dude look.

Fat Bottom girls could have been in their live set way before it was on an album.

 

As far as haircut continuity, I have no idea...:lol2:

Fat Bottom girls could have been in their live set way before it was on an album.

 

As far as haircut continuity, I have no idea...:lol2:

 

In Wikipedia for the song "Fat Bottomed Girls" it says that Queen performed it live from 1978-1982 not counting more recently with Adam Lambert.

 

Here's Freddie's look in in '77 during the News of the World tour...

 

 

And here's his look in '80 during the tour for The Game...

 

Wikipedia may say that because of the release date...but give me a few minutes and I can edit Wikipedia to say they started performing it in 1957...:lol2:

Wikipedia may say that because of the release date...but give me a few minutes and I can edit Wikipedia to say they started performing it in 1957...:lol2:

 

Be that as it may...

 

Here's the setlist for their first world tour in 1974 when they first toured the U.S. on their "Sheer Heart Attack Tour".

 

Sheer Heart Attack Tour - Wikipedia

 

And here's the setlist for their "Jazz Tour" in 1978, and the first where they played the song "Fat Bottomed Girls"

 

Jazz Tour - Wikipedia

Saw it today with Mrs RTS and we both thought it was spectacular! Rami Malek did a great job of playing Freddie Mercury including a lot of the on stage mannerisms and I thought Gwilym Lee looked and acted eerily like Brian May. Ben Hardy and Joseph Mazzello did a great job playing Rodger Taylor and John Deacon as well. I also got a kick out of Mike Myers playing EMI record executive Ray Foster, a fictional character that supposedly does have some basis in real life as record executive, Roy Featherstone. Unlike Foster, Featherstone was said to have been very supportive of the band, but had some doubts about the track Bohemian Rhapsody.

I thought the Live Aid recreation was remarkable even though they did cut a couple songs in the movie. The music, of course, was great! I don't think you can go wrong seeing the movie if you haven't yet.

Hard to believe they filmed the Live Aid show at the beginning of filming, think he said the first few days.

I saw it last weekend and thought it was pretty decent. The pacing/editing felt a little choppy to me, but it kept me interested and entertained enough.

I didn’t really like it that much. Felt rushed and unbelievable.

I didn’t really like it that much. Felt rushed and unbelievable.

 

That's a problem telling a story this big and that is so familiar with the fanbase...it's hard to get all of the details in 2 hours and tell the entire story.

I didn’t really like it that much. Felt rushed and unbelievable.

 

Depends on what you're calling unbelievable. They did embellish some things, as often happens in movies covering real people. Some of the timeline of Freddie's life, especially when he contracted HIV, was off. Likely to give the movie more meaning. I hate when they do things like that. Still, I thought the movie was really good and the performance of the actors were outstanding.

Depends on what you're calling unbelievable. They did embellish some things, as often happens in movies covering real people. Some of the timeline of Freddie's life, especially when he contracted HIV, was off. Likely to give the movie more meaning. I hate when they do things like that. Still, I thought the movie was really good and the performance of the actors were outstanding.

 

It’s been a couple of weeks since I watched, so I can’t say that I remember specifics. I just felt like it had a few too many of those biopic cliche moments where the artist has the musical epiphanies and discovers their biggest hit. There were a couple of times that I’m pretty sure I scoffed. :lol2:

 

I loved the Mike Myers cameo. I thought that was executed perfectly as a great tongue in cheek moment.

 

I don’t generally love biopics for this reason. I always want to, but rarely do.

 

I would’ve preferred this be an HBO miniseries so they could really take their time and show things without accelerating the timeline/skipping over years. But I get it.

It’s been a couple of weeks since I watched, so I can’t say that I remember specifics. I just felt like it had a few too many of those biopic cliche moments where the artist has the musical epiphanies and discovers their biggest hit. There were a couple of times that I’m pretty sure I scoffed. :lol2:

 

I loved the Mike Myers cameo. I thought that was executed perfectly as a great tongue in cheek moment.

 

I don’t generally love biopics for this reason. I always want to, but rarely do.

 

I would’ve preferred this be an HBO miniseries so they could really take their time and show things without accelerating the timeline/skipping over years. But I get it.

 

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification, we pretty much agree on biopics and the cliche musical epiphanies.