Bohemian
Rhapsody 9/10
Theater
Whore is now called Sitting In The Aisle. If you want a gritty, drug
fueled, angst ridden, rated-R depiction of the life of Freddie
Mercury then I suggest you watch one of many documentaries of the
band online or read a book. Otherwise you can be like me and my
friend and watch a really fun movie about the life of one of the
greatest performers of my life called Bohemian Rhapsody. I did not expect to like this movie
as much as I did. Seriously. I did not think that the star Rami Malek
looked like Mercury and Cam reminded me of other films I liked based
on real people where they looked absolutely nothing like them. And
honestly over time I got used to Malek and just saw him as Mercury. I
also knew that they would not be able to cover the amount of
information in the lives of Mercury or any of the characters. That is
what twelve part documentaries are for. Not a film.
This
movie stars Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joe
Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Tom Hollander, and friggin' Mike Myers. For a
movie that was a little over two hours long it sure as hell did not
feel like it. It wasn't like Solo where things were happening loud
and fast and when it was over I sat there wondering what the hell
just happened. I felt like I got enough information that if I wanted
to know more or what was changed that I would be interested enough
from what I saw to learn more. This movie would be great for old fans
of Queen that loved their music and wanted to know more about Mercury
and his family. The family. Did not think they would even touch on
his nationality or family history. Or his teeth. They mentioned his
teeth! They also touch on his sexuality, drug use, drinking, marriage
(I did not know he got married!), and his band having to deal with
his issues.
I
thoroughly enjoyed this movie. There were so many ways this movie
could have gone with tone and what they focused on. Though he lived
for 45 years you could have taken a ten year chunk and made a movie
then another one with a separate ten year chunk. I talked to Cam and
said if anything I hope that there is good music. I was not intending
to see this movie anytime soon. I was not like “Ooh, I wanna see
this!” But I saw it and really liked what was given to me. This is
a movie that you can sit and pick apart saying this did not happen at
this point and that didn't even happen at all. I get it. There are
likely hundreds of videos and articles pointing out everything not
right about this movie. It is 2019. I am trying to enjoy shit more
and I appreciate the amount of good that went into this. There were
about three scenes where I was almost attacked by onion ninjas.
Seriously. You put some family shit in movies and I will get close to
feeling emotions.
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