because it's coming whether you like it or not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S9c5nnDd_s
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
That looks absolutely terrible and I know I'll watch it.
― Darin, Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
same tbh
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
If the Sacha Baron Cohen account of how they wanted this to be done is true it will be fucking hilarious
― right brain ringworm (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
it runs up to their appearance of live aid iirc, so unfortunately it won't be two-thirds about what the band got up to after freddie died, which would indeed be amazing
however it looks like they had enough to contend with on-set anyway:
On 1 December 2017, The Hollywood Reporter reported that 20th Century Fox had temporarily halted production due to the "unexpected unavailability" of director Bryan Singer, with sources saying that Singer had failed to return to the set after the Thanksgiving week, leaving producers nervous about the state of production and started discussions about potentially replacing him, at which point cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel had to step in and direct during Singer's non-showings.[26] Singer's absence was reportedly due to "a personal health matter concerning Bryan and his family"[27] however, other sources claimed that star Rami Malek and the crew had grown tired of Singer's behavior, reportedly showing up late to set and repeatedly clashing with Malek.[28] On 4 December, Singer was fired, with about two weeks remaining in principal photography.[29] 20th Century Fox terminated his Bad Hat Harry Productions deal with the studio.On 6 December, Dexter Fletcher was announced as Singer's replacement,[30] and by 15 December the film had resumed filming in and around London.[31] Two-thirds of the principal photography had been completed, putting pressure on Fletcher, who commented, "I was looking at two complete [acts] in a good film, and [I had to] not let it down." According to the Director's Guild of America, only one director can be named for a film, and the DGA has sole control over who that will be.[32][33]
On 6 December, Dexter Fletcher was announced as Singer's replacement,[30] and by 15 December the film had resumed filming in and around London.[31] Two-thirds of the principal photography had been completed, putting pressure on Fletcher, who commented, "I was looking at two complete [acts] in a good film, and [I had to] not let it down." According to the Director's Guild of America, only one director can be named for a film, and the DGA has sole control over who that will be.[32][33]
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
there are a few shots there where rami malek strikes a pretty uncanny similarity to freddie but then it cuts to his big stupid fake teeth and the illusion is shattered
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
So wait, hold up a second...
https://i.imgur.com/2QEo4Eu.png
― pplains, Saturday, 3 November 2018 02:11 (five years ago) link
As a person who pretty much stopped listening to Queen after loving the greatest hits tracks in 6th grade, I found Bohemian Rhapsody strangely moving and agree with the high user score. For once in my life the conglomerate critic score can suck it.
― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Monday, 5 November 2018 01:19 (five years ago) link
Pretty much how I felt. In the first 30 minutes, I just noticed all the flaws - the movie is so focused on the many important moments it wants to hit that you barely get a sense of who these people are, save Freddy. But by the end, I felt pretty absorbed by it. this could have been a much better movie than it was, though
― Vinnie, Monday, 5 November 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
The erasure of his bisexuality offended me, and I wrote off the rest.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 November 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
I suppose there's no mention of the controversy and fallout from when Queen played 12 shows at Sun City in apartheid South Africa.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 5 November 2018 02:58 (five years ago) link
whatever else is or isn't going on in this movie, i enjoyed 1) rami becoming the iconic freddie over the course of the performance the way i did joaquin p becoming johnny c and 2) the 'wayne's world' moment. and holy shit does the one guy look like brian may!
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 5 November 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
pp - idgi, that guy just seems to have a few other bit parts and be in someone else's five-minute-episodes youtube series - is he ilx-notable?
I liked this Ringer piece by Steven Hyden that notes that, and other whitewashing and ahistoricity
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Monday, 5 November 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
I haven't seen the movie, so I don't know how big of a part that was.
Just thought it was funny that all the uncredited parts were "This guy over here", "That guy over there", "Freddy's friend", "Drummer for U2", "Freddy's other friend", "Coat check attendant", etc.
― pplains, Monday, 5 November 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
I guess whoever played "Dave Evans (uncredited)" doesn't have an IMDBpro account
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Monday, 5 November 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
although I just checked the page and Kenny Everett is played by someone called Dickie Beau, which couldn't sound more like a Kenny Everett character name, so well done to the casting director
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Monday, 5 November 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
I dunno. I think if you put together a YouTube playlist of Queen live shows and interviews in the style of The Kids Are Alright and put LiveAid last, you would have a much better movie.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 5 November 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
It's critic-proof!
https://www.theguardian.com/film/shortcuts/2018/nov/05/bohemian-rhapsodys-runaway-success-confirms-it-2018-is-the-year-of-the-critic-proof-movie?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
― piscesx, Monday, 5 November 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
"Poorly reviewed movies are becoming box office hits with increasing regularity. Why? Because what matters these days isn’t what the critics think, but how well-established the brand is."
Oh, bullshit. Critics never had influence. On the other hand they have influence during Oscar season in December-January.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 November 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link
if I'm going to the movies just out of an "I'm bored I'm going to go to the movies" and not to see something i specifically want to see at the art house place as is my usual MO i will not go to a really badly reviewed movie
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 5 November 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
you can't keep lovers of godawful music away from it
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 00:00 (five years ago) link
This was what I had to say in the length of a Tweet (and, um, a link).
I saw @BoRhapMovie last night. I enjoyed it but still find this @UPROXX review by @mikeryan spot on. I go further: It was unfair to everyone who has died - not just Mercury but also Paul Prenter - and the inaccuracies seemed more than just adding drama. https://t.co/yqAgEdhkEd— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) November 6, 2018
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 01:48 (five years ago) link
I just saw it. I expect any film, TV program or anything from Hollywood released in 2018 —good, passable, or shitty— to be possessed of a certain standard that denotes some progress over the decades.
This movie sucks shit like a bad movie from 1982. I understand if Brian May & Roger Taylor didn't want Sascha Baron Cohen making a "ha ha, Freddie likes to suck cock, now watch as he gets fucked in his farsi butthole" movie: this is their life, their artistic legacy, as well as their friend's life. But the movie they wanted made is hacky beyond belief. I simply could not fathom that some of that dialogue passed muster, and while Live aid pre-queen set is happening, they show a listless pub in London that springs to singalong life when they perform, and of course the phone lines for donations go crazy after a presumed prolonged period of inaction. It's hard for me to understand that a commercially-minded director, even a venal creep like Bryan Singer, feels that shit like that is necessary; audiences aren't that dumb.
But the whole thing is truly designed to flatter Brian May and Roger Taylor; the last thing you see before credits is "Brian" and "Rog" shuffling off the Wembley stage (why they didn't get an actor who could look like he could play the drums better and do a reasonable imitation of Rog's high voice is curious; the brian guy looked and sounds like him and looks like he can play). One thing a Cohen film would probably suggest is that the parts of Fred's life that could be portrayed via scenes redolent of "Cruising" would be a source of why Queens' music is so special, not a hideous aberration as May and Taylor clearly believe.
― veronica moser, Saturday, 17 November 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link
It's been abundantly clear for a very long time that May and Taylor are complete wankers tbf.
― Danton Lok (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 November 2018 10:19 (five years ago) link
the poodle haired one is a fully fledged badger-wanking uber-nimbyist Cuntryside Alliance ultra, can't stand him.
― calzino, Sunday, 18 November 2018 10:46 (five years ago) link
My sister and her husband (boomers living in Connecticut) went to see this last night. Odds are good I will hear from her it was "well done."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 18 November 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
Huh.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 January 2019 04:27 (five years ago) link
^ pull quote for DVD release artwork
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 7 January 2019 06:47 (five years ago) link
this was exceedingly bleh. performances all great, but the script was fucking terrible "here's how they wrote this bit, and then here's how they wrote this bit, and then this iconic moment happened and here it is!" Best scenes were Mercury in his house with his cats. Obv. the Live Aid performance was cool to watch but you know, you can fucking watch actual Queen do that on youtube whenevever you like; did we need the ENTIRE thing taking up 20 minutes of the movie? This kind of slavish re-enactment troubles me, it's lazy storytelling and too simulacra for me.
― akm, Saturday, 26 January 2019 17:17 (five years ago) link
Also, yeah, Freddy had big teeth; but I don't think they were THAT fucking big. they kept looking like they were going to fall out of his mouth.
Lol that’s why bio pics are bad, I had a free ticket to see Vice but couldn’t be fucked to go. Saturday night live is already awful without being feature length
― gray say nah to me (wins), Saturday, 26 January 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
People, actual fucking people, are watching scene after scene like this and are saying "bruuuh! best. movie. of. the. year"?This is objectively bad. Someone with no idea about editing will notice it. My brain is on fire thinking that this is an OSCAR NOMINATED MOVIE! FUCK! pic.twitter.com/QVDCxe2iaf— Pramit Chatterjee 🌈 (@pramitheus) January 26, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 January 2019 21:07 (five years ago) link
Holy fucking lol at that clip tbhNot exactly brain-burning information that they continue to give oscars to any old garbage tho
― gray say nah to me (wins), Monday, 28 January 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
not sure if that clip gave me a headache or just made me aware that I have a headache.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 28 January 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
Hahahahaa that shit is what pissed me off about Straight Outta Compton
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 January 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
every single fucking musical biopic is like this
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 January 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
this tweet is way otm
I can't believe Bohemian Rhapsody was even made, let alone nominated for shit. How can anyone make or watch a straightforward musician biopic after Walk Hard?— The Give Smart Guy (@BobbyBigWheel) January 23, 2019
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Monday, 28 January 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
um i dunno i just watched walk hard on huuge reliable recommends and it was...sorta some hambone shit that was not funny.
― Hunt3r, Monday, 28 January 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
(one opinion differs, that is. i have no controp on bohemian rhap as i haven't seen it, i can be wrong on that one later)
― Hunt3r, Monday, 28 January 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
I thought Walk Hard was just ok the first time I saw it. The second time I saw it I thought it was amazing.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 January 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
jack white's performance as elvis prob the best thing he's ever done
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:02 (five years ago) link
even if you don't think Walk Hard is funny, its deconstruction of the dullwitted hambone of music biopics still stands
― sans lep (sic), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link
walk hard rules fuiud
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
I can't remember the last musician biopic I saw -- maybe the Dano/Cusack Brian Wilson one? So I mostly know the tropes from, y'know Cagney as George M Cohan.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
Honestly the thing that I dislike about Bohemian Rhapsody at this point is how many times I've had to hear people stan for Walk Hard lately.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
the unexpected thing about the Dano/Cusack Brian Wilson one was the best parts about it was the 80s Cusack stuff, and all the 60s-re-creation shit was paaaaaaainful
cool sound editing tho
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 January 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
xp you don't want no part of this shit
― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:22 (five years ago) link
Walk Hard was a comedy?
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:23 (five years ago) link
yeah Cusack was amazing in that role. That half of the film was just great, in that it was an actual character study rather than 'here's an iconic moment followed by another iconic moment" which the 60's stuff kind of was and every other fucking biopic in the world is except for probably Control.
― akm, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 02:58 (five years ago) link
Cusack was miscast and weird but I guess worked b/c Elizabeth Banks was so warm and believable foiling him.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 03:00 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah, she made that story work, no doubt. With Cusack I think I was just surprised at how well his usual tics mapped onto Wilson’s, cuz he did convey how BW talks and acts v well.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 03:16 (five years ago) link
people /love/ this movie. i keep encountering folks who tell me how great it was (even people who don't like queen!) and i bite my tongue.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 04:37 (five years ago) link
for some reason i'm usually not too bothered by movie clichés but the clichés of the music biopic, when taken straight, are painful to me. i'll eat up some well-served sports-movie clichés but when it comes to stuff like this i just gag.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 04:38 (five years ago) link
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Monday, January 28, 2019 8:37 PM (one minute ago)
yes my experience too
― Dan S, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 04:44 (five years ago) link
Of course the Bohemian Rhapsody clip everyone is roasting is absolutely trash editing but no one wants to admit that most American film/tv is cut just as bad.— marshlands (@marshlands) January 28, 2019
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link
I don’t watch most American tv / film and neither does anyone else, bcz of the laws of physics, but that cannot be true
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 02:03 (five years ago) link
damn, watching that kind of made me dizzy
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 30 January 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link
saw this yesterday cuz my wife loved it and wanted to show it to me despite my deliberately skipping it when she saw it the first time
it's been a while since i've come across a movie where a central performance is so comprehensively let down by pretty much everything else
malek really is great - his eyes are so expressive in the scenes where freddie is hurt or vulnerable but he also sells the strutting arrogance of stage freddie perfectly, to the point where during the performance scenes it's sometimes uncanny
but it's astonishing how far out of its way it goes to avoid doing anything interesting - the rest of the band appear to be the most boring bastards who ever picked up instruments and the character of freddie is never as three-dimensional as malek is clearly capable of making him
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 10:21 (five years ago) link
the rest of the band appear to be the most boring bastards who ever picked up instruments
Appearances may not be deceptive.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 4 February 2019 10:23 (five years ago) link
true
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 10:30 (five years ago) link
Didn't John Deacon give up rock and roll to become an accountant? Something like that anyway.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 4 February 2019 10:33 (five years ago) link
Like John Major running away from the circus to join the Young Conservatives.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 4 February 2019 10:35 (five years ago) link
i did enjoy that joe mazzello as deacon went full les mcqueen for live aid
https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimg1.wikia.nocookie.net%2F__cb20130704165644%2Fleagueofgentlemen%2Fimages%2F4%2F4e%2FLes_McQueen.jpg&f=1https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalspyuk.cdnds.net%2F18%2F43%2F768x432%2Fgallery-1540543088-pjimage-34.jpg&f=1
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 10:43 (five years ago) link
In a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone Magazine regarding the forthcoming Queen + Adam Lambert North American tour with Adam Lambert, May and Taylor admitted that they no longer have much contact with Deacon except regarding finances, with Taylor stating that "[Deacon]'s completely retired from any kind of social contact", and describing him as "a little fragile". May added, however, "he still keeps an eye on the finances, though. John Deacon is still John Deacon. We don't undertake anything financial without talking to him."
where were the scenes of deacy poring over countless spreadsheets, i ask u
― maxwell’s silver hang suite (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 10:45 (five years ago) link
https://adamhartung.com/wp-content/uploads/Scrooge-and-Cratchit.jpg
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 4 February 2019 10:57 (five years ago) link
Hey hold on there, they got the positioning of the plectrums on John Deacon's bass guitar at Live Aid spot on - wrong colours though.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 4 February 2019 11:01 (five years ago) link
xxxp it's a shit business in't it
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 4 February 2019 11:43 (five years ago) link
had no idea Joe Mazzello was Deacon in this, I've only seen him previously as a kid in Jurassic Park and then as the travelling preacher on Justified
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 4 February 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
i love (i.e. hate) how in that clip that's making the rounds, they give a separate close-up insert to the manager pulling the fucking chair out from the table. i get the feeling they made so many changes to dialogue, etc. in post that they basically had to use B-roll to edit around the dialogue.not to excuse it. the useless reaction shots of generic band members are particularly grating. "ok, let's cut to a shot of john deacon looking.... uh, looking. he's looking. at something."
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
... plectrums?
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
guitar picks if you will
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 4 February 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
plectra
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:04 (five years ago) link
plectosauri
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 04:22 (five years ago) link
Almost certain Deacon has them as Plectra (quantity 36) in his ledgers.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 09:39 (five years ago) link
I suspect a whole lot of cutting went on for legal reasons around the EMI sections and everyone involved there, to the extent that it is never really adequately explained who Mike Myers is (or why he has such a crappy office), and why he looks defeated towards the end. Queen didn't leave EMI. Mike Myers's character still works at EMI. So he presumably still made huge bank off them. So where was the victory, really?
― trishyb, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 12:28 (five years ago) link
It was Looper and he was trying to prevent himself from having to become known primarily for lip syncing "Bohemian Rhapsody" in a beater.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
worst best film nomination since Crash. shockingly inept in every way, and so far behind the times in its gayness-will-ruin-your-family cautionary tale bullshit i really couldn't quite believe it.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
I see that the Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) awards campaign has officially entered its "Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it" phase.— 𝕿𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖞 (@NickPinkerton) February 6, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 February 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
I mean, they've been there the whole time, no?
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 February 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
imagine watching this
― gray say nah to me (wins), Thursday, 7 February 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
if only i could just imagine it
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 February 2019 18:55 (five years ago) link
Fixed it for them. Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/GuOJlahICN— Stephen Solo (@stephensolos) February 25, 2019
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 25 February 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
this movie won the editing oscar btw, good job academy voters you fuckin' nailed it
― he protec, he attac, but most importantly, he dmac (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 25 February 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
Maybe they'll just fix it in post-post.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 February 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
my favorite part about that scene really is when Baelish sits down and Queen starts shifting in their seats and adjusting their jackets
― omar little, Monday, 25 February 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
The lauded journey of Bohemian Rhapsody offers a case study in the ideal role of the artist in today's corporate cinema: A pseudo-director who can painlessly be excised when inconvenient; a subject who is perfectly pliant because conveniently dead.— 𝕿𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖞 (@NickPinkerton) February 26, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
My god, I hated this film..
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 01:11 (two years ago) link