My son saw it on Friday, he said it was great.
Freddie was queer...but I like their music.
I still think it’s a damn shame that his lifestyle killed him. You wanna swing that way, whatever. But just watch what you’re doing so you can keep singing for another couple decades.
I might want to see that movie. It’ll be the perfect distraction from everything else. I don’t mind that they are presenting the PG version of Freddie Mercury. I’d prefer dwelling more on the music and showmanship of Queen, vs debaucheries of their private lives. That can be it’s own separate movie for a different audience.
Listen to the intro on the song Liar.
THAT intro made me a fan of this group before I knew anything else about them. Hard Rock, the percussion, the lead guitars, well done.
The Black Queen. Sheer Heart Attack. sealed the deal.
A plus was that they (the musicians) seemed to be having fun too!
I am told it does not show plates full of cocaine balanced in the heads of midgets wandering around the infamous parties
The movie portrays his gayness as something Freddie was forced into almost against his will, which is clearly not reality either. It makes me wonder what the surviving memebers think of all this and the way his sexuality has overshadowed so much of the band’s legacy.
Saw the movie yesterday. It was well done with a focus on the music and writing/producing of it. It touched on Freddie’s sexuality but didn’t dwell on it. I thought it was a pretty good movie. The music was great too.
Can’t wait to see it. Huge fan.
He was more than gay; sadly he sought out every bathhouse and gay club in every city he played. Even after knowing about the gay virus. He was way out there with promiscuity, wayyyy out there. Very sad for everyone who loved his music.
His best friend was a woman and I believe she inherited a lot from him. But sexually he was into men. Not a shock.
I can wait till it’s on Directv. I don’t go to movies to many azzholes, cell phones and freaks.
Critics hated it because it wasn’t a depraved “R” film, and played down the gay angle.
I want to hear how good the music is in the movie.
I could take any movie that featured some of the music from Queen, if the music was really good. The story, accurate about the band’s members, or not, I care not about too much.
Saw it yesterday.
It is basically a Freddie Mercury biography.
He starts out the movie heterosexual, but is drawn into the gay lifestyle over time. It destroys his relationship with his wife/girlfriend. It strains and eventually breaks his relationship with his band. It exposes him to the disease that kills him.
It is not a positive portrayal of the homosexual lifestyle.
The music is great and Rami Malek deserves the Best Actot Academy Award for this portrayal of Freddie, but won’t get it because the movie didn’t portray gayness as all rainbows and unicorns.
Very well done movie.
Husband & I saw it today. Very good. Freddie Mercury was a musical genius. All of the band members were, or close to it. Thought the movie was handled tastefully, yet didn’t shy away from the issues that ultimately killed FM.
I watched it the other day. I couldn’t stand the guy that played Freddie Mercury. I thought it was a little campy. Still wasn’t a bad way to spend 2 hours but after it was over I went to YouTube and watched some Queen live performances. Yeah it just wasn’t close enough for me. But I liked Freddie Mercury.
I can not wait.
Wow, that’s more than “First Man” had earned in total domestic rev in many weeks. I’m so glad that Canuck Gosling and his crappy acting skills flamed out.
A sanitized Freddie, but entertaining. He struggled with his homosexuality, and the film seemed to portray that honestly.
They didn’t make him to be a “hero” because of his behaviour. And the music is awesome. The timeline is compressed, not really accurate, but that is to be expected.