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Bohemian Rhapsody Reaction! (Patreon)

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2024-09-25 17:40:41
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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

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Josef Schiltz

Hm. For some reason, Jess, your enlarge to full screen isn't working. Of course, we are going to have a geomagnetic storm which may cause some disruptions, but other channels enlargement functions are working. Not just this reaction, but the last Star Trek as well. Any ideas?

Ryan

God, why does he look sad? He's already destroyed mankind, what else could he want? I was massively looking forward to this movie ever since it was first announced, and that excitement just increased with the casting who all perfectly nail the look and voice, even little Timmy from Jurassic Park (though the downside is that Rami is allergic to cats, resulting in Freddie quite noticeably never appearing in the same shot with his beloved pets), and statements from Brian May and Roger Taylor that they loved it (John Deacon, who was especially devastated by Freddie's death and has kept to an extremely private life ever since, simply gave a blanket approval for the existence of a biopic, which is still more than a lot of fans were expecting from him). And then and now there's still a whole lot of people willing to go to bat for it. So let me just say, if any of those people are reading this, I respect you and I wish I could be as happy as you with it, because for the most part (I'll get to that) I found this movie a massive letdown. I first started getting worried when the trailer included Brian saying "We need to get experimental." Squeezing the whole story into two hours and change was always going to require a lot of broad strokes, but I hoped it could at least avoid too many lines like that where it sounds like the band are just reading their Wikipedia page. And not only are there a ton of lines like that, but that specific one is just randomly thrown into an unrelated conversation where it honestly sounds like it's cut and pasted from a deleted scene but they refused to lose it completely. The whole writing approach is neatly summed up during Mike Meyers' cameo, where EVERYONE gets the joke the second he starts hating on the title song, but that's not enough for these filmmakers, and they have to make him specifically reference the Wayne's World scene, at which I was half-expecting him to wink at the camera in the middle of it. Maybe next he can talk about misreading the subtitles, making it look like you're saying things that are dirty. And then there's the way it leans wholeheartedly into musical biopic cliches a decade after Walk Hard made them impossible to take seriously anymore, like if a western in the '80s had tried to do something you would have seen before Blazing Saddles with a straight face. My favorite is Freddie's father who is constantly a second away from banging on his bedroom door and shouting "You'd better not be believing in yourself in there! You're going to dig coal with me like a real man!" Their getting the call from John Reid literally seconds after Freddie reveals his stage name also got quite a chuckle from me. Finally, I fully get that movies like this are going to take some factual liberties, but this one really takes it too far, to the point that it often results in a less interesting story than what really happened. Most noticeably, the big breakup scene never happened and is clearly just thrown in because that's the way these stories are "supposed" to go, and for proof of that, just look at the presence of Radio Ga Ga during the climax, which was written right in the middle of the period the movie claims none of the others were talking to Freddie. Though the one that bugs me the most is that the creation of We Will Rock You is off by several years for literally no narrative purpose, as if the crew just said "Well, we're lying about everything else, might as well put the wrong date here too." And yet, I'm still glad the movie exists, just for its Live Aid sequence. Long considered the single greatest live performance in rock history, this was clearly the part everyone cared about the most, up to deciding the only way to do it justice was to recreate the entire damn thing (the movie cuts two songs, but they were filmed and released online). And quite a lot has been spoken about the attention to detail from everyone, spending hours studying the tape to make sure they were copying every moment as accurately as possible. And the result, especially factoring in the use of the actual audio from the event, is that we now have a record of this legendary concert using full professional directing and editing that was totally impossible at the real thing, the camera always perfectly positioned to best capture the standout performance of the moment. It still brings a tear to my eye every time. Though as much as it makes sense to end the movie there, the true end of the story was incredibly cinematic and I do kind of wish they'd had the guts to do it. Just imagine: after years of Freddie steadily deteriorating from AIDS, Brian lets everyone know he's written a new song, The Show Must Go On, as a summation of their constant defiance of the odds. Freddie walks into the studio looking like he has one foot already in the grave, raising serious doubts about whether he'll be up for it. There's several moments of suspense for everyone as he reads through the lyrics, and finally he sets the paper down, takes a shot of whiskey, and says "I'll fucking do it, darling." And in a display of willpower to rival the Brig holding onto his humanity as a Cyberman, he summons up the energy from who knows where to nail the song perfectly in a single take, sounding just as strong as in his prime. Shortly afterward, Freddie at long last announces his disease to the public...and just hours later comes the news of his death. The following year the song is released, and the world celebrates him one last time. I have plenty more to say about this movie, but I'll hold off here because I really do hate being this much of a downer. I'm just also not going to lie, especially when it's something I feel this strongly about. I very much look forward to seeing what everyone else has to say, because whatever it is, Queen always deserves to be talked about more.

Thomas Corp

No worries on the scratchy throat, and by extension, needing the hot cup of tea to help with that. Talking about the film. I missed this back when it came out. 2018 was not a good year for me, though it was not without its bright and shining moments. In the years hence, I kept missing it for one reason or another until two days ago to prepare for your reaction. Now having finally seen it, my thoughts are this: This REALLY needed to be a miniseries and/or at least be R rated. I note how Rocketman was the following year, and that film I greatly preferred over this film, now that I’ve seen both. Partially because Rocketman was R rated, thus it could deep-dive into certain topics better than this film did; this film felt too condensed and sanitized. I’ve seen recurring comments from the more negative responses to this film say that it feels unbelievably prosaic for being a biopic of Freddie Mercury specifically, and Queen in general. Now having seen the film, I feel that’s a fair description. It’s not even strictly speaking bad, just not as good as it could have been. Now, like I see Ryan says, I’m not knocking anybody that loves this. I know the audiences flocked to this and loved it, contrasting with most critics who sounded like more or less what I thought. You say you really loved it, Jess, I have no problem with that, and I’m sorry that I don’t have the same level of love for the film. The guilt for that is strong during the parts that made you cry as you did. Loved hearing your Queen opinions and preferences. I exhibit unoriginality by saying that Bohemian Rhapsody is my pick for favorite Queen song. It is one of the best goddamn fucking songs ever. Period. Of course, almost all of Queen’s songs are some of the best songs ever. You dancing along and lip-syncing to the songs was a delightful a highlight as I expected. I was greatly anticipating your sartorial commentary. I do share your thoughts that you would have liked more equal focus on all the band members of Queen, whilst noting that it makes perfect sense why Freddie would get the greatest focus. Rami Malek (Fairly certain you said it right by the way,) was genuinely quite good as Freddie. Mixed feelings on his awards sweep including the Oscar, but I don’t really contest it much. I apologize if this offends, the fake teeth that Rami sports were distracting throughout. I understand the necessity, and it still pulled me out of a scene or two. Albeit it wasn’t as distracting as Aidan Gillen, one being underused in this movie, and two, his fake Scottish accent. Can we just let Aidan use his natural Irish accent? I know the man he plays is Scottish, even so, the fake Scottish is distracting and inconsistent as all shit, and it fucking drove me up a goddamn wall. Related to that, the comment you made about younger Freddie’s hair: Was not expecting a Scream 3 reference in this reaction, but here we are, and that gave me a good laugh, when you made said Scream 3 reference. I still haven’t seen Downton Abbey, but I did see that Paul was played by Tom Branson from Downton Abbey. Thus, knowing the characters you tend to love, a thought occurred that I gathered your reaction to Tom Branson as Paul would be like when Matt Smith is not honeying, or the occasion where Arthur Darvill was not serving Love-bug energy. Seeing your reactions to Paul, you, of course, did not disappoint, especially when Paul cranked it up a notch with his Charles Boyer routine. It does say something when you have Tom Branson and Littlefinger in the same scene and Littlefinger is not the snake in this scenario. Up is down. Black is white. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria. Miami was great. Tom Hollander continues to be a most underrated actor. I do quite like that he does get some good time to shine here, I like that you liked Tom in this, and it does sound like he has been gaining increasing popularity in recent years. The Mike Myers cameo was hilarious as all hell. The scenes where he says those specific lines whilst looking straight at the camera (or at least it looked like he was looking straight at the camera) makes you note, “I see what you did there, movie.” I did get mildly irked in the same scene over the question that was raised about knowing that nobody likes Opera. I love Opera. Seeing one performed live is fantastic. Granted I do register when this takes place, hence that not being a popular opinion then, though there is a chuckle over the two characters in the movie saying they quite enjoy Opera. And I liked how you said that you feel lots of people love Opera. I greatly loved how you found Mary to be such a wonderful part of this film. Lucy Boynton was superb as Mary in this. The scene near the end with Freddie and his dad is one that gets ya. You said that you knew it would get you to tear up more, affected me the same way. The recreation of the Live-Aid performance, I’m told is a consensus view, regardless of opinion of the film, that it’s worth the price of admission, and is one of the biggest reasons to see the film, if not THE reason to see the film. It was spectacular and your reaction to all of it was worth every fucking penny. I do share Ryan’s thought of how you wish the film would have continued further and portrayed Freddie’s final triumphant and glorious hurrah with The Show Must Go On, right before his death from AIDS in the year of my birth, 1991; I think I was close to eight months old then if I have dates right. But, as it happened, that’s not the ending we got for the film, and the Live-Aid concert is a good spot to end for an upbeat ending to this. I echo Ryan’s statement of not wishing to be too much of a downer. Because of that, I’m not attempting to add anything to your most excellent post-episode thoughts and analysis as that was all terrific, Jess. And I thank you for a most lovely afternoon with your most enjoyable reaction.

Chris Fone

I had no idea we had another thing in common, I’m quite a fan of Queen aswell! If you’re interested there’s an unbelievable documentary about the band the BBC did in 2011. It’s in 2 parts but you can find them both on youtube quite easily. I won’t say you need to do a reaction video to this but it’s very reactor friendly, if you so wished. Another thing you brought up, yes they did dub Freddie’s voice over, in the musical scenes but, on set, Rami was having to sing himself. There was no miming here! Lastly I really applaud you for what you said about people being intrusive on other people’s privacy. It doesn’t get said often enough, thank you.

Ryan

One more person I have to draw attention to is editor John Ottman, who went through some very undeserved hatred for the overly frenetic work in a few scenes, most of all the band first meeting John Reid (and it really doesn't help that whoever was directing at this point apparently failed to get a master shot of all four band members, as otherwise Ottman definitely would have used it at least once instead of constantly moving between closer ones). This of course increased tenfold when he got an Oscar for it, until finally it was revealed that he'd been forced to cut the scenes that way by Fox executives with no idea what they were talking about, and in fact a lot more of the film looked the same way until he took advantage of delays in the chaotic production to fix most of them. That kind of uphill battle definitely deserves the award in my book.

BrandyLu

Great reaction. I have to say that there are a lot of things done in this movie for dramatic effect rather than accuracy. But as Brian and Roger point out, Freddie would have loved that. Knowing that Brian and Roger were heavily involved in this film makes me happy. They have both been advocates for Freddie’s legacy. They had to put up with a lot once Freddie’s diagnosis was made public and after his death. But they always fought to protect Freddie. Another reason why I love this band.