That doesn't surprise me. I'm not a Motley Crue fan, but I just think it goes to show how botched the history in Bohemian Rhapsody really is.Originally Posted by Northman
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That doesn't surprise me. I'm not a Motley Crue fan, but I just think it goes to show how botched the history in Bohemian Rhapsody really is.
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I’ve never seen B.R. My wife did almost fall over with the very first seen (at that party) of ‘The Dirt’. I laughed.
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What is historically inaccurate with BR? I just watched it the other night with the family, I really liked it. Malek was amazing I thought. Totally deserved the Oscar. I dont know enough about the history of Queen to know what your referencing as far as historical inaccuracies.
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They have some nitpicks at the beginning of this don’t bother me at all, how he met his lovers slightly differently (Hollywood expedience on that is fine) and how they mashed up a couple record execs to also expedite some time constraints.
These parts bothered me. I understand the want to climax the movie on that Live Aid performance, because it was awesome, but what they had to do to get there seems like it screwed things up:
The group never split up.
The movie veers the furthest from reality in the build-up to their 1985 performance at Live Aid. There’s a dramatic scene where Freddie reveals that he’s signed a solo deal behind their back for $4 million and that he wants to take a long break from the band. The others are absolutely livid and they all go their separate ways. The truth is that everyone in the band was burned out in 1983 after being on the road for a solid decade. They all wanted a break. The movie makes it seem like they didn’t speak to Freddie for years, but they actually began work on The Works in late 1983 and were never estranged.Live Aid wasn’t a reunion.
In the movie, the group isn’t even on speaking terms when they get the offer to play Live Aid in 1985, and they hadn’t done a gig in years. It never mentions that they released The Works in early 1984 and then toured it all over the world. The last show of the tour was just eight weeks before Live Aid. They were extremely well-rehearsed by the time that show hit, but the movie shows them having to make peace with each other and get back into playing shape. It makes the performance more dramatic, but that’s not how it happened.Freddie didn’t learn he was HIV-positive before Live Aid.
During rehearsals for Live Aid in the movie, Freddie reveals to the band that he is HIV-positive, but he wants to keep the news completely private and focus all his attention on music. The exact time that Mercury learned he had the disease remains somewhat under dispute, but nearly everyone pins it as occurring sometime between 1986 and 1987. He almost certainly had no clue when the group was rehearsing for Live Aid.
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Okay. Yeah seems like a lot of timeline manipulation for dramatic purposes. Still a really good movie IMHO and a good spotlight on a guy who seemed like a genuinely good person. I did some reading up on it and he did take care of the woman and even left her much of his estate. That seemed like a real stand up thing to do. It really seemed like he truly loved her. That part of the story was heartbreaking. When he told her he wanted to give her almost everything was very emotional and did a great job of portraying just how much he did love her.
Really good movie.
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It was. I liked it, was entertained. Malek was great.
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I'm 12 movies in with 9 to go. Guardians of the Galaxy came at the right time and gave the binge watch a nice pace change. Here is my ranking of the first 12 based solely on my tastes. I would acknowledge that quality of overall film vs things I personally enjoy don't always match up. For example, my favorite of the batch is an inferior "film" to a handful of others. But for some reason, I'd always choose it over the others and have seen it about 7 times. Here goes...
1-Captain America
2-Captain America: Winter Soldier
3-Avengers
4-Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol.2
5-Captain Marvel
6-Guardians of the Galaxy
7-Iron Man
8-Thor
9-Thor: Dark World
10-Iron Man 3
11-Iron Man 2
12-Hulk
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No Black Panther huh?
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Yeah you just have to know going in that movies will never try to be historically accurate, they are going for emotion and tone unless they are a documentary. Some of the changes in Bohemian Rhapsody were strange, but they told the overarching story of Queen to a whole new generation of people and now my son won't stop listening to them. Then we have movies like the upcoming Elton John biopic that seem to want to be almost a fantasy retelling of his life which could be interesting:
I think one of the best examples of a movie based on real events that "got it wrong" in all the right ways was 300. Being a big history fan and avid reader on ancient times, I could pick that movie apart for all the historical inaccuracies but the brilliant thing they did (which was adapted beautifully from the graphic novel) was show that this was the story as relayed by Dilios, the Spartan soldier, as he was psyching up some troops for an upcoming battle. So while the Spartans did hold off the Persians while severely outnumbered, they didn't fight mystical beings or immortals. But in the timeless words of Matthew McConaughey...
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I’m completely ignoring the last paragraph. As far as I’m concerned, it was all real.Yeah you just have to know going in that movies will never try to be historically accurate, they are going for emotion and tone unless they are a documentary. Some of the changes in Bohemian Rhapsody were strange, but they told the overarching story of Queen to a whole new generation of people and now my son won't stop listening to them. Then we have movies like the upcoming Elton John biopic that seem to want to be almost a fantasy retelling of his life which could be interesting:
I think one of the best examples of a movie based on real events that "got it wrong" in all the right ways was 300. Being a big history fan and avid reader on ancient times, I could pick that movie apart for all the historical inaccuracies but the brilliant thing they did (which was adapted beautifully from the graphic novel) was show that this was the story as relayed by Dilios, the Spartan soldier, as he was psyching up some troops for an upcoming battle. So while the Spartans did hold off the Persians while severely outnumbered, they didn't fight mystical beings or immortals. But in the timeless words of Matthew McConaughey...
*The statements above are my opinions, unless they are links, because then they are links, which wouldn't make them my opinions, and I suppose stats aren't necessarily opinion, but they are certainly presented to support an opinion. Proceed accordingly.
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Yeah you just have to know going in that movies will never try to be historically accurate, they are going for emotion and tone unless they are a documentary. Some of the changes in Bohemian Rhapsody were strange, but they told the overarching story of Queen to a whole new generation of people and now my son won't stop listening to them. Then we have movies like the upcoming Elton John biopic that seem to want to be almost a fantasy retelling of his life which could be interesting:
I think one of the best examples of a movie based on real events that "got it wrong" in all the right ways was 300. Being a big history fan and avid reader on ancient times, I could pick that movie apart for all the historical inaccuracies but the brilliant thing they did (which was adapted beautifully from the graphic novel) was show that this was the story as relayed by Dilios, the Spartan soldier, as he was psyching up some troops for an upcoming battle. So while the Spartans did hold off the Persians while severely outnumbered, they didn't fight mystical beings or immortals. But in the timeless words of Matthew McConaughey...
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