The global box office for Christopher Nolan's nuclear thriller 'Oppenheimer' has reached $912 million.
  • somas@kbin.social
    23·
    1 year ago

    TIL Bohemian Rhapsody was formally the highest grossing biopic. I kind of liked the movie but I know a lot of people who obsessed over Freddie Mercury and they all swear the movie is wretched

      • mysoulishome@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        I found it terrible but I guess I wanted a Freddie biopic and it was a Queen biopic…I think it was way too sanitized and shallow. They recreated the looks, the clothes, the music and performances but I feel like nothing new or insightful was revealed. There was no emotional intimacy like Walk the Line or Rocketman.

    • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I’m super upset Sacha Baron Cohen isn’t apart of it. The band came out and he said he wasn’t that type of actor that could do it or something. Sacha said it’s because they were cleaning up the bio pic too much. Can’t argue with the band on profits though.

      I just thought a lot of lies were unnecessary. The director said it’s just to tighten up the film, but I think a better director could do justice to both.

  • Bri Guy @sopuli.xyzEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I really liked Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody, but the movie as a whole honestly felt like a medley of Mercury + Queen, kind of glossing over the story very quickly. Not to say I didn’t enjoy it though, and I understand that Queen had a huge say in the direction of the film.

    • BaronVonBort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      1 year ago

      Brian May is Incredibly protective of how Mercury is portrayed, IMO much to the detriment of what the man truly represented and was. Like yes, he was a rock god but he was also a deeply troubled man who struggled with his identity and sexuality for decades much due to the work of people hiding queer icons behind rose-colored glasses as May has done.

      • DoctorTYVM@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        Not just Mercury’s story. All those times the movie had Mercury spiraling into sex and drugs and the movie versions of May and the rest of the group were cuddling with their wives and girlfriends. You know, the way they were famous for doing.

        • goldenbug@kbin.social
          8·
          1 year ago

          Exactly! Like we would want a rosey Queen. No, we have heard ‘tie your mother down’, we liked the band because of it!