jaragon Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Rami Malek gives an Oscar worthy performance as Freddy Mercury in this other wise routine musical biography about the rock group Queen. Mercury is at first shown as flamboyant but in a straight relationship with Mary Austin who remained his lifelong fried. Mercury is soon ogling men and eventually hooks up with Paul Prenter ( Allan Leech) who turns out to be a user. The movie does not avoid the gay angle but this mostly kept to passionate kisses between Mercury and his lovers ( but to be fair there is no sex scene with a woman either) . There is a sexy visit to a leather bar set to "Another One Bites The Dust". I was momentarily turned off when the film seemed to suggest that his true love was female and the gay affairs were just sex. But at the end what Freddy really needed was one good man. Malek really gives it his all playing Mercury as Judy Garland type rock an roll diva. The grand finale set during Live Aid Concert is genuinely thrilling 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaragon Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 Classic film meets Queen... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayban Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 I really loved the film. Rami Malek was a sensation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaragon Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 2 hours ago, rayban said: I really loved the film. Rami Malek was a sensation. Malek does give an amazing performance. The film is good but it could have been a bit more daring 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 I really want to see this film. I like Freddie Mercury, and I've always been partial to Zoroastrians. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayban Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 32 minutes ago, Swithin said: I really want to see this film. I like Freddie Mercury, and I've always been partial to Zoroastrians. Freddie Mercury was a complex human being. That complexity does come across. After he left Queen, he realized that he made a terrible mistake. And he had "the balls" to admit to it and beg the forgiveness of the remaining members of the group. I agree, the footage of the Live Aid concert is absolutely thrilling. ("Radio Ga Ga is uniquely - "Queen".) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaragon Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 2 hours ago, Swithin said: I really want to see this film. I like Freddie Mercury, and I've always been partial to Zoroastrians. You will enjoy it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaragon Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 1 hour ago, rayban said: Freddie Mercury was a complex human being. That complexity does come across. After he left Queen, he realized that he made a terrible mistake. And he had "the balls" to admit to it and beg the forgiveness of the remaining members of the group. I agree, the footage of the Live Aid concert is absolutely thrilling. ("Radio Ga Ga is uniquely - "Queen".) Yeah I started singing along and people around were actually clapping at the end as if it was an actual concert- those scenes are the best- and the "Another One Bites the Dust" montage 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayban Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 I can only hope that Rami Malek receives an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayban Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Rami Malek seemed such an unlikely choice for Freddie Mercury - and yet he was so brilliant and won the Best Actor Oscar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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