And as someone who was fortunate enough to see Queen live twice from first and third row center, Malik gets the mannerisms right and hats off to May and Taylor to show just how close the band was and how much they loved and trusted Mercury.

Definitely worth owning.

I thought they did a good job capturing the band members and the way the world was working during those years...

Mike Myers added a nice touch...

The 4k disc was really good. 4k HDR and it's in Atmos so great sound from the overhead speakers really filling in the soundstage.

I watched it last night again for about the 6th time.

Sometimes I just FF to the music parts...

Yes I like the Movie

I thought it was interesting, and the actor portraying Mercury seemed to be dead on.

To be fair, while I like Queen, I am not a rabid fan. I thought this movie was good, but not one I would ever watch twice. A solid 7 on a 10 scale.

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I watched it last night again for about the 6th time.

Sometimes I just FF to the music parts...

Yes I like the Movie

Knowing the actor sung the parts, during Live Aid each band was allotted 20 min (it's also mentioned in the film). If you pause the movie when Queen takes the stage, there's about 26 minutes left in the movie. Pause again when they finish their set and there's about 5 minutes of the movie remaining.

Just food for thought, and without access to the actual performance, I suspect the movie is true to the actual performance.

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Originally posted by PR64:
I watched it last night again for about the 6th time.

Sometimes I just FF to the music parts...

Yes I like the Movie

Knowing the actor sung the parts, during Live Aid each band was allotted 20 min (it's also mentioned in the film). If you pause the movie when Queen takes the stage, there's about 26 minutes left in the movie. Pause again when they finish their set and there's about 5 minutes of the movie remaining.

Just food for thought, and without access to the actual performance, I suspect the movie is true to the actual performance.

If you watch the xtras on the dvd, they explain the final concert was a shot for shot,real time, exact reenactment. Shoes, half drunk pepsicups on the piano, everything. Very detailed.

Edited to add, the dvd has the actual performance as an extra. Also, youtube has the actual concert.

I don't know how to embed, but here's a video running the movie side by side with actual concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cH5htm6T4E

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Wow. That was impressive.

Have only seen it once but also thought it was very well done, though I don’t particularly care for the changing/embellishing of real life events to spice up the story.

The most surprising part of the movie is the actor playing John Deacon (Joe Mazzello) was the little boy in Jurassic Park!

I'm a big Queen fan, but have no desire to see this film, even on HBO. I'm just not interested in their off-stage lives, and there are enough concert video clips to satisfy me, including their Live Aid performance. I'd rather see the real thing. Their live Montreal concert film is more than enough for me.

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I'm a big Queen fan, but have no desire to see this film, even on HBO. I'm just not interested in their off-stage lives, and there are enough concert video clips to satisfy me, including their Live Aid performance. I'd rather see the real thing. Their live Montreal concert film is more than enough for me.

You are doing yourself a disservice then. The vast majority of the movie was about the band and how they worked together and made the amazing music that was Queen.

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The most surprising part of the movie is the actor playing John Deacon (Joe Mazzello) was the little boy in Jurassic Park!

I don't know whether this has been discussed before, but even more interesting is that in The Pacific, Malek played SNAFU, and Mazzello played Sledge. I wonder how tight a bond these two actors must have, given what must be extraordinarily intense experiences, both physically and emotionally, filming these two projects.

ETA: I saw Queen in 1981 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum. I didn't have great seats and some hazy recollections, but I do remember there being lots of empty seats around me. And I remember the band walking back stage for the operatic section of Bohemian Rhapsody, then coming out for May's guitar riff.

Finally, I remember thinking what on Earth would these guys to in Gulfport/Biloxi after the show. Now, I figure they just went on to NOLA to have fun.

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You are doing yourself a disservice then. The vast majority of the movie was about the band and how they worked together and made the amazing music that was Queen.

Still not interested. If it was a well done documentary, perhaps yeah. But a bunch of actors play acting? Nope, it seems a little odd to me, sorry.

I am not too fond of the biopic genre, especially with modern contemporary entertainers who have been in the public eye for years. Now, I thought Amadeus was exceptional, one of the few biopics I liked. But Mozart is an ancient figure, no video or film clips of him, no TV interviews, no photographs. Nothing to compare Tom Hulce's performance against. And hard to create a compelling documentary.

Much rather watch something like The Last Waltz, a mixture of great concert footage and interviews, all with the real McCoys.

I thought pretty much the same but decided to give it a shot and it was worth my time.

I saw Queen live while on their live album tour, was it live killers? It was very good but for the way too long May and Mercury solos as far as,i can remember.
While not a hardcore fan, i think the movie is quite good. I am particularly not fond of the main actor. I simply can't stand the sight of him. I've avoided Mr. Robot and everything else with him. But he was fine playing Freddy. The only thing that rubbed me the wrong way was one song (fat bottomed girls or another from the Jazz album) played too early in the film.

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Originally posted by PASig:
You are doing yourself a disservice then. The vast majority of the movie was about the band and how they worked together and made the amazing music that was Queen.

Still not interested. If it was a well done documentary, perhaps yeah. But a bunch of actors play acting? Nope, it seems a little odd to me, sorry.

I am not too fond of the biopic genre, especially with modern contemporary entertainers who have been in the public eye for years. Now, I thought Amadeus was exceptional, one of the few biopics I liked. But Mozart is an ancient figure, no video or film clips of him, no TV interviews, no photographs. Nothing to compare Tom Hulce's performance against. And hard to create a compelling documentary.

Much rather watch something like The Last Waltz, a mixture of great concert footage and interviews, all with the real McCoys.

As my kid says to me...” I hear a lot of words dad”...in this case excuses.
It’s a solid movie.
It’ll find you on the airplane, or hotel stay on day.

I was never a huge Queen fan, but heard it often enough. I would say I only started to appreciate it in the last five years, and that was mostly due to generally appreciating the "old people music" (ie, my brothers and sisters) from my childhood. As a matter of fact, I didn't even really know a lot of those songs were Queen songs back then. But back then I didn't really know the BeeGees were guys and that Steven Tyler and Mick Jagger were different people either.

But after watching the movie, I also realized I had only heard the music before on my car radio, and generally with the windows down. Hearing it on a theatre system, with the remastered studio recordings they used in the movie made me realize what good music it actually was. That and rewatching Flash Gordon.

I saw them live in 1981. I certainly didn't have front row seats.