Is a very good time! Typical band stuff, lots of drama - but characters we really care about. And all the songs we want to hear, or nearly so.
Rami Malek was outstanding; Brian, Roger, and John were excellently cast (including the little kid from Jurassic Park as Deacon).
Mike Myers was hard to recognize - but I LOL'd when I realized who I was looking at. I have always considered Bohemian Rhapsody's appearance in Wayne's World as the catalyst for the song to jump from "former chart-topper" to "Iconic Never Will Die Anthem That Will Span Generations".
I was also pleased to see the movie revise the previous timeline for Freddie's HIV diagnosis. In real life he looked like himself at Live Aid in '85, and looked like crap at Wembley in '86 - skinny and weak, sweating profusely but never taking off his jacket (while the others weren't sweating much). In the movie they move up the diagnosis to a bit before the Live Aid appearance, and the first symptoms to just before the HIV test became widespread.
Rami Malek was outstanding; Brian, Roger, and John were excellently cast (including the little kid from Jurassic Park as Deacon).
Mike Myers was hard to recognize - but I LOL'd when I realized who I was looking at. I have always considered Bohemian Rhapsody's appearance in Wayne's World as the catalyst for the song to jump from "former chart-topper" to "Iconic Never Will Die Anthem That Will Span Generations".
I was also pleased to see the movie revise the previous timeline for Freddie's HIV diagnosis. In real life he looked like himself at Live Aid in '85, and looked like crap at Wembley in '86 - skinny and weak, sweating profusely but never taking off his jacket (while the others weren't sweating much). In the movie they move up the diagnosis to a bit before the Live Aid appearance, and the first symptoms to just before the HIV test became widespread.