Saw this last week but I've only just got round to posting about it now.
So as some of you might might know I'm a total massive Queen geek (yes, yes, I know it's too obvious and not the latest Puce Mary album, but that's how it is). This film has been dragging on for years and years and not once did I have any faith in it being any good. Was I right? To a point. The positives- the guy who play Freddie and Brian were brilliant, and so was the woman who played Mary, Freddie's best friend/partner/whatever you wanna call her.
It also looked great. There's a sequence they do to show the years passing and thought it was cleverly done and different to the usual montage sequence people rely on.
Now the for the negatives. As anyone with a brain knows watching a biopic about someone you can't expect it to be historically correct. Dates will get chopped up, thing shuffled around and I accept that. You have to! For me the best two examples of a biopic about a musician done great are Ray and Walk The Line. With all that said, the complete and utter bullshit they spout in this film is just nonsense and doesn't do any service to anyone but producers Brian May and Roger Taylor.
Spoilers
A couple of things that they just made up or ignored any facts. Firstly, they push the idea that it was only Freddie who was the party animal. Oh look, there's Freddie throwing OUTRAGEOUS parties
like a gay!. Meanwhile at said party the rest of the band are sat there rolling their eyes at Freddie. Tsk, that Freddie, ey? What a mess he is! Ignoring that Roger had his history of serious drink problems and his barely mentioned history of not being able to keep his dick in his pants whilst married. Ignoring that Brian was also seen as the life and soul of many an party. Ignoring that John was also a guy who struggled with alcohol addiction. But of course, why show themselves up when Freddie isn't around to talk the fall?
Other thing was the idea that Freddie was willing to break up the band for a solo career and a load of money. This is the one that pissed me off the most. Ignoring the fact by the time Freddie had made his solo album Roger had two and Brian one (seeing a pattern here?). He didn't want to break up the band. They had all agreed to a break as they were utterly sick of each other by 84ish. But no the rest of the band are saying to Freddie how they should stick together because they're "family" etc. Urgh give me a break.
There was also the scene where Freddie finds out he has AIDS. It must rank as one of the cringiest scenes EVER.
Ramble over.