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tragabigzanda wrote:
Here's my loose ranking, divided into "Amazing/Slightly Less than Amazing/A Little Disappointing":
Amazing Barton Fink Fargo The Big Lebowski O Brother, Where Are Thou? No Country For Old Men True Grit Miller's Crossing
Slightly Less Than Amazing Blood Simple Raising Arizona The Hudsucker Proxy Intolerable Cruelty The Lady Killers
A Little Disappointing The Man Who Wasn't There Burn After Reading Inside Llewyn Davis Hail Caesar! A Serious Man*
*My standard disclaimer for A Serious Man is that I have a hunch I am missing much of the humor due to my lack of experience with 1960s suburban Jewish culture.
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I watched Bohemian Rhapsody last night. I felt the first half glossed over things far too easily/quickly. The latter half was an improvement, but something didn't sit right with me about how they addressed Freddie's AIDS diagnosis. I'm all for creative license and switching things up to suit the film, but it felt weird to have Freddie telling the band in 1985 that he had AIDS just to give the Live Aid performance more dramatic weight, when he wasn't even diagnosed until 1987.
The Live Aid performance doesn't need any false tension added to it as the real story is interesting enough. Band was seen as somewhat 'washed up' by 1985 and way past their peak. They had something to prove, went out there and utterly stole the show. That would've been good enough for me. That said, I still had goosebumps watching the big performance that the film had been building to. It just goes to show how legendary that 20-minute set is.
Rami Malek was a good Freddie, managing to capture a little bit of that magical quality Freddie had. While the first half felt like it was just trying to touch on seminal moments in the band's history for the sake of squeezing them into the film, the second half gave Malek more to do.
I found it a little funny that the film showed them having a big argument in 1982 and then implied they didn't do anything together until Freddie apologised in 1985 and they decided to do Live Aid. Truth is, they had recorded The Works in 1984 and been on a massive tour!
Anyway, I'm just nitpicking. I suppose a biopic like this ultimately needs to be judged on whether it captured the essence of the character we're looking at. And in that respect, it was semi-successful. Plus, the music is still amazing.
Later, I'll be watching Take Shelter (2011) and Melancholia (2011).
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Nothing. I keep looking for something to come out in theaters so I can go eat some popcorn, but it all looks like trash.
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the new harry potterish film?
I'm tempted to go see that one because I heard it's awful. The only real enjoyment I get out of movies these days is to make fun of the really bad ones.
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