Album Rating: 5.0

I didn't enjoy it very much, but that's mostly because I'm a raging Queen fanboy and got pissed at the inaccuracies. Also, the fact that they exploited Freddie's AIDS diagnosis for dramatic effect, which is such a slap in the face. Like seriously, why the fuck did they try to correlate his diagnosis with the Live Aid performance when they didn't even happen at the same time?! That shit is really annoying. Also, a bunch of lies relating to how the band got together, a bunch of sappy fucking dramatic cues that are really contrived and forced, and a bunch of other general nonsense that just makes me want to inform people of the real story of Queen rather than this half-assed garbage.



Yeah, wasn't too much of a fan

Yeah I don't know anything about Queen but I've heard many people have the exact same complaints as you so RIP

i still hope it gets movie of the year

Lol.

From what I've heard, I'm glad I opted out of seeing the movie.

Album Rating: 5.0

"i still hope it gets movie of the year"



it probably will, sadly

Album Rating: 5.0

don't confuse liking the MUSIC of Queen with thinking that shitty movie was any good.



i'm okay and understand needing to adapt a several decades career down into a 90-ish minute movie, but the glaring lies and inconsistencies they presented as "this is how it happened" were pretty gross

Should have made Freddy a cyborg and have some badass CGI battles, I would have bought that bluray

Album Rating: 5.0

It's probably my least favorite film of this year so far

Album Rating: 5.0

I watched Tomb Rider so yeah, not my least favorite this year

saw the Queen movie earlier today and enjoyed it.

It may be inaccurate, but here I am listening to this album for the first time when I couldn't have cared less about them beforehand.

Album Rating: 5.0

Okay, so this is my first time listening to a Queen album in full and it's nothing like what I expected. Interesting, I can't really say how I think about it now. I kinda thought they had longer songs tbh. I liked it

Queen rule man.

Album Rating: 4.0

Kalk, check the first three

Album Rating: 5.0

Will do, I liked the diversity on here, it's really nice

Album Rating: 4.0

"It bothers me that the movie doesn't deal with Freddie's sexuality, illness and final years"



that's the reason of Sasha Baron Cohen's departure. He wanted to explore all those themes and especially Freddie's sexuality. May & Co. rejected his requests and he left the project.

Album Rating: 4.0

In the end, i really think this movie happened because Brian May and Roger Taylor were definitely interested in making a film that would be purely commercial and help sell the band's back catalog and their future merchandising, concerts, etc. I think someday there might be an artistically interesting examination into Mercury's life.

Album Rating: 4.5

I mean it also could be because they don’t want to dwell on the time period when one of their best friends was dying from AIDS



I understand the cynical perspective on their decision but they were both genuinely very close with Mercury and they clearly don’t enjoy talking about his last years during interviews, so I assume it’s a subject they would have wanted to avoid regardless of commercial consequences

Album Rating: 4.0

Personally, I don't see sugarcoating a man's struggle against an uncurable disease for your movie's big finale to be any better than devoting a third of the film to an in-depth look at his fight, which he took great measures to keep disclosed and would be devoid of any respect for him whatsoever. Either you discuss it or you leave it be entirely, in which they should've went for the latter as discussed prior, he wasn't officially diagnosed until 1987 and even then, he was aware something wrong for years. Being generous, he had already been infected with HIV for most of the 80s unknowingly from his exploits in Munich, New York and other places that were a hotbed for the disease and unfortunately correlated with the gay culture of the times. It's no mere coincidence that most of his lovers and acquaintances were either dead or dying by the time he figured out he had AIDS in 1986/87. There's a brief mention of him returning to Munich on their final tour and finding out the previously-vibrant gay community was now ravaged by AIDS, which deeply upset him and was alluded to at their next performance, which is on Youtube.

Brian May: 'When my hand is on your grease gun.' That's very subtle, isn't it?
Roger Taylor: It’s a metaphor, Brian!
John Deacon: It’s just a bit weird roger what exactly are you doing with that car?