REVIEW: Bohemian Rhapsody
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4.8 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
It’s Oscars season and we’re reviewing the Academy’s big category picks. ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (starring Rami Malek) is directed by Bryan Singer and has nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor and more.
Synopsis:
"Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury. Freddie defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound. They reach unparalleled success, but in an unexpected turn Freddie, surrounded by darker influences, shuns Queen in pursuit of his solo career. Having suffered greatly without the collaboration of Queen, Freddie manages to reunite with his bandmates just in time for Live Aid. While bravely facing a recent AIDS diagnosis, Freddie leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music. Queen cements a legacy that continues to inspire outsiders, dreamers and music lovers to this day."
We put the movie through our critically acclaimed rating system, which grades based on four categories: 1. Did we like it? 2. How did everyone look? 3. Will we steal stuff from it? 4. Is it problematic?
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| 0:00.0 | Did we like it? |
| 0:04.7 | And how did everyone look? |
| 0:08.7 | Always stealing stuff from it is a problem that it gets brunch. |
| 0:13.5 | Movie reviews. |
| 0:16.7 | Bohemian Rhapsody is nominated for Best Picture. |
| 0:21.7 | I think it should be nominated for Worst Picture, |
| 0:25.3 | because I think that it just was. |
| 0:28.4 | It was probably the worst movie I saw all year. |
| 0:32.5 | I don't know if, I don't know, |
| 0:34.0 | maybe Blumhouse's Truth or Dare might be in there, |
| 0:36.4 | but at least they made some funny faces in that movie. I wouldn't go that far as worst movie I've seen, but I think that for sure most overrated. But yeah, definitely the worst movie that for some reason, any person has taken seriously. Yeah, and a lot of people have taken it seriously. So let's get into it. Did we like it out of four? I gave it a zero. |
| 0:57.3 | Wow. I did not like it. I hated it. It offended me. It took something that I liked and it made it terrible. |
| 1:04.9 | It, it, it, it didn't do the, it's not like with Green Book, |
| 1:12.0 | they did the inspired by a true story |
| 1:14.5 | instead of based on a true story. |
| 1:16.2 | This was... |
| 1:16.7 | The story of queen. |
| 1:17.7 | This was Queen themselves. |
| 1:19.9 | This was Roger Taylor and Brian May saying, |
| 1:22.2 | this is what happened. |
| 1:23.4 | Straight from the source, baby. |
| 1:24.7 | Right. |
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