'Rocketman' Sings, but Will It Soar? I Exit Survey

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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We give our immediate reactions to ‘Rocketman’—Dexter Fletcher’s Elton John biopic, starring Taron Egerton. How is Egerton’s singing? How does the film handle John’s sexuality in comparison to a film like ‘Bohemian Rhapsody?’ Is “Elton John is good” the first thing Sean and Amanda have ever agreed on? Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Liz Kelly.
0:03.9	Fresh off of Talk the Thrones, the Ringer is introducing a new live Twitter after show
0:07.8	covering season two of HBO's Big Little Lies.
0:11.6	Immediately after each episode, the Ringer's Amanda Dobbins and ESPN's Mina Kimes will
0:15.8	be going live to give their initial reactions and breakdown everything we saw in the episode.
0:20.6	And to kick us off, there'll be a special season two preview airing on Friday, June 7th
0:24.6	at 12 p.m. Pacific.
0:26.3	So join Amanda and Mina for Big Little Live every Sunday on Twitter.
0:54.6	I'm Sean Fennesy, Editor and Chief of the Ringer and she shall be Amanda Dobbins and
1:00.4	she shall be a good podcaster.
1:02.8	We are here of course to talk about Rocket Man.
1:05.2	Amanda, welcome.
1:06.2	Thank you.
1:07.2	Are you so excited?
1:08.2	I'm really happy.
1:09.2	Rocket Man of course is a biopic, a musical about the life and career and genius of Elton
1:12.9	John and also his partner Bernie Toppon, which is where I want to start this conversation.
1:17.3	I went into Rocket Man with a little bit of skepticism.
1:20.0	We've been talking about it even I think since last year when we were discussing the Oscar.
1:23.1	Your skepticism is well documented on this podcast.
1:25.9	Yes, and I think there's a couple of reasons and I'll foreground them right now before
1:29.5	we're getting into the nitty-gritty of the thing.
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