Just saying.
Bohemian Rhapsody - $903 million > Rocketman - $193 million
by Anonymous | reply 164 | April 25, 2021 7:09 PM |
Rocketman was much better
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 15, 2019 11:11 PM |
Bohemian Rhapsody 4/5 Oscars ... Rocketman won’t even be nominated
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 15, 2019 11:15 PM |
Thanks for the numbers. Bohemian Rhapsody certainly proved itself worthy, especially for the Oscars. Glad to see it did so well.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 15, 2019 11:15 PM |
And not a single dong in two movies about gays with active sex lives.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 15, 2019 11:17 PM |
There's a Helen Reddy biopic coming out soon. I expect it'll crash and burn.
The problem with Hollywood is that when one kind of movie is a success, they lazily think they can just start churning them out and people will flock to them.
Dexter Fletcher who directed Rocketman also "came in and saved" Bohemian Rhapsody then, upon its release, shat all over Bryan Singer so perhaps his own movie flopping was a bad case of karma.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 15, 2019 11:18 PM |
It’s a movie. Not porn. I’m sick of people acting like movies are porn.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 15, 2019 11:19 PM |
R4, get help for your porn addiction dude
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 15, 2019 11:24 PM |
Who is that in the OP's picture? Are they in any relevant?
R5 I understand that both movies are British productions. No Hollywood involved.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 15, 2019 11:32 PM |
That is Michael Jordan 🙄🙄🙄
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 15, 2019 11:33 PM |
But who was the better actor?
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 15, 2019 11:45 PM |
Rami was way better than miscast Taron
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 15, 2019 11:45 PM |
So what
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 15, 2019 11:49 PM |
It Elton had died and the movie was made it would have done better. No tragic death creates less interest in the story, because it hasn’t truly “ended” yet.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 16, 2019 12:07 AM |
It's not ridiculous to compare the box office of these two movies, but the context that one hit and the other flopped is super ignorant bullshit. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY is an outlier. It's not just that it made 4x what Rocketman earned--it's one of the top grossing movies of all time that doesn't involve a franchise superhero or Disney character. It was also very down the middle--straightforward storytelling, Nothing in terms of the gay stuff for anyone to get too exercised about. It also had some elements using today's visual effects that hadn't been seen before in a rock biopic. It was also rated PG-13, so younger ticket buyers could get in....
Rocketman leaned in hard to the gay content. A lot of conservative press went after the movie and made it clear that if you didn't want to see gay sex, you shouldn't be seeing the movie.....It's also a fantasy musical (and feels like a broadway show adaptation). The characters actually sing the songs in the course of the story--that's not for everyone. Non musical fans can't handle it....It was rated R. Focused a lot on drug abuse, child neglect, etc. All that made for a spectacular movie with some pretty wild gay sex, but not something that could break out beyond its very impressive numbers. and the numbers were very impressive. The movie only cost about $40 mil and if the studio overspent on marketing because they tried to launch another Bohemian Rhapsody (which probably cost well over $100 mil despite whatever they claim), that's on them.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 16, 2019 12:21 AM |
Rocketman did good business, And it didn't market itself as a heterosexual love story like Bohemian Rhapsody did.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 16, 2019 12:26 AM |
How much would a Madonna film make? probably 15 million.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 16, 2019 12:27 AM |
Not having to sit through either one? Priceless.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 16, 2019 12:37 AM |
Well people actually liked Freddie, does anyone like Elton? Not the music, the person Elton seems like an incredible curmudgeon..
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 16, 2019 12:38 AM |
I remember them promoting the hell out of BR and Rami. Anywhere you looked they were blabbing about how he was becoming the character, the production. Countless interviews. The trailer was on every other commercial on every other channel. Plus it was built up for years with the Sacha controversy, actors dropping out, etc. Queen/Freddy bios hit the stores. They played him on the radio, in commercials. Katy Perry and other ppl name dropped him. Lady Gaga/Bowie brought glam rock back into the conversation, and on and on and on.
Rocket Man released a trailer that ran once or twice on TV and Taron did an Instagram shout out to Elton is all I remember for RM.
Maybe America had it’s fill of rocker bios with gay sex? One came first? And everyone forgives personality defects of a legend. If you’re still around they call you a has-been queen.
Maybe less gay sex next time? I mean, America knows... How much do straight people really want to see? I know it’s a double standard, but this is real life and it’s not fair.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 16, 2019 12:39 AM |
BR was on every magazine cover too. I was tired of it before even seeing it. I still haven’t.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 16, 2019 12:41 AM |
Rocketman was all over before it’s released. The trailer shower before almost every film in theaters for like 2 months and all over the TV, billboards in LA and NYC, a book that came out before the movie (unlike BoRhap that released a book a couple of months after the movie was breaking records to capitalize off it), Elton was on the media circuit and Taron and Richard Madden were all over interviews and Taron even holding little concerts to sing the songs.
So please spare me the promotion angle. I remember when Rocketman was coming out some people on here were bitching about how much the commercial comes on TV.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 16, 2019 12:45 AM |
Freddie Mercury is loved. Elton John isn’t.
Queens music has been bigger and more relevant than Elton’s for YEARS.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 16, 2019 12:49 AM |
Freddie Mercury was more exciting, fun, and better looking than Elton. Plus, it’s more fun to watch a movie about someone who is dead than still living. So I’m not surprised.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 16, 2019 12:52 AM |
I haven't actually seen Rocketman, so I can't comment on the quality. But I expect a big factor is that Freddie, quite simply, was much more likeable than Elton. Elton just comes across as a prick a lot of the time. Freddie, while I'm sure he had just as big an ego as Elton's, seemed fun and charming in interviews.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 16, 2019 12:54 AM |
R14, Makes the best point. PG-13 vs. R. PG-13 will have a higher box office every time. Plus it may have been different if Rocketman had come out first. May have been rock bio overload.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 16, 2019 12:58 AM |
R19 You don't get it. ROCKETMAN was not about catering to audiences in order to make as much money as possible. It was Elton and his husband's specific decision to make the movie they wanted to make. And to require the studio to keep the gay sex in and go with a hard R rating. For a musical. They spent over a decade on the project....I think it was developed as a broadway show first....It was a decision to make the movie they wanted to make, shoot for the moon, and let the chips fall where they may. And they did it. It's an AWESOME movie. And its only that great because Elton required it to be that way instead of compromising the content in order to get a PG-13.
Regarding the promotion, I dont think Elton helped though. He's not super likeable. And he was out there promoting the fuck out of it.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 16, 2019 1:00 AM |
What is this lie PG-13 means higher box office? Look at how many PG-13 flop while R kill it.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 16, 2019 1:01 AM |
Let’s take a moment of appreciation for Rami killing it in this movie. Ugh. Amazing.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 16, 2019 1:01 AM |
I feel the opposite. Freddy was very oddball and his songs could be eccentric.
Elton was much more accessible IMO, musically, despite the wacky outfits. Crocodile Rock and the like were such “good time” songs. His slow ones defined a generation. Freddy was more of an acquired taste.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 16, 2019 1:02 AM |
Queen sold better internationally than Elton John did.
I also think "Rocketman" came out too fast after "Bohemian Rhapsody."
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 16, 2019 1:04 AM |
Many of Elton’s songs feel dated. They were from a specific time and you can hear it.
Queen made music that can still be played and adored 40 years later. They were ahead of their time.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 16, 2019 1:04 AM |
R27, The highest grossing R rated movie is "The Passion of the Christ" at around 370 million which is good enough for 45th place on the all time top grossing movies.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 16, 2019 1:08 AM |
R27 I personally bought a teenager a ticket to Rocketman. Just so happened he was at the box office and the ticket seller girl was willing to look the other way while I obviously bought a stranger a ticket so he could be with his straight buddies to watch two dudes going at it in an R rated movie. (Seriously happened). But your comment isn't helpful or relevant. The R rating here was for extensive drug abuse and gay sex, not bullets and violence. That kept people away. And so be it. Elton wanted that stuff in there and it made for a better movie. Without it, it might have earned less for all we know.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 16, 2019 1:08 AM |
R26, NOW it all makes sense! I had no idea it was his vanity project. That’s a recipe for...lower numbers!. Nobody wants to hear you talk about yourself, even if the movie is wonderful.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 16, 2019 1:09 AM |
R33 that’s it’s Domestic gross.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 16, 2019 1:10 AM |
R34, what did the straight teen do for you in exchange for the movie ticket?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 16, 2019 1:11 AM |
Most teens I see buy a ticket to one movie and sneak in the R rated ones.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 16, 2019 1:11 AM |
The Passion of the Christ made $611 million worldwide
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 16, 2019 1:15 AM |
[quote] Regarding the promotion, I dont think Elton helped though. He's not super likeable.
Agreed. I absolutely love his music, but he comes across in interviews as both social climbing and self-important.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 16, 2019 1:18 AM |
Yeah I was wrong the highest grossing R-Rated movie is Deadpool , which isn't in the top 50. My point that PG-13 almost always do better than R rated movies at the box office still stands though.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 16, 2019 1:25 AM |
[quote]Well people actually liked Freddie, does anyone like Elton? Not the music, the person Elton seems like an incredible curmudgeon..
Yeah. EJ is coming across as a sleazy social climber: hobnobbing with the rich and famous.
His "I Carbon Offset" Harry and Meg's private jet flights were enough to turn me off.
And as others have mentioned, his music is dated; it has not stood the test of time, unlike Bohemian Rhapsody and Queen.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 16, 2019 1:25 AM |
Deadpool made $783 million
IT made $700 million
The Matrix Reloaded made $742 million and this was many years ago when tickets were cheaper.
R rated films can make bank.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 16, 2019 1:27 AM |
It's because Elton John is unlikable.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 16, 2019 1:27 AM |
Elton is Madonna with a slightly bigger clit.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | September 16, 2019 1:33 AM |
Gay sex scene movies don't make bank.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 16, 2019 1:38 AM |
Elton actually did not do much promo for it. He pre taped an interview for NBC in Cannes and attended the premieres in london and cannes. He didn't do much else.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 16, 2019 1:40 AM |
He was on tour so he didn't have the time to do a full on promo tour
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 16, 2019 1:43 AM |
You don’t make time to promote a movie that you’re heavily invested in?
OKayyyyyy...
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 16, 2019 3:45 AM |
I find Queen’s music just as dated, if not more. Sounds very 70s baroque to me. Or 80s power anthemy.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 16, 2019 3:49 AM |
r43 ugh these are the examples u come up with to prove your point? Even though i shared the anecdote about buying a teenager a ticket for the movie, an R rating scares off a lot of family viewers. Families didn't end up going to Rocketman probably because the reviews made it seem like the gay sex and drug stuff was exceptionally far out there (and in some respects--it WAS--no studio has ever put out a gay sex scene like that before in more than 2500 theaters). I dont think there were too many parents who were worried about taking their 10 year old to the Matrix 3 and were worried they'd see something that would make them uncomfortable
by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 16, 2019 6:36 AM |
[quote]The R rating here was for extensive drug abuse and gay sex, not bullets and violence. That kept people away.
And Freddie was gay and died of AIDS, not a secret, and didn't keep people away.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | September 16, 2019 9:23 AM |
People really are claiming an R rating kept people away from this awful movie? Lmao.
Queen attracts young people. Elton doesn’t. He’s not cool. He’s not hip. He’s not fun to watch (despite what you old people say) and he’s not even attractive at least.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 16, 2019 9:46 AM |
R52 - stupid response. Yes people knew that Freddie Mercury was gay or bisexual. How many minutes of the film revolved around his gay identity? How many explicit gay sex scenes were there?
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 16, 2019 9:54 AM |
I love Elton, he's adorable when he smiles as he sings "See the way I feel". He has such a powerful masculine voice.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 16, 2019 10:22 AM |
R54 so you can’t tell he’s gay unless there are explicit sex scenes? The film is clear he’s gay.
I’m sick of desensitized freaks trying to push their shit on others like an agenda.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 16, 2019 10:41 AM |
[quote]stupid response. Yes people knew that Freddie Mercury was gay or bisexual. How many minutes of the film revolved around his gay identity? How many explicit gay sex scenes were there?
People didn't know what was in it before they went, it was a smash from the first weekend, just like people really didn't know how much sex was in the Elton flick before they didn't go. People just had no interest in "Rocketman"
by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 16, 2019 10:54 AM |
BR is about a brilliant artist, who was a hot man and a good person.
RM is about a boring vile fat ugly satanist nasty old queen.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 16, 2019 11:36 AM |
I am not a fan of either EJ's or Queen's music, but I saw both movies. I just watched Rocketman last night. Although I rather dislike Queen's music -- it always struck me as being too "corporate," even in its heyday -- but BR was a surprisingly engaging movie. It made me care about the characters and their music, and, despite knowing little about the people and events portrayed, I knew they strayed from the facts, but it didn't really bother me.
I thought, however, that Rocktman was horrible. I probably knew a little more about EJ's life than FM's, and realized that they played fast and loose with the facts which I thought was surprising, given that EJ gave his approval to the movie, and his husband was a producer. The entirely of his situation at Dick James Publishing and his manger there and, then, John Reid, has no bearing on the truth whatsoever, but how it was portrayed added nothing to the story or understanding the characters. Why, then, change the truth so significantly? I also thought it was too in between being natural and a fantasy. I wish the director had committed to have it be more a fantasy, because, then, the deviations from facts would have bothered me less, and I would not have been expecting anything like the truth or a depiction of real people and events. Compare this to, say, Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, which used fantasy rather brilliantly. I wish Rocketman had more of the feel that Across the Universe did.
And, yes, Elton just does not seem like a likable person, plus BR had the added benefit of focusing on an immigrant's struggle, which is somewhat more endearing and topical than a successful man's struggle with drugs.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | September 16, 2019 3:19 PM |
There are people that actually care about this subject?
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 16, 2019 3:27 PM |
BoRhap was the better film. It has its flaws but it’s engaging, charming and fun.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | September 16, 2019 3:32 PM |
[quote][R5] I understand that both movies are British productions. No Hollywood involved.
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY was an American (20th Century Fox, Regency Enterprises) and British (GK FIlms, Queen Films) co-production. Starring an American (Rami Malek) and directed by an American (Bryan Singer).
by Anonymous | reply 62 | September 16, 2019 3:37 PM |
I see Ben Hardy has 3 movies coming out within the next year. He must be putting out again to get roles.
He thought BoRhap would put him in a place he wouldn’t have to anymore lmao
by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 16, 2019 3:41 PM |
The Academy doesn't like movies about fags who don't die of AIDS or get murdered.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 16, 2019 3:43 PM |
Most movies about gays aren’t all that good.
But Moonlight would disprove your theory, r64.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | September 16, 2019 3:45 PM |
It all came down to the leading men, both on and off the screen. Taron Egerton does not have the star quality of Rami Malek, and Elton John is not as compelling, or likable, a character as Freddie Mercury.
It is wonderful, though, that there have been two movies about openly gay rockstars in the past year.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 16, 2019 4:42 PM |
We were very happy that Rami got the Oscar.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 16, 2019 5:22 PM |
So will the inevitable George Michael biopic fall somewhere in the middle?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | September 16, 2019 6:25 PM |
The clods comparing box office as if it define artistic value are like morons in an art gallery judging paintings by their dimensions.
You're idiots.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | September 16, 2019 6:46 PM |
Rocketman has no artistic value. It was messy and the song choices were awful and misused at times.
Taron can’t act.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | September 16, 2019 7:30 PM |
Teron isn't a great actor, but he has charm and is adorable. He won't age well, though; his time is now. I was surprised, given how much of the movie he is shirtless, that his body is as mediocre as it is. I wold have thought he'd have made an effort to get in better shape. I know that would have been incongruous given the time the story took place, and whom he was playing, but it's not like the movie didn't take a million liberties with facts.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 17, 2019 4:37 AM |
I think that many of the factors mentioned are valid. The R rating, the likability of the lead, the music. I think that because RM wasn't a very good film it also didn't have good word of mouth, which BR did.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | September 17, 2019 6:08 AM |
The fact that it’s a musical killed the word of mouth.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 17, 2019 6:26 AM |
Elton John sang at Rush Limbaugh's wedding. He remains dead to me for all time.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 17, 2019 6:36 AM |
Well, Queen performed in South Africa when it was not cool to do that. They conveniently omitted that from the film.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | September 17, 2019 6:53 AM |
What's wrong with performing in South Africa?
by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 17, 2019 6:58 AM |
R76 knows no history.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 17, 2019 7:10 AM |
I just wanted to watch Richard Madden.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 17, 2019 7:30 AM |
Funny, I think Elton's music has stood the test of time much better than Freddie's. Except the arena songs (We Will Rock You and We are the Champions) and BR, the average person, I would guess, knows a ton more EJ songs - at least before the movie. Your Song, Rocketman, Candle in the Wind, I Guess That's Why I Call it the Blues, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me, Benny and The Jets, Crocodile Rock, Tiny Dancer all seem like bigger hits than any Queen song save Bohemian Rhapsody.
I like both, btw.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 17, 2019 7:34 AM |
Oh Dear R76.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 17, 2019 9:41 AM |
Rocketman did very well. It is one of the biggest grossing music biographies in history.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 17, 2019 11:57 AM |
Rocketman did very well. It is one of the biggest grossing music biographies in history.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 17, 2019 11:57 AM |
Since when was there a competition?
And what’s your point?
by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 17, 2019 12:41 PM |
It would be far more interesting to have a film biography of the fabulous Miss Peggy Lee!
by Anonymous | reply 84 | September 17, 2019 12:46 PM |
R84, how much do you think that would make at the box office?
by Anonymous | reply 85 | September 17, 2019 2:17 PM |
Lmao Rocketman did not do well.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | September 17, 2019 2:50 PM |
I've always been more drawn to singer-songwriters, and, one reason I could never fully-embrace EJ's music is because I know he never had any input into the lyrics, ever; they were always presented to him whole. The movie, however, tried to make it seem that Taupin's lyrics were informed by EJ's life, although, in reality, they weren't. The songs were mostly performed with no regard to their true chronology.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | September 17, 2019 3:03 PM |
But not a blockbuster, which BR was.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | September 17, 2019 3:24 PM |
Yeah, so what?
by Anonymous | reply 90 | September 17, 2019 3:29 PM |
A 2019 movie about Elton John made almost $100 million domestically. That’s a hit.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | September 17, 2019 3:30 PM |
A modest hit considering its production budget of $40 million. You have to take marketing costs and such into account. But also $100 million is not the same as it was 20 years ago or even 10 years ago. Most movies cross that landmark now.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | September 17, 2019 4:23 PM |
"I was surprised, given how much of the movie he is shirtless, that his body is as mediocre as it is. I wold have thought he'd have made an effort to get in better shape"
He was playing Elton John, who was a short, chubby, balding, unattractive man even at his youngest and hottest! Even if he normally has hot six-pack abs, his job as an actor was to get soft enough around the middle to look like the man he was playing.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | September 17, 2019 5:13 PM |
OP = Brian May.
Hi, Brian!
by Anonymous | reply 94 | September 17, 2019 5:13 PM |
R82 is proof that PR people do indeed visit the DL and spin their BS!
by Anonymous | reply 95 | September 17, 2019 5:27 PM |
"Rocketman" was a fun film, but it had the great central weakness of having a total dick as a main character. We see a total dweeb get famous and become a jerk, and go to therapy, but we don't actually see him becoming a better and more likeable person, and that's something the film ought to have had and didn't.
"Bohemian Raphsody" got that part right, by the end everyone is totally rooting for Freddie Mercury, and admiring the way he's taking control of his life and becoming the person he wants to be. At the end of "Rocketman", on the other hand, we're told that Elton became a better person after sobering up and getting therapy, but we never actually meet that person and get to like him, and that's a huge weakness in the script.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | September 17, 2019 5:48 PM |
Most movies don’t reach $100 million. Don’t make up wild stuff
by Anonymous | reply 97 | September 17, 2019 5:58 PM |
" but we don't actually see him becoming a better and more likeable person"
The movie strayed far enough from the facts. Having an ending like that would have made it more like science fiction.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | September 17, 2019 8:19 PM |
I thought Rocketman was a better movie. I loved both films and love both performers/bands.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | September 17, 2019 8:32 PM |
Moviegoers are saving up their money for the Madonna biopic and soundtrack album.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | September 17, 2019 8:33 PM |
Bohemian Rhapsody 2 will be amazing
by Anonymous | reply 101 | September 17, 2019 8:34 PM |
"Moviegoers are saving up their money for the Madonna biopic"
And, what? The movie will start two hours after the stated start time?
by Anonymous | reply 102 | September 17, 2019 9:07 PM |
[quote]It would be far more interesting to have a film biography of the fabulous Miss Peggy Lee!
But when it's over people will ask...is that all there is?
by Anonymous | reply 103 | September 18, 2019 2:02 AM |
Why does the Blu-ray use different takes of some scenes from the theatrical version? The scene that stood out the most was the scene where Freddie tells the others he has Aids. Some of the dialogue was different and the delivery different also.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | September 18, 2019 2:44 PM |
Really? They re-edited the DVd version? I don't have a physical copy, but the DVD also has extra full songs, yes?
by Anonymous | reply 105 | September 18, 2019 8:49 PM |
R105 in the extras, yes. Not the movie itself. But they did re-edit some scenes for the dvd.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | September 18, 2019 9:02 PM |
Mary was paid $40 million for allowing her likeness in the film after the film was a huge blockbuster.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | September 18, 2019 9:05 PM |
since someone mentioned it, Elton John DID perform at Rush Limbaugh's wedding. He was paid $1 million to sing a few songs and donated it all to charity. He also talked to the press about his decision, which was controversial but the result probably did a lot of good for a lot of people
by Anonymous | reply 108 | October 8, 2019 7:28 AM |
[quote] Moviegoers are saving up their money for the Madonna biopic
What elderly actress is going to want to play a part with all her flaps, folds and sagging nasty bits hanging out?
by Anonymous | reply 109 | October 8, 2019 8:13 AM |
[R102] PERFECT!
by Anonymous | reply 110 | October 8, 2019 11:40 AM |
ELTON U FLOPPED GURL
by Anonymous | reply 111 | October 8, 2019 1:22 PM |
Bohemian Rhapsody opened first. AND . THAT . IS . ALL. They were both dreck.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | October 8, 2019 2:02 PM |
"Well, Queen performed in South Africa when it was not cool to do that."
R75 - Nobody was going to keep Freddie Mercury off a damn stage no matter where that stage was!
by Anonymous | reply 113 | October 8, 2019 2:17 PM |
Freddie > Elton
by Anonymous | reply 114 | December 14, 2019 8:19 PM |
A Madonna biopic is the only one that could make more money than Bohemian Rhapsody.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | December 14, 2019 8:22 PM |
Who.The.Fuck.Cares.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | December 14, 2019 8:25 PM |
I like Queen’s music better but I paid to see both films.
If popularity is all that matters, you are a basic bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | December 14, 2019 8:30 PM |
Popularity
Award wins
Box Office
...
BoRhap wins
by Anonymous | reply 118 | December 14, 2019 8:31 PM |
Freddie is dead. It elevated him to diety status. Bohemian Rhapsody was on HBO. Never got around to watching it.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | December 14, 2019 8:31 PM |
If both films were made with the aim of getting the old catalogue moving and making the old boys feel cool again... who won?
Whose music is outselling whose on iTunes, and who's playing to bigger concert venues?
by Anonymous | reply 120 | December 14, 2019 9:22 PM |
"BoRhap wins."
"Wins" what? There was never any competition between the two movies. They weren't even released in the same time period. They were both just biopics of rock stars. I have no idea why some of you dipshits think there was some kind of a Bohemian Rhapsody/Rocket Man rivalry going on. I guess some lunatic Queen fan gurls think the two movies were a Freddy vs. Elton contest, which is absurd.
If indeed there is a "winner" in all this I'd say it was Elton John. He survived drug and alcohol addiction, the AIDS epidemic and went on to have a stable relationship that includes children. Poor Freddy Mercury died in 1991 in AIDS agony, covered in Kaposi's sarcoma lesions. By the way, Elton John and Freddy Mercury were good friends. I don't think either one of them ever thought they were ever in competition with each other artistically.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | December 15, 2019 12:19 AM |
Elton is trash.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | December 15, 2019 12:24 AM |
"Elton is trash."
And Freddy Mercury wasn't? You obviously don't know much about Freddy Mercury.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | December 15, 2019 1:43 AM |
I know plenty. He was an artist like no one else.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | December 15, 2019 2:00 AM |
Rocketman was ten times better
by Anonymous | reply 125 | December 15, 2019 2:43 AM |
Freddie was sex on a stick and he had a voice to match in his performances. Elton used gimmicks.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | December 15, 2019 2:47 AM |
What the FUCK makes you idiots think there was a rivalry between Elton John and Freddy Mercury? There never was.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | December 15, 2019 2:55 AM |
I thought BR was meh, it was like a tv movie. I guess the music and Freddy being dead helped it.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | December 15, 2019 3:29 AM |
Rocket man was the TV movie.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | December 15, 2019 3:47 AM |
Asked about Mercury by Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, John told the Guardian, “Backstage at Live Aid, I had a huge area that I kind of decorated. I made sure there were seats for everyone, so that people who were playing could sit down and have a natter. Freddie came over after Queen had stolen the show. I said, ‘Freddie, nobody should go on after you – you were magnificent.’ He said, ‘You’re absolutely right, darling, we were – we killed them.’ He was so excited.
“Then he said, ‘You, on the other hand, dear – you looked like the fucking Queen Mother when you were onstage. Where did you get that absolutely awful hat?’ That was very Freddie. He was hilarious. Even when he was dying, he was exactly the same. He was lying in bed, too weak to stand, losing his sight, going, ‘Have you heard Mrs Bowie’s new album, darling? What does she think she’s doing?’ I always had the best time with him.”
by Anonymous | reply 130 | December 15, 2019 7:42 AM |
And you obviously don't know how to spell his name R123.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | December 15, 2019 12:06 PM |
Freddie was iconic on his own. Elton needed gimmicks
by Anonymous | reply 132 | December 15, 2019 3:10 PM |
"And you obviously don't know how to spell his name."
Freddy, Freddie...who gives a fuck except besotted, swooning fangurls like you?
by Anonymous | reply 133 | December 15, 2019 5:01 PM |
Rocketman was the far more enjoyable film to watch overall (chronological inaccuracies aside). I think Taron gave a more energetic and dynamic performance, whereas Rami seemed to be going for more mimicry. I think both were good for what they were, but personally Rocketman left more of an impression on me. It also doesn't hurt that I think EJ has a stronger back catalog of music than Queen.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | December 15, 2019 5:53 PM |
Taron more ENERGETIC?! Lmaoooooooooiooi
by Anonymous | reply 135 | December 15, 2019 6:14 PM |
I hope they produce Rocketman for Broadway!!
by Anonymous | reply 136 | December 15, 2019 6:47 PM |
Rocket man was SHIT.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | December 15, 2019 7:06 PM |
BH was the more successful movie, because it opened first. That's the only reason.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | December 16, 2019 3:52 PM |
If there's a rivalry going on with the two films, it's not between Elton and Mercury, it's between Elton and the surviving members of Queen, who acted as executive producers on "BH".
And if there's any rivalry, the Queen guys won and Elton lost. Sucks to be you, Elton!
by Anonymous | reply 139 | December 16, 2019 4:01 PM |
P.S. Both movies are shit.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | December 16, 2019 4:04 PM |
R138 that makes zero sense.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | December 16, 2019 6:54 PM |
"And if there's any rivalry, the Queen guys won and Elton lost. Sucks to be you, Elton!"
There never was any rivalry between Elton John and Queen. It's insane dumbfuck Queen fans like you that have the delusion there is one. Go fuck Freddie Mercury's dead dick!
by Anonymous | reply 142 | December 16, 2019 8:25 PM |
There always have been competing movies since I could remember:
Volcano/Dante's Peak
Deep impact/Armageddon
Finding Nemo/A Shark's Tale
Shrek/Monsters Inc
There just two stories about two totally different singers, both just happened to be gay/bi/whatever.
I saw both films in the same day. RM in the theater and BH later that night on DVD. I liked both.
BR was a straight (pun intended) biopic while RM was a musical fantasy like Across the Universe. I thought it reminded me of Moulin Rouge, which is also one if my favorite films. There's really no competition.
People just wanna stir shit up!
BTW does Rami always have that mumble slur in his speech pattern? I saw the Papillon remake, Mr. Robot, and clips of the War at hole and he's sounds the same in each one.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | December 16, 2019 11:10 PM |
He sounds different in the brief moments we’ve seen of him in the new Bond movie and he didn’t slur when he started.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | December 16, 2019 11:15 PM |
I didn't think the sex scenes in rocketman were explicit. I took my 11 year old to it 🤷🏾♀️. Theres more explicit love scenes on ABC any night of the week and he likes elton john's music. Maybe I'm a bad mom.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | December 18, 2019 12:13 AM |
BoRhap was easily the better film.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | December 20, 2019 12:21 PM |
I thought Rami Malek, with his prosthetic teeth and fake chest hair, to be a pale imitation of Freddie Mercury. Him winning an Oscar for that was ridiculous. Taron Egerton was great as Elton John and really demonstrated youthful zeal and star power.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | December 20, 2019 12:47 PM |
Rami was way better
by Anonymous | reply 149 | December 20, 2019 12:51 PM |
Face facts. Rami gave a performance for the ages . The other guy was totaly forgettable.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | December 20, 2019 1:06 PM |
Taron can not act. I am sick of this pandering lie.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | December 20, 2019 1:08 PM |
Rocketman lost me when they started breaking into cheesy song & dance musical numbers. I can't stand movies like that.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | December 20, 2019 1:20 PM |
. "Rami gave a performance for the ages ."
You're insane. Freddie Mercury fans appear to be that way: insane with devotion for poor dead Freddie, even when it comes to a mediocre bio-pic of him.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | December 20, 2019 8:37 PM |
Rami channeled Freddie.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | December 20, 2019 8:43 PM |
If Taron and Rami had dinner together, would it be ramen?
by Anonymous | reply 155 | December 21, 2019 1:09 PM |
So, I just watched Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time last night and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a real crowd-pleasing movie, so I can see why it was so successful. And I can see why Rami won the Oscar. He WAS Freddie Mercury. Ben Hardy and Allan Leech were hot as fuck in it, too.
But I don't understand why people were complaining that Freddie's gayness was not depicted in the film. What are they talking about? The whole movie is about Freddie being gay. It covered everything, including his AIDS. What more did they want?
by Anonymous | reply 156 | December 26, 2019 3:16 PM |
And yet BH is remembered as an embarrassing farce and Rocketman is remembered as fun and enjoyable. That's the difference. Money and that terrible Oscar don't matter, nobody will remember Bohemian Rhapsody in another year, and if it is looked back on it won't be looked back on fondly. There's a reason straight teenage girls love Bohemian Rhapsody, it's a movie about an attractive gay man with no actual sex or man-on-man action in it, so the future hags can flick their bean to the mental image of Rami-Freddie being pounded while still fantasizing about marrying him. Rocketman is a real, unflinching movie about the life of a gay man, it doesn't sugarcoat Elton being a homo.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | December 26, 2019 3:21 PM |
BR was far superior.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | December 27, 2019 2:40 AM |
"BR was far superior."
Then why did it get mediocre reviews?
by Anonymous | reply 159 | December 27, 2019 3:22 AM |
Neither was great, both were fun.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | December 27, 2019 3:27 AM |
The mother in BR was terribly done. She looks like she's wearing a damn disguise with that awful wig and makeup! And to top it all off her acting sucked. She's the weakest part of the movie for me.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | December 27, 2019 3:32 AM |
Now we care what critics say again? Lmao.
It’s audience scores were super high.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | December 27, 2019 9:26 PM |
Rami was Freddie. Taron was Taron.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | January 4, 2020 2:44 AM |
I love what a blockbuster BoRhap turned out to be and what a FLOP Rocketman did lmaoo
by Anonymous | reply 164 | April 25, 2021 7:09 PM |