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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 209456" data-attributes="member: 23">Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

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I was a little apprehensive when I saw Bryan Singer was the director. I like his style, but feared a non-British director wouldn&#039;t get it. Mostly needlessly, I&#039;m glad to say. I do think it pulled its punches and wasn&#039;t as dark or gritty as it could have been. It is a definite crowd-pleaser though, and has more feelgood rewatch value than I&#039;d have expected. The Live Aid section was mind-blowingly perfect.

Having watched it a couple of days earlier, I feel Blinded By The Light had more emotion and also captured the tone of Eighties Britain more authentically (both perhaps, in large part, because it&#039;s also about &quot;us&quot; rather than &quot;them&quot;). 

Brian May saying &quot;counterclockwise&quot; in one of his first lines was rather jarring; as was Roger Taylor asking &quot;are we done&quot; (both of these from Brits in the early 1970s). Still, overall Bohemian Rhapsody had fewer language anachronisms or Americanisms than expected. 
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[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 209456, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][I]Bohemian Rhapsody[/I][/B] (2018) [MEDIA=youtube]JUt_mbJB6_4[/MEDIA] I was a little apprehensive when I saw Bryan Singer was the director. I like his style, but feared a non-British director wouldn't get it. Mostly needlessly, I'm glad to say. I do think it pulled its punches and wasn't as dark or gritty as it could have been. It is a definite crowd-pleaser though, and has more feelgood rewatch value than I'd have expected. The Live Aid section was mind-blowingly perfect. Having watched it a couple of days earlier, I feel [I]Blinded By The Light [/I]had more emotion and also captured the tone of Eighties Britain more authentically (both perhaps, in large part, because it's also about "us" rather than "them"). Brian May saying "counterclockwise" in one of his first lines was rather jarring; as was Roger Taylor asking "are we done" (both of these from Brits in the early 1970s). Still, overall [I]Bohemian Rhapsody[/I] had fewer language anachronisms or Americanisms than expected. [/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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