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This is the 440th one of these. Welcome. My name is Rob.

I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast and I kind of do want to live forever. But not in the fame kind of way. But I'm not alone for this one.

Thank God again for that. Sitting in the co-host chair is a newest member of the cast and a man who likes to race his bicycle. He is Alex.

Welcome sir. I do. I do love that.

I read your review. Running out the dance is the lady of the house and someone who said in her written review that she has pretty much had the queen greatest hits of one two and three playing on a loop for about the last week and a half. She is general.

Welcome friend. Hello everyone. Whenever we do one of these, it is to review something and this is no exception.

Kids, it is time to talk Bohemian, Rhapsody and we want to send a special shout out to some of our favorite people in the world that allied in a great marketing. Tiny Josh, everybody over there, some of our favorite humans. They let us see movies and stuff early so we can talk to you guys about them and you can spend your entertainment dollar wisely.

That doesn't mean you believe us. It just means that you do. Do we have to start with I see a little silhouette of a cat?

It's a hunter over there. That's not a silhouette. That's a full blown mountain line that's sitting on in the studio right now.

And you mentioned in your opening about our written reviews and can we tell them where they can find them? We will talk about that here momentarily. Let's get this thing pulled the tree out of the station first and then we can go into that.

First of all, if you don't know the movie we're about to talk about, welcome back from a cave. No, they had it in the cave. Welcome back from space.

Fair enough. Well, they could have had it in space though. That's also true.

How would you miss this? Alternate dimension. There you go.

Earth 19. So that's the one where Rocket Man came out first. If you have been paying attention to the production of this film, it has been a thing.

Ryan Singer gets credit for directing because of rules. You want to know more about Just Read The Trimming on IMDB. This is the story of Queen and it's the story of Freddie Mercury, but it's not exclusively either one.

And to be fair, I think it's more the story of the music than it is much of getting into details beyond the necessary, I don't know, really? There is some song origin in here, but it's also about them. I mean, it's behind the music with a little bit more, kind of sort of in a way, not really.

I can see that. And way cleaner. Yeah.

This is PG-13, which I respect, because they wanted this to be available to a larger audience, which makes sense to me. Remy Malik. Most of you know him from Mr.

Robot. He plays Freddie Mercury. You have Gillim Lee playing Brian May, Ben Hardy playing Roger Taylor, Joseph Mezzello playing John Deacon.

Of course, Hunter wants to play with the window. Son, just be cool. It really starts out as Freddie's story, but morphs into the band story and then back to Freddie's story and then back to the band story.

Right. There's a lot of things they could have done with this. And allegedly, there's another group that is doing other things with it.

Oh, dear. I was going to say, I'm glad they didn't, because it's not like the life of Freddie Mercury is not well documented in this day and age. Correct.

And they didn't need to go, they touched on some of those things, because it did, it existed and it was part of the story. And it's part of the mythos. But they didn't go deep dark on it and they didn't need to.

No, I agree with you. We've seen it. We've heard it.

And I think it would have taken away from the power of the story we were getting, or it would have diluted the power of the story we were getting, had they gone deep into that. I completely and totally agree with you. For me, I mean, I know that there are some continuity historical timeline inaccuracies.

Right. Because I have spoken to friend of the show Devon Pike, who is a monster queen fan. And he, and he, he saw it probably two or three weeks before we did.

Yeah. And he said, it didn't bother him. Like, yeah, it's because of volumes, right?

Like we will rock you way before they say it, it's done in the film, but it's nothing that would, like, take him out of it, he said, because it starts with Freddie walking towards the stage at Live 8 and then goes back to the beginning. I love this movie. I absolutely love this film.

It runs about two 15, a very, very well-paced two 15. I can't say it flies by, but it's definitely two 15. But it's not like, oh my god, this is two 15.

Right. And I don't recall seeing you get up. I rarely do.

It's done that gets up. I didn't see it. Sometimes on those two hour ones, I've seen you get up, but I didn't see you get up on this one.

Normally, if I'm getting up during a movie, it's because I don't want people walking over me that are trying to go to the bathroom. So, but no, I mean, I've really kind of committed to myself to no matter how long a movie is, I'm going to be here the whole time because I don't want to miss anything that I have to review. Now, there have been times where I have taken a bathroom break.

Maybe I didn't have to go to the bathroom. Maybe I just wanted to get away from it. Yeah.

I will neither confirm nor deny that that's happened in the last six months. But this film locks it in and it works on every level for me. It was fun.

Yeah. I mean, and it does, and it addresses some of the serious issues that the band faced. It's not all lighthearted.

But something that I think it's interesting that Alex talked about in his written review currently located at www.theclubhousepodcast.com. That's our website. That's our website.

Is his theory behind how the band's involvement in the writing of the script may have changed the way the script actually ran? I kind of want you to go into that a little bit. Well, are you referring to the who looks like the villain and different things like that?

Whatever you want to talk about. Well, okay. One of the things that I included in my review is that it felt like there's a lot of attack against the guy who, you know, as a queen fan, I think deserves it on some level.

However, there are parts of the movie that I, from research history, my own readings. I know don't quite line up in the story. But one of the big things is it's like, okay, who's the biggest villain in pop culture now?

And with the exposure of Game of Thrones, it was Littlefinger. And they literally have a little play that played by the fantastic Aiden Gillan, who appears in this movie. But who do I always say I think of when I see him?

I don't think a little finger. Go. He's the mayor of Baltimore in the wire.

One of the shows I had never seen communism. He's trying to bully me. Okay.

But they literally use people's recognition of him to make another character who is a real person who is a real on some level villain as a fan myself. I still consider him a villain who is no longer with us to defend himself, but to make him look worse. Do you, or do you think that maybe they combined some things from other people into him because they didn't want to add more characters?

I don't even think it had to deal with characters because if it wasn't him, it wouldn't have fit into the story. And I feel like it was just driving the point home of like Queen would have been the greatest band of all time. Unquestionably, if we didn't have this thorn in our palm.

I still think that the greatest band I didn't question. I didn't see it that way. I just thought this was a guy that tried to derail it.

But because these guys were who they were, it just took Freddie a little bit longer to realize it than it should have. Well, and I don't think he was trying to derail him from being the greatest band. I think he was trying to coat tails of Freddie and keep Freddie to himself.

Absolutely. But in one of the true things as to why he is the real life villain was selling the story, the behind the scenes of Freddie Mercury's life, he actually did that. He actually sold it to the sun.

But from there, from apparently arguments the band had with him over an album or two, I don't remember specifically right now on the spot. But I do know that Brian May were really despised, Paul printer. That doesn't surprise me.

And let's just talk about that for a minute because you mentioned Brian May. Holy cow, the costume you're going to make up in this film. I was thinking of the casting and included that in the review because I swear that they were related.

They looked so much like the band. Jenny, you want to talk about that a little bit about what you thought about just the visuals of it, both the cast and just visually in general. Oh, it was amazing.

I'm sitting there and I'm watching it and I'm actually remembering interviews I've seen. They even have some of the mannerisms down. The cast chose to embody these people and pay them due respect and they did a marvelous job.

When you think about the guy that played John Deacon, was the kid from Jurassic Park. Oh my God. Surprise.

Yeah. Well, and I just, there's a moment where they're in the 80s and he has all the bang hair. It's not a full head of hair, but it's just like his bang section and it's in his shirt.

And I'm like, I think I owned that shirt in the 80s, but you just, you just want to cuddle him. He's just so precious. Guilom Lee as Brian May.

Uncomfortablely accurate. Yeah. I mean, like when you look at his picture in IMDB, like that's the same dude.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm seeing a photo of Brian Mayn.

Wow. Yeah. I mean, as I was, I mean, that's where I gave a special shout out to, to set design, costume design and makeup in my written review because that, if that goes wrong, I think it could potentially blow the wheels off of everything.

Yeah. And some of Freddie's costumes are so iconic. His harlequin suit, his yellow canary jacket, you know, jeans with the tank top and the band on his arm, which was announced today, speaking of which Funko has announced their queen line.

Oh, yes. Next month. And one of those is the harlequin outfit.

There's gonna be three different Freddie's. Yeah. Devon posted.

Yeah. I mean, you can go back and that's how I found out. You can actually go and you can pull up some of that live video footage, put it side by side with the stuff in this film and it's dead on.

Oh, yeah. I mean, it's just, dear God, it's amazing. The dedication these people took in mimicking, I mean, it is, it's a mimic.

It's not just an acting. It's an, I am mimicking this person. It's so spot on and you lose yourself in it.

I feel like we also got to go into, because this is not a movie that you'd expect a lot of computer graphics and it is in the trailer, so it's not a spoiler, but the live aid set. And they play almost the entire set. It was amazing.

Yeah. Well, that's the largest set, the directors ever been involved, the prime singers ever had built. And you got to think this is the guy that did the X-Men movies.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that, that live aid scene, which closes out the film, I mean, that's just, yeah, you know, like I said, they played almost their entire live aid set outside of crazy little thing, hard love.

And we will rock you. They played the entire thing. And I remember looking at my watch and going, if this is the end of this film, we're going to get a whole lot of this set, if not the whole thing.

And it's just impressive. Oh, yeah. I can't even imagine, because there's, I'm sure there's a lot of green screening going on.

As they were doing it, but for them to see the, the finished product, I can't even imagine what it was like for the actors, like, okay, we did this thing, but then holy cow. And I kind of want to hear what some of the people who worked with Queen have to say about the movie, you know, like John's of the world. I mean, because Elton worked with him on a few songs.

Dave Bowie. Dave Bowie. Yeah.

I mean, I'm sure there's interview footage with him out there talking about him working with them on under pressure. Right. And I'm sure what they think after they see this movie.

Oh, okay. Yeah. She's talking about seeing currently.

Currently. Currently. Currently.

The ones who are currently still with us. Well, I would, I mean, I would like to see maybe on the blue right, just some of that archival interview footage of them talking about that, especially after Freddie passed in 91. Yes.

You know, 27 years worth of interviews of people that worked with them as well. I think that would be a great thing as well. Oh, yeah.

And I, they do mention the Freddie Mercury Foundation, which is an amazing thing. And I'm for someone to get such a legacy left behind for of them, but not just his music and the following of the music, but the foundation and the fight that people are giving to fighting aides. It's just hopefully it points out how truly poignant he was.

I mean, he was a showman like no one had seen before on the fact that they're still touring with people like the guy from bad company, like with Adam Lambert. But they're still doing that stuff. It shows that this, the music is timeless.

Oh, yeah. The thing about the fact that it's been over 40 years since the first album. And it's very interesting.

And we're creeping up on 50 in the film where they refer to the subtle changes between their sounds to doing different things to make it fit wanting to try new things. And just, you know, as you go into it, night at the opera. Oh, yeah.

How hard they fought for it that that's seen in the record executive's office that yes, played by the great Mike Myers. And there's a nice little nod to another project of his in there as well, which I absolutely loved. Although we did find out that character is fictitious.

And is it weird that they also announced that project's Funko line this week? Didn't even think of those two lining up, but you're right. But I, there's so much in this movie that was just spot on, well done.

It's almost like you got a moment back with Freddie. Any downsides? There was none for me.

I love this all the way through. It didn't go long enough. Paul, I don't know about that.

Okay. It's one of those that maybe an intermission and then there you can all come with you on that. Um, because of course the, just the whole audience we were with, fans of the music and just enjoying the moments and the music and it just, you weren't at a concert, but you kind of almost got that energy of being watching some band live.

And to be fair, I had mentioned this after we watched the film. It was like at the beginning and through the first however long it was, I almost felt like, wow, this is just going to be a puff piece. All right.

Let's enjoy it. And then it takes the left turn into conflict and it hits hard and I'll do a shout out. I had a friend with me and their queen is not in their top music things.

Not really in their wheelhouse as a tour, but they are a music fan. He just lost points. Letter finish.

Letter finish. But he really was, he really enjoyed it and he's going to be taking his son because now he's seen it and knows it's safe for his send to see. But he enjoyed it and he actually was listening to some of the queen over the weekend with me last weekend.

All right. Anything else? Or we get the final analysis?

I can't wait to get the final analysis. All right. Let's do it.

The way we do the final analysis on this show, we're not going to give you thumbs up, thumbs down. We're not going to give you numbers, letter grades, gold records, anything like that. Two questions is how this works.

Question number one is, would we see this film again? The answers know that we're done here. But if the answer is yes, the follow up question becomes how far are we going to go to see it?

From the best of the best of the worst of the best, here's how we roll. Full price at the theater, down to an early bird show, down to a matinee show, down to an early morning on a weekend, down to second run at the dollar theater, down to actually leaving your house to get it from red box, down to streaming on Netflix, down to cable. Genro, you are the lady of the house, so we will start with you.

Would you see Bohemian Rhapsody again? Yes. How far do we want to go to do it?

Coveted plus purchaseably right. All right, Alex, would you see Bohemian Rhapsody again? I'll answer that with a different thing.

If anybody said no to this, I think they should be off the show. How far? I am looking forward to seeing it in the Dolby at full price, owning it on 4K and watching it repeatedly on TV.

Fair enough, I would definitely see this again. I know they're doing an iMac's release. I want it in Dolby cinema.

It is in Dolby, it has been confirmed. Oh yes. That is what I was texting about a week ago.

Super excited about because you can feel the music in this. And having it in Dolby where you're going to have that added element, I don't think that anything will top it this year. I'm in, I'm in, I'm in, I'm in.

Oh yeah! I'm in. And my pre-order of Bohemian Rhapsody has been placed.

Oh really, they're already taking the pre-orders now. Oh, they started taking them on release. 34.99.

Wow. And I will pay them. On the, on the zon of Emma.

Yes, and I will pay that for this one. I don't normally pay over $15 for a movie, but I will for this one. It is Bohemian Rhapsody and thank you so much to Allied Integrated Marketing for letting us come see it.

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