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@Cleoriff wrote:By the way, I have been MIA tonight as I have been watching Bohemian Rhapsody.
Absolutely bloody brilliant!!
I'm about to watch it now. Everybody and his wife emailed and/or phoned me. Never been so popular. Always happens when I want to watch a film. So finally going to see it shortly. But clearly you enjoyed it. Can't wait to see it nyself.
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@Cleoriff wrote:
@Glory1 wrote:Yes it is @Cleoriff you're clearly a mind reader. I think he's an amazing actor; loved him in everything he's appeared in. A very versatile actor, who does a good American accent too.
How did you guess?
@Glory1 Because he is mentioned in the stuff I read about the next series. One of those great actors you see in a lot of dramas but always forget his name.
He was in series 4 as well...
Yes, I think he's bloody brilliant in everything he does but he plays the villiain the best. Very convincing. And in real life he's such a quiet spoken chap.
@Anonymous wrote:SKY tv tonight 9:30pm headsup
A 1/2 programme on SKY News channel titled summut like 'Beneath the Ocean'
Mark Austin introduces the the upcoming 3 - part series to be screened later this month, on consecutive evenings
Think climate change / global warming / environmental conditions
Deep Ocean Live ... in 2 weeks time ... SKY News / Atlantic
the ship Ocean Zephyr sailed from Bremerhaven in January
Hopefully, sucessfully through waters where piracy operates ... so ... security team on board
Remote coral atoll ... some way off the Seychelles
Conservation group Nature Seychelles growing coral on ropes in the ocean and glueing it to the bleached areas in shallow waters
Submersibles to go much deeper than scuba divers ... lots of tech developed to transmit live pictures via satellite
the heatwave in the oceans causing devastation of the coral reef(s) 
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@Glory1 wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:By the way, I have been MIA tonight as I have been watching Bohemian Rhapsody.
Absolutely bloody brilliant!!
I'm about to watch it now. Everybody and his wife emailed and/or phoned me. Never been so popular. Always happens when I want to watch a film. So finally going to see it shortly. But clearly you enjoyed it. Can't wait to see it nyself.
Just finished wztching Bohemian Rhapsody and the full Live Aid Concert footage. OMG Rami Malek deserves his Oscar and Bafta for a mind-blowing performance as Freddie Mercury. Brilliant film all round, everyone was excellent. But Rami Malek made the film. And he has a brilliant singing voice which, though not as great as Freddie's was damn close. I could tell when it was Freddie and when it was Rami, only because I know Freddie's voice so well. But Rami Malek did Freddie justice. Whoever loves Queen this is a must-see film.
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@Cleoriff wrote:Is it Stephen Graham?
Thought he was fantastic in (amongst other things) the Little Boy Blue drama last year.
Details below (spoilers!)
Yes he was @gmarkj but then I've never seen him give a bad performance in any series he's been in. As said, I think he's an amazing actor. If I know he has a starring role, or plays a main character in a series, I immediately want to watch that series. I think he's one of the best character actors around at the minute, who unfortunately doesn't get the recognition he deserves. But he does get the work. That's something at least.
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Well here's a thing about Rami Malek and singing @Glory1
I checked it out yesterday. He does and he doesn't. Lol
The answer isn't completely straightforward.
During the shooting of the film itself, Rami lip syncs, which is not uncommon for a biopic, but whose vocals does he mime along to?
Malek's vocals are mixed together with master tapes of Freddie Mercury's vocals and that of Marc Martel, who has become famous for his uncanny likeness to the Queen frontman's in his YouTube videos.
https://www.radiox.co.uk/news/tv-film/does-rami-malek-sing-in-bohemian-rhapsody-queen/
Here's Marc Martel...(wow just wow)
The Live Aid concert was Freddie and Rami.(and superb)
A brilliant film and the one thing I didn't know being a Queen fanatic, was they only had TWO weeks to put that set together for Live Aid. They hadn't sung/performed together for nearly 2 years.
The Live Aid set which blew every other act out of the ball park and cemented their relationship to go on again right up till Freddies death.
Words fail me about this absolute stunning film.
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@Cleoriff wrote:Well here's a thing about Rami Malek and singing @Glory1
I checked it out yesterday. He does and he doesn't. Lol
The answer isn't completely straightforward.
During the shooting of the film itself, Rami lip syncs, which is not uncommon for a biopic, but whose vocals does he mime along to?
Malek's vocals are mixed together with master tapes of Freddie Mercury's vocals and that of Marc Martel, who has become famous for his uncanny likeness to the Queen frontman's in his YouTube videos.
https://www.radiox.co.uk/news/tv-film/does-rami-malek-sing-in-bohemian-rhapsody-queen/
Here's Marc Martel...(wow just wow)
The Live Aid concert was Freddie and Rami.(and superb)
A brilliant film and the one thing I didn't know being a Queen fanatic, was they only had TWO weeks to put that set together for Live Aid. They hadn't sung/performed together for nearly 2 years.
The Live Aid set which blew every other act out of the ball park and cemented their relationship to go on again right up till Freddies death.
Words fail me about this absolute stunning film.
Well they did a fantastic job of 'amalgamating' the voices as the end result was Freddie. I guessed the Live Aid Concert was a combination of Freddie and Rami and it waa absolutely brilliant.
I didn't know they put together that Live Aid set in 2 weeks. It was magic, I remember the original well, they rocked the house.
As said, it's a must-see film for fans of Queen, and fans of Freddie in particular.
The film also shows just how wrong the critics can be. They panned it but the fans loved it. And bums on seats are what make or break a film not what a critic has to say. Word of mouth will sell a film far better than a critic's review. Plenty of films were loved by the critics but had disasterous box office.
As for Marc Martel, close your eyes and it's Freddie singing. WOW sums it up nicely.
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Well my husband watched it and he isn't as much as a Queen fan as me. It blew him away, so that tells you how the audience received it. I don't listen to critics.
Their 'arty farty' attitude of picking a film to bits for the sake of it drives me nuts. There was one who felt the film didn't explore Freddie's sexuality enough.
What a load of tosh, it covered just enough to show us the bad choices he made. Most of us knew how that went and the davastating end for Freddie (I'm glad they didn't show that either)
I loved the battle to get Bohemian Rhapsody played on the radio. Bless Kenny Everett for that
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I can well imagine how the audience received it @Cleoriff, box office receipts do not lie.
Critics are ordinary people givng their point of view like you or I. They just think their special because some fool newspaper publisher told them they were.
What it boils down to is a matter of opinion, nothing more. A critic's no more valuable than yours or mine. Unfortunately, in the theatre, a critic's review can make or break a show.
Everyone was interested in Freddie's sexuality. Who cares. He was a brilliant performer. What he got up to in his private life was his business as long as the participants were over the age of consent, whether male or female. It was his music that caught my imagination, I could care less who he slept with
And, yes the film showed enough of his poor choice in men that you clearly got the picture. And we do indeed know the end result.
No thank God they didn't show Freddie's end. I did think about it though when watching the Live Aid Concert and got a bit emotional. There is and never will be anyone like him. He was one of a kind and sadly missed.
I forgot it was Kenny Everett who first played Bohemian Rhapsody, though I remember my reaction when I heard it. Totally blown away. I became a Queen fan that day and remain one forever!
