Reviews

I know there has been some controversy around this movie since the project was started. It was a long road to produce this biopic, but it did turn out really well in my opinion.

I like Queen and i thought it was a really good movie. It didnt focus on any one thing about Freddie but instead showed us the many sides of the person and that made it feel more real. Rami did an excellent job and getting Freddie's mannerism down. Honestly when Rami finished the scene at Live Aid, i nearly gave a standing ovation. It felt that real.

My wife is British and a huge fan of Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody( the song) is her favorite song. She absolutely loved the movie. She said "It is rare to have a movie that makes you either laugh of cry and i was laughing at some parts and crying at others. "

If you are a true fan of Freddie Mercury , it is a film that will move you and i would not be surprised if Rami collected an award or two for the role.

There are two reasons i did not the film a 10. Well three actually. The most important being that i consider a 10 to be perfection and the film was not quite perfection.

There were some timeline errors which were done no doubt to create dramatic effect and progress the story. I would of liked them to preserve the timeline and facts but i understand why they didnt. The movie is still one of the best written and directed movies i have seen in years.

The second is this movie covers about 15 years in a bit over 2 hours. It really only briefly covers each of the pieces of Freddie, sort of like a well written "Cliff Notes" on him. This could of easily of been a 4 hour movie or a trilogy, who knows maybe someday it will be a trilogy.

Overall the movie was very good and Rami was phenomenal.

I wanted to like this movie. I watched the original when i was a kid and really enjoyed it. I had high hopes for this one. I was very disappointed.

The overall plot is similar to the original but different enough to feel new. But the plot was not well written out. Its like someone gave a 5 yr old a subject for a story and said write me a story and that's what they used for the plot. Oh and that 5 year old hates men.

The movie is sexist, which doesn't offend me as a guy. But its not funny. Hemsworth's character is annoyingly stupid. And shooting the replacement for the "stay puff" marshmallow in the crouch is just tacky.

The special effects are better than the original, but not really up to today's standards in my opinion. They could of been much better. The supersize ghost that replaces "Stay Puff" looks like crappy animatronics, why not use CGI? It would of been so much better.

The story is choppy and how they get together to form a team takes up to much time. Also the team doesn't really seem to fit together at all. The characters just don't really mesh that well. And you feel like they picked 4 random people out of NY to be ghostbusters.

I've saw most of the actors/actresses in other movies. And they are good in those. So i don't think it was the choice of cast but the way the characters were written. I think the cast did the best they could with what was written. It just didn't work well.

Half way through the movie, i was waiting for it to be over. I was like can we wrap this up so i can go do something else? This movie did not do justice to the original. Its an insult to the original and fans of the original.

Can i have that 2 hours of my life back?

I agree with many of the other reviews that gave this movie a low rating.It was a rare occasion where the wife and i said enough an hour in and just turned it off. We do that for less than 1 out of every 100 movies.

The characters are uninteresting. Nothing in this movie makes you care about them or feel like you know them or even if you care if they succeed. To be honest, The main characters could of been killed off in the first 30 minutes and i wouldn't of even noticed.

I tried following the ploy, but it skips around constantly. Somewhere a long the way it got butchered to the point of being a non functional plot. To demonstrate how the plot is: Rip every 3rd page out of a book, then read the book and you have the plot of this movie.

The plot is boring. Its been done literally 1000 times. And 999 of those have been better than this rendition. The main characters have sex with pretty much unknown characters. Since you don't care about the main characters nor the support characters, the sex scenes are even more worthless. We actually treated the sex scenes like commercials, they were that bad. Actually commercials would of been more entertaining.

The audio is terrible. The characters mumble a lot and its dark a lot in the movie so you cant even read lips or facial expressions that well. My wife is British, and worked as HR for 4 years in tampa and she was struggling hard to understand the dialogue. She is use to dealing with a lot of different accents, so what does that tell you? Its like The entire film crew were college freshman. I imagine the uncut version was much better, and then it got butchered. This movie isn't even worth watching for free, i definitely wouldn't pay for it.

I watched this movie twice and read some reviews here. Most of the complaints I am seeing are based on that its " not realistic"... which i find mind boggling. You have an alien invasion movie and its not realistic is the biggest complaint? really?

Some common "unrealistic" problems people seem to have with this movie:

Problem: Aliens that are capable of long distance space flight are incapable of defeating "inferior" humans.

Solution: In this regard Americans and Russians are superior to other humans because they went to the moon. That would be an incorrect conclusion. Just like assuming that because a species is capable of long distance space flight that they are vastly superior to another species that isn't. Technological advancement often follows the path of necessity. Perhaps the aliens had a reason to focus on space flight. Maybe their planet or sun was dying, maybe pollution on their planet was causing an irreversible slow death of the planet. Maybe their people were greatly interested in exploring the universe. Their are many factors in which they could of focused on space flight.

Problem: The Alien ships which can fly through space, just hop on water and just seem to be able to hop in one direction.

Solution: Just because a ship can fly in the vacuum of space doesn't mean it can float/ go under water/ or fly on a planet. This is like assuming that a fighter jet can fly to space since it can fly. We have engines( ion engines actually) that would not operate in atmosphere. They would burn up. However they use very little fuel which makes them good for space flight. Since these are space ships Transportation on ground is likely not a high priority, as the conditions on planets vary widely. Using wheels or tracks or propellers would greatly limit the ability of the ship to move on various planet surfaces. Having atmosphere flight engines also would be limited as the composition of planets atmospheres varies greatly. And engine designed for atmospheric flight on their planet may not work on very many other planets. So using your imagination you could conclude they use their main engines to do little hops but using them for sustained flight would probably damage them.

Problem: The alien weapons seem equal or inferior to ours except the robots which do not bother with a "decommissioned" battleship. that is unrealistic.

Solution: The first logical answer for this is that one makes the assumption that because we are an aggressive and violent species that all intelligent species will be the same. While the aliens are attempting( assuming) to establish a beachhead they may not have the violent past we do and thus weapon development was not a priority to them. Also if you notice all of their weapons are defensive in nature. The forcefield ship which gives them a protected area, the "hedgehog" type canister launcher which seems to be short range. And the fact their computer screens seem to paint either threats or objectives as red and everything else as green. When no longer a threat, they ignore it. One can conclude that their objective is not to take on the world but to establish a beachhead, assess the situation, then contact the home planet. Which is basically the plot of the movie from the alien side. the group was more or less a scouting party. And scouts really aren't equipped to fight wars. Their main goal was survivability and information gathering and relay. Not taking on planet earth. You can further imagine that they have a fleet of actual warships that are designed for offense waiting for intel on this new planet, so they can create a battle plan. Intel that never comes because we stop it.

This is a good movie if you don't try to pick it apart and use your imagination and do not assume that aliens are going to:

1)Be vastly superior to us 2)Be as advanced in weapons and armor as we are just because they have space flight capability. 3)Have fancy weapons 4)Have space ships that can operate in any conditions on a planet, 5)Not misjudge the threat of the dominant species of the planet they are attacking.

You have to use your imagination of what is implied rather than have it spoon fed to you. If you have a good imagination and pay attention to details in the movie you will enjoy it. If you expect it to be " realistic" and assume aliens are going to be like humans if humans were capable of interstellar travel then your going to be greatly disappointed.

This is one of those movies that you are going to either love or hate, and you are going to judge hard depending on your beliefs and knowledge about the BDSM lifestyle. if your going to watch this movie and have no experience in the true BDSM lifestyle then you need to watch it with a completely open mind. You have to pick up on the details. Everything in BDSM is in the details... and that holds true with this movie. If you go in with a closed mind your going to view it as a soft porn flick.

I haven't read the books, but i have been a dominant in BDSM for 20 years, which makes me somewhat of an expert on the subject. You must understand that BDSM in its nature and at its core is very sexual as are the people that live the lifestyle. In fact, we call those not in the lifestyle "vanilla".

Most people will think that a Dominant/submissive relationship is weird or wrong. But most people are actually in one. You are in one at work, its just not sexual. In most relationships one partner has more control than the other... one is more dominate than the other in the relationship. BDSM just takes that to a higher , more controlled level without all the power struggle found in many vanilla relationships.

So I am going to break down a few key subjects in the movie:

1)poor submissive girl, rich dominant man- Not typical. However, this is a way in which they try to portray to vanilla people " a powerful man" 2)Most people get into BDSM in their 20s or it comes later in life. Grey being taken in as a submissive at 15 is not at all normal and that is greatly frowned upon.

3)99.9% of girls that get into the life are not virgins. Though I have met a few girls in their early 20s that claim to be. Also most experienced dominants find virgins to be undesirable. We want you to have some clue as to how things work.

4)Consent is always given. In the movie this was done with the contract which is very common. Also a "blanket" consent was given by anna when grey told her that should could leave at any time and that his helicopter would take her anywhere she wanted to go. There was no need to repeat this later in the movie as its basically a verbal contract. The submissive understands if he/she stays they are at the whim of the dom, but they may leave at any time. A contract would set defined boundaries and the submissive would not be allowed to leave when they wish. Otherwise this would give the submissive all the power and make the entire concept pointless( called topping from the bottom).

5)Spankings/punishment/bondage are all common parts of BDSM. Spanking is sometimes used as a punishment, but since most female submissives like it, its rather ineffective as a punishment. It is also sensation play as were the ice cubes. Bondage is very common..sometimes simple like bound hands and others much more complex. Punishments are common. Most vanillas see this as abuse.However, the submissive agrees to accept punishments so its consentual. Also TRUE Dominants are very restrained individuals with a lot of self control. This isn't a drunken hubby beating his wife cause she made a sarcastic remark. This is someone, for all intents and purposes, who is an expert at self control and corporal punishments.

6) A submissives safety and well being( including emotional and mental)is of the utmost priority. Aftercare( care after an session) is pretty much standard though it seemed to be lacking from grey. This may of been to make him look more "dominant" to vanilla viewers, but it actually only makes him look uncaring.

7)Dominants care about their submissives. Grey was portrayed as cold and uncaring who sort of warmed up to anna. Dominants are actually a lot more caring than their vanilla counterparts... Which to a vanilla seems unbelievable since they seem from the outside to be very selfish. Dominants tend to be more selfless than most vanilla people and some submissives. So this part of the movie wasn't the norm. Though you would find a few like that.

Overall this movie is very mild compared to the real deal and while it captures some of the lifestyle quite well, other parts it doesn't do as well on. And a few it gives a bad ( and inaccurate) impression of. It wasn't near as bad as i thought it would be and i actually quite enjoyed seeing how the lifestyle was portrayed to the mainstream public.

I am glad i do not put a lot of stock into bad reviews. I just watched this movie on DVD and it was much much better than the ratings at IMDb.

*SPOILERS FOLLOW* I watched Smurfs as a kid and this movie keeps in step with that. The storyline, the jokes/humor, and the plot pretty much follow the smurf cartoons. The major difference here is this movie takes place mostly in NYC and it mixes human and smurf interaction much like the Bee Movie.

The movie is mostly about the smurfs getting stuck in NYC after entering a magical portal to escape Gargamel. In NYC they meet a human couple who becomes sort of like their temp home/guardians. Meanwhile, they try to find a way back home while trying to fend off Gargamel.

I had a lot of laughs in this movie.It's got a lot of plain basic humor that reminds you of a smurf cartoon. Its not a complicated movie nor is full of special effects and fancy whistles but it will give you some good laughs and it is enjoyable.