DBWI: No movie based on "Bohemian Rhapsody"

2000. A new millenium, and the 30th Anniversary of the founding of Queen, and the release of the musical based on their classic song, a tale of bad luck, worse decisions, and living with the consequences. Also the progenitor of thousands of terrible films based on the same premise.
 
Yeah, ya really gotta wonder how Alan Parker thought he could combine a rock opera(literally!) with a standard liberal anti-capital punishment storyline.
 

Bulldoggus

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Hey now, there have been some cool Rock Operas since 2000. "The Trooper," "Number of the Beast," and "Powerslave" were incredible, some of the Rush ones were cool, and I think the Napoleon and Suleiman movies scored by Sabaton count. I just think basing it off of one song, rather than an album, was a foolish decision, especially given Freddy Mercury himself said Bohemian Rhapsody was nonsense.
 
Number of the Beast

Number of the Beast? Jesus, dude, you mean the one about the British football player who trades his soul to the Devil(and agrees to wear you-know-what on his jersey) in exchange for scoring the winning goal in the World Cup?

The only quasi-tolerable thing about that was Run To The Hills, when he meets the Native American player from the US team, and gets the rundown on how the natives got their "warrior spirit". Yeah, it was a bunch of goofy noble-savage crapola, but nicely choreographed.

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Bulldoggus

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Number of the Beast? Jesus, dude, you mean the one about the British football player who trades his soul to the Devil(and agrees to wear you-know-what on his jersey) in exchange for scoring the winning goal in the World Cup?

The only quasi-tolerable thing about that was Run To The Hills, when he meets the Native American player from the US team, and gets the rundown on how the natives got their "warrior spirit". Yeah, it was a bunch of goofy noble-savage crapola, but nicely choreographed.

OOC
Oh come on, it wasn't as epic as Trooper or Powerslave, but it was good fun.
 
Number of the Beast? Jesus, dude, you mean the one about the British football player who trades his soul to the Devil(and agrees to wear you-know-what on his jersey) in exchange for scoring the winning goal in the World Cup?

I liked that movie the first time I saw it, when it was American and called Damn Yankees. And actually watchable.
 
Honestly, the gambit of throwbacks to the massive, mythical rock-operas and concept albums of the 70's and 80's was an interesting idea, and it could've worked had it acknowledged the cheese of them. However, it wasn't quite artistic enough to be an interesting as a literal interpretation of the song, and not cheesy enough for its tongue-in-cheek nature to work.

The films that it spawned at least got the cheese right, however unintentionally.
 
I liked that movie the first time I saw it, when it was American and called Damn Yankees. And actually watchable.

Taking sports movies across the pond never works out. Remember when they tried to turn Fever Pitch into a movie about American football? I don't care how famous the leads are, nobody wants to watch a movie about Cleveland.
 
Well, what the fad spawned in Finland was Dreams and Office Work by Aleksi Mäkelä, In the Year 1985 by Timo Koivusalo and, of course, Swan Song by Aki Louhimies.

On balance I think we could have done without them. I do kind of like Aki Kaurismäki's 2011 movie Finn-Rock for its pure meta approach to it all, though.
 
It inspired Tokusatsu as well. Remember ongaku sentai Symphoger(音楽戦隊 シンフォジャー) and its adaptation, Power ranger PianoForte?
 
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