posted by Laley23
I only dug deep on Rhapsody because it was up for Best Picture. I critiqued it on those merits. When I went for the music and the story, irregardless if facts and anything else, I have it an 8 or 8.5/10 I believe.
There's more than a few reviews out there that agree with me. I love Queen, and the music carries the film. And he did a great Freddie Mercury - but the problem is the script/writing is very thin outside of the music.
Ray was incredible. Walk the Line was very good. Bohemian Rhapsody is decent, but a very distant third to those two. It had no business being nominated best picture, and normally a great performance with a weak script doesn't get you a Best Actor nod, either.
To me, a subtle difference between BR and Ray/WtL was the latter weren't just imitations of what's on YouTube. They gave color and context to the performance.