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How do you make prime time Elton John seem dull, tame, and sort of dim?...
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Posted on September 9, 2019 at 21:12:46 | ||
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Make a film called Rocket Man! What a bore and mishmash of timelines, songs and reality. Not nearly as compelling as the recent Bohemian Rhapsody (which we just thought OK though RM makes it seem a masterpiece), nor, it seems, intended to really be a biopic so much as the template for what will likely be a long running Broadway Musical that will be hellaciously expensive to see. Even with the Senior discount. Elton John was MAGNIFICENT during the years RM covers- it wasn't until after that timeframe that the dullness set in, the music lost it's luster, the story became as null as this movie. Besides having to hear ANYONE but Elton sing his songs is a drag, the acting is fair at best and the script a bad joke that seems Sir Elton used as a rather indulgent therapy session. AND a blueprint for Broadway. (It isn't like he HASN'T already seen his name in lights for five decades, hell, he used to wear it on his face!) "Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure |