SmackDaddy

Watched this last night and we really enjoyed it. Egerton was fantastic. While I also liked Bohemian Rhapsody, I think this was a better film and Egerton was a better Elton than Malek was Freddie. By that I mean I always felt like Malek was doing just an impression, while Egerton did an interpretation and it came off more genuine/realistic IMO.

Hope they remember his performance come awards season.

Original Desmond

I'm not an Elton John fan but respect his musical talent and like some of his songs

Taron Egerton was awesome, genuninally great singer, especially after seeing some of his live performances

I did fast forward through a lot of this movie, not interested in seeing Elton's drinking or gaying

But i liked the Crocodile Rock , don't go breaking my heart and i'm still standing musical numbers

TomOpus

"gaying???"

TGM

lolwhut

DJariya

Rented the Blu-Ray from Red Box and I actually thought this was really good. Taron Egerton was great as Elton and I really liked that they used his real voice for the singing as opposed to him lip syncing.

Aside from the weird, sometimes drug induced fantasy elements, which were good, this was a compelling story about Elton's struggle with his sexuality, relationships and his drug addiction.

Loved the end when they re-created the "I'm still standing" music video and inserted Egerton into it.

DWilson

I knew that there were musical sequences but I didn't realize how much of a straightforward (no pun intended) Musical this was. While a good bit of the "Fall/Redemption of An Artist" was pretty much rote for this type of thing, I enjoyed it quite a lot.

GoldenJCJ

atrium

I watched it a couple of days ago, and, well.... the main impression I walked away with was that Elton wanted to present his life as a weepy, "woe is me" tale. After a while, I think I just got tired of him wanting us to feel so bad for him and how victimized and tough his life was. It was kind of obnoxious. I also thought the whole 'telling his story at a group therapy session' was a cliche as hell narrative device.

I'm not the biggest Elton fan out there though, so maybe I would've appreciated it more if I was.

Michael Corvin

I watched half the other night and liked what I saw. I need to finish it.

Runaway

I had a totally different experience. Elton John didn't present his life as weepy tale. He presented himself as the extravagant (shopping) Junkie he is.

devilshalo

Finally, watched this and it works a lot better than Bohemian Rhapsody. Because it's presented as a musical, you didn't worry about an incorrect timeline as the songs are presented. I was surprised at some song and life omissions that were triggered by Elton's life events. (I guess one suicide attempt was enough for the film). I will say that the last number was weird as they superimpose Eggsy into the original I'm Still Standing video over Elton.

rocket1312

Yeah, I'm a big fan (see my avatar) and I can say with 100% certainty that Elton does not expect anyone to feel the least bit bad about his story. I haven't seen the movie since release, but I don't recall getting that sense from it at all.

Daytripper

Really!? I didn't think it was weird at all. I saw the movie at a drive-in with a few friends and we all thought adding Egerton to this music video was very clever. Why show the original with Elton when he was in the closing credits a few seconds later? Overall I thought it was good. So much better than "Bohemian Rhapsody". Which was a choppy film at best with one great performance.

joeblow69

Oh shit, is that what they did? I just assumed it was a shot for shot remake of the video.

devilshalo

To me, either recreate the whole performance, or show the original. I know for Bohemian Rhapsody, because of the manufactured drama surrounding the LiveAid performance, I would have preferred that they cut to the original footage as Freddie took the stage. The shot for shot remake was impressive, too, though. But the way it's presented in Rocketman, it would have been like Singer (or Fletcher) just superimposed Malek into the original footage.

And that's what I kind of expected.. a shot for shot remake, but then i'm like.. waitaminute! That's the original video! Everything else recreated were pretty accurate, but an interesting choice to use the actual video.

rocket1312

Seems like a weird thing to get hung up on when we're talking about like a minute of footage, of which Egerton is onscreen for maybe 20 seconds.

devilshalo

It's just a little jarring to see when you're familiar with the actual video.

E Unit

I think it's pretty funny, but yeah, not worth getting hung up about. I liked that they included Egerton in the video, especially when you just saw him as John for 2 hours.