I've not been to the movies in ages but....

Last night we had a family outing for a change. Since all of us a big music fans, and to be even more accurate Queen fans, it was a no brainer for us to want to go checkout the new film Bohemian Rhapsody, and boy it blew me away.

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I'm not one to do movie reviews, not because I don't love them, but because there are plenty of people on STEEM who are possibly ten times more talented that I will ever be talking about films, but honestly I could not help but to voice my opinion on this little gem.

Whoever did the casting scored a homerun. All the actors picked, some I knew, some I had never seen before were just perfect. The actor who played Freddie Mercury, Rami Malek, did such an amazing job I could not help but to smile the whole way through.

All the moves present, the facial expressions, the phrasing, everything. I just can't believe someone was able to pull it off that well, and I would be surprised if Malek does not win an award for his performance. In my opinion him not winning an award would be close to criminal.

Now, it's important to note that not everything that happened in the movie is 100% accurate, but only if you are a die hard fan like myself you would know that and to be honest, maybe that's not as important as remembering the legend himself. I've said countless of times that to me, the best rock singer that has ever lived was Freddie Mercury and watching this film reminded me of that thought all over again.

So listen, if you are a Queen fan and you've been wondering if this is going to be a flop or something, let me tell you, you will freaking love it, the whole thing.

Fun detail, even thought Mike Myers shows up as an executive who is opposing the release of Bohemian Rhapsody, it is 100% true that Freddie got a lot of resistance with that song. All the critiques you hear regarding how ridiculous it was, the length, the made up words, all those were part of the real story, but they were expressed by different voices within the organization, not just one "evil" executive. But, giving the audience the "evil" executive worked like a charm, or at least it did for me.

Don't wait for this to come out to DVD, or Netflix (that's what the kids use these days), go see it... and let me know if you loved it as much as I did.

I'm still singing this morning....