is this a musical ???
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shareIt's supposed to be a biographical musical, so I would think yes.
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Yes like the way movies like grease or the greatest showman is done except uses Eltonโs songs that are story telling relevant eg: starts singing tiny dancer and walking and looking out into a party he is at
shareDon't be afraid to see it and like it. It doesn't mean you are gay if you go see it. That is why straight guys hate musicals, because they fear they will be labeled as gay.
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shareI disagree... straight guys hate musicals because the majority of them are bad and when you were growing up the odds are your mom was the one dragging you to one of the god awful musicals that only a woman would enjoy which created the perception that musicals suck.
I enjoy a good musical, but most of them really aren't that good. It's the reason a good musical can last for a decade on Broadway, if good musicals were a dime a dozen you would have a revolving door of musicals on Broadway but you don't. You quite a few off broadway, but they quickly get forgotten. Making a good musical is very hard to do. Hell look how hard it is to make a decent movie with most of the movie made being crap... Now imagine you get what would be a good movie and want to rework it as a musical, you just added another major layer of difficulty to the movie so the odds of any musical being good is going to drop.
So what are some good musicals that straight guys like?
shareI can't speak for all straight guys, because we all have different tastes. But Les Miserables, Book of Mormon, A Christmas Story are probably safe bets that wouldn't have a straight guy making a fast exit.
sharei like:
sing street
singin' in the rain
anna and the apocalypse
guy and madeline on a park bench
umbrellas of cherbourg
and, even though i don't particularly like elton john's music, i genuinely enjoyed rocketman
Les Miserables, Sing Street and Umbrella of Cherbourg are great. My favorite musicals are West Side Story and Tommy.
shareThis is a standard musician biopic done in an interesting way. If you love Elton see it in the theatre, if you like him watch it on OnDemand or Netflix or HBO, if you dislike Elton, for Lordโs sake, stay away.
shareGood advice. And it applies to most every movie... if you don't really want to see the movie, don't go... don't let someone else convince you to go because you'll probably not enjoy it and more than likely start telling everyone that it was bad when it might have actually been a good movie that just didn't suit your taste in movies. It isn't like the old days when studios would just market movies based on who was in it and a hint of the story, today you watch one trailer and you pretty much know what the whole story is going to be so there are no real surprises in what a movie is going to be about.
sharei'll slightly disagree.
i'm not a fan at all.
i don't particularly like his music, & i don't particularly enjoy flamboyance in my music or movies in general.
but i liked this quite a bit, because i thought it was mostly extremely well staged & always fun to look at.
a few of the musical moments were truly great. i could name them, but if you've seen it you'll probably know the ones i liked. they're probably the same ones everyone liked.
and i found myself enjoying several of the songs as well, though i wish they hadn't been truncated.
Iโm glad I was wrong, at least in your case. It was fun to look at, especially the part at The Troubadour. The first album I ever owned was his first Greatest Hits and I never owned another one but heโs a part of the soundtrack of my life, as they say.
shareIt's 100% a musical film! With people breaking into song while supposedly going on with real life, or staging big song-and-dance numbers! There also stage performances included, but people also break into big production numbers on the street or in nightclubs.
With a thin biographical framework, but it's a musical and a fun one.