Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman And Yesterday

Over the last eighteen months there have been three films released which I really wanted to see. I rarely go to the cinema so I've been waiting for them to be shown on Sky.

It's nearly thirty years since Freddie Mercury, the frontman of Queen, died. It's hard to believe it was that long ago, isn't it? Bohemian Rhapsody is a biographical drama about his life. This was the first of the three films to be made and the first to be shown on Sky, and I wrote about it last year in my What I'm Watching - Septmeber 2019 post. I thoroughly enjoyed this film, I thought the acting and the casting was brilliant, at times it was like I was watching Freddie himself, especially during the stage scenes, he was such a great showman and this is carried through in the film.

In the same vein, Rocketman is a biographical musical film based on the life of British musician Elton John. Again, I thought the acting was very good and the story doesn't hold back when it comes to Elton's past addictions, we see those warts and all. It was interesting how the story explored his childhood relationships and how they may have influenced the man he's become.

The most recent film to be released was Yesterday, it premiered on Sky on Easter Sunday so that's when we sat down to enjoy it. This film is different to the other two in that it's a romantic comedy. Although it features music from The Beatles, it's not about them. Jack Malik is a struggling musician who's involved in an accident, after which, he is apparently the only person who knows the music by The Beatles. He begins playing their songs claiming them as his own, but the course of true love never runs smoothly does it, and Jack must make a fundamental moral decision about his music.

I'm not a great film watcher, I often get bored half way through as I find it quite difficult to concentrate on anything for any great length of time, but each of these films held my interest. I enjoyed every bit of the first two films, Yesterday was okay but it wouldn't be one I'd go out of my way to watch again, though I did particularly enjoy the bits involving Ed Sheeran, he did make me laugh.

All three films were watched by me, Mick and Eleanor and we all agreed that we'd rate them in the order I've wrote about them here, Bohemian Rhapsody favourite, Yesterday least favourite, with Rocketman in between.