Why the fuck should you watch “Rocketman”?
• You want to see a good musical movie after watching “Yesterday”.
• Softcore gay porno is just the thing for you to keep you warm during these cold summer nights.
• You are struggling with different addictions in your life and want to get some conformation that one day you can overcome those with some help.
• You like music.
Some movies are just well made. They captivate your attention from the very first scene and within the first 10 minutes you understand that it’s going to be a pleasure to watch. "Rocketman” is about a musician and global superstar Elton John and his earlier life starting from his childhood and ending with the rehab where Elton goes to get his life back in the order. And it’s exactly one of those movies.
Elton (Taron Egerton) is a superb piano player, alcoholic, excellent composer, drug addict, great singer, sex addict and shopaholic. The movie shows all these sides and doesn’t hide anything - maybe censors just a little the more explicit scenes, but I was totally fine with that to be honest…
The songs used in the movie were well picked and placed. They always felt as a part of a movie and not “OK, time for a song now”, that can easily happen if you have famous songs you can use and no idea how to write a compelling script. Biography, Drama and Music is not the usual genre I like to see in the cinemas so I can recommend it even to the action-lovers, which is rather surprising to pull off. The songs, which are a nicely choreographed to be part of the story, pull you in and make you tap your feet. The fact that Taron Egerton sings the songs by himself makes the movie feel a little more special.
Things to learn from the movie:
- Everything starts from the childhood.
- Money doesn’t buy you love, but it can buy you cocaine instead (which is a bad idea).
- True friends come and go, aaand then they come again.
- You can’t be happy if you are not yourself and keep resentment in your deep dark soul.
Why the fuck you shouldn’t watch “Rocketman”?
• You want to go to the cinema with your religious grandfather.
• You have effectively buried all your memories of your childhood – better keep away of this movie, it will dig everything up and fucks your brain which has been successfully numb for decades.
• Elton who? Is it a new mumble rapper? Skrrrt. Scoop-scoop.
• You saw the title and thought it’s a sequel to “Interstellar”.