“Burning out his fuse up here alone…”
Rocketman (2019) dir. Dexter Fletcher
Anonymous asked:
It is the part that goes, I think you know the one, “B-B-B-Bennie and the Jetssss.” So you can see my trouble!!!
I actually adore the first three lines of the chorus, but then every time, I am betrayed.
UNLESS, it’s ROCKETMAN THE MUSICAL, and first up Taron Egerton decides to skip the extra sibilants, moving in a GREAT direction that’s half of it right there, and then pretty swiftly the whole song kinda takes a quick pivot around something very loosely reminiscent of the demon strip bar beat and then starts cutting up into a remix while Elton, shirtless, stares straight ahead with a thousand yard coked out stare as three different dudes make-out up on him at once, and it is honestly 👍👍 primo, could not have asked for a better use of ‘Bennie & the Jets’ than in the rock star orgy in sexy hell.
Anyway: R O C K E T M A N
…It might also be worth mentioning at some point, for ur grains of salt, that there are 22 Elton John songs featured in this movie, and I still had more faves I was waiting to hear. I FUCKING LOVE ELTON JOHN.
Hey so, hey, listen, this isn’t exactly good, but it’s MAGNIFICENT. The Elton John movie, as you might expect—nay, desire—is just wall-to-wall cheese, aaallll for the snacking. Rocketman is dazzlingly stupid and so stupidly charming. It’s big and bright and gay and sappy and really, so very dumb, I cannot emphasize enough how dumb this movie is, but at the same time, they made really smart choices? Or scratch that, no: they made the ~*Galaxy Brain*~ choices. For starters, they didn’t make a musician biopic, they made a musical about a musician. That’s immediately so much better!! I’m not sure the cast sings any more than one (1) song at the actual chronological point in which it was written, but I am pretty sure that Taron Egerton is wearing a different pair of glasses in Every. Single. Scene. And these are the kind of choices I want from my Elton John musical.
> Well the longest review I’ve written yet this year is for Rocketman
