Rocketman

Fascinating, riveting, perhaps all true, perhaps all a part of the man's delusional state during his drugged up periods. No one truly knows. Really good, really good.

overall it accomplished what a biopic actually should do, help you understand the man behind the legend. It dissects Elton to his smallest elements, honestly yeah, not a film about Elton John, but the man, the broken, complicated man no one really got to see behind the pomp and celebrity.

It's a lot like Ray, both about brilliant pianists and their stories. Is piano and drugs linked or something? What else can I compare it to... scratching at the thought... there have been actually quite  few biopics of genius musicians that are similar that I've seen... Besides this one being very musical styled, yeah this does remind me a lot of that beatles one, kinda in the same vein as the tom hanks movie that thing you do... well it's a very inspired film. Oh I got it, that movie I saw once about Frankie Lymon or whatever his name is. Anyway, I think the film makers knew we'd kinda had movies like this before so it didn't bother retreading all that same old stuff. Regular guy becomes super star celeb, ends up doing drugs and crashes and burns, then goes and gets help, wash rinse repeat.

The true story here is about the screwed up family Elton John came from and his struggle with his demons and lonliness. It doesn't at all say he's healed, he's done with his struggles, it doesn't say that, but it says he's found a way... found a way to come to some sanity. I was thinking, that's all we can do... this world will indeed strip you raw of any sense of decency and sanity you have. What does one cling to to stay afloat in it. Luckily despite trying to kill himself for years, he did have true friends to rely on and that leveled him out. Plus it hints that his old self was dead, and he embraced being Elton John, not that he was ever going to be who he was in the past ever again. It's kinda tragic that way. We get to know young Reginald, then we have to watch him get lost in Elton John, but Elton John is a great person so he himself accepts what he's become....  Glad I decided to go see it...

So I don't know what to tell everyone. There are some great movies in theaters now... I recommend Shaft. Rocketman though that's on its way out. Godzilla's fine, thrilled me. Avoid Dark Phoenix, nope doesn't work... uh, I mean if you have kids begging to see it, yeah toy story 4, Aladdin, fine, not all that, but it's ok. But yeah consider going and spending money on something that's really powerful experience, that's my advice.