Rocketman, the film about Elton John. I do admit that I like some of his music. He is very talented, and deserves every penny he gets.
Anyways, this movie took me a bit to get to for several reasons. I will not share them, but I will only say that those reasons forced me to get the movie twice. Not a fun thing to deal with.
I will say that I find the rating of R for this movie to be biased. From what I saw, it felt more like a PG-13 movie. (This is only the second time I felt this way about a movie. Then again, I haven't seen many R rated movies, so I don't know how much of a problem this is.) I have a feeling that it was given that R rating because the film was more open with Elton John's homosexual relationship. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised if that is the case. I mean, the MPAA rating board is filled with old farts who probably still can't accept this sort of thing. It just feels like an insult to give it that rating.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. I like how it opened with Elton John walking into a meeting where he could be open about himself. I did question the costume he was wearing, but I felt that the film would explain that.
This is a good movie. I do encourage others to see it if they can. It probably wasn't worth getting twice, but I'm glad I saw it.
