#then yeah I think it would be problematic but wouldn't be as egregious

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(Throwing gas on the fire with my opinions here)

I’d say bbc Sherlock and bohemian rhapsody suffer from similar terminally online takes where tumblr fans initially fell very hard for them and held them up as the pinnacle of art/representation (which they never were) then as the honeymoon obsession faded treated them as undeserving garbage (which they also never were) thus failing to understand why people divorced from internet fandom think of them as regular fun media without 20 layers of drama. And forget the original was, at the very least, entertaining to most audiences and had redeeming qualities.

This is truly gas on the fire and I'm going to have to do a HARD disagree with you there because Bohemian Rhapsody as a film was always extremely bad on several major levels. It was really inaccurate (and in some crucial respects, like botching the timing of Freddie's AIDS diagnosis for cheap drama), hit all of the tired band movie clichés with a cheesy ass script that could have been written about any old band instead of putting any effort in to tell Queen's unique story and portray their unique personalities, and had a homophobic/straightwashing portrayal of a real gay man while presenting his homophobic, asshole ex-girlfriend as some saint who was the True love of his life and "saved" him.

It's inherently worse than any Sherlock Holmes adaptation for misrepresenting real people, and being homophobic about real gay men. The idea that it's just fun entertainment becomes flimsy when it comes down to misrepresenting real people to the point of harm, as opposed to making a fake story about fake people. Borhap was rightfully panned every step of the way as soon as it came out as a terrible movie that people only sat through because it had chunks of Queen's music, which was/is good enough to keep people from leaving the theater mid-film. It was not at all an Online/fringe opinion that borhap had a poor script and was homophobic, it was mainstream. I remember even a review in my local newspaper being like, "Yeah, this movie low-key sucks, but the music was good" lol. I only joined the Queen fandom after reading about the backlash, which was all over the place! It was entertaining to some audiences because of the music and because most people don't know Queen's/Freddie's real story (and are homophobic and love the Mary fanfiction lol), but I remember watching someone on YouTube just casually mentioning it like, "Yeah, I didn't even finish the movie because even though I don't know Queen's history that well, the writing was just so cliched and I feel like it probably wasn't even accurate."

So yeah, no, sorry, borhap was actually incredibly bad and shouldn't have even gotten the praise that it did. If Rami hadn't given a great performance, it probably wouldn't have tbh