Lindsay Zoladz

You know, a lot of these are people transcending, you know, pretty modest roots and finding their talent that, you know, allows them to... It's a classic...

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

I mean, when I saw Bohemian Rhapsody, the woman next to me sang the whole time.

And it was actually an awful experience.

It was worse than the movie itself, in my opinion.

I'm very sorry for that.

But I think that's not a terribly uncommon experience in some of these games.

biopics with more, like, musical numbers and things like that.

Like, there is this communal aspect.

It's almost like going to a concert.

You know, and I think Bohemian Rhapsody in particular, the real set piece of that is the really, like, just verisimilitude of restaging the Live Aid performance.

You know, so an artist who is maybe someone you can't see in concert anymore because they're not around anymore, you know, in the case of Freddie Mercury,

In a way, like going to a biopic in a theater is the closest you can come to having that live communal concert experience.

He'll get his own biopic someday, I hope.

You're absolutely right.

Bohemian Rhapsody 2, the Adam Lambert story.

Sure, and in that case, you know, Dylan infamously does not play his songs straightforward in concert anymore.

Or ever.

I was just talking about this with someone this weekend.

I mean, there's many other reasons to see Bob Dylan live now.