Bohemian Rhapsody vs California Solo

Bohemian Rhapsody has the higher audience score (8/10 against 5.7/10 for California Solo). California Solo is the shorter watch at 1h 33m compared with 2h 15m. California Solo is the older of the two (2012 against 2018). Both are drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Bohemian Rhapsody posterBohemian Rhapsody2018 VS California Solo posterCalifornia Solo2012
Bohemian RhapsodyCalifornia Solo
Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 5.7/10
Year20182012
Length2h 15m1h 33m
GenresDrama, MusicDrama, Music
Country––
DirectorBryan SingerMarshall Lewy
Main castRami Malek, Joseph Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Gwilym Lee, Lucy BoyntonRobert Carlyle, Danny Masterson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Patrick Gallagher, Brad Greenquist

Synopsis

Bohemian Rhapsody

Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

California Solo

Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself into a stupor every night and retires to his shabby apartment to record his podcast, recounting the tragic deaths of great musicians. After a particularly heavy night of drowning his sorrows at a local…

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