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Rocketman

MusicDrama

Directed by Dexter Fletcher

The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin. From TMDB

209 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 30, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works

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Rocketman is a 2019 music drama film, directed by Dexter Fletcher, starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell and Richard Madden.

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  • Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2025

    Bex and I are rewatching Rocketman because we both adore it and it's also deeply unfair how simultaneously hot and terrible Bryce Dallas Howard is in this movie

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  • Monica @softtail65.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2026

    What's another great biographical movie based on the music, life, and career of a Musician or Band? 🎶 Released on May 22, 2019, in the UK & May 31, 2019, in the US, the movie Rocketman tells the story of Elton John's early years. Premiering at Cannes a week before its UK release, the movie was the 👇

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  • Monica @softtail65.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2025

    What's another great biographical movie based on the music, life and career of a Musician or Band? 🎶📽🎶 Released on May, 22, 2019 in the UK & May 31, 2019, in the US, the movie Rocketman tells the story of Elton John's early years. Premiering at Cannes a week before its UK release, the movie 👇

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  • SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 3, 2025

    Today's movie recommendation is "Rocketman", an over-the top, surrealistic Elton John "biopic" (loosely, very dramatized). To quote: "An Elton John biopic was never going to be understated, but this glittering jukebox musical goes way over the top and then keeps going." Unapologetically gay. #Movies

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  • Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 22, 2026

    Watching Rocketman. If they ever make a movie out of this, it could be pretty good.

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  • None More Records @nonemorerecords.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2026

    I don’t know if anyone found it vastly rewarding, but switched off the film Rocketman when they had Elton doing Crocodile Rock from 1973 at the LA Troubadour in 1970.

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  • Possum A-ko @kaiserbeamz.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2026

    It's a shame Rocketman didn't become the influential music biopic of the 2010s where the blocking and cinematography feels like a musical/music video. I think the only film that followed that path was Baz Luhrmann's Elvis.

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  • Alonso Duralde @aduralde.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2023

    Pre-2022 movies I saw for the first time this year: Cría cuervos Soup for One Slither (1973) Under the Shadow Something New The April Fools Memories of Murder A Different Story A Taste of Honey Man with a Movie Camera Rob the Mob Tomboy The Gift (2015) RocketMan (1997) (1/*) #filmsky 📽️

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  • Schnongs 🍬 @schnongs.eurosky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    #SeptemberMovieChallenge (4) Movie about a singer Rocketman (2019)

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  • AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    Seeing a cgi monkey murder past versions of himself as a metaphor for depression before trying to kill himself was kind of the batshit stuff I had hoped for from this genre after Rocketman, a movie I walked away from thinking “I wish it went weirder.” I guess I got that.

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  • Cheer Captain @cheercaptain.wangBluesky · Sep 14, 2024

    Sequels are usually unnecessary but consider a follow up to ROCKETMAN (2019) that brings the same frantic energy the first movie uses for his cocaine-and-hedonism days to Elton of the 90s (Disney’s Lion King, Aida on Broadway, duet with Eminem) and tell me you wouldn’t check that out.

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  • Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2025

    I remember seeing the footage, he was going to say something else but then fred randall fell down the ladder and said "it wasn't me", and (realizes I'm remembering the film Rocketman)

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  • Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2024

    New Projector Short! Elton John looks back on his life and career on the eve of his farewell Dodgers Stadium performance in the Disney+ documentary Never Too Late, which I saw as part of #LFF, but it says little that Rocketman didn't already.

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  • TruNorth @trunorth.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2024

    More movie paintings Rocketman

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  • Silver Dragoon @silverdragoonpt.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2025

    Random thing of the day: Rocketman A musical film about the life of Elton John. A really good watch!

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  • Bafflegabs @bafflegabs.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2025

    There was never a need to make Bohemian Rhapsody, or Rocketman, or A Complete Unknown. They all seem idiotic to me because they’re each making this exact movie but taking it all so seriously. Only The Beatles Anthology is funnier.

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  • Musicals with Cheese | Podcast @musicalswithcheese.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2024

    "… And I think it's gonna be a long, long time 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find..." Grab your eccentric clothing and crazy songs and boring film because this week we're diving into Ewan Cassidy's Patreon request "Rocketman." I'm sure it is a ton of fun if you like Elton John.

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  • Neursferatu 💾 Computer Virus VTuber @n3ur0515.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 28, 2026

    Now that I'm home it's time for an ✨️airplane movie review✨️ Rocketman - good movie! Enjoy the concept of treating a biopic as a musical; a bit sensational Mamma Mia! - good movie! Best scene was the second half of Lay All Your Love On Me

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  • MizfitMathew @mizfitmathew.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2026

    Time for movie #2! The next randomly selected movie is... Rocketman, 1997

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  • Hippie Scuba Steve @hippiescubasteve.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    Rocketman was released in movie theaters 7 years ago today. Taron Egerton nails it as Elton John. What a performance! youtu.be/kyfMjDlcisQ #Movies #Cinema #Filmsky

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  • omacolt.bsky.social @omacolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 14, 2025

    #NovemberMovieChallenge Day 14 Music Composed In A Movie Rocketman (2019) youtu.be/oUNeIgFVd5g?...

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  • Ryan Anderson @ryana.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2025

    In my mind, Elton John watched that movie and said "I want that gorilla to play me in a biopic." And thus we got Taron Egerton in Rocketman.

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  • Joe McCartney @mccartneyjoe.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2025

    “ ... all alone unhappy ... this wide and universal theatre.” ~ Richard II (A5,S2). #ShakespeareSunday #Rocketman

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  • MizfitMathew @mizfitmathew.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    Works done, time for a movie. Tonights randomly selected movie is... Rocketman, 2019

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  • Wyatt Sinclair @crumblsucks.wyattswickedgoods.comBluesky · Apr 11, 2026

    What if the capsule opens and it's just Harland Williams from his movie Rocketman?

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  • They Might Be Geeks (aka: Mr. Warp Bubble) @theymightbegeeks.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 22, 2026

    Loved #ProjectHailMary. ❤️ What a fantastic movie! Just as good as the book. And thank you Lord and Miller for *not* putting the obvious, clichéd choice of “Rocketman” in the film’s soundtrack. Was bracing myself for it, but I knew you guys were better than that.

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  • kolo @blxachbath.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2025

    starting off august with the first #letterboxdfriday of the month with a whiplash of movies, so here's my #lastfourwatched Faceless (2024) Rocketman (2019) Cure (1997) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

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  • ✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.styleBluesky · Feb 4, 2025

    they made a whole movie about it even !! i think it was called Rocketman

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  • Dan @danlikescomics.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2025

    That's an insane budget for a Music Biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody & Rocketman had budgets of 55 million & 40 million thats why they made money. They aren't meant to be getting to superhero movie budget money, even Elvis had a budget of 85 million and everyone knows Elvis

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  • Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2024

    I hope the Clayface movie is pure horror and up opens the door for more marvel/DC movies in other genres. Give me a Rocketman style Dazzler music bio-pic without a single fight scene!

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  • Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.comBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    Won't get worked up about Beatles movie images because I can't picture a world where I'd want to see it, or Bohemian Rhapsody, Elvis, Rocketman, Back to Black, whatever. Twenty-four hours' of Get Back footage though, yes please, sit me down.

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  • Alb3rt0 @albst3r.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2026

    Another big one is Phil Collins, the singer and songwriter who is perhaps best known for his work on Disney's Tarzan. It's somewhat of a full-circle scenario, as Paramount already released a film based on Elton John (who worked on Disney's The Lion King) with 2019's Rocketman.

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  • Mister Orange @misterorange21.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2026

    📽️ EVERY NIGHT IS MOVIE NIGHT 🍿 (109/365) #NowShowing ROCKETMAN (2019) Elton John. Do I need any other reason? 🧡🤘 #FilmSky

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  • DuChomp @duchomp.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2026

    The Mario Galaxy Movie is either gonna have the most beautiful rendition of Gusty Garden Galaxy or the most out of place use of Rocketman by Elton John

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  • ctkapow @ctkapow.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 28, 2025

    I'm Still Standing as Performed by Taron Egerton However, not the Rocketman version; This is the version from the animated movie Sing where he plays a gorilla. Y'all I don't think we've ever had a crowd so INSTANTLY on our side, it was amazing.

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  • Big Bad Butch WIFE, Baro Dyke Of Tipperary @bigbadbutchgf.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2025

    The movie Rocketman expresses the universal queer experience of getting a terrible haircut and a drape cause your mother started fucking a rockabilly

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  • Mercury Natis @mercuryreads.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2024

    Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 — The Lord of the Rings, obv. One movie 🎥 — Rocketman One album 💿 — Hedwig and the Angry Inch OBC One TV show 📺 — Star Trek TOS

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  • SuzyS @pywacket.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2026

    Token 2 is from the 2019 Elton John movie Rocketman starring Taron Egerton as the iconic musician. Egerton sang all the songs and I thought he was just brilliant and super talented. Here's his version of Rocket Man youtu.be/AjWokqBxODs?...

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  • 🌲🍋ForrestLemon 🍋🌲→ 👻👻👻 @lemonadebea.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2026

    Favorite film from the year you turned 18 It was either that or A Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood, both beautiful movies, couldn't choose 😭 Rocketman [2019]

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  • eb99 @eb99.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2026

    Yeah the Director got MeToo-ed and fired 2/3 through filming and they had to do the rest with a new director (the guy who later did Rocketman incidentally) and edit the movie without the guy who directed 2/3 of it

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  • Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2025

    Personally I think the best music biopic (apart from Walk Hard, of course) is Rocketman. And the reason I think it works the best is because it's an honest to god MUSICAL-not just a movie that plays a bunch of music.

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  • Jamie Garwood @nexttotheaisle.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2025

    So Better Man is a better film than Rocketman which is a better film than Bohemian Rhapsody. I cannae wait for the Ed Sheeran biopic where he is played by a smurf #filmsky #moviesky

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 9, 2025

    It's true. The cocky rival who cheats, the training montages, the win despite all odds... It has every trope of the genre with a medieval set dressing. Why dont they do this with more genres? Like I want a musician biopic movie ala Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman about a couple bards in England in the dark ages, and it is just Simon and Garfunkel doing Simon and Garfunkel songs on lyres and flutes completely anachronistically. Not satirically. Completely earnestly and yet fun.

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  • Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2024

    So musician biopics are the new superhero films, which means in 2034 studios will be baffled as to why their $80 million Kajagoogoo film isn't selling as many tickets as ONE LOVE or ROCKETMAN.

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  • NiamhsDaddy @niamhsdaddy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

    Still a great film (as is Rocketman)

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  • 🎃👻 Rob for Apples @ Glasgow Fantasycon 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    What's your favourite movie from each decade of your life? 80s - The Great Muppet Caper 90s - Hocus Pocus 00s - Moulin Rouge! 10s - Rocketman 20s - Wicked (both parts)

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  • MizfitMathew @mizfitmathew.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    Rocketman was AMAZING. Time for movie #2. I don't think I'm going to finish this tonight, seeing as how it is iver 3 hours long...but I'm going to start it. Nixon, 1995

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  • Robin Kirby @robinmk.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 15, 2026

    Watching Rocketman what a sad and beautiful movie 🎥 🍿

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  • Biopic: A Podcast Story @biopic-podcast.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 8, 2026

    #FebruaryMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 8 : meteor or asteroid in a movie #biopic edition: cheating, but #rocketman … he was a Rocket man! Space! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2026

    #EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2026 January 13 - a movie all about songwriting Rocketman #filmsky #moviesky

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  • 💥VICO AFTER DARK💥 @vicoafterdark.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2025

    I didn’t dislike the Mario movie in fact I had fun but if the Galaxy movie has a scene with Mario soaring through a galaxy while Rocketman by Elton John plays I WILL trigger my body to suffer a heart attack and force the theater to evacuate

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  • Shane O'Neal (FauxRetro) @fauxretro.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2025

    I knew nothing about Robbie Williams but the Robbie Williams movie slapped. So fun and well made — it and Rocketman need to be the blueprint for music biopics going forward

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  • Joel @itsjoels.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2024

    The other thing that tells you how shit it is is Rocketman coming out near it and that is a wonderful film.

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  • HighF1yingBirds @[email protected]Lemmy · May 25, 2024

    I used 'Performance fish', 'Rocketman', and 'Performance Optimizer' as optimization modes, but even with optimization modes, I only got about 160 ticks, so I had to play for quite a long time.

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  • YotePocalyse is Nigh- He/Him @secyoteagenda.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 13, 2026

    Field-tested my new sound system with "Rocketman". Pretty happy with it, though that film doesn't really have a lot of spatial features. I'll have to come up with something else for that.

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  • Jerrica @jtwritergirl.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    I just watched a scene from Rocketman. I am mad all over again because that movie is brilliant.

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  • Suze @westcountrysuzi.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

    I know I'm late to the party but I really enjoyed the film Rocketman #ptop

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  • Mx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸 @[email protected]Mastodon · Jun 6, 2026

    The real crime is that there's no biopic about Klaus Nomi. #BohemianRhapsody #RocketMan #MovieReview

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  • Blackula @yodacat.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2026

    It's only competition was Gone Fishin, which I watched in the theater, and Rocketman, my favorite movie starring Harlan Williams.

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  • BOO! @ronandusty.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    Rocketman starting on CH4 now. A very entertaining film.

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