So..i've watched that Better Man thing from your list, i stumbled upon it in a streaming portal and gave it a try. I just have to compare it to Rocketman, as i wrote earlier and i must say, for me it just didn't work.
And the main problem, the thing that threw me off all the time was the cgi, in many ways. When i first heard the news that here will be a biopic out about Williams, but he's portrayed by an ape, my kind of a firrst reaction was, hmm, why?, but could be cool and what is the purpose of this?, could be a great artistic vehicle...but my interest in Williams was just below 0,0023 points above zero, so i forgot that it was out there.
It started interesting, the cgi is very good, the childhood displayed, you see this little monkey person interacting with normal people and it works but for me it always has more of a fascination how good the cgi is instead of getting emotionally involved with the story. The movie has a good pace, it's intersting but when you get through the story it felt for me so unnecessary to have points of the story, the life! displayed in that way. I don't get it. It's distracting from the human aspect i thought this would be the reason for the movie. And then i thought this could maybe have worked with a costume, prosthetics, that cover the face of the actor but would be more real than cgi. So i always had to think about Rocketman. A biopic about a person impersonated by an actor. But this movie really worked for me and i found it really fascinating. The actor there is really singing and dancing and you can see it, it sounds different than Elton but it's very close so you can accept the fact that this is not Elton but kind of a hommage. And then i was not so in to the choreography, because they also used lots of cgi for that. In Rocketman the first time i really was fascinated was by the first dancing scene, very powerful, it breathes live action captured by cameras, just beautiful.
So if you liked Better Man try Rocketman. But i'm glad i saw this one.
