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Tessa Strain's avatar

Vox Lux obviously a mess top to bottom (albeit a movie that passes my “lmao what” test in that it made me go “lmao what” multiple times), but I was baffled at the climactic performance scene because they have Natalie Portman wearing these 2” heeled black Chelsea boots like I wore at my retail job at the time because I had to be on my feet 8 hours a day, like truly what are best identified as commuter shoes, to the point that I wondered if she had forgotten her correct shoes back in her trailer and this was sort of a Starbucks cup in Game of Thrones situation because in no universe would these be considered stage wear for the type of pop star she’s seemingly meant to embody. I love that I’ve been stewing over this for nearly 6 years.

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Clare's avatar

what made me laugh the most about supersonic is that they both, liam out of some weird polite appreciation for his brother’s savant musicality, noel out of an inability to concede his approach to fame is wrong, are incapable of admitting that oasis was only ever huge because they were hot and cool. though liam is the instigator he is right: looking cool and doing drugs is the backbone of the whole enterprise, and if you let noel take it over with the weird slow poetry, it falls apart. the central antagonism seems to be that liam is hot and that makes noel mad. but if the movie was about what rockstars are really all about, it would be dismissive of the band’s artistic contributions. someday they will invent a way to make music docs that balance these ideas but it is not the time for that.

always mean to watch the billie one because i hear that in it she doesn’t know who orlando bloom is until someone says “that’s the guy from pirates” — me

1d doc only memorable because of when harry gets really annoyed with niall for wanting to wear a mask as a novelty in japan. like i don’t want to be trapped in a car with any of those jokers either. zayn was right to leave

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