situations where inevitably they get caught up in a web of international intrigue," Tennant said. "Or those kind where there's interminable shots of the band rehearsing for 'The Big Show," said Lowe. Tennant said Bond, "just put us into our own songs or his idea of what our songs mean, but that doesn't mean this is just another rock video. Some people have criticized this as a long-form video, but 20 years ago, before there were videos, a movie made to music was considered a wonderful thing. I don't see why it shouldn't still be a wonderful thing." "We didn't want to do anything too literal, so it ended up being pretty surreal," said Tennant. "It's more like our version of the Beatles' 'Magical Mystery Tour' than 'A Hard Day's Night,' and it doesn't have a linear plot like a thriller. So it's really very impressionistic, and our songs help tell the story as much as the images." Filming took place over a month. The sequence where a man heads out to work engulfed in flames whilst the song "King's Cross" plays was, at one stage, going to be deleted due to the King's Cross station fire, but it remained at the request of the victims' families. "I don't agree with all his visions," Tennant said of Bond later. "But that's OK. It doesn't worry me. That's the kind of person I am." Reception The Los Angeles Times said the Pet Shop Boys "don't deserve the cruel fate they receive here. They are purveyors of pleasant and popular bubble-gum rock who have been caught up in what is essentially a string of MTV-type numbers overlaid with a pseudo-surreal style and snatches of confounding philosophical discourse that might have something to do with Einstein's theory of relativity (for all I know)." Proposed sequel After making the film, Lowe said, "The director (Jack Bond) is very keen to have us make another one. We're basically character actors, but maybe we could develop the characters a little more." "If we did another film, it would have to be another Pet Shop Boys film," said Lowe. "We're not into playing characters in somebody else's movie, like Sting. We'd rather just be the Pet Shop Boys." However, the film was a critical and commercial failure. Tennant and Lowe said in 1988 that: [Tennant:] It was like a Ken Russell film; there is no more unfashionable