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Title: Embarrassing
Review: This movie is so bad I felt like being sick. It tells the story of Brian Slade (a.k.a "Maxwell Demon"), a glam rock star in 1970s Britain who subsequently fakes his own death, and the journalist who tries to track him down 10 years later in the mid-1980s. All you need to know about the plot is that it is an unapologetic rip-off of the Ziggy Stardust/David Bowie story.The best things about this film are: 1) the fashion, 2) the Jack Fairy character (partly based on Brian Eno, I think), and 3) the Roxy Music, Brian Eno, and Steve Harley tunes. Unfortunately, the music written specially for the film is utter"ly "bad". ...what kind of a name is "Maxwell Demon"? A ridiculous one, if you ask me. Anyway, as a fan who got turned on to Bowie, Roxy Music, Kraftwerk, Japan, and the whole glam-punk-goth-New Romantic movement as a young teen circa 1984, I had hoped for something a lot better. Sadly, it was not meant to be. This film fails to deliver in a major way.
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