I like that logo.

At the start of this I was spending too much time to see whether they were really playing all the sounds we were hearing… but then I relaxed and was amazed.

It’s such a fun concert movie. And nostalgic now — he’s getting out the vote and everything. Awww. As if that mattered. It’s like a peek back to the idyllic time we had in … 2020.

I love it.

And since this is the third concert movie I’ve seen in a row that I’m giving ⚅, I guess I just love watching live shows.

I know! I had no idea!

American Utopia. Spike Lee. 2020. ⚅

I guess I didn’t see this tour, because I would have remembered that stylish hat.

This is such a bangin’ show, with lasers and everything.

Electric (their previous album) was amazing, and then Super was kinda not. But they’re really leaning into the Electric feel (if not all the tracks). This show almost makes me like the songs from Super! And even the gruesome Electric track, Love is a booshwah concept sounds good here.

And Neil Tennant has been using autotune so heavily the last decade that it’s a relief to be able to listen to his real voice again for an hour.

Pet Shop Boys: Inner Sanctum. David Barnard. 2019. ⚅

This is a 4K remaster, but er, I’m sorting comics while “watching this” so I’m really enjoying the K-ness.

Very rock n roll.

Neil!

This guy is a good singer, too.

Joni!

Somebody!

I liked it! Even if I didn’t really “watch it” watch it.

But I’ve seen this before — it was among one of the first handful of movies I saw in the movie theatre. I’d seen all the Beatles movies, so I guess this was the logical next thing for my elder siblings to take me out to. I was ten, I guess?

I don’t really remember much from watching that time around, other than that it was… kinda magical? And re-watching this now, I’m thinking perhaps this played a part in me becoming really into going to live shows? Because this is so romantic in its way, and there’s no talking heads interrupting the performances. We get songs in full, and then perhaps somebody talks for a couple minutes, max.

It’s 90% live performance, and I really like that.

So I’m rating this on both almost forgotten nostalgia and just how you should film live shows:

The Last Waltz . Martin Scorsese. 1978. ⚅