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Rating: 5/10 (17 February 2009)

OK movie, but come on. Where's the mirrors and the blades, the white nostrils? Without it, the band & their entourage would be passed out & sleeping on the floor a lot of the time, that is, when they aren't onstage, backstage, or talking with their managers, crew members, fans, etc. Also, the floor would often be in a bus, a van, a delivery truck, or in somebody else's motor home in a parking lot on the way to, or at the next stadium or theater or wherever the gig is. I think the hint that Steel Dragon's PR lady, "Tania Asher", is probably a tranny, is a funny part of the entertainment industry. It is not at all uncommon, at least on the west coast & in NYC. But, please Hollywood! You've got plenty of real tranny actor's, actress's, or whatever you want to call them ready for work everyday. I have known several of them, all XY transforming to XX. You can find them all over LA. They are bartenders, waitresses, "T-women of the night". Many of them are incredibly talented & some of those females, uh... males, are, hummm; you would never have known! I looked up that actress, Dagmara Dominczyk, & she really is a woman. If you wanted to touch the real world a little more, there were quite a few already established performers. Why couldn't you make offers to Jahna Steele, Vaniity, or an intersex actress like Eva Robin's? Eva & other ones you could have hired might need a dubbed over voice, but what's the biggie? You could have also looked for some tranny singers to add some spice to your "Hair-Band" theme. I'm not sure about when this movie was made, but now you could get people like Harisu. And, let me tell all you overly MACHO Heteros out there, Harisu could scare you. Was your pretty girlfriend born female? "Rock Star" showed a condensed version of the rock world of the 80's, but it was quite sanitized & Hollywoodized. The movie needed to show more of the real stress & extremism of that world, that insanity, that speckled reality. Oh yeah, I guess the REAL WORLD is not Hollywood.