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Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster

Details: July, 2004  140 min. Directed by Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Action: much talking, some music
Kid Friendly?: If they can stand all the talking
Reviewer: Lauren
Verdict: This 140 minute movie would have been much better as a 90 minute movie.

Documentary crew follows Metallica in 2001-2003,  as they recorded their album St. Anger. The dysfunctional group sought the counsel of their on-call shrink to help sort out their interpersonal woes.

This sounded juicy:
"Legendary heavy metal, hard rock tough guys go to therapy and talk about their feelings." And the first 20-30 minutes of this film were fun. But though Metallica may be the most successful heavy metal band of all time, theyıve always seemed humorless to me. And funny at the same time - like they should have a sense of humor about themselves, but donıt. (Now Rob Zombie, thereıs a rocker with a  wry sense of humor.)

This flick is 140 l-o-n-g minutes of the band bickering, intercut with some live concert and studio music scenes. I couldnıt even get through the whole movie in one sitting.

There are a few precious moments, like meeting Lars Ulrichıs bearded father who looks like he came to the US as a backpacking European student/hippie and never left. And James Hetfield doing his vocal warm-ups in a hallway before a show.

And the short scene of bassists auditioning to have a jam with the band at a Fan Appreciation Day. And James  "sharing" that even though he has to leave the recording session at 4 p.m. daily since heıs fresh out of months of rehab, he feels left out when the rest of the group continues after his departure.

Verdict - watch the movie "This is Spinal Tap" instead. Itıs basically the same movie but with a BIG sense of humor.

WAIT- UPDATE! OPINION CHANGE!

I watched the last 60 minutes of the movie AFTER I already wrote whatıs above. BUT the last hour of "Monster" made up for the sagging previous hour. Seeing Robert Trujillo audition and then be chosen as the new bassist, and then scenes of him practicing bass while jumping on his bed are great! And there are some good concert scenes in the last hour.

Now, I WOULD recommend this movie. Maybe you can just fast forward through the countless talking scenes in the second hour.
Verdict: this 140 minute movie would have been much better as a 90 minute movie.

 

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