Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
Genre: Documentary / Music
Duration: 141 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Stars: Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich
IMDb score:
7,5 (21.239)
Releasedate: 9 July 2004
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster plot
This documentary takes a look at one of the most successful metal bands of all time: Metallica. Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky followed the musicians for over a year. The exuberant lifestyle of the group - nicknamed 'Alcoholica' - had broken the band members sorely some years earlier. When the recordings started, the group was in a deep depression because bassist Jason Newsted had just left. The relations between the other band members had fallen to a low point at that time. Physically and mentally exhausted, they came to a dead end and fell into a deep crisis both personally and artistically. During the recording of the album St. Anger - the first studio album in five years - the band went into group therapy.
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Chainsaw
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Rough, tattooed rocker stars with long hair, a life full of drugs, drink and sex and concerts where it can't go wild enough. However, the documentary Some Kind of Monster shows the band members of Metallica completely different. Drummer Ulrich and vocalist Hetfield are mainly bickering and whining like a 50-year married couple, while a therapist (with a salary you expect to buy something better than a hideous canary yellow sweater or bad shorts) joins in. and occasionally comes with some, totally ridiculous, advice.
Okay, that playing time of 140 minutes is admittedly a bit too long for such a fact, but Some Kind of Monster doesn't really get bored for a moment. The documentary owes this mainly to a few very witty moments (which include the commercial), the idiotic side characters (Ulrich's dad) and interviews with former members such as Jason Newsted. In any case, that variety did the film a lot of good. Because Mr Lars Ulrich, for example, came out of my throat after just half an hour with his exaggerated posturing. It's a bit of a jerk.
3.5 stars. Bad album, good documentary.
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dutchtuga
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- 4101 votes
This documentary made me take the St. Anger album off the shelf after 10 years or so. I still don't think it's a good album, but the story behind it, especially as a Metallica fan, is very fascinating and well portrayed in this entertaining documentary.
3.5*
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Drs. DAJA
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- 4521 votes
I'm not necessarily interested in Metallica, although I think it's an entertaining and decent band. Some Kind of Monster, however, is something that only lives on the fascination fans must have for this band beforehand. It is amateurish crap like Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky have done before. I can't imagine choosing the 4:3 frame has anything to do with anything other than their cheap video camera not having a widescreen feature. We are in a band full of tensions and nowhere are those tensions palpable, fascinating or compelling. The tempo is low, the band is not introduced to me and there is no tension created anywhere so that you as a Metallica outsider have nothing to do with this nor will you get it. Huge missed opportunity.
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