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I'm not a fan, but this is well worth a watch. After all, metal is always funny, even if you don't like it. lol.gif

 

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Ostensibly chronicling the making of the St. Anger album, there's little music on hand. Instead, a fractured family・faces, via therapy, every embarrassing detail in order to rebuild itself, while this group of middle-aged men struggle to maintain their firebrand ideologies.

 

We witness bassist Jason Newsted's departure, singer Hetfield's unannounced 11-month sojourn into rehab, the PR disaster of drummer Ulrich's war with Napster・

 

Frankly, the band doesn't come off well. Hetfield's a control freak, Ulrich's a hypocrite and guitarist Hammett is pathetically non-confrontational. Yet the doc isn't a hatchet job, rather encouraging sympathy by capturing plenty of heart-breaking sadness.

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