Best movie of this year hands down!

You won't be disappointed!

Wonderful Movie

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

wow I don't even know where to start so i'll start from my live Metallica concert May 86, on tour with Ozzy,,Ultimate Sin tour .. I remember James screaming and shouting, get the f__ back people,, just get the f__ back or w'ere not gonna play,, everyone was like well we don't care we just wanna see Ozzy. I've been a Metallica fan ever since that day. This movie is one of a kind I feel, one thing I hated was the shrink that the band hired.. I have my own beliefs on the band cutting their hair, selling out to mainstream America. all of that stuff, but as far this movie goes,, quite intriguing to watch all of the band members quarrel bicker and moan to put it nicely,, James goes at it with virtually everyone in the room,, it's so hard to imagine that during that time period there was a time when some of the band members didn't know if James was gonna make it back to the band at all or if there would even be a Metallica to come back to,, loved everything that this movie had to present,, the look and feel, the gritty feel of it all, it just all seems so intense and very real to me because I've been a Metallica fan since 1986 the night I went to that concert and had my first cigarette. , thanks James.

A lot of people have mis-interpreted this film as a documentary about the rock band Metallica's latest studio album.What we actually have here is a psychological case study of grown men who have the emotional intelligence of pubescent teenagers... men who have not had to grow up simply because they existed in the right place at the right time with the right image and name.Their legend has grown far beyond their talents and abilities, and they are expected to turn out a quality product without a solid knowledge of songwriting or instrumental technique.We see constant sessions of "jamming" ostensibly to write songs but with riffs that are all essentially the same. Attempts at playing end in frustration over inabilities to execute simple instrumental technique.This is a cautionary tale about the kind of monster that has been created by our culture's overwrought adulation for popular musical acts and record companies' willingness to exploit people's emotions for personal gain.

I used to be a big fan of Metallica, but today I don't like their music anymore, but I still wanted to see this move. Some kind of monster is a music documentary, which clearly shows that Metallica is not a group, that it used to be. Instead of four angry, aggressive and energetic musicians, who created a classics like Muster of Puppets, Kill'em all, ... and Justice for all, Ride The Lightening etc. you meet four tired, egotistic and self absorbed "Ritchie Rich lookalikes", who are trying to make something, but they don't know how or even what. Oh, yeah... this movie shows the inside of recording Metallica's "new" album St. Anger. Yeah, this album sucks. But this movie doesn't suck. Yeah, this movie shows why St. Anger sucks. It even shows why was Metallica so boring in last years. Lars Ulrich, the drummer, is shown here as one of the most annoying guys in the music industry. He is trying to do something, but he's just talking empty words most of the time. James Hetfield, a vocalist and guitarist, is in the first part of the movie on a rehab from addiction to alcohol and when he's back in the second part of the movie, he doesn't know what to do. Kirk Hammet is the only man who is trying to make some sense from whole situation, but Ulrich and Hetfield don't let him do a lot. Most of the time the band is just talking words with no sense, trying to find an excuse for being so lame, and then we also have some kind of a psychiatrist in the group, for who I don't know what is he doing there in the first place. Like former bass player Jason Newstead said on the question about visiting a therapist to solve the band's problems. ("This is so lame and weak"). He had the point there. This movie shows why Metallica sucks. Not because they're bad musicians, but because they are just full of themselves and they think, they're the masters of universe. This documentary clearly shows that.

This film has far too much group therapy and not nearly enough music. The issues expressed in the therapy sessions are banal; important to the participants, but not interesting to an outsider. You get no sense of why Metallica was so important to so many people. It is hard to believe that they would allow a film crew to record them in such an unfavorable light. The thing that leaped out about Metallica's music was always the furious, dark, angry energy. Hearing Lars complain about James being late to practice is not that exciting.And visually, they don't look so good up close anymore. Pushing 40, gaining weight, losing hair, with wives and children -- they even say it themselves: it's not rock'n'roll.Part of the fun of idolizing a band is that you think that the people are somehow different or special. That is a fantasy, of course, but it is an important part of being a fan. The film reduces the musicians back to just normal whiny folks.The therapist is obviously eager for the spotlight. It was unethical of him to agree to the filming of the group therapy, even though the participants agreed. When a camera crew is present, people speak and act differently than if no camera crew was there.There is some talk of money that you don't normally hear. Lars offered Rob Trujillo $1,000,000 as an advance when he joined the band. There is a discussion of voting rights based on percentages based on length of service. The therapist got $40,000 per month.