METALLIMANIA DVD
Metallimania
looks as if it might be a documentary about Metallica and all their
years in the music business. Don’t let that idea get into your head.
This DVD is nothing more than some die-hard fan who introduces each
pointless chapter, and each chapter is nothing more than a bunch of
home video clips taken outside of Metallica concerts in the parking
lot. The footage is so old that it is barely relevant to the band as
they are currently. Most of what you see here is people praising
Kill ‘Em All,
Ride The Lightning and
Master of Puppets,
and bashing …And Justice For All. This was done around the time that
Jason Newsted joined the band, so everyone was calling them sellouts
over the way Justice sounded – I wonder what these guys thought of St.
Anger. Just a bunch of redneck fans that are, most of the time, too
drunk to make clear statements or even look directly at the camera.
There are a few occasions that they actually interview people
indoors. A few of the guys they interview here fidget like crazy, and
in turn, make the viewer want to jump up and hit the screen. One guy
was shaking like a crack addict and most of them had a hard time
getting their thoughts together. There were in fact a few minutes of
scattered footage of them talking to James, Lars, Kirk, and Jason.
Metallimania really has little to do with the band at all,
it’s just some uber-fan that collected a bunch of really pointless
footage of people acting like idiots, and talking like idiots, outside
of concerts. In fact, I think if some of those super conservative folks
out there, who hate Metallica and Metal for what it “represents” ever
saw this, it would only further their opinions of metalheads being
nothing more than violent, drunken, poor, dirty delinquents.
There were also a few scenes of Scott Ian of Anthrax getting
interviewed, along with Tom Araya from Slayer (I love it when he says
Metallica is too scared to tour with Slayer). Supposedly there are
appearances by Rob Halford and Madonna on here too (or so says the
cover) but I fail to remember seeing them. All in all, this was 109
minutes that were better spent elsewhere.
