SOME KIND OF MONSTER and THE FIRE WITHIN: Reviewed!
Season 4 is here! The cold open is a hoot and a holler. It’s part 1 in a tale entitled: TECHNICAL AMBITIONS BRING TECHNICAL ISSUES. It will conclude next week. Maybe. Cliffhanger? Who knows. The main technical concern for you, our dear listener, is that you have a show to listen to. Thankfully. For yet another week in a row. And that’s all that matters isn’t it? Unless you’re James Hetfield and in your feelings about other stuff on the Black album. Anyway.
Some Kind of Monster, the rock doc on Metallica can actually be watched on YouTube. At least for now, as of the drop date for this episode. The 1st of August 2024. And you know what, dear listener? You should watch it there. Because one of us did. Because there are pretty reasonable automatically-generated captions. And hey, when you need subtitles, you’ll take whatever is going: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPXPZ10h50c
St. Anger is my favourite Metallica album (spoiler who wrote these show notes!) so excuse me hardcores!! But my lifestyle determines my deathstyle is some fucking Buddhism right there. Anyway, check it out and get over it (via this aptly-named channel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtO7GukB0ho
A recent Guardian review of Some Kind of Monster can be found here. If you didn’t find ours to go on for long enough. Which we didn’t either: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/25/metallica-some-kind-of-monster-classic-documentary-is-a-cautionary-real-life-spinal-tap-tale
Empire’s review from back in the day is very cutting. And I quote “frankly, the band doesn't come off well. Hetfield’s a control freak, Ulrich’s a hypocrite and guitarist Hammett is pathetically non-confrontational”: https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/metallica-kind-monster-review/
A metal head wrote a review trashing them and the album and for all the love they get, this is a fun contrast. Haters gonna hate: https://www.deadendfollies.com/blog/movie-review-metallica-some-kind-of-monster
Ok, now it’s time to go back to the volcanoes. The people demanded it. Or something. I forget. Maurice and Katia Krafft. We missed you. The Fire Within is on iPlayer because Werner Herzog is the man: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001d7lc/storyville-the-fire-within
The Wikipedia page for this requiem of a documentary is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_Within:_A_Requiem_for_Katia_and_Maurice_Krafft
Werner Herzog talks about The Fire Within at length here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBI2uHjcwbg
Werner Herzog (who is THE MAN, did I mention this yet?) talks about The Fire Within at more length here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBZsDaKFXw4
The Fire Within was reviewed by the modern documentary magazine, which seems like an appropriate place for a review of this film: https://www.moderntimes.review/the-fire-within/
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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT:
CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY:
https://www.netflix.com/watch/70231771
JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:
https://www.netflix.com/watch/80232329
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