Seriously though, can Metallica just stop now.
We get it, you are the biggest, badest band there is and now you have an IMAX movie to prove it.
Yeah, yeah you win, I'm terrified and impressed and turned on all the same time.
There, is that what you needed, will you stop now......thanks
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'Metallica Through the Never': movie review
Rousing concert performances by the heavy metal band are intercut with a mini-drama about a Metallica fan on an unexplained, violence-filled mission
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Thursday, September 26, 2013, 12:55 PM
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Bassist Robert Trujillo thrashes things out in "Metallica: Through the Never."
- Title: 'Metallica: Through the Never'
- Trailer: With Metallica, Dane DeHaan. A 3-D semi-concert drama experience featuring the “gods of thrash.” Director: Nimrod Antal (1:32).
- Film Info: R: Violence, language. Area theaters; in 3-D and IMAX where available.
Metallica has always made in-your-face music.
Now, they’ve found a way to make that literal.
The band commissioned the first concert movie of their 30-year career, “Through the Never,” as a 3-D IMAX extravaganza. The result lets viewers feel like they’re sliding up and down the fretboard of Kirk Hammett’s guitar, volleying between the cymbals of Lars Ulrich and swallowing spit spewed by singer James Hetfield.
It’s so involving you can practically smell the band’s sweat. Certainly, you can see it, flowing floridly, as they muscle their way through their most ferocious material, filmed over five nights earlier this year in Vancouver and Edmonton.
The set ranges from “Hit the Lights,” off the band’s first album, through more streamlined, later classics like “Nothing Else Matters” and “Enter Sandman.” You don’t have to suffer through a single lesser piece.
It’s certainly enough to sate any Metallica fan. But, for some reason, the band didn’t trust that the classic material, performed expertly and depicted immersively, would sufficiently thrill. So they added a plot. Or something like one.
Every so often the camera cuts away from the pound-fest to follow the “story” of a Metallica fan played by Dane DeHaan, who’s about 20 years younger than most fans who come to the band’s shows. He gets tapped for a mission that’s never explained, has no logical flow and lacks a resolution. Beavis and Butt-head could have fashioned something more cogent.
Luckily, continuity isn’t the point. The scenario just provides a nice excuse to have cool-looking people beat each other up, get hanged or set on fire, which, it turns out, interacts brilliantly with shots of Metallica fans banging their heads to the band. The more violence, the merrier. Even better, few of the cutaways halt the music.
One drawback: While the swooping and careening visuals capture the depth and darkness of an arena experience, the sound doesn’t. As burly as the acoustics in a theater may be, they’re spindly compared to the sucker-punch fans prize at an actual Metallica concert. Luckily — for its visuals alone — “Through the Never” has enough grit and power to deserve two fists up.
jfarber@nydailynews.com
Now, they’ve found a way to make that literal.
The band commissioned the first concert movie of their 30-year career, “Through the Never,” as a 3-D IMAX extravaganza. The result lets viewers feel like they’re sliding up and down the fretboard of Kirk Hammett’s guitar, volleying between the cymbals of Lars Ulrich and swallowing spit spewed by singer James Hetfield.
It’s so involving you can practically smell the band’s sweat. Certainly, you can see it, flowing floridly, as they muscle their way through their most ferocious material, filmed over five nights earlier this year in Vancouver and Edmonton.
Dane DeHaan plays a young Metallica fan in strange action scenes intercut with the live musical performances in "Metallica: Through the Never."
It’s certainly enough to sate any Metallica fan. But, for some reason, the band didn’t trust that the classic material, performed expertly and depicted immersively, would sufficiently thrill. So they added a plot. Or something like one.
Every so often the camera cuts away from the pound-fest to follow the “story” of a Metallica fan played by Dane DeHaan, who’s about 20 years younger than most fans who come to the band’s shows. He gets tapped for a mission that’s never explained, has no logical flow and lacks a resolution. Beavis and Butt-head could have fashioned something more cogent.
Luckily, continuity isn’t the point. The scenario just provides a nice excuse to have cool-looking people beat each other up, get hanged or set on fire, which, it turns out, interacts brilliantly with shots of Metallica fans banging their heads to the band. The more violence, the merrier. Even better, few of the cutaways halt the music.
One drawback: While the swooping and careening visuals capture the depth and darkness of an arena experience, the sound doesn’t. As burly as the acoustics in a theater may be, they’re spindly compared to the sucker-punch fans prize at an actual Metallica concert. Luckily — for its visuals alone — “Through the Never” has enough grit and power to deserve two fists up.
jfarber@nydailynews.com
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