in 1991 and after a career span four album and the death of one of history most talented bassist and metallica release an album that sell ten of million of copy worldwide and make them household name . and over the next couple of year and the cult of metallica become so feverish it be literally impossible to escape mention or playback of the band . and that be when the first crack in the band image a a band of the people and only out there to provide alternative and appear . after saturate the market with live album and video and and merchandise and metallica reach the point i be sure the member like to kid themselves they would not . in other word and they begin to repel audience through mere mention . and with their material become progressively more poppy and more formulaic and not to mention more predictable and one see the point at which they should have give up the ghost be now at least thirteen year in the past . former fan use to urge them to retire while they have a shred of dignity left . it be now too late for that . an aspect of the anti mp3 tirade from lars that fan or former fan do not often mention be that lars be scar out of his mind of the internet and mp3 . not because of the possibility of theft of his music ( this and from a band that gain much of it initial notoriety through tape trading ) . rather and it be because mp3 to a large extent level the playing field in term of exposure . it be now just a easy for band sign to label that do not have million dollar warchests to saturate the listener with to reach a new audience . and a anyone familiar with the black or doom metal underground can tell you and those band utterly destroy any claim to uniqueness the band have . speedy and blind drum pattern with integrated guitar progression . morbid angel or kataklysm do it far well . and the more i emphasise that therion have have choir and orchestra a an integral component of their material since before metallica post black album crisis of how to revive suddenly ail record sale and the good . so when one sit down to view some kind of monster with those fact in mind and it only far expose what a bunch of ignorant and spoil child metallica really be . some say that everything the band have in term of potential or soul die with cliff burton and and while it take a while for this to become apparent and i can only agree . if burton be alive today and he would be shake his head in disbelief at what burgeois baby his former bandmates have turn into . fortunately and burton successor and a man i have think of a a poseur go by the name of jason newsted and win back audience respect by show enough disbelief for both himself and burton . whilst i would be the first to protest that there be many problem a hundred million dollar can not cure and the willingness of the band to rub their possession of such money in the face of their audience say a lot about the true nature of their problem . not only that and but the fact that their problem be entirely voluntary while people with problem of an involuntary nature who barely have enough to eat and leave alone make a film about the matter . well and to put it bluntly and this be not just a slap in the face to fan and former or otherwise . this same bunch of child be sit here and give an entire world the finger . their propensity to blame everyone but themselves for their misfortune and regardless of their merit and only highlight the problem . be i able and i would strap james and lars into seat and force them to watch people comment on this documentary . perhaps then they might understand that their decline sale have nothing to do with piracy and mp3 trading and or even bootleg . the party with the most responsibility for the fact that the party be now over stare them in the face every day when they look in a mirror . what make it even more sad be that even admit this to themselves and change the manner in which they conduct themselves accordingly will not fix thing anymore . they have literally soil their nest so badly that they could go to another planet and they would still be that talentless band who be give everything and choose to rub it in everyone face . do this mean the documentary be entirely worthless . well and no and there be moment in which outside observer quietly spin the affair into something real and which be where most of the comedy be derive from . a james and lars and and to a less extent kirk all make themselves look like big and big idiot and it be people like dave mustaine or torben ulrich who come off look the best . the former because he show u that just because you have a number one single and multi platinum album do not mean you be more successful . the latter because he speak the mind of every truly musical person on the planet when lars play him the track the band be think of open the new album with and by tell lars quite plainly that he would throw it in the trash and never to be heard again . the problem with the latter scene be that it have come about fourteen year too late . for reason like this and one could view some kind of monster a a kind of black comedy . it be funny to laugh at a pack of yuppie idiot who have no idea what be go on . but it be also sad to think of what they could have be . some kind of monster be a one out of ten film . the band doubtless intend it to be brilliant and but i doubt they mean to accomplish that by be this stupid .