Metallica - Through the Never [Blu-ray]

Takeaways:1. Metallica are terrible at movie plots.2. Metallica are the best Heavy Metal band of all time.

I read the 1 star reviews because I was curious how someone could rent/buy a Metallica DVD and be disappointed. I actually understand after reading the comments why a big percent of the 1-star customers were upset. The cover does look menacing and coupled with the previews it is a bit misleading if you are expecting an awesome movie experience.I went in with a very open mind and little if any expectation. It was truly out of curiosity that I made the purchase at all. As a long time fan of the early days of Metallica I wanted to see what they were like now. The last live show was on their "Justice" tour. I was not very impressed with a lot of their stuff after that. I thought they were a little too mainstream and figured they lost some of that fire they had before money and the world softened them. The movie is really just a concert from 2013 and they have mixed in a future/primitive/apocalyptic themed story line. Not really much of a movie as a stand alone film. I have to believe it was just an attempt to add imagery to the show, to keep a distracted attention deficit generation involved.It worked for me, lol... I give the "Movie" 2 stars and the show a solid 5. The song-list includes all my favorites and the stage and show is unbelievable. I would love to see this concert live. METALLICA showed me they still have that fire and it still burns bright.Thanks for an incredible experience.BTW, I bought the HD DVD so Lars won't have the Feds break down my door, and because this song list is great.

Metallica; what can I say... these guys are my age, in their 50's and still crankin' out some of the best music to ever grace the planet, aggressive, in-your-face and actually with a deeper meaning beyond just the surface lyrics. All this/these new formulaic, wimpy, pop music/pop stars should learn from these guys, this music was from an era when you actually had to know how to play your instrument/sing (without auto-tune) and have some real talent before you could actually be a bona-fide "star". Nowadays seems all you need is "the look" and some sorry-ass, cash hungry, soulless record company backing you and you can be a "pop-star". God help us -- to what level have we allowed (us as parents) this new generation (our kids) to fall to??? To accept the crap played on the radio nowadays as "good music"??? C'mon, give me a break!!! Heavy Metal (especially thrash metal) rules!!! On the bright side there is some hope, groups like Avenged Sevenfold who continue to "carry the torch" of awesome, melodic, thrash metal. We need many more like these -- with the same level (or more) of musicianship and a hell of alot more airplay. I guess I'll just keep prayin' the music scene will eventually come full circle and that maybe in a few years the airwaves will be full of the kind of "magical" music we used to hear when I was in high school in the late 70's early 80's. I won't hold my breath though...

Nimrod Antal is responsible for directing this production, which integrates the narrative element into the concert. This creates a juxtaposition between a roadie's trip to hell and the show (which setlist consists of Metallica's greatest hits).Probably the genre that best describes the narrative scenes on the street is 'horror'. And although the scenes are close to technical perfection and make good use of the soundtrack, the narrative of the film can be very ambiguous and chaotic, which can be a little frustrating for the viewer.The film has many elements that are open to interpretation, which Metallica says were put there so that the viewer could they have their own interpretation of what the symbols used in the film are trying to say.However, each time the film seems to be about to collapse because of the ambiguity of the plot, the display takes us back to the Metallica concert, where the band continues to rock the audience with palms, yelling and mosh pit.The amazing performance of the American band makes one wonder if there really was a need to put a narrative element of a film when a movie about them just playing may have been just as dramatic.And even though the scenes in which DeHaan appears make use of special effects, I can guarantee that the concert scenes make no use of them.

Now, I love Metallica with all my heart, but I must ask what they were thinking making this movie? The storyline made almost 0 sense to me, and at times I had no idea what was happening. I've seen the movie twice on streaming before I bought it on DVD because they took it off of streaming. I knew what I was getting into and I was fine with it. For context, I play all my CDs and DVDs off of my Xbox One and I was super excited to watch it again. Disc One goes off without a hitch. Disc Two is fine until I try to watch the Orion Festival Highlights. It freezes when I select it and I can't do anything else. I made sure to restart, close the player, everything, but it won't work. And it's not my player either. I tried my other Xbox One, and it had the same exact problem. So now I know it's the disc and not my Xbox Ones. Keep in mind, both of them played the entire deluxe editions of Kill Em All, Ride the Lightning, and the Black Album with only one little hiccup, but even that was resolved. So it's a little annoying, but just know if you buy this without watching it beforehand, it's a weird and not so good movie, although it does make for a fantastic concert film.

The sound quality on this is so awesome.

Toller film

Soliti grandi metallica. Qualità audio migliorabile.

Excelente calidad audiovisual.

Fantásticos Blu-ray con excelente calidad de sonido e imagen, esta es la versión alemana que viene con un disco 3D y otro en 2D, solo con subtítulos en francés alemán e italiano, por otro lado no necesarios, ya que la película escasean los diálogos y todo se entiende bastante fácil. De hecho no es ni película ni concierto entero es un híbrido pero que prácticamente todo es música en directo.Muy buenos temas aunque corto el concierto, para mí entender no vale la pena la versión 3D aunque la probé y se ve bien la 2D es suficiente, con excelente imagen, por cierto para mí lo mejor el sonido que tiene esta versión alemana, por eso lo compré.... es dolby atmos

Mooi deze versie in Dolby Atmos. Voor zover mij bekend alleen is dit alleen beschikbaar op de Duitse versie van de Blu Ray.Geen NL ondertitels.