Some Kind of Monster (film)

Some Kind of Monster is a 2004 documentary film featuring the American heavy metal band Metallica. It shares its name with the song Some Kind of Monster from Metallicas 2003 album St. Anger. The film shows many studio rehearsals and fragments of concert footage. It won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature. The DVD release was handled by Paramount Pictures, whose 2000 film Mission Impossible II featured I Disappear by Metallica. Metallica rereleased the film, including a bonus documentary, in 2014 to celebrate its 10th anniversary.

Metallica is forced to examine their nature and their very existence as bassist Jason Newsted quits the band and frontman James Hetfield abruptly leaves the group to enter a rehabilitation facility due to alcohol abuse. Metallicas management QPrime hires performanceenhancing coach Phil Towle to help the group better understand one another as friends, bandmates, and human beings. When the members of Metallica eventually decide that Towles services are no longer required, Towle attempts to convince them that they still need him, saying Weve still got some trust issues that I think we need to sort out..Former Metallica guitarist Dave Mustaine also appears briefly in a scene in which, as part of Lars Ulrichs therapy, he confronts the guitarist on September 13, 2001, regarding the decision to fire him early in the bands career for his excessive drinking. The two had not had any personal contact for many years and Mustaine speaks frankly about his resentment stemming from his dismissal without the opportunity to redeem himself with an alcoholism treatment program. Mustaine also speaks of how, despite achieving success with his own group, Megadeth, he still endures ridicule from Metallica fans, which has diminished the enjoyment of his own success. ........

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