Metal Lords (2022)

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

High school kids start a metal band, high volume hijinx ensue.

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I can't believe none of you have watched this.

I'm giving it 4 out of 5 headbangs. It's funny if not consistently so. The story is totally predictable, and parts of it are way too shaggy, but it really succeeds as a movie about friendship, especially if you've ever had that one friend who not a lot of other people liked. I had 2 friends like that in my life.

[Edgy MD]

Better than, worse than, or comparable to Heavy Trip?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

This one isn't so ambitious or quixotic... it's a smaller movie about relationships with a metal framework.

[metirish]

It is on my list , should watch it this week

[metirish]

Just finished it, we thoroughly enjoyed it, fun movie

[Edgy MD]

Enjoyed the first 10 minutes this afternoon. Looking forward to screening the whole enchilada.

[whippoorwill]

That kid looks like a school shooter

[Edgy MD]

I approve of this film. I am surprising myself by going over 3 1/2 for a film of this genre, but it gets four bass drums from me. Every time it zigged along in a pleasing-enough-but-predictable pattern, it zagged off at the right time into some new territory.

I like that they were able to reference Black Sabbath without playing "Paranoid" or "Iron Man," but instead played the hell out of "War Pigs" — not the obvious pick of the klassick rawk programmers but definitely the one that gets real metal heads going. They played it so much that it was hard to tell where "War Pigs" ended and their killer original "Machinery of Torment" began.

[Edgy MD]

Watched this a second time tonight. Discovered this sweet couplet from battle-of-the-bands performance:

　　Your prom king crown’s the first thing struck!

　　Turned into a bucket of ****!

[Edgy MD]

We just realized that lead/drummer/looks-like-a-school-shooter-according-to-cooby was also the "mastuhbatin' Nazi child" frm Knives Out[/i

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