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Dean (6925 KP) rated Triple Frontier (2019) in Movies

Mar 15, 2019

Triple Frontier (2019)

2019 | Action, Adventure, Crime

6.2

(21 Ratings)

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Strong Cast (1 more)

Good action scenes

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Decent action/heist film

The trailer for Netflix most recent own film had me sold. Looking like a Special forces heist film with all guns blazing. Sadly it isn't quite like that for the duration of the film. It takes a while to build up to the action and then it's more about the escape. Which has little action until the end of the film. The action scenes are good though. If you were hoping for a mix of Heat with the Expendables then this isn't it. It does pose some brief issues on a deeper level about ex-forces personnel and morals, friendship but only a little. Always good to hear some Metallica blasting out in a film though.

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Morgan Spurlock recommended Brother's Keeper (2013) in Movies (curated)

Brother's Keeper (2013)

2013 | Drama

(0 Ratings)

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"My second favorite film, I would probably say my most favorite documentary of all time, is a film called Brother’s Keeper by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. Those are the same guys who did Paradise Lost and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Brother’s Keeper is this amazing film about a brother who was murdered, and it’s this omniscient journey as the murder gets uncovered and the investigation is happening. You know, they take one of the brothers to court, and the story just unfolds in front of you in a way that’s so twisted and bizarre and weird. This, for me, represents what a great documentary does. It just kind of unfolds in front of you in a way you can’t expect."

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Andrew Kennedy (199 KP) rated Load by Metallica in Music

Jun 23, 2019

Load by Metallica

1996 | Metal

7.5

(2 Ratings)

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When Load first came out I was unsure now after all these years I have grown to love it.
Opening with Ain't my Bitch it was typical high octane Metallica, 2x4 is next and then The House that Jack built, an under rated track, then come the singles Until It Sleeps, Hero of the Day and King Nothing the latter one of Kirk's finest performances.
Then Bleeding Me a track I hated at first but now absolutely adore.
Wasting My Hate and Thorn Within are outside of the formers intro very formulatic.
Next is Mama Said, a heartfelt song that some fans still have issues with.
Then Ronnie which I love.
Outlaw Torn ends the album again like Bleeding Me I started off hating it but over time I have grown to love.

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Baxter Dury recommended Loaded by The Velvet Underground in Music (curated)

Loaded by The Velvet Underground

1970 | Compilation

7.0

(4 Ratings)

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"This was the point where I did start to accept there were other kinds of music than the stuff I’d grown up with. Because I’d listened to so much hip hop and soul, I was very dismissive, even of Bowie. I never began to negotiate with that until I was much older. A real Velvet underground obsessive is less favourable to this album because it’s less pure in their eyes than the cold, earlier stuff, but it’s the first one that got me and drew me into that kind of music. It’s soulful as well. Lou Reed is brilliant. He’s a cunt, but he’s brilliant. I met him once, I did a TV show with him, Metallica and Lana Del Rey in France. It was the most awful panel of people I’d ever had to sit with. The only person that was nice was Lars from Metallica. They lined us all up and we had to stand and look as if we were all bonding. Lou Reed was like a melted mannequin, he had about four breaths left in him, while Lana Del Rey looked like someone had kidnapped everyone she knew. Lars had been to so many AA meetings he was all ‘Oh hey! So nice to meet you!’ Weirdly enough Lou and dad had a bit of a history, because dad’s only tour of America was with Lou Reed and they really hated each other. Lou hated everybody arbitrarily, and dad just hated America. I think that tour ended because dad knew Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood and they met them in LA. He complained about Lou Reed, so Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood went and de-tuned all of Lou Reed’s guitars."

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Blake Anderson recommended Seasons in the Abyss by Slayer in Music (curated)

"I think what’s cool about Slayer is no matter how old their albums are, it’s the one band to me that their sound is immortal. It never sounds corny to me. You can go back and listen to some Pantera and Metallica albums and you’re like, ‘OK, great music.’ But Slayer you go back and they always sound fresh and hard as hell. It’s always just a punch right to the face. I think that’s cool that their albums are almost undying. I like all different types of music. I don’t like going to any specifics. I switch with the seasons. I’ll get into an electronic kick and then I’ll get into rap. Listen to too much hip-hop you start to have some flavor for some guitar and next thing you know you’re listening to metal or hardcore"

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