Meh, I rarely am in the mood to listen to them any more. I can still enjoy their stuff, but generally can't stand to listen to a whole album. They've done some good live stuff, but their commercial releases have just been awful.
Stardust is the most awesome relatively unseen movie out there. Not sure how it wasn't a bigger hit. It's got all the magic of The Princess Bride with an arguably better cast.
I've tried watching it a few times and it does nothing for me. It is less than the sum of its parts and nowhere close to the magic that is Princess Bride. Its not even to Willow level.
I remember the day I got the album too. People were already calling sell-out with TBA.
Doesn't everyone realize they were pioneers (good or bad) and just did different things through their evolution? Look at S&M. They did what they wanted to do, not what we wanted them to do.
Shit people were calling them sellouts after Kill 'Em All.
I don't hate their 90s stuff although a lot of it wasn't good. I liked S&M and Garage Inc. quite a bit, and some songs off their others. They obviously weren't thrash metal at that point, which is fine. Thrash metal was pretty much dead anyway, and it likely would have been a bunch of St. Anger level albums if they'd tried to keep doing that.
At this point they're like most other big name bands, good to see live, likely will not put out any new music that doesn't suck ever again.
Through The Never was...I don't even know. The start was promising, and I guess they tried something interesting for a concert movie (and the concert stuff was mostly good, good quality, cringed at the stupid fake accident), but the story was such nonsense. Best part was the weird (but still good) version of Orion that played during (or maybe after) the credits.
With James getting old and not being able to sing anymore I would love to see Metallica create a full blown instrumental Album. As we all know these guys have skills like none other (a different league in my eyes) so I believe this would be very successful.
Yeah I wish they'd go full instrumental. Those were generally their best songs too, and they can still play very well. Hell Lars I think actually improved with time.
I would love for a double album, another with covers and oddities (so stuff like Garage Inc. and S&M and like the live stuff where they've had tons of guests; there was a pretty cool live show where Jason came back, so they had dual bass with him and Robert; and then stuff like where they played alongside Megadeth/or with Dave, and Anthrax and stuff like that) and then the other would be new instrumental, with maybe some rare vocals (say like in To Live Is To Die).