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04/08/06
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Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:26
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: Made by a metalhead, this documentary of the musical genre both informs and entertains with its range of interviewees.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: Professional anthropologist and rabid heavy-metal fan Sam Dunn devoted himself to making the most complete portrait of the heavy metal scene every created; the result, METAL, A HEADBANGER'S... [More]
Starring: Tony Iommi, Bruce Dickinson, Dee Snider, Alice Cooper
Director: Sam Dunn, Scott McFayden, Jessica Joy Wise
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Reviews for Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
There's so much information and so many finely honed arguments in this ultimately joyous film that it’s liable to send audiences scurrying home to their computers to download the bands they've just heard.
04/01/06
Enjoyable whether you're a fan of the music or not.
05/06/06
The metal scene emerges throughout the documentary as the recruitment center of an army of misfits, where the outcasts of the world can seek each other out based on their love of the angsty, eardrum-destroying tunes their parents warned them about.
05/12/06
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04/23/09
The film is packed with hilarious, often poignant interviews with metal luminaries.
04/13/06
Unlikely to win many new converts, but its core audience should have a rockin' good time.
04/07/06
Top CriticA film that manages to be intelligent without being boring, making it one of the better music documentaries in recent memory.
04/21/06
Brings on a variety of eloquent voices from both the fanbase and the gods of metal themselves.
10/20/07
A documentary that preaches to the converted if ever there was one, but Dunn's enthusiasm for the subject and the range of pretension and humour of his interviewees makes for fun viewing.
05/06/06
Dunn effortlessly smashes the cliché of metal-bands-as-Neanderthal-lunkheads.
03/13/06
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06/20/07
Acts not as the window for the outsider into the spectacle of heavy metal music, as the filmmakers proclaim it to be, but an unprovoked fan's defense for liking what he likes
04/14/06
The idea of looking at the music from the perspective of a fan, and plugging it full of interviews with rock idols, is clearly a winner.
02/24/06
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05/06/06
A lightweight fanboy valentine for ostensibly heavyweight music.
04/14/06
Top CriticMuch-maligned heavy metal gets a much-needed boost in Canadian filmmaker/longtime headbanger Sam Dunn's entertaining and informative documentary.
02/24/06
At once playful and thorough, the documentary is also stacked teased-hair high with wicked performance footage.
04/13/06
It's a measure of Dunn's success that even a total nonfan like myself could find his journey interesting.
04/20/06
You might not go out and buy the latest Slipknot album after seeing it, but you will understand why some disenfranchised kid would.
04/14/06
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