The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years
Filmmaker Penelope Spheeris scans the heavy-metal music scene: Alice Cooper, Lizzy Borden, Poison, Aerosmith, Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, depicting what life was like for the music artists living in the mid and late 1980s.
8 August 1961, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
1964, Berkeley, California, USA
September 29, 1964 in Seattle, Washington, USA
2 November 1963, Miami, Florida, USA
3 April 1982, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2 March 1966, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA
17 March 1962, Juneau, Alaska, USA
October 23, 2009
Fascinating.October 23, 2009
This is a well-made, observant documentary, with attitude to spare and plenty of justifiable laughs at the expense of its subjects.October 23, 2009
For all the amusingly fatuous remarks heard here -- and Miss Spheeris has a great ear for these -- the overriding dimness of most of the fans and musicians is frightening.October 23, 2009
Rather like watching a car wreck on the opposite side of a motorway.October 23, 2009
There's so little respect for the music that we never see or hear a number from beginning to end, and we rarely hear any of the musicians speak more than a few seconds at a time.