Anyone who is totally looking forward to seeing this movie and will be disappointed by spoilers might want to skip this post.
The trailer:
The reality:
The movie basically consisted of 45 minutes of interviews with Fenriz from Darkthrone (right) and 45 minutes of interviews with Varg Vikernes from Burzum (below left, shown with kitty friend), interspersed with a bunch of footage of Fenriz walking around. A couple other people are interviewed briefly (the dudes from Immortal, Hellhammer from Mayhem, and some douchey artist guy), in addition to overlong shots of the Norwegian countryside and a completely superfluous interlude involving "avant garde" filmmaker Harmony Korine.
The highlights: - A vaguely amusing sequence featuring Frost from Satyricon riding on an airplane and then burning artwork, stabbing a couch, and cutting himself extensively -- all to polite applause from an audience of Italian art connissuers.
- That's about it, actually.
The lowlights:
- Varg explaining how chasing Euronymous down a stairwell and stabbing him to death was "self-defense".
- NO live concert footage besides a couple of choppy, seconds-long video clips of Mayhem and Darkthrone rehearsing in their basements.
- Several minutes of footage showing Fenriz walking around an art gallery looking at stuff.
- Several MORE minutes of footage of Fenriz sitting in bars, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes.
The revelations: - The guys from Immortal, when they're not decked out in stage gear (right), dress like extras from Blade.
- Fenriz has a neck-beard and listens to techno.
- Bard "Faust" Eithun, former Emperor and Mayhem drummer and convicted murderer, talks like a robot and only hangs out in really dark rooms.
- Norwegian prisons look like spaceships on the outside and your grandparents' house on the inside.
The diagnosis:
- Skip it. This is a story that everyone already knows, told through the eyes of ONE outsider and ONE participant. Too long and not very entertaining OR informative. I'm no huge fan of black metal, but I know enough to realize that this is a MUCH bigger and more interesting story than the filmmakers made it out to be. Only recommended to total basement-dwelling fanboy Nazis who think that Varg Vikernes is some sort of "misunderstood genius". Complete 'meh'. At leat Jay gave me half a Snickers bar, which prevented the night from being COMPLETELY pleasureless.
You're better off reading Lords of Chaos again. Just skip all the chapters about Varg.
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11 comments:
Fenriz didn't say anything hilarious? In every Darkthrone interview I've read, he's said at least one thing that made me laugh out loud.
I've seen and heard interviews like that, too. But he was pretty stiff in the movie. There was, like, one part that kind of made me giggle.
That's weird because I would expect some really funny interviews like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh2-MeMuDuI
I really like this interview. Hilarious. "I'm into boring thrash".
It's true. This movie was B-O-R-I-N-G. I expected more, to say the least.
I though the footage of him being interviewed in the movie was pretty funny too, although Im not sure if it was me laughing with him or at him...
Skipping the chapters with Varg in Lords of Chaos is definitely a good idea but that leaves something like a paragraph to read...
I wasn't expecting a comedy, but I thought it was funny in parts. I actually liked the movie a lot, it's very serious for the most part and shows something of the environment that kickstarted the whole thing. I thought the parts with Fenriz were great - not a huge fan of the music, but cool to see him just being a regular person and not a clown. I liked the art stuff, I believe it was making a point about them losing control and as Fenriz says at one point "I't's out there now. Everyone can use, like for comedy or whatever." Interesting. Nice to see a doc about a music scene that's about a little more than just what guitar someone uses and ridiculous posturing.
The photos in the post are tops. I'm going to have to make them into a collage and hang it above my (non-existent) Black Metal altar.
Glad I missed it...I'm hungry for a snickers bar.
hohohohohohohohohohohohoho(evil laughs)
blogger, you certainly have a hard on for Varg, you just cant seem to stop mentioning his name. you might want to look into that obsession a bit?
I don't know, thought it was cool. Guys are very intelligent.
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