sondramedia’s Metallic Week continues with the employees’s picks for our checklist of essentially the most “metallic” motion pictures ever. Hold checking again for extra Metallic Week options, and make sure you try our checklist of the 75 Finest Metallic Albums of All Time.
Metallic, as an adjective, isn’t one thing you’ll be able to simply apply to music. It’s an entire frame of mind, and one which quite a few filmmakers through the years have delivered to the display screen. Therefore, this celebration of 13 motion pictures that blew our minds with their capability to problem, enthrall, and excite us — like the most effective heavy metallic does.
Whereas we mentioned increasing this checklist’s scope to incorporate documentaries like Decline of Western Civilization Half II: The Metallic Years and Anvil: The Story of Anvil, that nearly felt like dishonest — it’s simple to say one thing’s metallic if it’s simply footage of a heavy metallic band in motion. Now, if the heavy metallic band was descending into Hell, or actually infusing its complete physique with metallic… That’d be a really totally different story.
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Moreover, we additionally selected to not rank this checklist, as an alternative arranging it chronologically, as a result of it’s not exhausting to resolve whether or not or not one thing is metallic — actually, you already know it while you see it. Nonetheless, deciding what motion pictures is likely to be extra metallic than others turned far too subjective a query. What we will assure is that whereas the under represents a whole lot of genres, from animation to comedy to epic fantasy to horror. And all of it’s face-melting cinema.
— Liz Shannon Miller
Senior Leisure Editor
