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Although Metallica are now as lazy as Axl in regards to putting out studio albums of new material, at least they put out lots of extra stuff for the fans such as live dvds, outake eps (i.e. Beyond Magnetic) and other things. But really, why are they arsing around in Antartic when they should be in the studio?

Not really. They are working on new music and plan on playing a brand new song in South America. Though it's not new, they're also planning on re-recording Kill 'Em All and releasing that.

Not bashing Guns, but calling Metallica as "lazy as Axl" when it comes to new music is just silly.

Re-recording Kill em all??? Are you serious? Man, that´d be fucking awesome!!! That album sounds like crap. And they should also re-record AJFA while they're at it.

I love 80's movies, but I cannot stand Ferris Bueller.

Yeah.

Yeah. What's so funny? You know, a movie about life on the road with a couple of songs here and there, you know, a documentary Or maybe a movie about a roadie that's also a fan, who gets this once in a lifetime opportunity to live alongside his heroes for a couple of months and that turns into a life changing experience for him. There, I just single handedly wrote a superior plot.

Metallica fan here, but I stopped watching Through The Never after the 4th song. I don't know how it was advertised where you guys live, but here, here being a little corner in Uruguay, it was supposed to be a movie about Metallica on the road.

And I honestly thought that it was. Eh.. nope. That's not what it is: it's a concert, just like Cunning stunts or Live Shit: Binge and Purge, with random footage of a roadie on a mission to find something the band needs.

Maybe I should've known better when I downloaded it… but I am just not interested in watching yet another Metallica concert on my computer. Thank you. Great band and all, with lots of amazing stuff for their fans, but I've seen enough live videos… and the setlist starts to sound kind of like a metal version of Groundhog day.

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I swear to God this forum sometimes feels like a real life version of...

Caddyshack?

eh… no.

Ghostbusters?

Groundhog day, otherwise known as Hechizo del Tiempo (Time Spell) in South America and El Día de la Marmota (literal translation of the original English title) in Spain, I think.

I'm not an expert in the music business and I don't even research into how much albums I'm really into have actually sold. You know, I'm just the guy that patiently waits for albums to be released and then I go down to the store and spend my hard-earned money to buy the damned thing… or I'll get it on iTunes… or just download the whole thing. My point is, I'm just a consumer.

However, there are plenty of threads here discussing if CD was successful or not. As I've said before, all I know is that I do like it now. More than half of the songs on CD are good and worth my time. That's all I know. So in my book, yes. It was successful. In my world it was.

BUT...

When I peruse the threads about CD, it becomes pretty obvious that album sales are usually the biggest argument that comes up supporting the notion that yes, CD was a huge success.

My question is though: is it possible to gauge CD's success, or any other album's success for that matter, by looking at sales? Let me put it this way and I hope I don't sound like an idiot or some retard.

How many people are GnR fans around the world? I've no idea. But, for the sake of argument, let's go with a 100% totally random/made-up number I just pulled out of my hairy ass: 5,000,000.

If every single one of those GnR fans buys one album for himself/herself, the album will have sold 5,000,000 copies. Right? That does not mean though that they will have liked it. They bought it because they're fans. But maybe they got home and listened to it and decided they were never gonna listen to it again.

So unless I am missing something here, and I know I am, going by sales doesn't really give you an accurate picture of an album's success.

The same thing happens with movies, imho. You know, if you find out that Spielberg and Tom Hanks are teamin up again to release another WWII movie, in the tradition of Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, let's say a movie about Operation Greif or the Battle of the Bulge, chances are you and just about every single enthusiastic (is that how you spell it?) moviegoer will pay to see it. Let's say it opens worldwide on June, 7, 2014. You can safely estimare that around 7,000,000 people worldwide (another random number) will see it on that first weekend. But even if it flops, it'll already have made all that money from the ticket you bought.

Now, I know that directors and movie studios don't get to keep all the money from movie tickets. I know. But you get my point.

So… how can you actually gauge CD's success?

Another argument is: But I liked it! and so did all my friends! And when I went to this gig, everyone was having a great time when they played (enter random CD track).

But isn't that a little bit subjective? I mean, I love, I absolutely love Iron Maiden's The X Factor. But ask your average Iron Maiden fan out there and they'll more than likely say it sucks. And I don't think it sold that much compared to other classic albums.

So… how do you do this?

Just curious.

I swear to God this forum sometimes feels like a real life version of...

Caddyshack?

eh… no.

I couldn't care less about fan fiction or any of the alternate stories or spinoffs or ANY of the SW books written after the original trilogy came out. In my head, it's all about Episode IV, V and VI. I pretend the prequels never happened either.

I swear to God this forum sometimes feels like a real life version of...

Seriously, do half of you even think for yourselves?

-Chinese Democracy is either a piece of shit or a masterpiece

- Axl is 100% responsible for the old lineup splitting, or it's Slash's fault

-Chinese Democracy was either a commercial failure or a grand success

- etc

Why is there no kind of middle ground with so many GNR forum-goers? It's a crazy way of thinking.

Chinese Democracy is at least an alright album.

Old GNR broke up mostly because of creative differences.

Chinese Democracy sold quite well but didn't reach expectations.

Because we're bipolar.

They gotta take it slow. The cameos would be ok, I guess. But not enough. Not enough after having to wait such a long time before you can actually see Episode VII in theaters. And it's not just that. This new trilogy is a new opportunity for the Star Wars franchise to bring back the skeptics into the fold. And by skeptics I mean people who lost all faith in SW after the prequels. Me, for instance. So a cameo won't be enough. I want Episode VII to be about Luke, Han, Leia, Chewie, Lando. Period. These are beloved characters and the key to slowly introducing new people, new characters.

You can't force me or anyone else to suddenly accept new characters. It's too early in the morning for me to properly convey my ideas in English, but let's put it this way: the problem with the prequels, among many many others, was that there were way too many characters thrown into the mix. Yes, it was a clusterfuck. A confusing turkey of politics and tax bullshit no one really caree about. Keep it simple, people. Gimme a least a couple of charaters I can relate to and root all the way to the credits for.

At heart, most beloved sci fi franchises, although visually stunning and set in the future or in distant non existent galaxies and planets, are pretty straightforward stories. You know: this is your hero and the guy your gonna be rooting for. Check. This is your love interest. Check. This is the evil bad guy. Check. This is your comic relief. Check.

And it's not just that. You gotta make them likeable too. It's hard to care about a movie where 45 minutes into the plot you still don't give a rat's ass about the annoying kid that'll grow up to be Darth Vader.

So: wisely use your old characters to slowly introduce new characters, keep it simple and make you plot engaging, interesting.

The visuals are important too. I think we've all learned by now, or is it learnt?, as you can see I'm still confused about the American and British spelling system. Anyway… We've learned by now videogame-like visuals are not impressive anymore. Yes, it sorta looks cool. But it's hard to follow and even more difficult for me to care about what's going on.

Remember the space battles in the prequels? Did you care about the people dying? I didn't. Remember the space battles in Episode V? I know I cared about the rebels. They were likeable characters. I don't know. I'm not a movie director. But there's something distracting about having 1,000,000 computer generated soldiers running around on your screen.

I remember a time when this band used to be about music.

I like most of CD.

And I hope they cast unknown actors for the major roles, which is just what they did for the original trilogy, with the exception of one or two characters, like Kenobi. But Hans' kids should be played by unknown characters.

No you're not, i've always felt there was something wrong with you. The rest of the forum agrees with me too.

Don't you people?!?!

You know, even when I was a child, and this was years before the prequels, I didn't understand what the big deal was about Boba Fett. I mean, I know he was a sorta cool-looking dude and all, but to me, he wasn't that mysterious, which is what seems to get Star Wars die-hard fans all excited about Fett. He was in 2 or 3 scenes in Episode V and in 2 or 3 scenes in Episode VI, barely said anything and got killed in a very stupid way, imho. I think he basically has a cult following because of the stories based on the Star Wars universe and, now, because of the prequels. But if anything, the prequels destroyed whatever interest I had in Boba Fett. I don't know.

Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing too. I know these movies are coming and no amount of complaining will stop Disney from milking the cash cow, but, you know, I was reading the imdb forum the other day and people were saying they still loved Back to The Future, even after all these years, and one of the reasons was that they haven't fucked with that trilogy yet. No stupid remakes, no stupid prequels, no sequels, no nothing. They haven't even made any ET-like or Star Wars-like changes to the original trilogy and I think that's the way it should be.

Some stories don't need to be told. I think we know everything we need to know about certain Star Wars characters. I remember discussing Star Wars with my friends, years before the prequels were even announced, and I remember saying it´d be cool to go back to the SW universe and find out where Darth Vader came from and stuff. But sometimes those stories are better left untold, because you kill the magic.

That´s one of the reasons I refuse to watch any of the movies related to Silence of the Lambs or the TV series. I don't wanna know where Hannibal came from or why he is who he is. It´s like a magic trick, you know. You see it performed and you marvel at how fucking awesome it is, and you think you wanna know how it´s done, but trust me, you don´t. Because if you did, you´d be like: Oh… that´s it? And you won´t enjoy it ever again.

That´s what happens with all these spinoffs and prequels and sequels.

I do wanna see Episode VII, but only because rumor has it the old gang is coming back. But if it weren't for them, I doubt I'd be remotely interested in yet another SW movie. Yeah, the prequels killed SW for me.

I have a confession to make: I am hypochondriac. And I didn't use to be this way. It's just that I've been going for the past 3 years through a very difficult time in my life, involving deep changes and periods of extreme depression, which have triggered panic attacks and lots of anxiety. And now this hypochondria thing, which is really annoying. Saddest part is I know it's all in my head or I want to think it's all in my head, but I get anxious and feel like running away. I don't know. Sometimes I think I should see a shrink about my anxiety and depression and constant fear. And like I said, I didn't use to be this way. I hate the person I become when I get hypochondriac attacks or anxiety. It driles everyone around me nuts. But I cannot help it.

Ever experienced hypochondria?

Boba Fett stand alone movie confirmed.

Thoughts?

Milking the cash cow… I never got the fascination with Boba Fett either. anyway, I´ll stay away from it.

Thank you for those videos. The movie was very faithful to the original account of the survivor.

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I'm a guy btw

me too

This is getting very weird

If they pull this off, I'm getting breast implants and posting pics.

If they pull this off, I'm sucking on your new titties and posting pics.

I'm a guy btw