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(tv series) Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 shows the disaster of this festival up and close

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Although I have already seen a full length documentary about this disaster of a festival, my friend recommended me this three part tv documentary series about debacle called Woodstock in 1999.

Thirty years after original Woodstock which happened in 1969, original promotor Michael Lang wanted to revive the feeling of peace, love, unity and positive energy, found sponsors and decided to make Woodstock happen again. The line-up was totally great featuring Metallica, RHCP, RATM, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Kid Rock, Offspring, but also Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson and James Brown as a kind of bridge between old and new generations. It was all well imagined, 250 000 crowd on former abandoned airfield and airbase in upstate New York with three days of superb music, fun and feelgood. What could go wrong? Well, everything! My personal opinion that the main idea and engine of promotors for this festival was greed and not original Woodstock ideas and their fault is equal that crowd of rowdy assholes raped, pillaged, burned and destroyed everything beyond imagining. I have never seen something like that. It also confirmed to me that Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit it total redneck asshole, what I have known before. If you watch it you will know why. I also blame main sponsor and I can’t let in my head thought of water denial to crowd in Summer heat and putting such prices to bottle of water. This is a great documentary and I think Woodstock brand is buried and gone. Good riddance to it as well.

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(tv series review) Helvete: Historien om norsk black metal

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I have waited for a while to watch this one, because it had no English subtitles, I don´t speak Norwegian, so these four episode documentary series had to wait until someone uploaded subtitles.

Well, this finally happened, so I enjoyed history of Norwegian black metal, one of the culturally highest exports of Norway with Darkthrone LP being exposed in National Norge Museum as part of the cultural heritage. Who would have thought huh? Things I love about this series is that it gathers in one place all important members of the scene, with interviews with Necrobutcher and Atilla, also Hellhammer from Mayhem, Snorre Ruch(Thorns), Garm(Ulver), Satyr(Satyricon), Marius(Mortem), Hoest(Taake/Gorgoroth), Shagrath and Silenoz(Dimmu Borgir) …. all in one place. There is one touching episode about late legendary vocalist of Mayhem, Dead and how they turned him into black metal myth and icon. What I don´t like about this series, is that although I love Mayhem, there is just too much Mayhem in this series, some Darkthrone, Emperor, Thorns and Dimmu, but there are much more and better newer bands in the Norge scene. Okay, this series deals with nineties scene and all the murder, church burnings, great music and darkness in the scene, but Norse bm scene is alive and well and thriving with many great bands like 1349 for example who are not mentioned at all in this series. I also like the part about Euronymous, who willingly or unwillingly became a godfather to so called bm mafia which did not exist at all. In all, some new information, many old and already known facts, but a decent series.

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(tv series) The Boys season 3 is a bit less than first two, but still rocks!

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Couple of years ago, my friend told me go watch The Boys, you will love it! Knowing my affinities my friend rightfully deduced that I will become massive fan of that series. We are all used to the world where superheroes are troubled but good, with burden of the world lying on their shoulders. But, The Boys, based on comic by Garth Ennis, brought something entirely different in the picture. Theirs is the world where they are employees and practically slaves of the media corporation, led by Homelander, hero with blonde hair, nice look, but psychopatic lunatic killer maniac all the same. In this third season, after all the events with Stormfront and other villains, our heroes Hughie, Billy The Butcher, Starlight, Frenchie and Mother´s Milk try to get ahold of Soldier Boy(newly arrived to the series – none other than Jensen Ackles of Supernatural fame), who was frozen by the Soviets decades ago because Soldier Boy only has weapon how to kill Homelander and stop his madness. As it goes, there are couple of sub story lines and I can not write much about the story, because I will spoil it to you. If you want black humor, gore, blood, guts, nudity, profanity, above all superb screenplay and story than all three seasons are just right for ya.

This third season was a bit weaker than the first two, but sweet journey nonetheless.

8/10