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2010 · music · documentary

Lemmy

Directed by Greg Olliver, Wes Orshoski1h 56m2010
ElsewhereIMDb7.89kRT83%Metacritic64
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
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Cosy, kinetic, gentle music / documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Over four decades, Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister has registered an immeasurable impact on music history. Nearly 65, he remains the living embodiment of the rock and roll lifestyle, and this feature-length documentary tells his story, one of a hard-living rock icon who continues to enjoy the life of a man half his age.

Our read · Lemmy (2010) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded music · documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a rowdy, affectionate portrait of rock's most indestructible outlaw.

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips from the openattention 2/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-updrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if heavy-metal documentaries or hard-living excess bore you tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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