Tomorrow the Metallica of filmmakers, George Lucas, will re-release his catastrophically bad Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 3D, I guess because there’s nothing like sitting through a terrible two-and-a-half hour movie in the worst format available.

The silver lining, though, is that someone has taken the trailer and re-done it with death metal music, even going so far as to put DM vocals over all the actors’ lines. And maybe it’s just because I’m all hopped up on Percocet right now, but I found this extremely funny — especially because the unintelligible vocals are a vast improvement over Lucas’ shitty, shitty dialogue.

-AR

[via Film Drunk]

Fact: the record industry is dying. And while Trent Reznor and Radiohead are rolling with the punches, giving albums away for free under cover of still being able to make millions from concert revenue and merch sales, Metallica are going the other way, trying to lure fans with a variety of steeply priced box set “special editions” of their forthcoming album, Death Magnetic. Depending on how delusional you’re feeling with regards to the ongoing quality (or, more accurately, lack thereof) of every Metallica release for nearly the last twenty years, you can purchase editions that will come with coffin cases, posters, flags, guitar picks, band photos, ringtones, a behind-the-scenes DVD, a “credit card” to allow you to download some future shows, and, oh yeah, a $25 digital download of the album.

Um… huh?!?!

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