Re:GIMME A BREAK JON! (Score 1)

Reading into a an action flick like "The 6th Day" is like trying to find the meaning of life in a thrash metal album.

Chas, that's hardly fair. Thrash metal has dealt with many of the same issues as 20th-century literature: nihilism, the futility of life in an industrialized society, addiction, the role of the hero, and the impossibility of individualism. I refer you to Slayer's "Seasons in the Abyss", Anthrax' "Persistence of Time", and Megadeth's "Rust in Peace" for more examples. These issues were "enlightening" when Kafka wrote about them; why not when Dave Mustaine did?

Dismissing thrash metal is akin to dismissing the Expresionist movement in 1920s German art, or to dismissing Romantic literature and music (as music critic Eduard Hanslick did in the 1860s) as the rumblings of disaffected youngsters. This sort of snobbery merely causes one to miss great art.