Lemmy (2010) review

Slightly unconventional documentary about British rock legend Lemmy Kilmister, who's best known for his band Motörhead and for his hard-living lifestyle, which included drinking Jack Daniel's by the bottle, sucking down Marlboros, gambling and entertaining a lady or two (he also played the bass pretty well). While (naturally) everyone interviewed is all too eager to praise Lemmy - documentary-as-promotional-device - Olliver and Orshoski manage to capture some intriguing (and sometimes disturbing) aspects to the man: his obsession with games (that Trivia machine!), his (perverse) fascination with Nazi memorabilia (those knives!), his swapping female partners with his son (that kink!) and an early relationship that ended in tragedy and may have affected his future endeavors with lots of women (his runaway Dad might have played into his anti-authority beliefs). Engrossing for fans of the genre, although even non-metalheads might be taken in by Lemmy's undeniable swagger: as it turned out, he made it to 70 years old, passing away in late 2015. Have a Jack and Coke in his honor, and remember that you win some and you lose some ... it's all the same to him.