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1. The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years is a documentary film directed by Penelope leestahealmesinaravecemumabi.coinfo between August and February , the film chronicles the late 80s Los Angeles heavy metal scene. It is the second film of a trilogy by Spheeris depicting life in Los Angeles at various points in time as seen through the eyes of struggling up-and-coming musicians.

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2. Jul 14,  · The film will be released this June in The Decline of Western Civilization Collection deluxe box set, featuring all three Decline films, each with a new 2K digital restoration, a .

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3. The Decline of Western Civilization came and went and hardly anyone noticed.. I do not mean the slow-motion apocalypse we have all been sleepwalking through for the last couple of decades, I am speaking of the documentary film director Penelope Spheeris unleashed upon an .

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4. THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: PART III was filmed in Documenting the contemporary punk rock scene, most of the kids in it were not yet born when the first installment was filmed. DECLINE III focuses on social issues rather than music. Most of the subjects are crusty gutterpunks, proud products of a society truly in decline.

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5. Aug 12,  · Depending on how drunk you were when you watched it for the first time, The Decline Of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years is either an uproarious celebration of the 80s Sunset Strip scene in all its hedonistic glory or a fist-gnawingly embarrassing parade of idiots, bozos and no-hopers who didn’t have the brains to tie their own shoelaces in the morning.

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6. Larger civilizations and cultures, however, often die hard. Consider the Maya Indians, whose ways of life were decimated by the technologically superior Spanish and their European leestahealmesinaravecemumabi.coinfo Mayan civilization spanned an impressive 3, years and was already in decline by the time the conquistadors arrived in

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7. There were two follow ups: 's The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years and 's The Decline of Western Civilization Part III. It was the first, though, that is the most.

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8. And "The Decline Of Western Civilization" certainly ranks as one of the most essential and accurate pieces of documentation ever undertaken of the early punk rock scene in Los Angeles, a city whose punk influence is only seconded by London itself, the city that initially gave birth to the earliest wave of punk rock phenomena. The Decline.

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