The dinner scene is the best five or six minutes of the whole thing.
As a RUSH fan, I really dug it and appreciated it being made, but I have a tough time seeing what a non-fan would get out of it. A historical view of three down-to-earth, well-adjusted guys plodding along putting out the most influential/commercial prog-rock in the history of rock music. The only conflicts in the whole thing were when their record company had their backs to the wall on '2112' and then Neil's tragedies of the later 90's. They're such great guys, you end up rooting for them, but overall it's kind of a boring story for a non-nerd.
I'd like to see similar no-holds-barred docs made around Sabbath, KISS, Motorhead (the Lemmy movie was a bit of a fluff-piece), JUDAS PRIEST (would be amazing if Halford wasn't playing his "Metal God" character). Tons more bands actually. I think that Sam Dunn asked Sabbath if they'd want him to archive their career similarly, but they declined. I might be wrong on that though.
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