Since when does nobody like Lars? I love that guy. In some of their live songs he just goes absolutely nuts on the drums, I can't believe some of the stuff he does, and he just keeps going at it flawlessly.

Metallica's live songs are much, much better than their non-live songs, in my opinion, with only few exceptions. Enter Sandman was horrible live(when I say live, I'm talking S&M disks one and two, some of their "live" videos and stuff are horrible, and I'll agree to that much.)

I mostly disagree with people who say Metallica's newer stuff sucks, because for the most part I think people are just hopping on a really really big bandwagon when they say that. Their newer stuff isn't as good, for the most part, and it is different from their older stuff, but it doesn't suck.