Worst Movie With the Best Soundtrack

Rating: 1/10 (3 June 2009)

First of all, I'd have to say that this movie is well made and well acted. That said, it's total crap. You know the plot. Self-indulgent kid with no real problems decides to chuck it all and make his way to Alaska. Apparently, he is angry at everyone and everything for no particular reason. Suffice to say, he meets his doom, freezing to death in an old bus in Alaska.
There are very few movies in which I wanted to slap the protagonist and this is one of them. Does he have a problem with his parents? Not really. He feels no relationship towards them, though. A good part of the film is narrated by his sister, evidently she is writing about him in a diary or something. I felt like screaming at the screen, "Dude, even if your parents don't love you, your sister does. She misses you and wants you to come home." On a brighter note, this gets my award for the worst movie with the best soundtrack. Eddie Vedder, turning to a more Bruce Springsteen/Woody Guthrie frame of mind, wrote some outstanding tunes for the soundtrack, including "Hard Sun". I'm a huge Pearl Jam fan, have been since I was 14, and this is some of the best stuff Vedder has ever written. Get the soundtrack instead.