Product: Last Days (2 Disc Special Edition)
Rating: 1.0
Missed The Point............Completely!
Avoid this film, more INDYWOOD garbage. I liked "Drugstore Cowboy" but haven't seen any of the director's other films so I thought I'd give this one a whirl. I was a bit suspect because Van Sant seems to use Hollywood stars in his films and this usually equals garbage.It seemed to be all surface, a very heavy subject but lacking any depth or understanding of the issues at hand. Other critics I read were impressed with the style and non-dialog driven aspects of the film. I'm all for no dialog because talk in film as in life is cheap, but I'm not into zero content. The characters were cardboard cutouts, cliched stereotypes of the rocker variety. Their acting seemed to be posturing learned by watching bunk like MTV. "Koyannisquatssi" or however you spell it has the real deal feel of the power of the purely visual. This film was like looking at a Hallmark nature calendar."Venus in Furs" as a big song(?) where has Thurston Moore been(?) sure it's great but it was a music video 101 choice, (yeah the Velvets: boring heroin/S&M; vibe, now mainstream) oh so typical...should have used some unsettling and oh so rare, hardly ever heard audience upsetting rock masterpiece like "Abuse Myself, I Wanna Die" by G.G.Allin. Yup! A very to the point song.It was wrong, very wrong to exploit a great musician like Kurt Cobain in that manner. It's just the kind of thing that must've driven him over the edge. The media carrion exploitation machine. It would be an insult to anyone to be portrayed like that, it was so cartoony, cliched, and nowhere. I think the Syd Barrett portrayed in "The Wall" was probably better if memory serves me.Van Sant would have been much better off creating his own imaginary rock icon and exploiting that. Then he'd have to put on his thinking cap and actually figure out a script. The time shifts were nice in concept but not indeed.So Gus Van Sant if you read this I'd suggest you stick with the Hollywood folk and pander to their idea of art.