Product: Last Days (2 Disc Special Edition)
Rating: 4.0
Kurt and his cornflakes
Gus Van Sant has some balls making us watch Kurt, I mean Blake, sketchily make cereals* and slip down a banking for an hour. Though I'm glad this came out before some utter crap pure cheese Kurt movie eventually surfaces.It's next to impossible for somebody to take off Kurt without coming across as corny. Which may be the reason Blake likes to mumble. One question I have is how the hell did Michael Pitt remember all his lines????????How do you remember specific mumbles?Maybe he attached references to them, like the consistency of cheese could be a reminder for one specific mumble. Maybe the lunchtime mumble. Although the time shifts in this movie may make any points of references redundant.All in all this movie is not crap. Which is an achievement. Writing the last, unknown, days of a genius is pretty hard. And Michael Pitt does a far better job at writing Kurt like songs (Michael actually wrote the songs in the movie) and playing Kurt than Puddle Of Mudd ever will.To get all the references in the movie to the real deal it helps to be a very big fan of Kurt. Anybody saying this movie is not about him needs to read a book or three. You don't need to bother yourself with any of Hank Harrisons books though. (Courtneys father, writes books about his daughter and Kurt because it's the only line he can go down to make money)This movie does fall short of including a lot that is Kurt, but in his last days it's probably comfortable to say that his humour, ultra sharp wit and general character were pretty shot. The first 27 years of his life were a hell of a lot more entertaining than his last few days.The editing and collage-ness art-ness feel of this movie is great.*You may be surprised to learn that this could be considered a spoiler, given this movie's content. Giving this review a shelf life equal to that of a Sum 41 song. Catch it while you can. This review that is. Not Sum 41, Gun's n Roses, Linkin Park, 2 day old story, or whatever those throw away bands are called these days.Nirvana. The last great band. 99% pure bloated cast in stone over-hyped song writing mechanics with retro pseudo-grunge furnishings since.Pearl Jam are wrong.When you think or, god forbid *hear*, Pearl Jam....instantly think....David Hasslehoff.