Product: Last Days (2 Disc Special Edition)
Rating: 1.0
Oh please for the love of God make it stop
I likedElephant: A Film By Gus Van Sant. I did. I loved the way the dialogue wasn't so much dialogue but chatter. I loved the way he captured the solitude of these characters even with a voyeuristic looking in method. I loved the way he captured the subtleties of these people just going about their routine boring lives until the shooters came and shattered that. It was one of the scariest and most disturbing movies I've seen in a long time.Yet as Peter Jackson proved, a director can use the same methods and be effective in one movie and terrible in another. This is Gus Van Sant at his most minimalist as his version of Kurt Cobain walks around mumbling, sometimes screaming. Sometimes he listens to a boring salesman. At other times his boring friends come over. He watches a Boys II Men video - in toto. And then he mumbles some more. Mumble. Mumble. Look around. Mumble. Wear a dress. Mumble.This would have been an interesting 10 minute film, but instead it drags along for too many minutes - and with each passing minute you feel yourself dying just a little more.Apparently Van Sant and Courtney Love are friends. If so, this must have been his Valentine gift to her, as this movie ends with the audience giving a collective sigh of appreciation to the person that killed the boring horrible creature that was Kurt Cobain or Kurt Cobain's double. Sure, Kurt was probably much more charismatic and charming in real life than the creature portrayed in this movie; but that's not saying much. A stool sample is more charming and charismatic than the Kurt Cobain portrayed in this movie.