Product: Last Days (2 Disc Special Edition)
Rating: 1.0
Excruciatingly Bad! Maddeningly boring!
I've never been so bored by a movie for a long time. It is maddeningly slow, not only on the (non-existent) dialog, but even the Cobain wannabe is slow. Seriously, I literally played this movie at 2x SPEED and he LITERALLY took close to 20 or 30 seconds to bend his knees and crawl on the floor (can't imagine that in real time)! And the characters don't even speak up, you'll literally have to turn your TV set all the way up and put closed captioned to know what they're saying.Is Van Sant's intention to portray heroin addiction as a horrid experience that destroys the soul? Did he want to portray how stardom got to Cobain and messed with him? I pretty much doubt any of that, I did not feel the slightest shred of sympathy at any time during the movie. It doesn't go anywhere, this movie is torture at its worst. The good reviews are based mostly on its experimental nature, the (I don't know where they found it) character development, and the pain (what pain???? the movie doesn't express anything palpable!) Cobain felt those final days. Every single person in the movie is boring.The so-called professional critics seems to have somewhat favored this movie and it just escapes me. Is being artsy fartsy good? Is showing prominently on camera *just* a TV set playing around a minute or two of a video from Boyz II Men experimental and therefore good? Does it advance the story in any way? Is that pure genius? He does have guts though, it takes a lot of them to film that and call it a movie.Van Sant, here's an experiment for you: go out to the streets, film real life junkies, heroin addicts and transmit their pain to the audience. Seek out people with suicidal tendencies and find the root of their suffering. Thirty minutes of that, even if it doesn't have single syllable of dialog, just the look of sadness in their faces will do a whole lot more than this garbage of a film you created and thrust upon us! DO NOT SEE THIS FILM!