Last Days (2005)

Best movie of this year hands down!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Most people who have watched the movie were not so impressed by how the main character Blake mumbled to himself throughout everything he did. Michael Pitt said that the film was 80% improvised and they only had a map. That shows great acting skills, because he truly conveyed Blake's emotions or lack of for that matter, in all of the scenes. We don't know what Blake was exactly thinking or if he was planning his death all along. We're supposed to interpret all of it from his apathetic behaviors. The film did a remarkable job bringing into motion how isolated an extremely depressed person feels. The film took me on a short journey inside Blake's mind, everything we saw/heard was how he experienced it. From his careless friends, to his disregard to his world and all the people he used to work with. The events that lead Blake to where he was in the film are ambiguous. It's not made very clear how he become that apathetic and we're just left with hints here and there. We may not grasp what happens in the film until Blake starts singing Death to Birth. In the context of the film, the song makes the most sense. Every bit that could come across as obscure in the film was pieced together when Blake sang. He sang every last bit of his heart out. Music was all he had at that point. He said what he didn't say and what we wanted him to say in front of all these people who didn't appear to notice how bad he needed help. The song particularly is what finally formed a connection or a common language between Blake and me. The film gives zero f's about impressing the audience. It was as if a camera just happened to be there, and I think that's what makes this film so raw and moving. I think that's what Gus Van Sant was going for. Finally, I think this story is not about Kurt Cobain. It's not supposed to be telling Cobain's story or give you facts about how he died. It's a tribute to his legacy.

Beside being trite and a story line too often used, the chromatography was a complete bore. It tried way to be hard to be ultra artistic instead of trying hard to help tell the story. From the ultra slow pans around the actors to the too often used window reflections to the fade out blur...OMG it was so boring I could hardly stand to watch it.Now I will take the rest of the review to waste even more of your time trying to meet the ridiculous and arbitrary minimum 10 line review requirement of IMDb. Really, you guys should know better than anyone not ever movie deserves a 10 line review.if you decide to watch this movie, Please, please don't pay any money to do so...You will feel ripped off.

I really was hoping for some real story here, given that while the writer was merely reflecting on Cobain's last days, not sure if there was a copyright issue here, or whatever. But a shame for Nirvana fans who would want more, I think.Even so there are a few good scenes here, then sense of a life of a rock star Blake, used and abused, reached the summit, and then sees the precipice he is on...turns to addiction.Any escape. The forests and waterfalls are cavernous, lush and yet still foreboding. He lives in a stone castle formerly owned by a Rockefeller, it is unheated and unlivable, but narcotics insulate this. It doesn't matter, except to the few groupies who hang out, party, and take money from Blake when they can.Aimless friends include users, hangers on and some sad scene at the end where the friends bail...they see what will happen, still run and abandon the person.I had seen the Nick Broomfield documentary recently on Current TV; it is interesting and gives you a sense of what happened. There really were so many factors going on, although I would agree that while his life was spiraling there were many users, although Courtney Love does not seem to bear the blame, even though a career P.I. in Hollywood seems to think she was involved.Anytime an artist is lost it becomes a circus today, sadly. Still hope and wish Love or her handlers would allow more information about the biography of the man, Cobain, to come out. People are interested, there is a very interesting and sad story here. Recommended for anyone not just curious about the story , but also in the Seattle music underground, and also anyone who has cared about a person or fried and seen addiction and what it can destroy will be interested in this film.It is truly sad that Cobain a gifted artist writer and musician is gone....something could have been done, but the money became a harbinger of death...as fame and success many times can. 8/10.

Exactly what one would expect from Gus Van Zandt... artistic brilliance.-(There are instruments that cannot be selected There are some instrument combinations that cannot be selected within the same kit, or with certain trigger inputs. The V-EDIT process is not available for all instruments (p. 136).edited. So if you assign a "V" type sound to an input other than 1-6, you cannot use the V-Edit parameters. For details on assigning instruments, refer to p. 136. The parameters available in V-EDIT will differ depending on the trigger input and instrument selected. The following parameters can be edited.)And the main actor nailed it... what one would think.