I could barely watch it. I'm into film, and fascinated with Kobain and Nirvana. His death circumstances are questionable by some. This film is 95% watching what amounts to a bum wandering around. I'm not sure I even think Grunge is cool after watching this. It's dirty self-serving vagrant stuff. The guy who I'm guessing was supposed to be Kobain acts depressed, crazy, selfish, and rude. I watched some real interviews of Kobain, and even if it were his last days on heroin and mind melted, it's insulting to make him seem stupid and jacked off like this movie did. Kobain was far from it. So, it's not accurate in any shape or form. They just used the film name, setting and character as a ripoff to sell product. If I were the estate, I'd sue. I wrote this review because that's how bad I felt this movie was even though it's old now and there are like 265 other reviews. I guess a lot of people think this is a masterpiece because of the director. He was having a bad year when he set this movie up, because it's tripe. Good luck if you want to give it a look. There are maybe two songs in it that are mildly worth listening to. (Add Note: People who loved this movie and possibly see my review, and think I didn't get it. I got it. An hour plus movie to show someone lost in their own fame, and the degradation of their soul could have been 15 minutes long. If this was supposed to be even loosely the man, or any man for that matter, who was supposed to be the voice of a generation...God help us).

The theme/plot/point of this movie simply doesn't work as some kind of obscure art-flick. Gus Van Sant uses the exact same framework as he did in 'Elephant': Long shots of boring everyday things that everyone does.The very big difference however, is that it worked very well in Elephant. The seemingly trivial shots of everyday happenings worked as a contrast to the disaster that would eventually come in the end. (And this isn't a spoiler because if you're gonna watch Elephant, you know it's about a school shooting.) Showing the young children interact with one another and their families for the entire movie made sense to give off just how unexpected and horrible the event must have felt.In this movie however, it's really just stupid and doesn't make for anything than a really boring film that you regret giving a chance. Absolutely nothing happens during the entire movie and then he dies. That's it. Im not exaggurating either, all we see is long shots of "Cobain" stumbling around looking druggy. He barely ever talks and when he does he just mumbles incoherently, there is no insight into his mind, he just looks doped up and then he suddenly dies. It's really just a terrible terrible disappointment and a failure of cinema."An introspective artist who is buckling under the weight of fame, professional obligations and a mounting feeling of isolation" is a very interesting topic for a movie. The right thing for Van Sant to do would have been to actually include dialogue with psychological insight into the mind of Kurt Cobain and really bring us into his head and what he is going through. It's not IMPOSSIBLE to do that because there are plenty of diaries, biographies and journal entry's that you can draw from to give some kind of a understanding into his problems with fame and himself.But no. Instead he chose to do something that is just wrong on every concievable level. Im not going to say that he chose to do something cheap, because I have more respect for him as an artist than that. I don't think he threw together a shitty movie just for the sake of it. But misguided? Poor judgment of how to treat the subject matter? Completely. 1/10.

I was never a Kurt Cobain fan, and I have no respect for people who have talent and squander it as Cobain did, but I thought I would watch this movie to at least get some idea, or impression of what the guy was about. That effort merely proved to me that Cobain and this movie are a massive waste of time.Foremost, the Director of the movie seems to not want to tell Cobain's story all while telling Cobain's story. That is, we are supposed to believe that this is a "guy like Cobain" when clearly, the actor is following Cobain to the letter. But the problem there is there is not much to follow! He has the looks and mannerisms, but he leaves you looking at an empty shell with Cobain's face and mannerisms, nothing more.Worse, I always thought of Cobain as a bit of a talented moron - that is, okay, he was huge, but I hated his screaming music - none of it was even listen-able - and he looked like what he was - a troubled, tortured, drug addicted loser who made music for troubled, tortured maybe even drug addicted fans. This movie did nothing to take me below that surface to see how Cobain got that way, why he stayed that way, and why he squandered whatever talent he had.The movie gives no feel of any successes Cobain might have had which might have lent some clarity to his downfall - instead we are served up a large plate of "whoa is me" with some "Oh, look at my bizarre behavior" as a side dish, and yet we get no feel for how this guy got there, or decided to stay there.I don't mind movies that are trying to tell a story or send a message through an oblique format - that is, in this movie, we are the watchers just seeing things go by. But the director never ties any of that together and its as though we arrived in this life at one point, watched it fizzle, and we left - no understanding gained, no insight provided, and worst of all - the director wants us to accept the overall contradictory message that this is not Cobain, just someone who looks and act, and well, is him.The movie, quite simply, is crap. If you want to waste a couple hours or fall asleep at the movies, this is the one to see. Otherwise, if you want to see self-destruction and downfall in the Rock world, see Sid and Nancy, or The Doors, or one of the many other docu-dramas that tell this same story. But avoid this one unless you are as mindless and burnt out as Cobain always was.

"An official selection in the 2005 Cannes Film festival, 'Gus van Sant's Last Days' is inspired by the final hours of Kurt Cobain. The film introduces us to Blake (Michael Pitt), a brilliant, but troubled musician. Success has left him in a lonely place, where livelihoods rest on his shoulders and old friends regularly tap him for money and favors. The film follows Blake through a handful of hours spent in and near his wooded home… a fugitive from his own life," according to the DVD sleeve synopsis.What many people didn't see in the death of Mr. Cobain was that he succumbed more as the result of a mental breakdown than the drug use that aggravated this condition. Cobain had reached the point in life, after nirvana, when you realize other people in your life are there more for what you have than for who you are. After parting with family and original friends, we gravitate to people who fulfill selfish needs. When you realize everyone around you is there primarily for your money or abilities, it's a shock.The Doors of Perception are opened.I know.It isn't just the - been there, done that - smacking bugs that aren't there, putting the cereal box in the refrigerator, pouring the cheese pouch in hot water, or getting in the wrong underwear… it's the isolation.This is the best aspect of "Last Days" - you see it as Blake wanders about his estate. He blankly ignores friends and acquaintances. He unsuccessfully attempts relating to strangers. They are all around to suck away our lives - with the possible exception, in this (strange) case only, being a couple of door-to-door Jesus salesmen. The latter are a step in the salvation made clear by the film's end - which is the least best aspect of "Last Days". And, by the way, Harris Savides takes beautiful pictures.******* Last Days (5/13/05) Gus Van Sant ~ Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Scott Patrick Green, Asia Argento