Gus Van Sant's LAST DAYS

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 8:13am

Oh...My...God....

Has anyone else seen this horribly misguided pretentious movie? It's a movie about a Kurt Cobain-like rock star yet, where the bulk of the interesting material happened during his life, Last Days concerns itself with the final hours before he killed himself. So that means that you're watching a drugged out Michael Pitt stumbling about the screen while knocking into things, occasionally passing out, all while mumbling to himself.

We watch as he indulges in the entire interesting process of him making himself an entire bowl of macaroni and cheese. We watch as he passes out on the floor as the camera, for some reason, turns itself on a Boyz II Men video (And we watch about half the video). We watch as other people (Who are probably more interesting) come to his house to try to talk to him but he hides. There's even a scene where the camera is on him for about 45 seconds and then he starts randomly yelling out the lyrics to Home on the Range.

I'm a huge fan of the art film genre but Gus Van Sant's movie is a waste of time. It may remind people of Elephant, yet Elephant actually had interesting content beneath the surface. Blake is just a drugged out zombie. We don't know anything about him, nor do we want to. We don't even know if he has any talent.

Ugh. Terrible terrible film.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 9:05am

An awful, self-indulgent bore of a film.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 2:04pm

Saw bits & pieces of his Psycho

I do not remember Perkins masturbating watching Janet Leigh from the peephole. The shower scene was ludicrous . Multiple stabbings & no blood on the knife ? Ditto for almost no visible stab wounds. It is not shot for shot as advertised. Put in on DVD with the original & I will guarantee when I watch it ( after seeing bits & pieces ) I will say Why did they bother ?

This guy is as much of a director as I am the King of England

Posted: 10/25/05 at 4:19pm

I know, I hear you all. I loved "Drugstore Cowboy", and if the Shakespeare stuff in "Idaho" didn't quite work for me, I was prepared to overlook it, because the rest of the movie hooked me in. But I seemed to be the only person in world who didn't love "To die for" and I couldn't even sit through "Goodwill Hunting". "Elephant" kept me thinking for days, at least, about if it was good, or just pretentious, so at least that's something.

Posted: 10/25/05 at 4:22pm

How can it be this bad??? He has such talent and a great cast!

Posted: 10/25/05 at 4:25pm

Who's in it?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 4:27pm

Beerchild, do you get up at 6:00a.m. to post on BWW? Go back to bed, man!!

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 5:59pm

It's rather insulting to Cobain who accomplished other things in his life other than what this movie tries to emphasize.


It doesn't even work as an anti-drug movie. You don't want to say no to drugs at the end of the movie, nor do you want to take them. You're just indifferent.

[broadway86]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 8:57pm

I saw this movie in theatres. By the end, I was thoroughly frustrated. I'm renting it off of Netflix, on the off-chance that it might be better the second time. Doubtful...

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 9:29pm

No it won't. Gus Van Sant hates us all.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 10:10pm

"I'm a huge fan of the art film genre...."

Um, right. And you're the one whose description of your own film was that it was "bad." Sounds like you should have LOVED this.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 11:01pm

When did I say that my own film was bad?

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 11:14pm

naw ya'll this film is briliant.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 11:31pm

I loved Elephant, that was a hawt movie.