Very disappointing...

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Kurt Cobain and Nirvana evidently meant different things to different people, but what drew many of us to the music was the fact that he wasn't promoting himself like the spandex gods of rock who dominated at the time. Instead, here was this self-deprecating guy, who hid behind his locks, and who actually seemed to mean it for once. He was also giving a voice to a set of frustrations that none of us had really been able to articulate, and doing it without any pretence of being constructive. He was just screaming at the sky, and it felt good.But there were also people who copied his hairstyle, the way he dressed and the particular kind of overdrive distortion he favoured on the guitar. This kind of fan probably just wanted to hop on board with something popular, but as far as I was concerned, they knew not what it meant. Never mind.You could say that Last Days is about Kurt Cobain, but you could also say that Gus Van Sant's treatment of events is a bit like Tarantino's treatment of WW2 in Inglorious Basterds. It's not really how it happened, but it isn't through carelessness on the part of the filmmaker but by deliberate choice. Last Days is Gus Van Sant's impression of Kurt and although it's different from mine in various ways, I found it interesting to experience him from another perspective. I don't resent it in the way that I resent people who think Nirvana was about flannel shirts. I liked it.I suspect that a bit of the Kurt-esque character in Last Days might actually be River Phoenix in disguise though. Kurt died less than six months after River and Gus Van Sant of course knew River personally from working with him on My Own Private Idaho. That might explain something about Van Sant's unique perspective on Kurt.

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.

The third installation of Gus Van Sant's thematic "Death trilogy", Last Days was a film I came to with very high hopes. Having the day before seen both Paranoid Park and Elephant, two extremely fine films, I expected only the best from the experimental director.Following troubled rock musician Blake through his titular time period, Last Days takes heavy inspiration from Kurt Cobain. Much like Elephant's inspiration, this will instantly reveal the conclusion of the film to just about anyone who encounters any coverage prior to viewing.Almost certainly the most well known of the true stories which gave rise to this trilogy, the suicide of Kurt Cobain is yet another subject which Van Sant has come under controversy for electing to represent. It is important to note, however, that the heavy ties to Cobain do not exclusively mean that he and Blake are one and the same, more that this is Van Sant's interpretation of a period he perceives as entirely immune to objective interpretation. As we have seen develop as perhaps the most important aspect of this trilogy, Van Sant once more offers us poetic visuals, further developing his personal cinematic style, one which is deeply independent and highly unique for so (at least sometimes) mainstream an American director. Probably the best way in which I can summarise my thoughts on Last Days is this: where Elephant was Van Sant identifying everything that was truly great about Gerry—the cinematography, the tension, the ability to show rather than to tell—and adding to this the societal message, the depth, and the emotional involvement which that film lacked, Last Days is the opposite. With Last Days, Van Sant takes the indulgent tracking shots and the apparent sagacity which lacks in genuine meaning and runs amok with it. While Gerry was a deeply flawed film, misusing its dazzlingly beautiful visuals by offering nothing beneath to support them, Last Days is simply empty, a pseudo-artistic "exploration" of a poorly structured character. Even the visual splendour is somewhat reduced, giving hopefuls like me even less to cling to as we hope for something more. Pitt wanders about, occasionally stopping to don a dress or make macaroni, mumbling intensely to himself in an utterly incomprehensible manner. After perhaps half an hour, I started to wonder what was happening. How, after the majesty of Elephant, had Van Sant gone so wrong? Alas, it just carried on in the very same way, Pitt wandering around his nonlinear narrative, me staring in puzzlement at the screen and wondering why this character was so thinly sketched. The characterisation is frankly non-existent, a serious problem given that this is—or at least is supposed to be—a character drama. I have a great deal of patience for slow films, and an unbalanced adoration for recondite ones, but this simply has no method to its madness, nothing whatsoever to say, and no apparent justification for existing. There is one scene, in which Blake loops his instruments and jams with himself, which does something to assuage this onslaught of disappointment. The long take as the camera ever so slowly zooms out films all of this through a window, the vast stone walls a barrier between us and this character, his dark playing and lugubrious wails a brief glimpse into the tortured soul that lies beneath. The scene itself is nothing shot of mesmeric, but it is essentially the only thing of any merit in the film. It's a deep shame that such a wonderful piece of cinema should be featured in so poorly misjudged a mess of a film.Astoundingly disappointing as a follow-up to Elephant, Last Days follows on the nonsensical navel-gazing of Gerry by multiplying it, and by giving us fewer pretty pictures to look at to distract us from the unfortunate lack of meaning. Were it not for the fact that I've already seen and loved Paranoid Park, his feature to follow this, it would be a long time before I felt ready to trust in Gus Van Sant again.

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.