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Summary: And I thought THE HOWLING was scary!...
Review: ... Kurt Cobain was NOT Nirvana; he was a major part of it. This movie is NOT about Nirvana; it is about a major part of the life - and death - of Kurt Cobain. ... Kurt Cobain was no angel; but watching this movie will make you shiver, make you angry, make you cry, and make you wonder who really DID kill this amazingly talented, passionate, and gifted musician if he, indeed, did not kill himself? ... YOWZA! - The Aeolian Kid
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Summary: Good
Review: I don't think it's totally fair to say the director was trying to paint Courtney Love as Cobain's murderer. He DOES give voice to those who claim she was behind his death, but HE DISPROVES THEM IN THE END. So what's the big upset? He basically slams the conspiracy theorists more than he slams Courtney Love. And I think he was right to point out her hypocrisy in garnering a "free speech" award while behind the scenes she's trying to repress any press she doesn't agree with. Hypocrisy!
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Summary: Nick Broomfield goes after the widow Cobain
Review: You get the feeling that in the beginning documentary director Nick Broomfield thought he was casting Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love as the Sid & Nancy of the grunge set. Actually, the more interesting parallel I want to suggest is between JFK and Jackie. In the wake of the Kennedy assassination it was Jackie who seized the moment and provide the saving grace note to the funeral, and then used her considerable ethos to create the Camelot mythos. Even with his determinedly skewed perspective Broomfield cannot help but document Courtney Love's rise from the ashes of her husband's suicide. Did the end justify the means? Well, you listen to Hole's "Live Through This" album and see if you think Love was overselling her stock or not (keep in mind the old adage that living well is the best revenge). Fans of Cobain and Nirvana are more likely than not to consider "Kurt and Courtney" to ripping the scabs off of wounds. Do not start watching this expecting to feel good about the subjects or yourself by the time this 95-minute film is over. Ultimately, this is not an important documentary, but it is significant (interesting distinction, huh?). Documentaries like "The Thin Blue Line" and "Roger & Me" were once considered bastions of investigative journalism and social criticism respectively, but Broomfield proves once and for all that you have to take absolutely everything in this world with a healthy dose of skepticism.
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Summary: Let the man die already!
Review: This "documentary" was just an excuse to slam Courtney, once again question her "role" in Kurt's death and generate press for Nick Bloomfield. How can I say this? Bloomfield himself doesn't believe the conspiracy theory. Even though he drudged up every person who ever stood in the grocery line with Courtney Love, he feels that there really is no substantial evidence against her. So that had nothing to do with the movie, you say. No, it has everything to do with it: this man is out to tar someone. So, when you watch it, keep that in mind. As for anything aside from the content and lack of convincing evidence: the audio can be bad at times (I understand...it's guerilla documentaries, yeah) and the people he interviews seem drunk/high and lend zero creedence to the film. Watch it if you are a fan of Nirvana or Hole. But don't view it as some sort of historical truth.
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Summary: Where's Kurt?
Review: A better title for this video would have been "Courtney Love". It deals with Love more than it does with the actual murder theory, Kurt Cobain, or Nirvana. If you are a big Nirvana fan, looking for a good Nirvana video, i recommend you find this video for rent. You may be disappointed after spending money and owning this. If you are interested in Courtney, then this would be a good video for you. I admit, there are some parts where footage of Kurt Cobain was shown, and I wanted to cry my eyes out. But I didn't care all that much for this video. You might.
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Summary: Good documentary!
Review: I found this documentary very good and interesting. You saw lot of people of Kurt and Courtney past. Like the aunt of Kurt, who seem like a very down to earth nice person, the ex-girlfriend of Kurt, you can see her house and how her relationship with Kurt was. You found out how Kurt was when he was a child and a teenager until his death. You also see some people of Courtney past and how she was before. You saw her father, who seem like a very strange caracter, when first interview he seem to keep his cool but when he's interview the last time he seem to lost it and become very weird, very strange father!!! You see a ex-lover of Courtney, he seem to have lot of anger against her, he said if he will had stay with her he may have end up just like Kurt killing himself because Courtney will had drive him too. I don't beleive that Courtney have pay someone to kill him. They said Kurt didn't seem suicidle why he would kill himself, come one he was suicidle before, it didn't take much to drive you back to suicide again. He was a very unstable person and it was hard for him to deal with his fame and his relationship with Courtney was going down and it was hard for him to deal with life in general. I believe Kurt have commit suicide, what profs people need??? He was maniac-deppressif, your moods change fast when you had that, you can be okay for a periode of time and without or with reason you may want to die and in Kurt case well lot of reasons made him want to die, even if he love his daughter and want to be there for her, he said he didn't want his child to see him as a drugs addict, he had at that time a very mess up mind, I can put myself in his place, coz I have a kind of disorder like him, I am not manic depressif but I have depression and that very similar and your mind change fast even if at one time you seem okay, the next minute you can flip out and want to die. In that documentary they made Courtney look very bad, I don't think she's such a bad person, well I don't think I will get along very well with a person like her, she seem to have a bad temper, she also seem unstable but look at what kind of father she have. As a child she feel unlove and as a teenager she felt ungly and weird, no wonder that now she want to prouve to the world that she great and she is, I found her to be great and very talented even more talented then Kurt was. She have work hard to been where she is now! I fond that documentary very good and if you are a Nirvana fan or a Hole fan you going to love it even more!
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Summary: FOR NIRVANA FANS ONLY
Review: I think that you have to be a Nirvana fan to TOTALLY like this documentary. It isn't one of the best documentaries that I have seen but it is definitely a raw piece of work. Most of the people involved in Kurts life that are depicted here are rather seedy and burnt out but that's part of the "beauty" of this film. It is an unflinching look at , not just Kurt and Courtney , but also the people who were in some way or another involed in their lives and you see them , warts and all. Although "El Duce" is a creep you have to wonder about his claims of Courtney paying him to kill Kurt. He could have obviously been lying and he is a creep but his responses to Nick's questions seem direct , candid and sincere. It makes you wonder.
The interview with "the nanny" was slow but somewhat revealing. Her general believe seems to be that Coutney didn't kill Kurt but she may have drove him to suicide.And the girl , Amy ,(wearing too much lipstick) seem to be just full of bolony. The one upstanding person in this film is Kurt's aunt Mary. She is a person who you would've nevered figured to be related to Kurt Cobain. She played an audio tape of a 2 year old Kurt singing a song and referred to it as "early Nirvana". That was very cool. There are pictures and never before seen home footage of Kurt in this film. One home video is of Kurt arriving at a Christmas party with his girlfriend in 1987. There is an interview of Kurt talking about his new found wealth and fame and also talking about having love in his life.(no pun intended)But the footage that sticks in my mind the most is the footage of Kurt at some sort of picnic it seems sitting on the ground staring across a creek while kids play around him. A little girl picks up her doll that is laying behind him and as she picks it up Kurt just looks over his shoulder at her. The camera gradually zooms in on Kurt , freezes , then fades to black. The clip isn't sharp because it is a home video but you see this thin man with the long blond hair , dark sweater , and worn out jeans and you can quickly tell that this is Kurt Cobain ; the grunge god and symbol of a generation just looking bored like his thoughts are somewhere else. And the movie ends with a smiling picture of Kurt as a child. That final segment of the film was very sentimental to me especially knowing the fate of that smiling kid. It was sad and rather haunting. This film does lean to accusing Love of killing Kurt but there is nothing here that gives concrete evidence. The interview with Courtney and Nick getting in front of the audience and denouncing Love at the ACLU awards dinner reminds me of Michael Moorer's pursuit of Roger Smith in "Roger & Me"; the documenter , finally , face to face with his antagonist. But "Roger & Me" is a far superior piece of work than this film.
Get this dvd only if you are a fan of Kurt Cobain because you'll appreciate it more despite it's flaws.
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Summary: Stretched out Rubbish
Review: I am a hudge Nirvana fan but, where do people get off making stupid accusations when they have no real evidance to back up their stories????? The movie started off ok but then it came, the meaningless interviews, they had no real value except that they knew kurt and that they think that it was a murder, key word think! They even had scenes that were nothing but space-taker-upers, here are two for example, there are a million car scenes that all they do is film the road no talking no music, just the road and other cars, now the only thing that that accomplished was getting me dissy, anothere scene is where they go in to a building and they are told to leave, why did they keep that in? to stretch it out!!!!!!! To top it all off they showed a really grose scene from a music video that has alot of nude people in it, and they curse every other word! and why do they do this? to give it that R rating, so that Teenagers will be drawn to that becaus it is rated R. and to fill in some time spots they talk about their funds for making the documentary, and how they dont have much more money to spend! Of course I had to find this movie at blockbuster and had to get it, well that was time and money down the tubes, spare youself the agony, dont touch this film.
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Summary: not worth the 3 bucks to rent the video.
Review: i'm am a nirvana fan, not a conspiracy fan. this film started out like a well written documentary then suddenly it seemed as if the film got a new producer or they ran out of money, or someone wanted to sell more videos, or get it out to a bigger "tabloid" reading and watching audience. it never really had any direction. i couldn't even watch the whole thing I got so upset. the people who made this film would have done better doing a story about tommy lee and pam.
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Summary: Journalistic piece that misses
Review: I watched this documentary with high expectations, and almost could not finish watching it as I was terribly disappointed with the volume of uncredible witnesses and undocumented facts. I could not help but to feel that Nick Broomfield was trying to make the viewer believe that he began his journalistic piece unbiased, and was only recounting the facts as they unfolded to him. The entire documentary felt contrived however. If he had included only credible witnesses to Kurt and Courtney's life together, the documentary would have been 30 minutes long. Perhaps it should have been only thirty minutes long. He never really goes into the facts of the suicide (murder?). I think a different director will one day put together a better documentary on this tragic event. Broomfield's misses.
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