Rating: Summary: Extremely watchable. Review: I viewed this movie twice in one evening: once alone, and then I forced my husband to sit down and watch it with me. Wow! I was intrigued by the movie's subject of Kurt Cobain (his music flooded the airwaves during my first years in college...), but I was never a die-hard fan. This movie showed me his humanity; it works as a Kurt bio-pic documentary for the most part. The "Courtney conspiracy" was just an added extra. I don't know if I believe she had him killed, but I do believe there was definitely something going on with her. It was by her own refusal to speak to the filmmaker that she was cast in a bad light (we do, however, get to hear a recorded phone message that no doubt shows her true spirit). This movie is very interestly shot, and the filmmaker (who doubles as the film's narrator) is extremely intelligent and likeable. I highly recommend it!
Rating: Summary: must see! Review: This film is incredibly well done under the circumstances it was done under. I recommend this film to anyone that is interested in the life of Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love or the bands Hole and Nirvana.Great Movie and a must see for true nirvana fans
Rating: Summary: Courtney rules Review: yes...i AM a Hole freak...i only saw the movie because it has to do with courtney..she didn't f*%king kill him!!!
Rating: Summary: Excellent Review: This is a must see. I think Courtney could have planned it all along or Kurt could have been severly depressed and killed himself. Both arguments are very convincing and it may be hard to choose. Although, if you think he killed himself, than the movie is mostly about Courtney planning it. It is still worth seeing. I used to think that he did kill himself, but now after I have seen the movie, my ideas have changed.Hope you enjoy the movie.
Rating: Summary: Amazing Review: This video is a work of art. If you're a Nirvana/Hole fan who would like more info on Kurt & Courtney's life, I highly recommend it. It will leav eyou thinking for days.
Rating: Summary: **Courtney Didnt Kill kurt!!!!** Review: I gave this movie 4 stars becouse,I didnt like how it tried to make Courtney look like she had somthing to do with Kurts death. Although the movie did have some great footage and interviews of Courtney..She is so cool!...And Ithink alotta the people in the movie were full of crap. But if you do see this movie..Courtney had NOTHING at all to do with his death! and i can prove that!! Enjoy the movie!!!! **************************************************
Rating: Summary: Another Unofficial Cobain Cash-In. . . Review: I am a very passionate follower of Kurt Cobain and the wonderful music he created with Nirvana from 1989 to 1994. I've researched his past in intricate detail, and I'm aware that there is a lot of stuff out there - mostly unauthorized - about him that tries to prove if Cobain was murdered or if, it was indeed, a suicide. I don't think I've ever come across anything as bad as "Kurt And Courtney" by Nick Broomfield though... I didn't actually buy this DVD because I'm not really into wasting money on things that I know I won't like. My friend bought this on Ebay and lent it to me. He's not really big on Nirvana. Sure, he likes "Teen Spirit" and "Heart Shaped Box," but that's about as far as it goes. I borrowed this DVD from him earlier today and went home and watched it - after about the first 10 minutes I was bored to death! Apart from having a boring and monotonous voice, Broomfield has a very unprofessional and slack way on how to approach a decent documentation of the rock icon Cobain. The film itself is very negative in its portrayal of Courtney Love, and after a while you begin to think that the entire thing is about Broomfield's grudge against her because she refused to be interviewed for this documentary. He constantly moans that she has the rights to some early material by Kurt and that it cannot be played because she won't allow it. All it does is try to steer the viewer into disliking Ms. Love. Once it's clear she won't participate, we're taken on a trip to find as many people as we possibly can - including her strange father - who will slate her, and a pointless showing of an appearance Broomfield made at some awards benefit where he gets on stage to protest about Courtney in front of a packed audience, and basically makes a bit of fool of himself! Hey, at least it's entertaining! We get many interviews with people who played extremely minor roles in the lives of both Kurt and Courtney who approach the documentary in a messed up and non-linear way. These people are basically on here to get their faces known and to glorify the fact that they were briefly involved with Kurt at some point in his life. This is exactly the kind of thing that Kurt would strongly object against if he were still with us, God rest his soul! The DVD runs for a painfully boring 92 minutes, and a lot of this time is filled by scenes of the streets that Kurt grew up in, with no commentary. The editing is poor and the language the same. Don't expect much at all, because you'll come away sorely disappointed! I'm a very big fan of Nirvana and Kurt is almost like a hero I look up to - not for his death, but because I can relate to his pain at times, so to see a DVD like this makes me angry. If you really want to see this, rent it and then forget about it because it's rubbish. Buy a book, it'll last longer - I suggest "Heavier Than Heaven."
Rating: Summary: pretty Good Review: Well this DVD story interviews Kurt Friends and Courtney Love. The main point of this DVD is to show that Courtney Love had a motavation to murder Kurt Cobain. But thats just crap but this DVD is only for a person who belives Kurt was murderd.
Rating: Summary: The visual equivalent of a an African famine Review: When I think of this movie, "deprived" is the first word to come to my mind. Not that this movie started off, in its developmental stages, as terrible, but that it had its throat clamped off midway through production and ended up severely malnourished. You see, what started off as a possibly decent documentary exploring the possibility that Courtney Love may have murdered Kurt Cobain (an idea I do not entirely believe, but do not believe to be impossible, either) was hampered by of lack of funds, lack of time, an inept director, and most importantly, a poor relationship with Courtney herself, who owns the rights to all of Nirvana's music. Yet they still went ahead with it anyway. The major problem seems to be that director Nick Broomfield expected everything to go exactly as he planned it. Well, in case you missed the last paragraph, it didn't. But he still stuck with his original plans. The most lingering example of this is that he wanted to use Kurt's music in the background for many of the scenes. Due to the subject matter, Courtney refused to grant Broomfield the rights to do this. So there's no actual Nirvana music in the movie. This wouldn't necessarily mean that the movie had to be horrible, but it isn't a good thing, either. Broomfield seems blissfully unaware of this (and just about everything else that went wrong) and repeatedly interjects comments about what song he WANTED to play during the present scene, but couldn't. The single best example of Broomfield's ignorance to reality (not coincidentally my favorite scene) is when he tries to film in a place where cameras are prohibited. A receptionist promptly tells him that pictures are not allowed. Broomfield, never one to back down easily, responds with something to the effect of "You don't understand! We're filming a documentary about Kurt..." Then the screen cuts to his crew driving away, with his voiceover telling about how they wouldn't let him in. In short, this film seems more like a parody (something like This Is Spinal Tap) than a real documentary. Its biggest drawback is that it is frequently punctuated with reminders of what might have been. Still, I do like Nick Broomfield's blissfully (Nirvana?) ignorant aloofness in the same way people like fabled "worst director of all-time" Ed Wood's movies. This is probably why I am giving this movie more stars than it deserves. The facts are questionable and the editing looks like it was done at your local high school, but it does have its own bizarre charm. So if you're looking for a good, well-researched documentary, look elsewhere, but if you're looking for mediocre cinema at its most mediocre, than consider this flick. I mean, the content is Ok... It should be worth a rental to most Nirvana fans and/or conspiracy theorists. But actually purchasing it...even for "good" bad cinema, that may be a stretch...
Rating: Summary: flawed Review: A good documentry,but seriously flawed on the main clue that Courtney did do it...When he says it is proven that with his dose of heroin,he could've lived long enough to shoot himself because it has happened before.The person in question that they compared those results to was on methadone,which is similar to heroin,but is NOT heroin.Heroin is directly shot into the bloodstream,where as methadone takes a little bit longer.The guy who did this documentry didn't have any idea where it was going to go.First he wanted to make Courtney look bad,then he wanted to say she didn't kill him at all.He also failed to mention the piece of paper found in Courtney's bag a week after Kurt died.It had samples of kurt's handwriting and her's...trying to forge it.I basically summed it up in one paragraph:COURTNEY DID IT.And don't watch this documentry unless you want distorted truth and lies.
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