Mr Red wrote:
This is the HBO documentary that just came out about Kurt Cobain's life. I think it was pretty well done; probably a half hour too long (it is two hours, 15 minutes). My bigger thoughts/newer impressions:
* He grew up much more affluent than I ever imagined. Color Super 8 film footage of his childhood from ages 0 to like 7 years old? I didn't grow up with anyone who had this as a kid (I'm roughly the same age as Kurt, in roughly the same area/economic strata).
* He was a creative dynamo. Not a real surprise, but it seemed like he spent as much time on sketches and video montages as he did with music.
* His life SUCKED. At least how I gauge having a cool life. The guy was really confused. He gets rich/famous and then decides to hole up and shoot heroin with Courtney Love? Brutal. One day locked up with that woman would make me contemplate suicide.
Anyway, worth watching if you were around during that time (as most of us were). Not a lot of new revelations, but I guess you get a view of what he was all about?
I watched this the other night and had mixed feelings about it. I totally agree, it was about a half hour too long. The home videos and the out-takes from the smells like teen spirit video were really interesting. I did not know the idea behind the video was his (cheerleaders, dirty dimlit school ,etc...). His sketches and notes were incredibly enlightening, but I think they took too much creative liberty by animating his sketches, that is a pet peeve of mine. I did not get the feeling he was affluent, he just seemed like (lower) middle class, as I would describe myself. I had a super 8 camera that was handed down to me. It was very sad to see him holed up in a dirty apartment totally strung out. I had a hard time understanding that someone so popular and rich and talented at the time would want to totally drop out of society and shoot up. The saddest part was seeing the footage of the baby, she is the real victim in all of this...
where the fuck was Dave Grohl? c'mon you can't do a comprehensive Kurt Cobain/Nirvana documentary without at least an interview with him. All we got was Krist...