Van Sant’s Last Days, or Sleeping Pills? Either will do.

I really, really wanted to like this movie. I’ve seen the documentary ‘Kurt and Courtney’ and was a huge fan of Nirvana back in the day.

But this … this is supposed to be Kurt Cobain’s final hours?

No, more like, one overrated director’s, just, like, opinion, man. (Big Lebowski reference, anyone?)

The film started off with Blake (the Cobain-esque character) wandering around the forest outside of his hillside mansion. He then proceeded to venture down to the river / stream nearby, disrobe (not completely, ladies), and have himself a pee. Deep, man. So deep.

And yes, I get the possible Siddhartha / Buddha reference, but it was too painfully slow, boring and just trying way too hard to be deep for my tastes.

All in all, I couldn’t even finish the thing. Maybe it heats up near the end and there are some car chases or something (kidding…. :)), but the first 30 minutes nearly put me to sleep.