ok, another reason to hail To Die For as the only Van Sant movie. That movie was so great an ORIGINAL and innovative, using compleltely different genres(interview, documentary, drama) and weaving them together. And Kidman, amazing as usual.

Now back to this dreadful movie. I couldn't see it all but I saw the last half of it on tv, fell asleep and can hardly remember it.

I only remember two things about it. First is the scene where Blake plays a song on his accoustic guitar, and it was beautiful.

And the second thing is, that I discovered why I hate movies like Last Days, and it's that they cheat themselves out, I don't know how to say it but they make you aware you are watching a movie and they always feel unnatural.

It happened in the scene where Blake is running from some guys and he plunges in the ground and the camera gets stuck in the air, staring blankly at plants.

The camera is meant to be your eye, and your eye doesn't work that way. You don't stare at an open space for a good who knows how many minutes without blinking. I'ts impossible and when youm see this in a movie it¡'s utterly uncomfortable and makes you aware that there was a camera there with a crew, it's just lame. I don't know if that's the point to this pointless frames but I think it's lame.

I liked when his soul left his body, that was beautiful but that's it. Uggh, another director I'm completely over with.
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shut the hell up you havent even seen Drugstore Cowboy and refuse to so you cant judge by saying To Die For is the only good Van Sant movie.

I found Last Days really slow, but appreciated what he was going for. I really wanted to walk out during the Boys II Men scene which felt like it alone was 5 hours long. I didn't see Gerry, but felt like this style he was playing with was better realized in Elephant than it was in Last Days. Michael Penn was good, but he wasn't enough to make the movie anything I'd rec to anyone else. To Die For, while fun, felt almost too John Watersy to me, it was all so phoney, I just couldn't get into it. Psycho was a waste of time. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues was terrible and had that same sense of remove that made To Die For not work for me. I really enjoyed a lot of My Own Private Idaho, there's some really lovely work in there. Drugstore Cowboy works for me as a film in total, but I don't think has really anything special happening. Did I forget any Van Sant films?

I still havn't seen it because i can't decide whether it's worth watching or not. I hear mixed reviews all the time. Can I just ask.. is it actually about Kurt.. or based on kurt.. loosely or...?

I did see a trailer though and I wasn't that impressed. But that was only a trailer. I havn't seen any Van Sant films before.

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Woah. I hated it, but I know there are people out there who like it. Who? I don't know. But somebody does, I am sure of it.

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