it was on more4 at 10 for 2 hours. i haven't watched it yet but i have recorded it.

did anyone watch? is it worth 2 hours of my time?

It was repeated at 1am.
I watched it some and recorded it all (I was watching Desperate Housewives on another channel )
It's pretty long and its all scenes from Seattle ect.. and actual Nirvana/Kurt shots aren't until the end (I think, I didn't watch it all yet)
There isn't a whole lot that we didn't already know from the biographies but I thought it was interesting so far.
Just Kurt talking for a whole two hours incl. ad breaks.
Of course there's the "sleeping under the bridge" and other embellishments he was accused of but Idk really if its its worth your while or not.
If you get bored you can always pause it and watch the rest later.

I tried to watch it.

I've read biographies and stuff, and a lot of it is the things he used to repeat over and over. It really didn't have anything else about him to it, if anything he came across as kind of boring and whiney. Maybe it picks up, but I couldn't keep watching it. It was like the intro to a documentory but for two hours.

Plus my housemate was like "You HAVE to change the channel now I can't take any more" so my hands were kind of tied.

yeah if you had read come as you are by Michael Azerrad than this doco is basically that but with arty film shots and stuff. Actually did Michael Azerrad have anything to do with this?

__________________
but can you bounce it on the floor?

Having read the book it was quite intresting to hear the interviews and how things were actually said. The images themselves could have been better and it's a bit over long for this style of documentary. But it had some cracking songs in it too. But yeah no new information really.

Michael Azerrad co-produced it, whatever that actually means.

If you are a Nirvana fan you will love it.. otherwise you will think it was a waste of 2 hours like i did

__________________

interesting to hear kurt talking but the images and music i hated. i ff through alot of it.

I've never actually read that, but I read Heavier Than Heaven like five times as a teenager. And it definitely overlapped a lot with that.

I think even though they were different interviews because Kurt was very much the type of guy who would decide certain things and put a lot of emphasis on certain stories, and just repeat them again and again.

The film is called "About a Son" although More 4 gave it weird name like "The life of Kurt Cobain" or something stupid.

I LOVED it. Because its Kurt's story told by Kurt - the only person who could tell it without any fabrications. It reminded me of why i loved him so much - despite his arrogance... it reminds us of his total inability to fit in with normal people in society...something i know i can still relate to A LOT!

I thought the him sleeping under a bridge was a complete fabrication, maybe he just hung out under a bridge convincing himself his parents didnt love him then went home lol

i wonder what was left out. and why

I got kinda bored during the first hour... although i liked reading about his childhood in the 'come as you' are biography, I am more interested in hearing about the later stages of his life. Of course, being the courtney tard that I am, I did love hearing her in the background 'KURT! Will you please bring up frances' bottle of milk when you come upstaires? kurrrrrt"
But the last 30 minutes of the film were very touching - very inspiring, something that regained my love and interest in nirvana - but especially kurt cobain.
Of course, 'they' picked out the most ironic things that kurt said - things that I didn't pay as much attention to in the book. Like, the way he was saying that he once thought about suicide and that he would committ suicide by gun shot. He talked about it so casually that you can imagine - at the time, he was just discussing a thought that had crossed his mind and seemed burried in the past.
It was moving.