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Too much concert footage

posted 9 years ago by Mr_Ectoplasma
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I enjoyed the documentary, but anyone else find it a bit heavy with concert footage? There were so many drawn out clips of Nirvana playing live that I felt were unnecessary. Obviously the footage of the Reading show and Kurt spitting at the cameras and whatnot was the stuff of legend and belonged there, but I felt like some of the show footage was done in excess; after all, it's not a documentary about Nirvana per se. If I want to see lengthy footage of Nirvana's live shows, it is smattered across the internet— the other stuff (journal entries, home movies, artwork, etc.) is not. I appreciated the integration of the artwork especially, and it really did give me a very personal sensibility about Kurt as a person— perhaps almost too close for comfort.

[–] elbarto-1 9 years ago

About a son is my favorite cobain film.
much better. Much more focused on Kurt than nirvana.

[–] frididjurhuus 9 years ago

I really thought the movie had too much of everything. I was constantly saying to myself "Okay, I get it!" and the scene would end like 5 minutes after I said that. It felt like the director was telling me "Kurt did heroin. He would use a needle and shoot the heroin into his veins. He was addicted to heroin, meaning that Kurt liked heroin, which was why he did it, because you know, he liked it, which made him addicted to it, causing him to do more heroin, because you know, he liked it, which was why he was using heroin, it made him high, which was why he liked it, and was addicted to it KURT.HEROIN.KURT.HEROIN" then the scene would end. There was just so much unnecessary stuff in the film that it bored me beyond belief. I saw it in theaters, which is the only reason why I finished it. If I had watched it at home, I would probably have shut it off within the first hour.

[–] peace_on_earth 7 years ago

I agree. It dragged on too long with some of the scenes.

[–] WarpedRecord 7 years ago

I didn't think it had too much concert footage at all. I think it had a nice balance of Nirvana's music, television clips, journal entries and artwork, and interviews with people in Kurt's inner circle (and out of it).