Classic Kermode: Last Days
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- 2005 was not a great year for the Good Doctor: He had to endure Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects, the first Terry Gilliam heartbreak with The Brothers Grimm, the infuriating schmaltz of Elizabethtown, the glamorization of football hooliganism with Green Street, and of course, the numerological Kabbalistic claptrap that was Guy Ritchie's Revolver.
But none of these films got under Dr. Kermode's skin like Last Days, his worst film of 2005.
Surely this should be titled Classic Kermode!
Actually, considering how often it used to come up on the podcast, I think you're right. I'll change it after posting this.
Mary Poppins showing up to rescue Charles Foster Kane's daughter after she's been possessed by the devil sounds like it'd be quite an awesome movie.
"I know the tree is more interesting than Michael Pitt. But it's a tree!!!"
As soon as I heard him mention the Guardian giving it 5 stars, my instant response was "Well of course they did."
I cracked up laughing when he mentiones the distracting tree. I remember watching this seven years ago and when that bit came up almost exclaiming in the cinema "What the absolute fuck?"
hey tulse, you're on kermode's official playlists y'know - quite a coup! thanks for having no adverts, legend :)
Good Will Hunting and Elephant are great.
Michael Pitt was good in the Dreamers and in Boardwalk Empire, like Nick Stahl they have substance abuse issues, but when they're good, they're good.
"Is he gonna make the macaroni cheese?"
:)
I love how Kermode tries to think of the greatest films of all time and all he can come with is 'Citizen Kane, The Exorcist and Mary Poppins'.
I have spent hours of my life listening to this man review movies and this makes me truly question that decision ahahahahaha
And featuring Julian Sands as the villain.
I wonder what the good doctor thinks about Bela Tarr
but it’s a tree 😂 mark does exasperated better than any other critic
I actually quite like this film. I'm well aware I'm in the minority here, but I don't care.
funny review.."i know the tree is interesting"! hahaha - However, I'd say the scene with the yellow pages-ad salesman is definitely funny and bizarre
I really enjoyed this film.
But then again I'm the sort of dude who likes to stare out of windows for long periods of time at nothing.
I just really like the idea of creating a cinematic language where every detail is as important as each other, for me it created a really hollowing effect when he killed himself and its portrayed no different to anything else, same as how in elephant the shooting scenes are shot no different to the school day before hand.
Venus in Furs by The velvet Underground? Masterpiece. Only good thing in this film.
anotoriousbug Possibly the best VU song
'Worse than The Devil's Rejects'. Put it on the poster!
I don’t dislike this film, nothing very good, but nothing terrible. Way better than Gerry from the same director which makes this film look riveting in comparison.
*I was a huge Nirvana fan back in the 90's and was sad when he died like all of the fans were, but this movie was a HORRIBLE insult to ANYTHING Kurt-related. He spends the entire movie mumbling, the dialogue from the rest of the band is trash and there's NOTHING memorable about it. If you walked into this movie NOT knowing ANYTHING about Nirvana and Kurt, you'd think the only thing Kurt and his band did was alot of drugs, that Kurt was verging on mentally challenged and the band was terrible. It was GARBAGE.*
I like how the end of the video's url is the word "Cow"
so true! I couldn't even watch it to the end... brrrr
Do you have his review of the Happening? Because that movie was awful and I'm curious to see what he thought of it.
This is a very surreal conversation. None of your answers remotely correspond to anything I've said. It's an interesting tactic, because it makes it hard for me to argue against any of it. It also makes your argument totally incomprehensible mind, but you can't always get what you want (as Jagger would say).
Milk is a really good biopic. My Own Private Idaho has good moments, mainly from River Phoenix and Udo Kier, and rolling pretty visuals. After that, well, some critics like Elephant.
allaboutdmagic i love Elephant
cool i'll check them out.
I haven't seen this film. I will see it and see if it is really as bad as Mark says it is.
I have finally seen this film and Mark is absolutely correct. This movie is horrible.
Luvie1980
I honestly couldn't sit through more than 25 minutes of it. I had to turn it off, and I seriously tried to make it through to the end.
By the way, if you haven't seen it, you should check out another movie this same guy is in, called Funny Games. It's really good but depressing. There are two versions, a US and an Austrian (German) version.
xxoxia I have seen Funny Games and I love both versions.
+Luvie1980 Indeed, I love Funny Games too. It was different in a good way!
Not for the first time I am in full agreement with Mark! This is so dully terrible.
Good Will Hunting, To Die For
I agree with Mark.
i love this film. i can't defend liking it, i can understand why so many of my friends dislike it, but for some strange reason i still enjoy this film.
@l4dyvenge4nce Yes, the most trusted and successful film critic in the country doesn't understand it... Of course.
'Elephant' - Van Sant's first film in this loose trilogy - is great. This was shite.
Aran Knowles Elephant is great but its the second one, Gerry was the first one made in the Death trilogy
Aran Knowles Gerry is SHIT!
Back when Mark Kermode was discerning
totally agree
Kurt deserved better
It would seem to me that this film reached a new level of badness on Mark's scale. It's not ordinary-bad, as in not enjoyable. It's not funny-bad, as in hilariously awful like Troll 2. It's not even bizarre-bad like The Room or Birdemic. It's like Mark can hardly even believe he saw something so bad and is almost losing his sanity over it. I'd call it "Lovecraftian-bad".
Btw, I haven't seen the film, I'm simply talking about Kermode's comments on it.
Are you ever going to actually come up with an argument, or just make vague, unchallenging statements? The fact is, Last Days is a terrible movie, and you haven't yet come up with any argument to the contrary. Van Sant occasionally has his moments, but this wasn't one of them.
Tick "The Exorcist" off your Kermode bingo cards everyone.
This isn't really criticism. It's just a ranting review with no real substance from someone with no imagination.
The feeble minded get so angry on this page, because they seem to think that he's reviewing Cobain's death, instead of the film about it.
I saw it yesterday and thought it was great. It helps if you know who all the characters are and why they are there
skinwalkerxxx Wrong! Orlando Bland is much worse.
...What's wrong with 'Kurt & Courtney'? I can understand Kermode (or anyone) being pissed off with 'Last Days', which was boring and silly.
But what exactly is wrong with 'Kurt & Courtney'?
it's misogynistic bullshit
@INDIANBLANKET same! *high five*
Last Days is actually up there with My Own Private Idaho and Good Will Hunting in terms of Gus Van Sant's better films imo. Take that opinion as you may, but I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.
Good movie
PAINFUL film!
Elephant is one of my absolute favourite films, and even though I only saw the beginning of Last Days it seemed like similar quality. So I guess I disagree quite strongly with Mark, but this still remains the funniest and perhaps my favourite of his reviews
I recently saw Under the Skin; this was also quite deathly dulll. Almost walked out 4 times.
No.
aheroman under the skin is one of the best movies of the last 10 years
I turned it off halfway through.
I really likes last days..my take on it was how possibly tormented and distraught by his addiction and the music industry the Blake character is..It is a very slow moving film if you don't like these type of movies..but I Love how Gus van sant's use of colors/sunlight..and alway has the very realistic background noises stand out..I guessing last days is not supposed to be nirvana but very very closely based characters that parallel much like historical fiction
Ah, the word 'hipster'. The standard attack of anyone who doesn't really have a strong argument. What exactly about my reply makes me a hipster? If anything, Last Days and it's fans conform to the 'hipster' stereotype of liking something they consider arty and obscure, and claiming that it's detractors 'don't get it'. But as you've just proved, hipster has no real definition and therefore doesn't work as an argument. Nice try though.
haha funny as hell. I just watched drugstore cowboy and thought that was pretty weak, everyone goes on about gus van sant but has he made any good films? the ony other one I have seen is his psycho remake and the less said about that the better.
This was part 2 of Gus Van Sant's Tumbleweed Trilogy, where hollow windswept echoy crap plays out for an hour an a half. Witless cinema that's excruciating to watch.
Emery out
I just finished watching (Last days).....I want those minutes spent watching that horrible movie BACK! nothing's said for several minutes! it's just walking back and forth and garbage! I'd rather cut my eyes out then see that again. 0 out of 10! if you're a Kurt cobain fan....Just go check out (Kurt Cobain: Montage of heck.) That movie was far better.
+J man thee nirvana FAN!!!!!!!!!!!! Im Surprised Gus Van Sant Hasn't Blown His Head Off For Making That Film I Felt The Same Way You Did About Last Days And Michael Pitt's Acting So Fucking Terrible And A Disgrace To Kurt Cobain's Artistic Legacy
Tim Orrok Yeah same, However.. I'm gonna have to RE watch it for a review/rant for my channel.
J man thee nirvana FAN!!!!!!!!!!!! Do It Up Bro I Watched An Interview With Michael Pitt After He Did Last Days And He Said That He Started Dressing Like Cobain And Talking Like Him Alongside Kurt's Mannerisms Even More Disgusting He Tries To Rip Off Nirvana With His Band Pagoda What A Ingenuine Fucking Scumbag
Oh god I hate people like that, You know what's more interesting than this movie ? Kurt & Courtney..(That Documentary film) haha
@l4dyvenge4nce I didn't say his opinion is law, I disagree with him about many things, but saying he 'doesn't get it' is a stupid argument. It's such a pathetic cop out. And there is a certain irony in you accusing critics of only liking obscure, arty shit in defense of a film that is obscure, arty shit. When he's on form, Van Sant is a great director, and we get films like Elephant and Drugstore Cowboy. When he isn't, we get crap like Last Days and Restless.
this film is rather good in terms of fitting to Kurt Cobain - arrogant, 1 dimensional, and mistakes itself for a higher importance
God forgive him cause he doesn't know what he is talking about..
@MrKeepitunderyourhat wow a film critic, in my experience of film critics they only like obscure, arty shit that no one except film critics like. But hey as he is a film critic he must be god of movies, his opinion is law... yada, yada, yada. Fool.
Finally get it this kermode guy Doesn't understand cinema
He disagrees with me --> therefore, he doesn't understand cinema.
I'm sure that's how it works, yes ;-)
God-awful movie.