
Cobain: Montage of Heck
3.6
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Music
2015
132 min
NR
Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time, experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only ever fully authorized portrait of the famed music icon. Academy Award nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain's personal archive of art, music, never seen before movies, animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest friends.
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"First off, I am a grunge fan. Second, this film shows Kurt was not exactly an angel all the time. Who is? He was an introverted person with great talent that attained success, but was it worth it? I don't have an opinion on his death except for it was tragic. His unfortunate relationships did not help Kurt. Personal illness and the overwhelming strain of fame and the music business really did him in. Recommended. Yes, I reviewed this twice. "
"This was an #excellent #rock #doc 🙌🏽 and I always liked the “feeling” I got listening to the melancholy & haunting tones of Kurt Cobain’s voice & NIRVANA’s music, however, for reasons I don’t need to get into, I wasn’t a HUGE, HUGE mega fan like some, AND although Cobain was A MAJOR CONUNDRUM to me, this film managed to shed some light on that, as well as his emotional pain & despair stemming from his troubled early family life & teen years, as well as his newfound fame, AND there’s no doubt he was VERY creative, determined, pensive, sensitive, & introspective, all based upon what you see here in this #documentary —
There’s a lot of interesting #commentary from his mom, dad, first major girlfriend, musician wife Courtney Love, & one-half of the surviving members of the band, Krist Novoselic… (I’m not sure why Dave Grohl was absent… maybe he was touring with Foo Fighters?🤷♀️).
🌟#HighlyRecommend watching to anyone just for its #unique style, which includes #artwork by Cobain as well as #music & sound collages composed by him, but it’s a must-see if you were a NIRVANA fan🌟"
"I have strong feelings about how weird it is to take a person that was famously not comfortable with fame and make passages from his personal journal public. It feels very weird to me. Even weirder because I have an emotional connection to Nirvana and Kurt's story. I had very mixed feelings on this when I watched it as I did FEEL something while watching it but as time has separated me from this what I actually remember from it has faded leaving only my feelings about its existence. I don't even know how much of that is this thing's fault. Most of this was out there before and some, I think, in his lifetime. But idk, I can't shake how weirdly intimate this feels with a guy who, by this thing's own admission, seems like he wouldn't have been happy about that."