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Tales of the Riverbank (1960)
Hammy is no Ham
Children and adults alike down throughout the decades have thrilled to the antics of these heroic li'l critters as they go about their deeds with gusto. You could do worse with a fifteen minute segment of your life than to sit quietly with your family and a big smile and to watch Hammy and pals go about their exciting riverbank based routines. Watch for the episode where Hammy flies a bi plane, it is a classic on a par with anything in 'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines'. This show should have been repeated full time on all stations globally ad infinitum until the duration ended and it's a shame it wasn't. Go hammy Go!
Last Days (2005)
Van Sant Corpse Robber
Kurt would have hated this movie. The only reason this rip-off is ever watched by the majority of viewers is because they assume from the use of a Kurt look alike on the cover that it must somehow be the actual story of his mysterious last days, but it is not. Last Days is a deliberately misleading representation (of what could have been a great biographical movie) which uses Cobain to sell its retarded content and give it street credit. If you read his diaries you'll know that Kurt hated this kind of exploitation. You have the right to ask for a refund under most consumer protection laws as it contravenes advertising standards. I cannot express fully my disgust for this movie or everyone involved in its production. Avoid this movie like the plague, unless you're into wrist-slitting inducing, trite, over-indulgent, boring and dumb insults to the memory of a normal guy thrust into extraordinary circumstances which he hated.
While researching this movie Van Sant claimed to Tom Grant, the detective he portrayed as inept in this film, that he was a friend of Kurt and Courtney. How many friends hock one up and spit it in the face of their friends? Some friend.
Gus has ensured his entire body of work will be despised by future generations of 'the kids' for centuries and good riddance to it and him as a director of commercial notoriety. The real suicide in this movie is that of Van Sant's creative output being given any future recognition by the public. At least something good comes from the audience's suffering in that respect!
I think that Van Sant should give 100% of the profits to Courtney and Frances as he has deliberately thieved it from Kurt's family and wrongly portrayed him as a bumbling junkie nincompoop purely to have his own talentless ego massaged.
Imo, Van Sant is up there at No.2 on the list of corpse robbers next to Richard Kohl, the Florida rock memorabilia dealer who conned Kurt's 81 year old grandfather Leland (who lives in a trailer) out of all the drawings and cards his grandson had made for him, and sold them straight away for a quick 34 grand profit. Parasites like these guys don't just rob corpses, they rape em.