I didn't find it hard to watch. I am pretty much totally disgusted by Kurt and Courtney's behaviour, and i disliked them both even more than i already did after watching, but it didn't make me squirm. I always thought Cobain was kind of a miserable jerk (which is why I was never a really big Nirvana fan) and frankly, this movie just confirmed it IMO.
yeah, always loved music from both of them, but everytime I see Courtney I think of the woman junkie in The Crow.
I always found Kurt to be a bit of an asshole. Always calling down other bands for their shit music, etc, all the while wanting to be at the top of the charts himself, while publicly deriding Nevermind as too commercial, which was a total lie. Completely disingenuous person it seemed.
His suicide hit me hard, but oddly, not when it happened (I was 19). it hit me years later. I remember getting the phone call from a friend of mine who told me to turn on Muchmusic and, honestly, my first reaction was laughter. Not callous. Just I think shock laughter, if that makes any sense. It didn't seem to bother me at the time. I remember watching the vigil or whatever it was and all these people my age and a bit younger crying their eyes out, hearing some of them killed themselves later on over it, etc. I was dumbfounded. But then it started to hit me when my own life started to unravel. I became obsessed with him and their music. I did cry at the end of the movie. But I think it was more the dramatic presentation, the visual of this happy kid, than anything.
TBH, I'm still not entirely convinced it was suicide. I'm also not convinced of the murder conspiracies... but I definitely wonder.
Many of my musician friends were devastated by his death. I remember coming into the smoke pit (I was in grade 12 at the time and kids were still allowed to smoke at school, lol), and everyone was milling around all upset and everything. Well, I felt for them and understood them, but I didn't really feel it. Nevermind is a good album and I really got into it at the time, but the other two are just okay. But mostly I just didn't connect with Kurt's "thing". I really wasn't a sullen, broody teen, and I always just thought that Kurt came off like a jerk, as you say as well. He was so negative, and honestly, I saw some friends kind of clinging onto that kind of bitter negativity and I didn't think it was doing my friends any good at all. So I didn't have that emotional connection with his as an artist. I simply really liked one album his band made. I did recognize that it was a groundbreaking album, but without an emotional connection with the artist or where he's coming from, I wasn't about to be devastated by his death. I was pretty crushed about Shannon Hoon a year later though, and just the news about Gord Downie's brain tumour has hit me hard, and he's not even dead yet, so I definitely know the feeling.
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I always found Kurt to be a bit of an asshole. Always calling down other bands for their shit music, etc, all the while wanting to be at the top of the charts himself, while publicly deriding Nevermind as too commercial, which was a total lie. Completely disingenuous person it seemed.
His suicide hit me hard, but oddly, not when it happened (I was 19). it hit me years later. I remember getting the phone call from a friend of mine who told me to turn on Muchmusic and, honestly, my first reaction was laughter. Not callous. Just I think shock laughter, if that makes any sense. It didn't seem to bother me at the time. I remember watching the vigil or whatever it was and all these people my age and a bit younger crying their eyes out, hearing some of them killed themselves later on over it, etc. I was dumbfounded. But then it started to hit me when my own life started to unravel. I became obsessed with him and their music. I did cry at the end of the movie. But I think it was more the dramatic presentation, the visual of this happy kid, than anything.
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Many of my musician friends were devastated by his death. I remember coming into the smoke pit (I was in grade 12 at the time and kids were still allowed to smoke at school, lol), and everyone was milling around all upset and everything. Well, I felt for them and understood them, but I didn't really feel it. Nevermind is a good album and I really got into it at the time, but the other two are just okay. But mostly I just didn't connect with Kurt's "thing". I really wasn't a sullen, broody teen, and I always just thought that Kurt came off like a jerk, as you say as well. He was so negative, and honestly, I saw some friends kind of clinging onto that kind of bitter negativity and I didn't think it was doing my friends any good at all. So I didn't have that emotional connection with his as an artist. I simply really liked one album his band made. I did recognize that it was a groundbreaking album, but without an emotional connection with the artist or where he's coming from, I wasn't about to be devastated by his death. I was pretty crushed about Shannon Hoon a year later though, and just the news about Gord Downie's brain tumour has hit me hard, and he's not even dead yet, so I definitely know the feeling.