Long-time member of the Melvins, Buzz Osborne, has voiced his qualms about the latest Kurt Cobain documentary, Montage of Heck. Crafting a personal review for The Talkhouse, Osborne announced, "People need to understand that 90 percent of Montage of Heck is bullsh*t. Total bullsh*t."
Brett Morgan directed the documentary with heavy involvement from Cobain's 22-year-old daughter, Frances Bean Cobain. Since its release, Montage has received an abundance of positive feedback and praise, notes Rolling Stone. Montage of Heck tells the story of the Nirvana frontman through digital animation, home movies, audio recordings and journals. Many find solace in the truth of the film coming from Cobain himself, but that fact is Osborne's complaint. "That's the one thing no one gets about Cobain—he was a master of jerking your chain," he explained.
Osborne further clarifies that stories highlighted in the documentary including an attempted suicide over train tracks and bidding to hook-up with a mentally disabled girl from school are nothing but works of Cobain's imagination. "That's too good a story to have gone this long without me hearing about it, especially if, as he suggests, the girl's father freaked out about it at the high school," he wrote. "In that small-town sh*t-hole, exciting news of that nature would have been common knowledge before the sun set."
The Melvins front man also believes Cobain's stomach troubles were nonexistent and were merely fabricated. "He made it up for sympathy and so he could use it as an excuse to stay loaded," he explained. "Of course he was vomiting—that's what people on heroin do, they vomit. It's called 'vomiting with a smile on your face.'"
As far as Courtney Love is concerned, Osborne can't bring himself to believe that Cobain "tried to off himself when she'd only thought about cheating on him." Blaming the filmmakers for failure to fact-check statements by Cobain and Love, he wrote "Unfortunately, it matters very little what the facts are; what matters is what people believe. And when it comes to Cobain, most of what they believe is fabricated nonsense. Montage of Heck does nothing to counter that."
In the midst of all Osborne found wrong with the documentary, he founds two ways to praise what the film had to offer."I did enjoy the really cool animation, though, and they did a fantastic job of showing what a depressing sh*t-hole Aberdeen really was and still is," he claimed. "For that, I salute them!"
