Last Words

I honestly don't know what "Last Words" was about. There's no story, and nothing much happens. I watched it at three times the speed and was still thoroughly bored by the slow pacing.

Actually the actors were pretty good, but the movie is very very badly made. It is an achievement in itself to ruin a movie like this. It looks like it was done on purpose or Jonathan Nossiter wanted to prank himself and everybody present in the movie.

It's very sad actually.

The whole storyline doesn't make sense. Scenes are not connected, sometimes it seems like they mashed up the script from multiple movies into this one. Actors are over acting when they obviously shouldn't. This movie could be a good material for students as a counter example of how NOT to make a movie.

The camera angles are also alright, the costumes, the scenes, are mostly good. It seems like they had the footage and just mashed up everything randomly and this came up on the other end. What a shame!

Maybe if it would be muted it would look good and a background footage at a party.

I am dying of pancreatic cancer right now so for me, this film had a special poignancy. If you care about humanity and appreciate living every moment in the present, you are likely to enjoy this film. It's also about the joy and power of film to document people's existence on this planet.

Kudos to the director for including so many delightful film clips, especially the clip from a rarely seen interview with Dennis Potter. Most of the clips are well-known such as Monty Python, Buster Keaton, etc.

As a matter of personal preference, I do not watch R rated movies. I chose this movie for two reasons ; one it was a featured selection at Cannes film festival and two it was PG-13. IT IS NOT PG - 13!! There is full frontal male and female nudity. Not just for a brief flash but for full scenes. There's also a female to male rape. There is also an extended close-up of the genitals of a hermaphrodite.

It's a dystopian movie that takes place in 2085 but the dates do not add up. Nick Nolte talks about seeing a rock concert in 1975-- that would make him over 115! This could've been a really interesting movie. Well it WAS an interesting movie but the fact that they threw in those completely unnecessary nude scenes ruined it for me.

Show your displeasure with the film industry by avoiding this clinker. The movie "Last Words" is a modern journey into morbidity and self-disgust. It starts going downhill around the halfway point and never recovers. I think the script writer must have suffered a mental breakdown.