Just got back from catching this at the cinemas. I thought that Cameron Crowe did a very good job telling the story of the band through interviews, events, archive footages and footages from concerts. Even though the story of the band was told chronologically, a good 40-50% of the film focused on the early days of the band up till they released their third album, and what was surprising to me as a life long Pearl Jam fan was how much emphasis on Andrew Wood was put on in the documentary and the influence that he has/had on the band up till this day, in a way to me he was like the 5th Beatle.
Even more surprising to me was how little they touched on the band's drummer situation. The only explanation/reference that they could give was that they are similar to Spinal Tap when it came to drummers.
It was nice to see how the Seattle scene at that time had shaped the band and in return them shaping the scene in the early days and Kurt Cobain did appear a couple of times in the course of the film. Its definitely worth catching even if you are not a fan of the band.
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