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Summary: A Travesty of Justice
Review: This movie is the one work that tarnished Morrison's image the most. In this movie, Morrison's drug abuse and screwed up behavior are often portrayed as the product of inner genius and a philosophy of life. In reality, drug abuse is only drug abuse, and screwed up behavior is only screwed up behavior. This generic romantic presentation of the Doors is quite frustrating, and very limited in scope. There is just a lot of quasi-intellectual rubbish, and not much substance to the story. There were twenty or more factual mistakes in the film, and they will be revealed when a person has done their research. Val Kilmer also, in my view, has deficiencies in how he portrayed Morrison. His singing voice was not always up to par, and not for one second did he abandon a warped and stoned kind of persona. What Kilmer was best at, was his depiction of Morrison's moves and behaviors on stage. 'The Doors' is the most popular exponent of the largely accepted romanticized view of the Doors. The jarring factual mistakes make this the worst of all such works, however. Everyone would be much better off listening to the Doors' music (the first six studio albums), which stand as an impressive and creative body of work.
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE!!!
Review: My son got me this for last christmas, I already had the vhs version, but this 2 disk set is even better. The interviews with everyone and learning alot more about the movie and everyone who participated in it, and what they really had to say about it, just blew my mind. Still a GREAT movie, Great cast, VAL & MEG awesome job!!! No one could of pulled off playing jim, not like you did! This movie is not only entertaining, the music is awesome, as well as the acting. Any doors fan, will love this, true or not, the movie is awesome!
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Summary: Well Played Jim Morrison, Well Played
Review: Jim Morrison plays Val Kilmer in the story of Val Kilmer's life. We catch a glimpse of the early days when Val Kilmer gets the role of a lifetime in Top Secret. But my favorite part is the Top Gun sequence only because they couldn't get Tom Cruise. Nicolas Cage plays a great Maverick, and should have had the role in the first place. He was even more dangerous and flew by more of the seat of his pants than Tom Cruise could ever dream. Brilliant.
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Summary: Truth half told
Review: This is one of the finest Oliver Stone movies. Val Kilmer fits in as Jim Morrison almost flawlessly. You almost start believing that him and Jim Morrison were one and the same. This movie shows rise and fall (A little bit of rise and a lot of fall) of one of the most legendary bands in the rock history. It does not show a lot about creative and artistic side of Jim Morrison and the band, but you have to understand that it's neither a documentary nor an auto-biography of Jim Morrison or the band. After watching this movie, a lot of people may think that Jim Morrison was nothing but a wasted soul which is not true. What you have to understand is it's an Oliver Stone movie and Mr. Stone always makes a statement through his movies and a lot of times it's not very obvious. This movie faithfully depicts the 60's atmosphere and one angle of the band. It shows 60's Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll spirit (well, a lot of Sex and Drugs and a relatively little bit of Rock n Roll). The movie fails to justify the transition of the band from a small time bar band to a band that attained almost godly status in the Rock n Roll history so far. They could have done a little bit there and that could have been entertaining too. But again, I believe that Jim Morrison was a very complex personality and so was the band and you can't really show all the sides in a 2 hour long movie and probably that was not the goal of this movie too.
I don't believe that any of the facts have been twisted here but I will agree if someone says that it's the truth half told.
The track I liked most on this movie was track # 10 which starts in a New Mexico dessert and which shows how the famous song "The End" was made. If you chose Audio Track 2, it's Oliver Stone commentary as the movie progresses. Its sounds interesting but I have not heard it completely yet.
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Summary: a movie made it for the fans
Review: Oliver Stone an ex Vietnam combatant, a Doors music fan, made an estrordinary work , a great vision of the sixtiees and Jim Morrison's life, great preformes, a worthy Doors movie. Not recomended meet the doors with this movie, is only the vision of a fan.
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Summary: Val Kilmer¿s best performance.
Review: Even though this movie has been slated by critics and is considered one of Oliver Stone's turkeys, it certainly is not uneventful. I had the pleasure of first watching this film after taken over 100 dried psilocybin mushrooms and even though I would not do that again as quickly, I must say that this film was an excellent choice at the time. Basically the story is that there is none expect for the rise and fall of the music legend Jim Morrison. The film starts with his boyhood memories of an Indian car accident, his early film-school days (watch for the cameo of Oliver Stone as his film professor) and the formation of the band - The Doors, which consists of the actors Kyle Maclachlan, Kevin Dillion and Frank Whaley. Val Kilmer IS Jim Morrison and is completely believable throughout the entire film. The plot revolves around his relationship with Pamela Courson (Meg Ryan) who battles for his love and attention as Morrison takes on a God like status in the world of sex, drugs and rock n' roll. Stone decides to concentrate more on Morrison's descent into self-destruction and there are plenty of tragic gigs gone wrong along the way. The film is very mystical in parts but ends up saying very little. It is more about the ups and downs (mostly downs) of a big time rock n' roll star than anything else. Wonderful camerawork though and amazing lighting. The script is somewhat weak but there is still plenty of stuff that keeps this film moving forward. And yeah, it was better with the shrooms, in case you wanted to know. 4 to 5 stars with shrooms, 3 without.
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Summary: Kilmer is Morrison
Review: Kilmer is Morrison in this movie, he acts and feels out what the man did and how he saw the way he did. This is a big winner and I like The Doors myself and this was a good one. Hooray for Oliver Stone for making this awsome movie. Long live Morrison
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Summary: Good Job Kilmer
Review: I loved this movie. Val Kilmer played a killer Jim Morrison...very impressive. Almost true to life.
There were some slow parts but all in all this is a great movie!!
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Summary: as good as Woodstock (or a Rolling Stones video)
Review: I think this film is far better than film critic Roger Ebert,who gives it 2 1/2 stars, believes. It is presented as a realistic representation of the 1960's, of the psychedic era. I think it is as good as "Woodstock" in this respect. The scenes have such seamless transitions that one is totally drawn into the cinematic reality. I lived through this period and though some reviewers claim it has been exaggerated for dramatic effect, I find no reason to believe that all of what is presented could not be true, including Morrison's daredevil acts outside on an apartment ledge, his meeting with Andy Warhol, etc. There are at least two ways to view Morrison: as a misunderstood, passionate poetic genius who espoused greater personal freedom; or as a degenerate lout and beat poet who wallowed in excess until it finally killed him, in that time of instant personal gratification. Meg Ryan is also good as his girlfriend, though he apparently attracted many women. He certainly was an above-average melodist and a somewhat jaded lyricist(particularly on the song "The End" in which "the killer" reminds me of the main character in the film "Kalifornia" as played by Brad Pitt; I suppose Jim's statement that "The West is the Best" can be equated with Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock) many of his best songs compare favorably to the best of the Beatles or Stones or Janis Joplin or the Flying Burrito Brothers, and it's no wonder he has become a pop culture icon.
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Summary: Great film
Review: I found this a great film both passionate and disturbing; true there are a few slow scenes but Stone certainly gives an accurate reflection of this era, possibly better still if you lived through it and were approximately Morrison's age,as I was.
In this respect the film is at least as good as "Natural Born Killers"--and in places equally outrageous. I can't believe Roger Ebert gave it only 2 1/2 stars. Surely 3 1/2 is more like it. What makes it especially compelling is the music itself; I was never a big Doors fan, even though I lived in the era when I very well might have been...but now I am. Morrison's songs are I now believe the equal of The Band's or Dylan's, and they are if anything more passionate. Also significant is that fact that Morrison's life was a study in increasing excess; i.e. his personal demons, not to mention his hair, grew ever more intense until his death. In this respect, he resembles many artists, including the Beatles, Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones, Steve Earle, to name a few. Stone plays up the passion, the sex, and the drugs.
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