Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - The Doors Movie

Just picked up this movie for $5 and thought it was pretty good. The Doors are one of my favourite bands and according to my dad, the movie showed their band history pretty accurately. Just wondering what you guys thought about it??


Cory

It was a fairly decent movie, although I can't stand Meg Ryan.
Unlike Jamie Fox in Ray, Val Kilmer actually sang.
The cinematography by Robert Richardson was great.
I suggest the book, No One Here Gets Out Alive.

seconded. the book was always in my sight back in 6th grade. I must have read that book 3 times one summer. I still enjoy the music and the mythology of the Doors.

I've heard the book was amazing but my library send it back to the publisher because something was wrong with the cover?? I'm always on the lookut for it though.

It was decent movie except for the usual Oliver Stone paranoia. I got chills during the scenes where they rehearse Light My Fire. The trailer where they played that with the camera sweeping over an orange cliff is burned into my memory.

long time Doors fan and yes the movie captured the whole era
pretty well. Val Kilmer did a credible job and did capture Morrison's nuances
very well.
The book was amazing, more detail than the movie but that's nothing
new.
I still lament the loss of Morrison (although if you believe the book
he is alive and well in Africa, although I never saw him there).

Marty

I thought Val Kilmer was good, and it captured the mania of the period. BUt I thought it was a pretty mediocre film. The problem for me was that we're supposed to admire how great jim morrison was, but he was actually a pretty disgusting human being.

I think it was Dennis Leary who said

'Big fat drunk dead guy in a bathtub. There's your movie'

I absolutely love The Doors and Oliver Stone, so I naturally loved this movie. It helps that I was extremely "substance impaired" when I saw it in the theater. Morrison is THE archetypal rockstar, in my opinion. Summertime in the South always puts me in a mood to listen to them. "Soft Parade" has been on rotation a lot, as of late.

The history was condensed and false in that not everything happened in such a short period of time.

The history was condensed and false in that not everything happened in such a short period of time.
Yeah, Bush is full of crap.

The history was condensed and false in that not everything happened in such a short period of time.
Yeah, Jim Morrison's life was at least 5 hours 13 minutes long. Stone blew this one royally. :rolleyes:

I've not read the book, so I can't comment on that, but I loved the film. The Doors are easily one of my favorite bands and Jim Morrison is one of only a small band of Americans that I look up too. I expected the film to be the usual Hollywood pap, but I surprised and then delighted by it.

One of Stone's better films, Kilmer does and excellent job.

You're all a buncha slaves.