The Doors

Kilmer nails Morrison!

Okay, first things first - we all know that this movie is wildly inaccurate, as everyone who knew Jim Morrison will attest. The reason for this is because Oliver Stone - always an extremely sensationalistic director - due to the fact that he considered Jim a huge personal hero (he once tried to pitch a version of this screenplay to Jim himself), he has deliberately created here the rhetorical Jim Morrison, not the real man. The rhetorical pain, pressure and suffering, not the real situations Jim faced. That approach, of course, leaves the whole thing as sheer fantasy due to Stone’s hero worship. This is basically the most expensive fan-made biopic ever made! But once you get past that - if you can - and accept the fact that this fantastical movie is gleefully and willfully inaccurate, it is a TOTAL BLAST to watch, because its directorial style is FANTASTIC! As a purely sensory experience, this film singlehandedly creates the sort of far out groovy trippiness that many sixties and seventies movies themselves tried desperately and failed miserably trying to achieve. Apparently many older viewers of the day who actually lived through the sixties went to see this when it was brand new and reported a remarkably similar experience in watching it - they all claimed that it made them want to rush out and get stoned. Stone hasn’t tried to create an ode to drug taking here, don’t misunderstand - but the awesome trippiness of the visual style is easily what’s most fun about this film. Plus, Val Kilmer and company put on sensations performances, and Kilmer himself is almost frighteningly creepy in his amazing come-back-from-the-dead lead as Jim, even if it is only the Jim that existed in his fans’ minds and not the real thing. In short: wildly inaccurate, but still a BLAST to watch!

I love the doors

Val Kilmer was great. Its Oliver Stone who dropped the ball here. The writing, directing and editing aren't very good..the result being a very cluttered and convoluted movie..its a mess. I'm not impressed. Sure, Morrison was a kind of a nut case (IMO), but he made some outstanding music..I think he deserves a better movie than this.

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This film is what you are looking for if you are interested in early rock 'n' roll stars.

Nuff said in title

This movie is amazing. I'm in love with the doors, and Jim Morrison. This movie shows his life so wonderfully. and is just to me a classic:)

Thia movie theroughly shows the hidden side of jim morrison that no one really new during that era.This movie expresses his secret poetetic side and cover the main events that happened in his life

He just wanted to show us, that's all. Like many before and after him.