The Doors

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Yael M Val Kilmer an amazing actor killed it as Jim Morrison, I think that’s the most obvious thing to say, but Stone was trying to make a movie about Jim’s life and the doors but don’t think he did very well depicting it. A lot of what happens is made up and Stone ignores real life stories and statements from close friends of Morrison and doesn’t imply it in the movie. Val Kilmer does an excellent job playing a drunk guy in leather pants reciting poetry lines like an asshole. Just no way anyone can call that person Jim Morrison. The casting was really good too. I wish the movie was longer and could show Jim Morrison IN Paris and the days leading up to his death and the aftermath of it. Also, not one single soul was said to have been naked on stage while the Doors were performing, don’t know why that’s on there. Anyways do recommend the movie, the whole thing is a trip especially the warhool party scene. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/25 Full Review Wayne K I’ve never been the biggest fan of The Doors, and by extension, it’s legendary frontman Jim Morrison. Aside from Light My Fire, the song I’m most familiar with is The End, since it appears at the beginning of Apocalypse Now, one of my all-time favourite films. As a result, the Oliver Stone biopic was never really a film I was aching to see. Trying to capture the spirit of one of the 20th centuries most enigmatic figures is hard enough, but also doing justice to the bands work makes it an even more daunting challenge. From all that I’ve read, the film plays very fast and loose with its depiction of Morrison’s personality and relationships with those around him. Obviously artistic licence needs to be taken on some occasions, but the decision to depict him in the way they did is just baffling. If you knew nothing about Jim Morrison, you’d come out of this film thinking he was little more than a callous, self-aggrandising junkie who obsessed about dying so much that he never even really cared about living. You never get a real sense of who he was as a person, just caricaturish exaggerations of all the typical rock star cliches we’ve long grown tired of. The other Doors members are so marginalised and poorly represented that they pretty much all disowned it, and the end result is a film that seems to have been made by someone who hated Morrison and everything he stood for, wanting others to despise him too. The films biggest strength, as many have observed, is Val Kilmer’s performance. He truly disappears into the role, with energetic stage performances, a poetic mind and a truly generational talent for song writing. It’s a shame that a turn like this was part of a film that really didn’t deserve it, but it helps to elevate a frequently muddled and outright unpleasant film at times. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/05/25 Full Review andrea m Val Kilmer should have received an Oscar for his role. 👏 Amazing Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/10/24 Full Review Jason S Incredible transformative performance by Val Kilmer. One of the best music biopics. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/19/24 Full Review Shioka O Val embodied Jim and his performance is really convincing. Look alike. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/08/24 Full Review Jay H The performances are great. The movie itself is not. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/27/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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