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The Doors (1991)
« on: November 09, 2013, 11:44:13 pm »
The Doors
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Watching The Doors, the movie can be extremely frustrating at times. This isn't the first time I have seen it either. Probably 5-6 times in total, and yet I always come away from it agitated. Not sure why I keep coming back to the movie every few years. What's even more bizarre is that I'm not even a fan of the band. Sure, there are a few cool songs (Touch Me, LA Woman, Light My Fire), but in general, I'm not a fan because I'm a fan of psychedelic rock. With that said, the myth and personae of Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer) has always intrigued me, even if I do think as a vocalist he is very overrated.

But what about the movie makes me want to punch a wall at times? Oliver Stone. He has always operated outside the fringes of Hollywood and does things his own way. He is forever stuck in the Vietnam era. It's what shaped him as both a person and a film maker. So he goes back to what he knows best. Unfortunately, I just don't want to "relive" HIS experience of what it was like to live in the 60's and this movie tries very hard to give the viewer just that with the way things are shot and edited. When it goes into experimental film making mode, that's him trying to invoke what it's like to be tripping on LSD. I can only guess if that is in fact what it's like.

The other times when the movie has a strong narrative structure does it get interesting. But these scenes are far and few between and Stone keeps going back to the well over and over which makes the movie as a whole seem very unfocused. As a movie goer, I would say this is a Skip. Would a die-hard Doors fan like the movie? Not sure. I doubt they would because as great as Kilmer is in the title role, Stone does everything in his power to make Morrison look like a complete idiot. But the biggest blunder by him as a director is that he doesn't really tell Morrison's story at all, but rather what the 'Myth' of Morrison is. I still don't know what the real Morrison was like. Maybe someday, a better film maker will make the movie that was meant to be. Had a competant director taken the reigns of the movie and done a more 'standard' bio-pic, Kilmer would have been awarded an Oscar nomination at the very least.

Meg Ryan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon, Michael Madsen, Billy Idol and Kathleen Quinlan do their best with what they got, but it's not enough to save a film that Stone had no right to make. One bonus of watching the movie tonight was "discovering" a couple of people that I didn't even know were in the film. A trip to see Josie Bisset as a groupie. Why I never noticed her till tonight, I'll never know. I also caught Debi Mazar in the crowd outside the Whiskey a Go-Go.

Man, I wrote a lot about a movie I care very little for. Go figure..........
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Re: The Doors (1991)
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2013, 11:45:10 pm »
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Re: The Doors (1991)
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2013, 11:49:03 pm »
Ironically enough, I met Robby Krieger shortly after the movie came out.
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Re: The Doors (1991)
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2013, 11:47:35 am »
You did write a lot of movie you keep grudgingly coming back too.

Sheeeeesh. What's up with that?

There is less than a handful of bands I can't stand. I mean turn the damn radio off kind of music. The Door is one of them. I've never had the desire to see the movie.
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« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2013, 11:51:54 am »
I've been going through a whole bunch of DVD's that I'm putting up on eBay and I had to do quality control to see if it had any skips or DVD rot. It's safe to say that this is the last time I will ever watch it.
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Re: The Doors (1991)
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2013, 12:02:36 pm »
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It's safe to say that this is the last time I will ever watch it.

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« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2013, 12:04:13 pm »
Un-wink that damn eye of yours....or I'll put YOU up on eBay as well!  ;D
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Re: The Doors (1991)
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2013, 12:13:49 pm »
Ebay this

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