Advantages: great music and some great portrayals Disadvantages: dosnt get at the heart of the subject
Even though the title of the film would suggest that this film is the story of the band as a whole that is pretty much a fallacy. Like most things with this band the front man, Jim Morrison, over shadows all else and here we are treated to a wonderful view of the times and the scene, but it is totally focused on the one person. That's not to say that it's not a very engaging story, for fans and non-fans alike, but the hidden depths of the make up ...
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Advantages: Stunning to look at. The acting is superb. Probably the best soundtrack in the world. Disadvantages: Some fact seems to have been placed to the side to make way for drama and controversy.
Many things have been given the Oliver Stone treatment. From Vietnam in 'Platoon' to presidential assassination in 'JFK'. So what happens when one of the greatest rock bands of all time are immortalised on celluloid by one of the greatest directors of all time?
I am one of the few amongst my generation. I loved The Doors before I had seen the movie. I had read the two books that it is based upon and I had naturally sample all the music that they ...
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Advantages: Kilmer, a wonderful story Disadvantages: None
...for making films which expose the sleazy underbelly of history and debunk the myths that surround the received wisdom. He's also a right pain in the a*** for the US establishment and has done such stuff as JFK and Malcolm X.
The Doors was one of his earlier films and paints a striking picture of rock music in the late Sixties. It focuses on The Doors and their brilliant, but controversial lead singer, Jim Morrison, played by Val Kilmer, whose ...
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Advantages: great music Disadvantages: 'touchy' subject matter
...should watch this film. The film epitomises the old 'sex, drugs and rock'n'roll' adage, and then some! Excellent performances put across the story of The Doors with humour, wit, and some sensitivity. Littered with enough Doors tracks to keep even the most die-hard fan happy, and enough plot to keep anyone else watching enthralled to the end, this film has some classic lines of dialogue that are worth remembering for future conversations. This film ...
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Advantages: Long, interesting, with a good spiritual thrust. Disadvantages: A bit too much.
Like the film 'Titanic', everyone who knows anything about the Doors will know what happens at the end of this film. However, Oliver Stone's biopic 'The Doors' tries to look for a reason why - while charting the rise and fall of one of the world's greatest bands.
The film centralises, of course, with the band's permanently stoked-up singer, the infamous Jim Morrison, who is played by Val Kilmer - notorious himself for mood swings. Kilmer looks ...
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Val Kilmer plays the part of Jim Morrison, the cultish singer and writer for the famous band, The Doors.
This biographical story starts with him remembering a family trip in the desert where he witnesses an Indian dying on the side of the road. Remembering that this is the middle of the desert and seeing anyone would seem to be a little odd.
He turns into a bizarre poet and starts a band with this friends at college. Morrison is a unique talent ...
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Advantages: Great soundtrack, obviously. Disadvantages: Oliver Stone, he just can't make a straight film!
...to be fair, regardless of the quality I was going to buy it. I won’t insult your intelligence by relaying the story to you.. just to say that Val Kilmer plays the part of Jim Morrison remarkably well. The film is let down by the usual drug induced stuff that Oliver Stone is renowned for as shown in Natural Born Killers, but if you’re looking for a film that glorifies Jim Morrison as well as depicting the downward spiral very well.. see this. ...
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Advantages: An excellent film Disadvantages: If you don't like the Doors you won't like this film
The Doors is the film that tells the rise and fall of the band 'The Doors' and the life of Jim Morrison , from a young poet to a figurehead of a generation through drug & alcohol problems to ultimately the mystery surrounding his death.
Meg Ryan plays Pamela Courson while Val Kilmer 'is' Jim Morrision, after a while you forget its an actor its just like watching the man himself. As you might expect the film is full of music by the Doors, and I ...
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soundtracked his youth. As is generally the case with Stone's films, its scope is impressively wide. He places The Doors at the eye of a 1960s cultural and political maelstr...
tragically to an end in a haze of drug abuse. The movie captures the psychedelic atmosphere of the Doors work and particularly Jim Morrison's life -who is played by a v...
his youth. As is generally the case with Stone's films, its scope is impressively wide. He places The Doors at the eye of a 1960s cultural and political maelstro...
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