The Doors (1991)

The story of the famous and influential 1960's rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Oliver Stone
Written By: Oliver Stone, Randall Jahnson
Starring: Michael Madsen, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Tilly, Crispin Glover, Frank Whaley, Mimi Rogers, Kyle MacLachlan, Kathleen Quinlan, Titus Welliver, Meg Ryan, Kevin Dillon, Michael Wincott
Genres: Drama, Biography, Music
Country: USA
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luc | 99 99th |
Fantastic and super music-movie. Val kilmer played a brilliant role, what a performance of him. Super songs and my favourite movie
all time for the moment. Riders on the Storm is my favourite song.
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SlrSoapbox | 35 10th |
Val Kilmer is excellent, and often uncanny when he fills in for Morrison's vocals. However, the film is overlong, has way too much nudity (speaking as a heterosexual woman here) and is completely and utterly irresponsible. I was extremely relieved to find out that a good portion of the depiction of Morrison was fabricated, because this movie nearly made me hate one of my rock gods. So screw you, Oliver Stone.
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INDYATMN | 74 36th |
Was really into the Doors when I saw this and really liked it at the time because of that. Now that I'm older and adapted to the Doors, I'm not as impressed. Oliver Stone drives every point home with a Mack truck with the T-1000 at the wheel. The narrative is a mish-mash, and the indian stuff get repeated once too often but...I can't say I hate it.
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Suldrup | 70 60th |
Kilmer's performance is a tour de force of sheer brilliance, but the film is too long. Stone drags out many of the concert scenes to the point of annoyance, which reflects many of The Doors' long songs. However, in that art form it works, not on the big screen.
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jimmynmu | 63 43rd |
Kilmer did a great job as Morrison.
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cagedwisdom | 25 17th |
KGB says it all in his mini-review.. So there's no reason for me to say it over again. But I will. It was too much over too long a time. The cast is pretty great (including Meg Ryan, who I usually hate), the music is great, but.. meh. Gets boring, and gets way excessive. Jim Morrison is (was) an asshole, and that makes it hard to care about anything that's going on. A fairly annoying film.
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1 | citysqwirl | 84 81st |
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Val Kilmer becomes Jim Morrison -- I believed utterly. Meg Ryan is very sweet, too, and the tripping scenes have a realistic vibe.
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Stain | 90 86th |
I admit here that I am a bit biased because I have been a serious Doors fan since I was 14. If _Friday the 13th_ had had 25 Doors songs in it, I might have liked that movie, too. Ray Manzarek flamed Stone in public for what he declared an assassination of Jim Morrison. Stone probably screwed up in a few places, but this is still a very entertaining picture and most likely the best (and only) Doors/Morrison biopic we'll ever get. Crispin Glover as Andy Warhol is a riot
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1 | kobrande | 80 94th |
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Very decadent. Worth seeing just to watch Val Kilmer do Jim Morrison. I notice it's categorized as a drama, musical. There's a lot of music, but I wouldn't consider it a musical.
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1 | gtrmp | 70 49th |
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Meg Ryan seems to have wandered into the wrong movie somehow.
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nandorizzi | 95 97th |
Val Kilmer is great, like Jim Morrison. I Love The Doors. Good movie. Nice, for to know a bit about the history of them.
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Vandelay1 | 70 75th |
good movie
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tathiel | 88 92nd |
Oh, how I loved that movie when it came out, Val Kilmer just nails it!
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walkearth | 75 89th |
A peek into the madman's mind. An insane film. Literally. A movie about a crazy man with both alcoholic and drug problems. Or at least that's what the film tells us. I was relieved to find out that this was not entirely the truth, it was partly fabricated. Howsoever, it made me hate Jim Morrison. Or love him, I don't know.
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wetwillies | 50 4th |
The movie feels like an SNL sketch, and I don't think it could be any other way. There's maybe a better film in here, behind the posturing and the emptiness, but posturing and emptiness are what made Jim Morrison a star, and if you're not willing to challenge him on his emptiness, then you're going to look a bit undercooked. Ride the snake to the lake, baby.
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Yiannos | 58 41st |
It's probably too much to ask a member of Stone's generation to be remotely objective about The Doors, especially if they're a fan like Stone. With that in mind, it's perhaps not surprising that he conforms to the cult of Jim, which has obscured both Morrison's complexity and the band members' invaluable contributions to the genre of rock, so it's disappointing to see Stone play so blatantly to it. Kilmer gives a star making performance as the Lizard King, but The Doors deserved better.
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1 | TBW | 30 5th |
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I don't know, movies about loser addicts wasting their lives are hard for me to watch, even if they were famous and had something resembling talent
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