The Doors
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Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• Letterboxed
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 01 March, 1991
DVD Release : 27 August, 1997 |
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The Doors Customer Reviews
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A chaotic mess...
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...and much more Oliver Stone's vision of what the Doors' music and Jim's life was, truth be damned. Supposedly, Stone was inspired by the book No One Here Gets Out Alive (written by Jerry Hopkins in 1973-74, but not published until 1980 when Danny Sugerman, Jim's one-time teenage factotum, did some judicious rewriting), but very little of the book, even, is present in this film. I had to see it three times just to believe what I was seeing--in short, an absolute hatchet job on Jim Morrison, and nothing like the real Jim at all.
I honestly have no idea where the scene with Jim locking Pam in a burning closet came from; nowhere in the Doors' history does this incident appear. Jim did not meet Patricia Kennealy in 1967 (Kennealy herself has verified this in her book, Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison) at a press conference; their first meeting was a private interview in New York City in January 1969. And she was not the girl who was with him backstage in New Haven when he was famously maced by a cop, then told that story onstage and was promptly arrested for doing so. Jim was not the sadistic, unfeeling creature portrayed in the film--you honestly don't feel sorry for him when he dies at the end--and even the infamous "Miami Incident" is misportrayed. He did not offer to show off his penis to the audience, and although he did attempt to do so, he was forcibly restrained from it by one of the band's roadies. And Pam was not with him during the trial, which stretched out over many months between 1969 and 1970; Jim never said of his handfasting to Kennealy that "I was stoned, it seemed like a fun thing to do at the time." He was very serious about his vows to her (and no, she is not paying me to say any of this. I've read her book and I've read some of the other books, and I think I'm able to judge what's truth and what's clearly fabrication).
Also, we'd do well to remember that Stone was off in Vietnam while much of this was going on--his own idea, and given a fictitious-yet-autobiographical treatment in Platoon--and just apart from that, he tends toward sweeping overstatement. This film is just a mess; don't waste your time or money. |
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