The Doors

We just learned The Spy, went over good at the last show, I'll have to check out that movie.

i just recently REALLY got into the doors.

love them.
ive done a lot of reading about jim morrison's life, as well as the band... and its really a great story....

too bad the movie screwed it up.

the movie itself was a fine film, but was so far from the reality of jim and the band that its practicly a work of fiction.
and i agree with the ealier posts, that on top of that, it was really a movie about jim.

i was hoping the movie wasnt going to be what i thought it would be... but it was.
a fictional account of jim morrison.

How so? While I believe Oliver Stone took some liberties w/the film, and left many aspects out of Jim's and The Doors lives, I don't think it was that far from reality.

Stone made Jim look like a complete, incoherent fool. mumbling and stumbling the whole film.
even the other members of the band said the film was a horrible representation of jim.

jim had lots of drug/alcohol problems, but thats not who he was. stone makes it look like he was spaced-out his whole life and some kind of anarchist.

one example is the sullivan show scene...
thats a well documented performance that you can compare stone's version and the REAL version.
its ridicules.

you can use that as a catalyst of how stone portrayed morrison and how he REALLY was.

Ok, first off, all those people, including Patricia Kennealy, signed off on the film and got their money, then they critisized it! It was not a documentary, if you've read the books, Jim was a mess, he could no longer perform live by the time they were recording LA Woman! It was not fictional, a lot of those events happened as it was portrayed in that movie, Oliver was guilty of showing one aspect of Jim's life though.

Denis Leary once said that we didn't need a two and a half hour movie about the Doors, cuz it could be summed up in three seconds: "I'm drunk, I'm nobody. I'm drunk, I'm famous. I'm drunk, I'm dead."

Fat Freddy wrote:

Denis Leary once said that we didn't need a two and a half hour movie about the Doors, cuz it could be summed up in three seconds: "I'm drunk, I'm nobody. I'm drunk, I'm famous. I'm drunk, I'm dead."

Now that's rediculous, Jim was one of the most talented, intellegent and chrasmatic figures in rock history!

candlemass wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Denis Leary once said that we didn't need a two and a half hour movie about the Doors, cuz it could be summed up in three seconds: "I'm drunk, I'm nobody. I'm drunk, I'm famous. I'm drunk, I'm dead."

Now that's rediculous, Jim was one of the most talented, intelligent and chrasmatic figures in rock history!

Well, Denis Leary is a wise-ass.
Besides, I think he was commenting more about the movie itself, than about the real Jim Morrison. If you watch the movie, it DOES kinda follow that three-act pattern.

candlemass wrote:

Ok, first off, all those people, including Patricia Kennealy, signed off on the film and got their money, then they critisized it! It was not a documentary, if you've read the books, Jim was a mess, he could no longer perform live by the time they were recording LA Woman! It was not fictional, a lot of those events happened as it was portrayed in that movie, Oliver was guilty of showing one aspect of Jim's life though.

they all signed off on it... doesnt mean that it was accurate.
the movie is a good movie, dont get me wrong.

the problem i have is that, for people that dont know any better, they see this movie and they think thats who jim really was.

and thats not true.

Like me, I know who he was, but I know nothing of him. So I definately would be influenced. Haven't seen it yet. Same reason I haven't seen Johnny Cash with Phoenix. I love Cash, but i'm afraid what the movie will do to my "perceived" image of him!

T-Roy wrote:

Like me, I know who he was, but I know nothing of him. So I definately would be influenced. Haven't seen it yet. Same reason I haven't seen Johnny Cash with Phoenix. I love Cash, but i'm afraid what the movie will do to my "perceived" image of him!

That's cause you can't think for yourself..............T-Boy!

YOU HEAR THAT SOUND....it's "the pull cord"

New song we "learned"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6mObhMrJOo