I used to be a total rock music fan (not necessarily a Doors fan) when this movie came out in 90-91 and I’d tripped on this movie.
Looking back now I think it really wasn’t all that worth. Oliver Stone had a great track record till then. His ’’Platoon’’ and ’’Born on the 4th of July’’ had won oscars just a couple years back. And the next major project he took was a movie on a 70s rock band. I liked the movie back then since I liked the Doors.
Good direction, great actings, characterizations, not to mention great casting and of course the music. But we’ve all heard the music before, right? A Doors greatest hits and the Doors soundtrack aren’t too different, except the ’’Carmina Burana’’ (which was pointless on this soundtrack)and VU’s Heroin. Seems like Stone had promised himself as a child while watching a Doors concert that one day he would make a film on this band.
There does’t seem any other reason for why this film was created. Either people already know the doors or they don’t want to know about them. Those who know, they know all there is to know about the Doors; those who don’t care, they just don’t care. So why does Mr. Stone bother. He could’ve made a docu(rock)mentary for his personal viewing.
There was nothing to dig up in the Doors lives or in Jim Morrison’s. JFK was a great movie and worth it’s time spent watching. The findings were informative and the values were great. But ’’The Doors’’ has none. He had rather made a film on the ’’Velvet Underground’’ and the Andy Warhol era, since VU are the most underrated yet most influencial band ever.
Anyway I don’t support movies on rock bands.