mjp
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I had consumed a dozen grilled hot dogs and 40 or 50 beers yesterday, so I had to rest momentarily on the couch before really starting to celebrate. I turned on the TV and there on one of those movie channels was The Doors. I had only seen one or two minute pieces of this in passing, I'd never sat (or laid prone and motionless) through the whole thing.
What a piece of shit! It should be a midnight movie, like an unintentional comedy where the audience chants the lines as the ac-tors are saying them. Most "rock movies" are bad, but this one deserves some kind of "most awful" award. Val Kilmer should be the first inductee into the "Most Awful Rock Movie" Hall of Shame.
Who wrote the script for that train wreck? Every word out of "Morrison's" mouth is terrible, meaningless hippie "poetry." I'm pretty sure the guy spoke like a normal human being most of the time. But there is not one straight, conversational line in the movie from his character. And that shit with the Indians? I threw up in my mouth. The only good part of the movie is when that journalist busted him on his lies in the shower, and he had a hissy fit. I was hoping that cop in that scene would shoot him, not just mace him.
Every Doors show was magical, maaaan! Every word out of Morrison's mouth was poetry, maaaan! Everyone in 1967-70 dressed like costumed characters from an Austin Powers movie, maaaaaaan! What simplistic, idealistic crap.
I just wanted bad things to happen to every broad caricature character that came on screen. I wanted the whole cast to die in a big bathtub. When Morrison finally does die at the end, I was like, FINALLY! Good ridance to a talentless asswipe!
I'm not saying Morrison in real life was talentless. Though I think he got the Michael Jackson treatment because he died young, and his talent, such as it was, was blown way, way out of proportion. But the movie made him look like he lacked any discernable scrap of talent. He was just an irritating fucker throughout the whole thing. If Stone meant this as a tribute to Morrison, he sure fucked it up. He created an utterly unlikable character.
Oliver Stone is a douchebag anyway. He reminds me of Spike Lee - I want to like his work, but too much of it is too awful to like. Natural Born Killers was good. Looking at a list of his other movies, I just see a lot of preachy, pretentious crap. The Doors really stands out of his grand body of work as a special, crowning accomplishment of awfulness.
You know, in my opinion. ;)
What a piece of shit! It should be a midnight movie, like an unintentional comedy where the audience chants the lines as the ac-tors are saying them. Most "rock movies" are bad, but this one deserves some kind of "most awful" award. Val Kilmer should be the first inductee into the "Most Awful Rock Movie" Hall of Shame.
Who wrote the script for that train wreck? Every word out of "Morrison's" mouth is terrible, meaningless hippie "poetry." I'm pretty sure the guy spoke like a normal human being most of the time. But there is not one straight, conversational line in the movie from his character. And that shit with the Indians? I threw up in my mouth. The only good part of the movie is when that journalist busted him on his lies in the shower, and he had a hissy fit. I was hoping that cop in that scene would shoot him, not just mace him.
Every Doors show was magical, maaaan! Every word out of Morrison's mouth was poetry, maaaan! Everyone in 1967-70 dressed like costumed characters from an Austin Powers movie, maaaaaaan! What simplistic, idealistic crap.
I just wanted bad things to happen to every broad caricature character that came on screen. I wanted the whole cast to die in a big bathtub. When Morrison finally does die at the end, I was like, FINALLY! Good ridance to a talentless asswipe!
I'm not saying Morrison in real life was talentless. Though I think he got the Michael Jackson treatment because he died young, and his talent, such as it was, was blown way, way out of proportion. But the movie made him look like he lacked any discernable scrap of talent. He was just an irritating fucker throughout the whole thing. If Stone meant this as a tribute to Morrison, he sure fucked it up. He created an utterly unlikable character.
Oliver Stone is a douchebag anyway. He reminds me of Spike Lee - I want to like his work, but too much of it is too awful to like. Natural Born Killers was good. Looking at a list of his other movies, I just see a lot of preachy, pretentious crap. The Doors really stands out of his grand body of work as a special, crowning accomplishment of awfulness.
You know, in my opinion. ;)