Oliver Stone’s “The Doors” – What I remember…
I remember the rumblings about this movie being made. I was a moderate Doors fan — moderate meaning I knew the songs that I was supposed to know (L.A. Woman, Light My Fire — the popular stuff) — and I was an Oliver Stone fan, so the merging of the two seemed like a good idea to me.
Then there was this teaser.
I want to say that I saw this preview at the Drive-In (can you believe it?!) right before I saw Rattle and Hum — and I think Jon was with me. I was starting to get excited — at this point I knew I really wanted to see the movie.
Then there was that photo in Rolling Stone. It was small, not even in a real story, just a blurb really. But it was the first photo of Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison and that’s when the excitement shot through the roof. I NEEDED to see this movie.
And then I saw it, and all was right with the world.
Upon repeated viewings, I felt that the concert scenes were the life of the movie, which makes sense since they were a band — but the music and the chaos and everything were captured perfectly. Or at least I would imagine that’s the way the concerts happened because I was not alive when all of it was happening. But in the movie, it was awesome.
If you have a passing interest in the doors, or tour-de-force acting, I recommend that you see this film. It’s a good time.
Side Note: The Doors’ popularity resurgence continued into 1993 when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the original members got together with this new kid on vocals to rock the house. If anybody could match what Jim Morrison could do, it would have to be Eddie Vedder.
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Viva La Doors!
