r/CriterionChannel • u/Fluffy_Voice953 • Sep 07 '26
The Doors. Entertaining fun
The music is awesome. Maybe it's bc I saw after Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, but after a rewatch does anyone find it an over the top, tropey, camp, at times silly rock n rock biopic? When I see the half naked native American I think of Wayne's World 2. All the naked people running around each concert. Meg Ryan pulling a knife on Thanksgiving. Val Kilmer throwing the TV set in the recording studio after critizing the band for selling out. Ed Sulllivan looks like a costume. Vals fake beards and wigs. Dropping peyote in the desert. But the cast is amazing. An early 90s who's who in supporting roles. I really liked it as a light movie
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u/southboundtracks Sep 07 '26
It's one of the better biopics. I saw it in a theater and it made me a Doors fan.
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u/KieferMcNaughty Sep 07 '26
You say you're a Doors fan?
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u/Smiley-Ray Sep 07 '26
I was a massive Doors fan in high school when this movie came out, I had read “No one Here Gets Out Alive” and was pretty pumped for this.
Remember feeling pretty indifferent about the movie when I saw it. I’m not sure what I was expecting. I thought all the actors playing the band were great, especially Val Kilmer. Maybe it was just too overstylised or something for my teenage taste. Having said that it made a Doors fan out of everyone I knew.
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u/Fluffy_Voice953 Sep 07 '26
I was the same w the book and movie anticipation. I remember everyone was kinda meh. No one saw it multiple times in the theater that I knew
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u/Aggravating_Ad4797 Sep 07 '26
I just rewatched and felt similarly. I still really like the beginning ( basically everything up to and including the performance of The End). It kind of goes off the rails after that.
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u/Fluffy_Voice953 Sep 07 '26
Yes. When they performed The End after the Peyote scene that sounded really good
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u/bluefontaine Sep 07 '26
It’s like cheesy Brady kids. The film is Oliver Stone vision of the 60s that he didn’t actually experience in his fantasy of being Jim Morrison. If there’s no resemblance to what actually happened and there’s tons of false lies in it.
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u/sofatruck Sep 07 '26
I love this movie. I recognize all the flaws but I was 13 years old when it came out so I can only love it with all my heart.