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The Doors 1991 123movies

The Doors 1991 123movies

The Ultimate Story of Sex, Drugs & Rock 'N' RollMar. 01, 1991140 Min.
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Watch: The Doors 1991 123movies, Full Movie Online – Oliver Stone’s homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group’s late singer, the “Electric Poet” Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971. The movie features a tour-de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison’s long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer’s vocals from Morrison’s originals..
Plot: The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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7.2/10 Votes: 93,460
57% | RottenTomatoes
62/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 1155 Popularity: 16.627 | TMDB

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I KNOW I’m giving way too many stars for this, but I don’t care; The Doors were one of my very first favourite groups. I fondly recall, when I was 11, and Elektra Records released ‘The Doors’ Greatest Hits’, and the album-length version of ‘Light My Fire’ was played all the time on the radio, and I was mesmerized by the instrumental middle of the song, got the album from my parents for Christmas, and started a lifelong love affair with the band. Yes, Jim Morrison is highly overrated. Yes, the movie is an extremely self-indulgent mess and it can be quite incoherent and incohesive. But the Sixties, the L.A. rock scene back then, and especially Morrison’s life, were just like that, so it is oh so fitting!

I adore the fact that it was Oliver Stone’s labour of love (one of thankfully many) and that the surviving members of the band basically had full input. I would take this and ‘Talk Radio’ (my personal favourite Stone’s throw) over a hundred of Stone’s politically over-the-top movies any day!

When I was 17, I took my life savings and visited, on my own, nine European countries, including France and its capital, Paris. Did I go for the Eiffel Tower, wild romance on Richard Linklater-esque trains, or its outstanding magic and sidewalk cafes? No–train-wise I had to put up with a stupid labour strike, such that an overnight sleeper car from Berne, Switzerland to Paris had to be switched, in the middle of the night, FOUR times, just so they could prove a point. And it was just to see Morrison’s grave. I met 20 fantastic people who had made the pilgrimage from all over the world, and it was my first time having red wine and smoking pot. The graffiti and the sculpture of him, in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, were fascinating, as was his life. Would I go through that again? Of course I would.

It’s Val Kilmer’s best work by a mile. The film just oozes charisma and breathes life–just as the band’s work must have done back in the day. Worth a purchase and re-watches (I watch it each year on Jim’s birthday and accidentally bought it twice), for any fan of 60’s music or its culture. A bonafide classic when Stone was actually really something.

Review By: talisencrw

A hypnotic film, but it emphasizes the negative side of Jim Morrison and is filled with fabrications.

RELEASED IN 1991 and directed by Oliver Stone, “The Doors” chronicles the Southern California band The Doors and their rise and fall between 1966-1971. The film focuses on charismatic singer Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer) who falls into alcoholism and drug-addiction. He flew to France in March, 1971, to join his girlfriend, Pamela Courson (Meg Ryan), and pursue a different career, but died the next summer due to his ongoing substance abuse. The other band members are played by Kyle MacLachlan (Ray Manzarek), Frank Whaley (Robby Krieger) and Kevin Dillon (John Densmore).

I’m not old enough to remember The Doors. The first time I heard of them was when my older brother asked me if I knew of them. I busted out laughing saying, “The Doors? Why don’t they just call themselves The Window Sills.” Yeah, I thought the name was pretty lame until I discovered Morrison’s reasoning behind it:

There is what is known; And there is what is unknown; In between are the doors

Another thing that won my respect was their song that was used in the opening of “Apocalypse Now,” which is my all-time favorite film (the original version, not “Redux”). After that I bought their “Best Of” album and my impression was that their sound was horribly dated, even THEN. Over time, however, I’ve come to respect The Doors’ music because it’s so unique. They don’t sound like anyone else. They have a weird, moody vibe, even their ‘hits,’ augmented by a strange carnival feel. Over top of it all is Morrison’s commanding and haunting vox. I prefer their more artistic songs like “Riders on the Storm” and “The End” as opposed to their ‘hits,’ but who can deny the catchiness of “Light My Fire” or the goofy charm of “People are Strange”?

The film focuses on Jim Morrison and leaves the viewer with the impression that he was a miserable artistic-genius type who had no sense of moderation; he sought to escape his personal struggle through loose sex, substance misuse and rock ‘n’ roll. His excessive self-abuse eventually spilled over to those closest to him and ultimately landed him in a premature grave. His body lies in Paris, a mecca to his fans who have spray-painted the surrounding monuments with gaudy graffiti, some of it profane. The image this leaves you with is that Jim Morrison is no fun to be around, even in death.

So “The Doors” is pretty much the ultimate story of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Stone said he based his view of Morrison, as depicted in the film, on 160 transcripts of people that actually knew him or were around him and the band. From these documents emerged a central truth about Morrison’s final years, an image of wild excess. Because of this, I was left with a bad impression of the man. I felt Morrison was a spaced-out, immature jerk, abusive to both himself and others, foolishly sacrificing his life and talents on the altar of alcohol & drug idolatry.

Yet this was only part of the truth. Thankfully the 37-minute documentary on the ‘extras’ disc, “The Road to Excess” (1997), balances things out. One of Morrison’s sweethearts, wiccan Patricia Kennealy (played by Kathleen Quinlan in the movie), the guitarist and another guy offer the other side of the story. They properly point out that Stone’s film only shows Jim’s ‘wild & crazy’ side, emphasizing that the events depicted in the picture, while sometimes true, aren’t “all that happened.” They unanimously describe Morrison as genuine, innocent, shy, loving and gallant, an amazing person who made those around him feel important, as if he was their best friend. Robby even states that Jim was “the most influential person I’ve ever met.”

In addition, the documentary features numerous clips of Morrison himself, clearly showing him to be a fun-loving, nice and sane person rather than the spaced-out, abuse-driven dude shown in the film. Needless to say, the documentary helps round-out one’s image of the man.

BOTTOM LINE: Val Kilmer doesn’t just play Jim Morrison, he IS Jim Morrison. This is no small feat and vital to the film in light of the fact that he appears in practically every frame. He should have won an award. In any case, if you’re in the mood for something that captures that late-60s counter-culture vibe “The Doors” is worth checking out, but it tends to exaggerate things in the name of mythmaking, which is usually the case with movies. For instance, Jim never lit up a closet door with Pamela locked inside (rolling my eyes), the idiotic Thanksgiving dinner sequence never happened and the naked revelries at concerts (and the bonfire) are overblown fabrications. Still, the movie’s mesmerizing in a spaced-out way and highlighted by The Doors’ music throughout.

Unfortunately, the first half is superior to the second half, which becomes too unpleasant, offering a very limited and unflattering impression of Morrison. That’s why it’s essential to also watch “The Road to Excess” on the bonus disc or, better yet, the excellent 2009 documentary “The Doors: When You’re a Stranger,” which exclusively uses footage and photos from 1966-1971. Another problem with Stone’s movie is that it loses its dramatic pull in the second half in preference for hypnotic yet chaotic visual mayhem, not to mention outright lies.

Lastly, in “The Road to Excess” Oliver Stone makes a couple of really asinine statements. Commenting on Morrison, he states: “To live life intensely and well and die young and achieve everlasting fame & glory is the greatest. It’s Achilles, it’s Alexander, it’s… Jim Morrison.” Huh? Another dubious line is: “The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” Is he on drugs? Jim’s road of excess led straight to an early grave, not enlightenment.

THE FILM RUNS 2 hours 20 minutes.

GRADE: C (but the “The Road to Excess” documentary gets an A-/B+)

Review By: Wuchak
An ordinary film with one extraordinary performance
Watching Oliver Stone’s The Doors can be at times a frustrating experience. Considering the central figure in the film is pretty much always drunk or stoned or both the entire plot seems to unfold in a bit of a haze. Those watching the film may come away feeling a little stoned themselves. Yet through the drug and alcohol-fueled haze this film does have a lot to recommend it. Most notably it has one of the most stunningly brilliant acting performances you could ever hope to see. Val Kilmer, playing Jim Morrison, is simply perfect in the role. It sounds clichéd but Kilmer really seems to become Morrison. The physical resemblance is eerie and their voices are so similar it is fairly impossible when listening to the film’s soundtrack to figure out when exactly you’re hearing Morrison and when you’re hearing Kilmer. Tracing Morrison’s journey from shy, reserved youth to manic, drugged-out rock god the performance by Kilmer is mesmerizing throughout.

As good as Kilmer is you can’t help but feel that his performance deserved to be surrounded by a better film. The film might as well have been titled “Morrison” because it is much more the story of one man than it is the story of his band. And therein lies much of the problem because while Kilmer is undeniably terrific, Morrison, at least as he is portrayed in this film, is not a very sympathetic character. That shy, quiet guy we see on the beach at the film’s beginning becomes a bit of a monster, at times almost completely unlikable. And since the film revolves entirely around Morrison it makes the film often hard to embrace. Many would argue that Morrison was unfairly portrayed here, not nearly as mean-spirited and hot-tempered as we are led to believe. The truth probably lies somewhere in between but the fact remains that in this film it is very hard to embrace Jim Morrison and as such it is very hard to completely embrace the film.

With the focus almost completely on Kilmer’s Morrison the rest of the cast comes off as little more than bit players. Kyle MacLachlan as keyboardist Ray Manzarek has the most to do amongst the remaining band members and his performance is fine but it really gets swallowed up by the ever-present and always center stage Morrison. Meg Ryan, playing Morrison’s longtime companion Pamela Courson, is allowed only to react to Morrison’s antics and never establishes a character and identity of her own. Even when stoned out of her mind, as everybody in this film always seems to be, Pamela comes across as the wholesome girl next door who is, well, rather dull. Kathleen Quinlan has a more memorable turn as another woman in Morrison’s life, Patricia Kennealy, who is anything but dull. But again her character is there only to serve Jim. It’s always about Jim. Nobody could deny that Jim Morrison was the most captivating figure in The Doors. But as the film unfolds and you watch Morrison stumble from one stupor to the next you’ll probably wish we could have spent a little more time with some of the other characters. This film version of Jim Morrison is a hard guy to love.

So in the end what are we left with? You get one awe-inspiring, magnificent performance but that performance overshadows everything else going on in the film. You get a fascinating life story but one that unfortunately proceeds mostly in a frustrating drug-induced haze. You certainly get a tremendous soundtrack with all of The Doors’ most notable songs. Well, most of them anyway. There seems to be a real yin and yang with this movie. There is plenty that is very good about it, but all that is good seems to be balanced out by something which frustrates. Jim Morrison led an extraordinary life but this film which tells his tale ends up being rather ordinary.

Review By: hall895
Great visual film that concentrates on one aspect of a brilliant but troubled rock legend.
Jim Morrison wrote many of the Doors songs and was a complete drunk by the time he died in 1971. This film depicts Morrison in a very one sided view. Yes he was an alcoholic with a disregard for authority, yes he was on self destruct mode and burnt out quickly reaffirming the James Dean “Live fast Die young” motif. But what is missing from Stone’s depiction of him was his great intellect,his absurd humour and his natural talent as a composer and vocalist. However it is a wonderfully visual film that takes the viewers on a hallucinogenic ride through drug hazed Los Angeles in the late 60’s. It was the first of many films that Stone created in the 90’s using an almost dream like quality to evoke the feeling of the turbulent times.

Although this picture is not a 100% accurate account of who or what Jim Morrison was it is still very engaging and enjoyable. A good place for someone who is new to the Doors to start.

Review By: joediduca

Other Information:

Original Title The Doors
Release Date 1991-03-01
Release Year 1991

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 20 min (140 min)
Budget 38000000
Revenue 34416893
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Biography, Drama, Music
Director Oliver Stone
Writer Randall Jahnson, Oliver Stone
Actors Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan
Country United States, France
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 2.20 : 1 (70 mm prints), 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision E-Series Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Gold II, Panavision E-Series Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,855 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 50D 5245, EXR 100T 5248, EXR 500T 5296, 250D 5297)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2019 remaster), Dolby Vision, Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman 5384), 70 mm (blow-up) (Eastman 5384)

The Doors 1991 123movies
The Doors 1991 123movies
The Doors 1991 123movies
The Doors 1991 123movies
The Doors 1991 123movies
The Doors 1991 123movies
The Doors 1991 123movies
Original title The Doors
TMDb Rating 7.101 1,155 votes

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