The experience of watching “The Doors” is not always very pleasant. There are the songs, of course, and some electrifying concert moments, but mostly there is the mournful, self-pitying descent of this young
The Doors (Film)Reviews the motion picture 'The Doors,' directed by Oliver Stone.Kermode, MarkSight & Sound
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1991 rating: ***at one point in oliver stone's the doors, jim morrison is told by one of several female admirers that he's better than the band itself, and that everyone only read more val kilmer, gabriel jarret & william atherton in 'real genius' no comment / posted by james m. ...
movie was a parody of airplane disaster films, the second picture parodied science fiction, including Star Trek, with scenes such as: The doors aboard the Mayflower hiss open with the same sound effect used for the doors on the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II...
original period of filmmaking. Comic masters such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton exercised total and brilliant control over slapstick satires. Europeans began to flood through Hollywood's doors, and directors such as Eric von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Cecil B. DeMille produced hit after ...
Then came an incredible streak of successful genre-spanning movies in the 1990s: A superhero film (with 1995’s “Batman Forever,” in which he played the Dark Knight), a Western (1993’s “Tombstone,” where he played Doc Holliday), a biopic (1991’s “The Doors,” in which he portr...
Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “The Doors” is a case in point. In this film about the famed rock group, a medicine man appears at key moments in Jim Morrison’s life to shape the singer’s consciousness. The real Jim Morrison may have felt connected with a medicine man, but it's likely...
She interspersed these romantic films with a diverse set of roles, including the common-law wife of Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer) in Oliver Stone’s The Doors (1991); a woman whose family was killed when she was a child in the thriller Flesh and Bone (1993); a helicopter pilot in the ...