Like, That's the way things were, man!

Rating: 8/10 (21 June 2001)

"The Doors" is a really cool movie, man! Yeah, like back in the sixties there were hippies and they took a lot of drugs and booze and stuff. And, like Jim Morrison lived in the clouds, y'know? He made some great music and he liked being the bad boy of Rock. He never cared about tomorrow.
This is a good movie, cause, like it tells it like it was, man. Like, Jim wasn't "just plain folks" y'know he like did his own thing. This flick re-creates the whole scene in that surrealistic kinda way that it all happened. Oliver Stone made brilliant use of video techniques to blend the story and the music.
I lived through the sixties in high school and college. I was a "Straight" but there were a lot of "hips" all over the place, y'know and a few times kids actually lit up a J right in class. Some of the kids walked about three feet above the sidewalk. I didn't approve of everything that went on -- being around people like that only reinforced my resolve to stay away from drugs. The majority of students were straights, but just about everyone dug the Doors' music.
The student newspaper was radical and there were some other reeeeeeaaaly far out publications. We had some great concerts on campus, but unfortunately we never had the Doors. A few times there were confrontations between the hippies and ROTC cadets. Once we even had a student sit-in. Ah, the good old days!
The Doors' music IS the Sixties and Val Kilmer IS Jim Morrison. I, like, definitely recommend this film, especially the younger folks including my own teenage children who weren't around back then. Cause like that's like how it was.