Morrison: a god with a lowercase g

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 1999)

I own the movie, I watch the movie, I enjoy the movie. I'm sure that they could have done a better and more accurate job but at least they didn't screw it up. Val Kilmer does an excellent job and I couldn't picture someone doing it better. The one summary that bothers me because I know that it's true was from Denis Leary: "I'm drunk, I'm nobody. I'm drunk, I'm famous. I'm drunk, I'm f***'ing dead." Despite that, Morrison was one hell of a musician/poet/partier and has more of my respect than Eddie Vedder or any other soul. All of this added to a story that couldn't fail. How could you mess up the story of a life that was that interesting? You couldn't, obviously. I've read a couple of books about him from his wife and producer and they did fine. It's the essence that saves it. You cannot screw up a story about him. If someone does, however, may they burn in hell.