This is a movie....

Rating: 1/10 (30 August 2019)

About something but it's not about the doors. At best its the story of a mediocre writer who develops a problem with alcohol at worst it's a piece of utter fiction and very bad fiction. People here are giving this movie 10 out of 10 with an obnoxious title like " mr mojo rising!" Or " " Morrison was a god!" And I wonder if they've ever listened to the doors, Read about the doors or watched clips of interviews with the doors. First- right off the bat the silly dead indian scene is an outright fabrication. This never happened except in the mind of a 1960s record exec. To push JM into his contrived god- like status. By all accounts this was a fender bender and no medicine man died and entered into anyone's soul. This has been debunked by first hand witnesses aka every member of the Morrison family. Second JM was an ALCOHOLIC not a drug addict. There is really not anything out there to suggest he was into hard drugs- this is the assumption of morons who don't know anything about anything. " oh the 60s? He must have been piping junk into his veins" it's an absurd thing to say. Third - JM was a mild mannered guy who had some perfomance chops. He was decent and nice and not at all angry at everything. He happened to be a bad drunk. There are millions of them. And why wouldn't he be? He was surrounded by sycophants, suck- ups and enablers who kept telling him he was a the reincarnation of freaking Dionysus. Fourth- I would have loved to see any back story...anything involving the rest of the band. There was nothing. Now I know movies have serious time constraints but maybe Stone could have skipped one JM chasing someone around a bedroom scene or speaking in iambic pentameter scene. There was a tremendous amount of unneeded footage in this movie. This was almost a hit- piece. Maybe Stone hated Morrison because
Stone got shipped off to a ridiculous war and Morrison didn't. Who knows. Lastly people seem to think the surviving band members gave their blessing- they didn't. I think maybe Robbie Krieger was involved but scoffed at the finished product. As Ray Manzarek said in an interview " Oliver Stone? I'd like to deck that guy, what a ridiculous movie! Why did he do it? I cant figure it out." I'm sorry that Jim Morrison died, its tragic and sad but he was not a God. He was a so- so writer and a bad drunk who could not handle fame. It's not an original story.