A Very Good Movie With a Bad Rap.

Rating: Null/10 (9 June 2001)

It's beyond me why everyone rails on this movie for being historically inaccurate. It's a good movie, a bit weird maybe, but quality none the less. Whether it is or is not historically accutare, who cares? If I want to know the facts of Jim Morrison's life I'll read the books by Ray Manzarek and Patricia Keneally-Morrison, two people that knew Jim and spent lots and lots of time with him. I'm not going to ask Oliver Stone, a man that was not a part of the Doors or their family of friends, and to the best of my knowledge, never had anything to with anything to do with anything remotely related to Jim Morrison and/or The Doors.
Anyone looking to movies for historical fact needs serious help. History is boring. That's why no one want to read history books in the first place. What's historically accurate generally isn't that good of a story.
If you are dead set on having historical accuracy, well too bad. Nearly any film based on real life events will have the facts altered either slightly or dramatically. Life stories take an entire lifetime to live out, but life stories in film have to be told in a reasonable amount of time, so facts are cut to fit the time frame.