Re: Doors Next Deluxe

["Schrade, Scott" <sschrade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > What mystery?  His guitar crapped out on him.
>
> Do tell.  Did it just die on him or did he kill it?

Sounds to me like he knocked it unconscious.  

> You think that space suit/boiler suit was bothering him?  I always liked 
> the white boiler suit better anyway.

Yeah, me, too.  The shiny one defeated the whole purpose of the image:  a
rock star/factory worker, sweating at his job, like the bloke down the
street.  

> So Kevin Dillon's portrayal was pretty accurate then?  

To a degree.  The movie makes it seem like Densmore was almost *always* 
in a pissy mood which wasn't the case.

> It's been a while since I've read No One Here Gets Out Alive.

Well, you can get the story from the horse's mouth; pick up a copy of 
Densmore's RIDERS ON THE STORM which came out about a decade ago.  Good
book.

> What did you think of Stone's "The Doors"?  

I thought Kilmer did a great job, also.  I have a mixed reaction to the 
film.  I loved it when I first saw it but I really can't stand to watch it
now.

It's just so difficult to capture a person's total character in a 2-hour 
film.  Stone's movie, I think, focused too much of the hedonistic, troubled
Jim.  Not enough on the bookworm, philosophical, comical Jim.  The movie 
just moves too fast in order to capture all the highlights/lowlights.  It
feels shallow & incomplete to me now.

I think at the time it came out I was just happy that The Doors were being
featured in a big-budget Hollywood movie.  And, as I said, Kilmer's fine
performance probably distracted me from some of the problems in the film
that are now evident to me.


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