The Doors Blu-Ray

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Oliver Stone might have considered his film a tribute to the enduring power of the Doors& music but he seems to have also intended it as a cautionary tale on the perils of both celebrity & substance abuse Starring Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison the film focuses on the Lizard King from his days as a UCLA film student in the early 1960s to his death in a Paris hotel in 1971 In the early days of the group&s formation Morrison is at his most benign; he&s just a guy hanging out at the beach writing poetry But as the Doors& fame begins to spread--with Morrison as the focus of attention--his drug consumption & erratic behavior increase exponentially The rest of the b&--Ray Manzarek (Kyle Mc Lachalan) John Densmore (Kevin Dillon) & Robby Krieger (Frank Whaley)--begins to grow tired of his late arrivals the increasing number of cancellations & the drunken recording sessions requiring infinite retakes But no one can help Morrison as he spirals downward into an inferno of drugs alcohol public obscenity & depression Kilmer gives an excellent performance including a frighteningly accurate imitation of Morrison&s singing Stone&s intimate familiarity with So Cal in the 1960s also provides the film with a high degree of surface verisimilitude Back to the Roots
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