“The Doors” movie sucked big time when it could and should have been done so much better.
I blame Oliver Stone for that.
I thought it was great.
Although somewhat historically inaccurate.
Pamela Morrison's parents own half of Jim Morrison's estate (the other half belonging to Morrison's parents). Pamela's parents would not approve licensing Morrison's recordings for the film if Pamela was portrayed as a manipulative heroin addict (which she was). So she was portrayed as squeaky clean by Meg Ryan.
And Patricia Kennealy claimed that Morrison took their pagan marriage seriously; that Stone's portrayal of Morrison as laughing off their marriage, doing it as a joke, was a lie by Stone.
Ray Manzarek hated it too. He thought it showed the pop culture view of Morrison and not the actual person. Morrison was actually a very well read guy who was one of the few 60s rockers to graduate from college.
Billy Idol was set to play Morrison but got busted up in a motorcycle accident.
Val got it instead.