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Meanwhile, Jim Morrison wasn't fazed. He'd already played Sullivan's show. And he didn't do it with the snide "in your face" defiance shown in Oliver Stone's film, he just sang the song as written. The surviving members of the band really don't like that movie.

I've heard that they thought Kilmer played the Morrison role dead-on accurate.

-Eric

Well I know that they said they disliked the movie because they can be heard saying this on the commentary track of a DVD that collects up several video presentations that they made. Ray says that "this" (one of the hour long "videos"( was their answer to that bad film.

I don't know that it was the way Val Kilmer walked or talked so much as what he did (probably as written). I think I recall them saying that there was no way that they could have lasted as long with that jerk that was portrayed on the screen.

Forest J Ackerman refused a cameo/bit part in Ed Wood because the man on the screen wasn't Bela Lugosi. Bela did not use all that profanity and was not that bitter about Boris Karloff. It's a good performance and an interesting movie, but it does not have a connection to reality.

I've heard that they thought Kilmer played the Morrison role dead-on accurate.

I have heard conflicting reports myself.

One thing I know Robby and Ray did say though, is that when Scott Stapp of Creed sang with them on a VH-1 special, they thought it sounded just like Jim himself. I have to admit, he sounded just like him. Close your eyes and you wouldn't have known.(way off topic now)