The Doors: The Doors Are Open
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Movie Reviews of The Doors: The Doors Are Open
Movie Review: Please Consider, The Point (break on through)
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD, mostly because it's a Doors DVD, should be deemed the best exception of all time. If you want DVD quality sound and picture, you'll trash it. Care for exclusive DVD menus? Then trash it. But if you're a true fan of the Doors/ their art/ art in general, i think no DVD screams for your attention louder than this one. Some old composer who's name i can't recall once said this. "Music is like physics, and like physics, it's not able to be understood by everyone." I couldn't have said it better, but i think this film managed to come close in terms of the performance DVD. The Doors Morrison is at his best, bravely posing as an imperial divide between all dark and all standing for being truly alive. Sure you can't hear him sing it that well, and the instruments are being played underwater...but if one gazed before a TV-before time, would that one really care? No, it's called opening the doors. It's the great black and white time machine to "one of the best concerts i've ever attended, anywhere." - John Platt. That says enough about the performance. But what reviewers will still refuse realize is that this is the action that happens when there is only muscle sans bones. Only picture sans a fancy frame. But if i wanted to travel back through time,(as this picture offers) i'd be sorely dissapointed upon the discovery that it's been changed to the present. That is the point of this DVD, methinks.Movie Review: Absolutely a must purchase for any Doors fan
Summary: 5 Stars
Yeah, I know, the sound quality is muddled, and the interspliced documentary footage can get in the way, but to me, these flaws pale in comparison to the incredible performance. For live concert footage, I haven't seen anything else that captures the intensity of The Doors when they were ON like this documentary does!! The band is just great in this concert...Morrison is mesmerizing, Manzarek's organ is haunting, Densmore's chops are blistering, and the true unsung hero of the day just might be Robbie Krieger on guitar.(the flamenco intro to Spanish Caravan is stunning)!!
If you are a fan of The Doors, this has to be in your collection. I've never seen anything that captures the true spirit of the group like this show. THIS is what The Doors were capable of when all the components were right...throbbing, intense, acid soaked theatrical rock at it's best!!
Movie Review: Rock N ROll
Summary: 5 Stars
Everyone has heard about the intensity the Doors brought to the live music stage. In this film, the blend of chaos, theatre, blues, and jazz successfully resulted in a great rock n roll concert. Finally, one can see what Morrison could do on stage. And, hear the band at it's raucous best. THankfully, the film is black and white and the sound goes snap, crackle, and pop. Everything to be desired in a 1968 road film. Best of all, There is no post-Morrison death tribute syndrome here from Manzarek and company. Only a look at what should be remembered about the Doors, and why they should be considered along with VU as one of the great American rock bands rather than Oliver Stone's Hollywood fluff or a "greatest hits collection" only hype band.Movie Review: Missing Jim
Summary: 5 Stars
Watching this DVD just saddened me because The Doors were really a spectacular band when Jim was in the groove. After reading Stephen Davis' biography of Jim Morrison, I have become "obsessed" with rediscovering this band and their great music. Their European shows were great and this was a great compilation of the tour.Movie Review: Hot in Black and White
Summary: 4 Stars
Even though "The Doors Are Open" is a made-for-TV documentary of an indoor show, it shows The Doors performing in a raw and gritty manner in what is literally a "heated" atmosphere. They sweat profusely during their performance, most conspicuously lead singer Jim Morrison in his white shirt. When he howls out the lyrics to "Backdoor Man," he is the apotheosis of raunchy intensity. The fact that the filming is in black and white only serves to magnify the hard-core aura of the performance.
The Doors dish out their hard-rock songs "Five to One," "The Unknown Soldier," and "When the Music's Over" as if to satisfy a craving conjured up by the film's introductory statement that the group shows "what they are against rather than what they are for." Various rioting, revolutionary, and reactionary video footage is interspersed within the performances of songs, but particularly during those three. Also, The Doors field some questions from interviewers in close-up filming.
Guitarist Robby Krieger's songs "Light My Fire" and "Spanish Caravan" are also performed in a heavy-set manner. "Light My Fire" sounds perhaps out of key and is often more harsh than pretty. In the instrumental interlude, the camera follows Jim dancing and journeying all around the stage, and off, performing some acrobatics and offering ladies the mike. In the "Unknown Soldier" Jim does his standard collapse after Robby Krieger's "gunfire" from his guitar. The film shows Jim is really soaking by this time.
The Doors played "Break on Through" in their Roundhouse shows, but unfortunately it is not included here. However, the songs they did play really boiled over. The Sun the group was Waiting For was certainly here in this performance. With their next album, the group chose to Parade More Softly.