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Fight Club (1999)
The Greatest Movie to Come Out of Hollywood in a Long Time.
After seeing Fight Club for the first time, I thought of how original it was and how it made you think. Most movies are just there with no message to go home with. Some are made just so producers can have more money. And most of the time those films suck because there is no depth or any thought put in the movie. But this movie is...whoa...it makes you think and I love movies like that. Fight Club is funny, violent, action-packed, depressing, disgusting, offensive (not to me of course), intelligent, mischevious and controversial. It's funny because people didn't like the movie just because they're either afraid to admit that its true of how society is today or it was "too violent" to consintrate on the story and what the film is really about, what with the fighting and such. That's bull. Saving Private Ryan is fifty more times gory than Fight Club. So anyway, go buy it or rent it or whatever. Just watch the movie.
The Doors (1991)
Hmmmm....bad, yet good.
First off, The Doors are my favorite band. EVER. No one can match up to their revolutionary style, their originality, or the music. They are truly THE GREATEST AMERICAN BAND. And one of the most influential bands. EVER. Also one of the most controversial bands. Those are just some of the reasons why The Doors are my fav.
Anyway...the Oliver Stone film is good, but not a spectacular piece of work. I did enjoy watching it and would also recommend it. If you never listened to The Doors or aren't really into them then I think this flick will get you interested in the band and their music. But for the most part the movie seems to focus too much on Morrison and in some parts when it does, it seems fake. For example, when Jim is talking or arguing with his girl he is always taking a line from one of his songs and/or from his poems. If you listened to the music before then you would know what I mean. It seems Stone didn't know what to write so he just borrowed some lines from a song/poem and put them in the script. And the preformance by Kilmer is very good, but not great. It seems as if he's trying too hard to become him and when he does he seems to go overboard. But as a movie this is good. As a biography about Jim Morrison this is mediocre. Even the fellow members of The Doors say Morrison isn't portrayed 100%, saying that the movie just portrayed the bad, drunk, disgusting Morrison and never really showed the good humored, shy, sensitive Morrison.
Well, at least there's still the music.