New Doors movie When You're Strange is a revival too far

The Val Kilmer/Oliver Stone portrayal was built on hype all long, argues John PattersonThe first thing I thought when I heard about When You're Strange, Tom Dicillo's new Johnny Depp-narrated film about Jim Morrison and the Doors, was that it had taken the band a full 20 years to recover from that movie Oliver Stone made about them; you know, the one with Billy Idol in it. And, oh yeah, Val Kilmer.I missed the Doors the first time round, when they probably were pretty magical (the more naive you...

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