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When You're Strange (2009)
Even though I love The Doors' music, the fawning tone of this documentary nearly put me off the band for good. It talks about the group like they were rock icons from birth, as if they were never real people with interesting lives. Johnny Depp talks utter b*llocks on the voice-over of the "Morrison was a quixotic poet wizard, tumbling through the sensual desert of possibility, tuned into his own shamanic dream" variety (I made that up but you get the idea) like it's out-takes from his 1998 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' recording sessions. No doubt there is some amazing footage of the band playing live though and the music is of course incredible.
Even though I love The Doors' music, the fawning tone of this documentary nearly put me off the band for good. It talks about the group like they were rock icons from birth, as if they were never real people with interesting lives. Johnny Depp talks utter b*llocks on the voice-over of the "Morrison was a quixotic poet wizard, tumbling through the sensual desert of possibility, tuned into his own shamanic dream" variety (I made that up but you get the idea) like it's out-takes from his 1998 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' recording sessions. No doubt there is some amazing footage of the band playing live though and the music is of course incredible.