Primo footage of recording sessions, concert perfs and various backstage trips is ubiquitous--and sadly squandered--amid wall-to-wall voiceover narration that is punishingly banal when not factually sketchy or flat-out false.
When You're Strange (2009)
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Reviews Counted:4
Fresh:1
Rotten:3
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Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison
Starring: John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison
Director: Tom DiCillo
Director: Tom DiCillo
Screenwriter: Tom DiCillo
Reviews for When You're Strange
Tom DiCillo proves he has a keen eye for editing. When it comes to narration, however, he falls woefully short.
Yank the narration straight out of the movie, telling the story in only songs and pictures, and When You're Strange would be a much better film.
The mystery of Jim Morrison's early death has at last been solved: he died so he wouldn’t have to watch Tom DiCillo's tedious, reductive and factually erratic version of the story of his life.
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