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The Rewatchables

‘The Doors’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Chuck Klosterman

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.613.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 108 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are joined by Klosterman to head to the desert and open up their minds as they revisit the 1991 biopic ‘The Doors,’ starring Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, and Kyle MacLachlan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On TV Concierge, the ringer staff delivers a guide to the vast streaming landscape by discussing one

0:05.2

show or movie per day, including premieres, the latest surprise Netflix hits, periodic check-ins on

0:10.4

favorite TV shows, new movies available for streaming, and the host's favorite shows to watch right away.

0:15.6

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0:20.4

Coming up, I am the Lizard King! I can do anything! The doors is next.

0:25.3

There are things known, and things unknown, and in between, are the doors.

0:36.6

And all of us don't film.

0:40.6

The doors, red are,

0:51.2

and the city of March 1st. At theaters everywhere.

1:01.1

Alright, Chris Ryan is here. Chuck Closterman is here. We brought in the big guns to discuss the

1:05.9

30th anniversary of one of the weirdest, most flawed, most entertaining, most memorable movies of

1:12.8

the early 90s. The doors about Jim Morrison. It was a highly anticipated movie. It was a

1:19.3

banged around Hollywood project for at least 10 years before it finally happened.

1:24.8

And it has a fascinating legacy. Chris, I'll start with you. The legacy of this movie is

1:29.6

Val Kilmer. This is the Val Kilmer, is the guy from Top Secret and Top Gun, and we don't know

1:35.4

if he's a star, and then he blows everybody away. And 30 years later, it still blows me away.

1:40.8

There are biographical films like Malcolm X or Lincoln, where you're watching the movie,

1:46.4

and you can be really impressed because you know that this actor is doing a really good job in

1:51.0

the performance of Malcolm X or Abraham Lincoln, Dan Lilloy, and Dan Zalashin. When I watch the doors,

1:57.4

I am like, that is Jim Morrison. Like, I have actual problems understanding whether or not,

2:03.8

somehow I am watching Jim Morrison in a movie about Jim Morrison with Kyle McLaughlin and Kevin

2:08.6

Dylan. And he, he, Val Kilmer so disappears into the role because I think it's just like that one

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