What’s Aged the Best?
Selling-out concern; Oliver Stone's film-professor cameo; Top Gun connection; Break On Through performance; death theme; closing credits; Doors music; Frank Whaley's guitar playing
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- The concept of selling out with commercials, a big concern in 1991 (Michael Stipe would never have allowed it), tells more about 1991 than the 60s; Morrison's reaction resembles what one would expect of Cobain.
- Stone's cameo as a film professor holds up for the thick, fake-looking goatee and a workshop that pisses on Morrison's film. — Chris Ryan
- The Top Gun connection: Iceman and Goose's wife as the leads.
- Jim turning around and the Break On Through performance.
- The theme of death, with the bald man moving closer to Jim through the film, is well done; he looks like Jeff Bezos.
- The closing credits bring in L.A. Woman, missing from the film, with the credits ending on "and Val Kilmer is Jim Morrison."
- The Doors music sounds good, though this speaker never had a Doors period and came to it through Apocalypse Now; Frank Whaley convincingly plays guitar and is called the second-best person in the movie, with agreement.
- Kevin Dillon looks like he is drumming; it is unclear whether McLaughlin (as spoken) can play organ, as he always plays the top and bottom keyboards at once.