Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison (2025 Documentary)

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Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison

(This thing annoyed me so much…I just pasted my IMDB review onto here… I’ll add only that I was going to avoid leaving an IMDB review because I plan on uploading it, and don’t want the 2nd comment on IMDB to be a 1/10 with the following critique… If you are an expert, check it out, otherwise, you’ll not only be wasting money, but some of that disinformation will stick to your memory)

I hate giving anything related to Jim Morrison a bad score, because I want people to be reminded more of Jim Morrison, and hopefully look things up, but I’ve seen what ollie stone’s movie did to ruin his image. When people say things and spread them (sometimes to millions if they have enough followers - perfect term) then they become part of you, in your head. When someone mentions Jim Morrison, I’m guessing most aren’t thinking of the source - which magazine they read it from. Especially nothing in text - our minds remember video (which also includes audio, text and juxtaposed with music for effect). Don’t make my word for it, Jim Morrison said “Movies are the most authoritative of all the arts”. All the allegations in this movie will stick, especially since it’s new - recency bias. Instead of focusing on facets of Jim Morrison that have been neglected (his sense of humor, as one of many examples) with previous documentaries and writing, he asks NOTHING of value to Andy Morrison. I’m guessing he told the director he’d give him 20 minutes of his time, and then the “director” cut them up into 20 parts and spread them throughout the “documentary” with this AWFUL noise. I can’t call it music, because there isn’t a single musical instrument used. Nope just “apps”, “drum-machines”, and other computer generated AI nonsense… I’ve been a collector of Jim Morrison since the 90s. The only guy I’m more interested in is Mort Sahl, so I did see this. Just listen to the audio interviews, or the many magazines from the 60s/70s. This is a way to exploit Jim Morrison for money. This thing makes stone’s movie look like a documentary. Avoid it. Go on YouTube and look up actual documentaries. There are Patreon dedicated to uploading things you can’t on YouTube for copyright issues, or because they’re interviews in magazine PDF formats. There are something amazing REAL things - don’t be lazy and watch anything fictional and suspect documentaries unless it’s coming from Jim’s sister (despite them sugarcoating and leaving out the craziest stuff which is understandable) or a member of The Doors, but also remember people forget things after 50 years, or jumble things, and you can actually do research for yourself. If you are interested in the truth, find a way to contact me. I have a YT channel and a message board dedicated to proving all the lies about him with truth. If you have any questions, I’ll gladly give you first-hand sources, not some silly hearsay by a groupie… I’ve been waiting for this for 8 years, and have seen this guy launch gof***me campaigns everywhere to finance this, which is why it took so long I’m sure - waiting for Mary to die? I hope Jim’s siblings say something, but they’re the most silent people of any rock star I’ve ever witnessed.

And this trend of making every dead man a homosexual is another pejorative.

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I assume we will get the rest of the Doors’ story with an episode on “LA Woman” a couple years from now.

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I spied this thread and that song immediately (as in randomly) started playing on my computer player here.

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There’s a new documentary on Debbie Harry, Blondie: Glass Heart. 4.1 at IMDb.

I don’t know how these crappy documentaries get made, esp. in the case of Blondie which has some recent good ones made. They must be fairly cheap to do with the tech of today but it still takes some real money.

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Ah it’s a 3 hour mini series and you have to pay for it on Amazon Prime (I don’t have Apple TV)

I don’t care that much about Jim Morrison, my general take on him as an adult (as opposed to a stoner teenager who loved the Oliver Stone film) is he made a couple of good tunes but he was kinda a dickhead.

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Dude…paragraph breaks. Walls of text discourage people from reading what you have to say.

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The title of this documentary raises the question: Did Jim ever hear the scream of a butterfly?

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Most of what I knew of Jim Morrison was pretty well covered in the Oliver Stone movie: Seeing after effects of a car crash when young, Meeting Ray Manzarek on the beach, The Sullivan Show (still laugh when I see the sly smirk Robbie Krieger makes when Jim sings “Higher!” - dunno if Stone showed that). Drugs, drinking (and sex and rock and roll), whipped it out in Florida.

Did they interview Krieger or Densmore? The dead people are homosexuals (Seinfled: “Not that there’s anything wrong with that!”) trend I hadn’t noticed - maybe it’s an Amazon production value thing?

I thought his passing in Paris really was bereft of details so I’d be suspect of any new revelations.

I know there’s a plaque on his tombstone that says: kata ton daimona eautou (which can be translated as “true to his own spirit” or “true to his own demon).

So yeah.

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That movie is full of shit… I’d read the other Doors biographies… The books before Jim joined The Doors. “Friends Gathered Together”, but I’d go straight to the source - Jim Morrison.