Finally saw Walk The Line

[proud2BlibKansan]

It is good, very good. I am not a country music fan, but I liked it.

However, I don't think that is an academy award winning performance by Reece Witherspoon. I thought Joaquin Phoenix was better.

[DawgHouse]

1. My son loved, loved, loved this movie.

He's a musician and he went on about Johnny Cash for days after seeing it. It's funny because I always listen to Johnny Cash but he never had much interest in him until he saw the movie.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Yeah I want to go out and buy a Johnny Cash record

[DawgHouse]

3. He saw it before Christmas so I bought him a cool JC t-shirt

for Christmas. He wears it all the time. You need to buy a JC cd, like maybe his greatest hits.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. At Folsom Prison

[Frank Cannon]

16. JC at Folsom Prison is IMHO the best live album EVER

A friend of mine said it's like watching a documentary film about being in a prison, but it's all in the music. It's phenomenal how John R. had those prisoners, many of them vicious killers, in the palm of his hand.

I loved "Walk the Line" too. I listened to all my Cash CD's for about a week straight after seeing that movie.

[LuckyTheDog]

4. I saw Johnny Cash live in Chicago

My wife was not sure she wanted to go. But we both remember that concert as one of the best shows we ever saw.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Cool

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. I thought Joaquin Phoenix was amazing.

Especially when you think about the fact that he did all of his own singing and guitar playing.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. So did Reece

But I thought Joaquin was better.

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. I think I give him more credit for the singing thing, because Johnny Cash

had such a unique voice and singing style.

[RevolutionaryActs]

10. Not to be a pest or anything, but her name is spelled "Reese"

Sorry to be a nitpicker. :blush:

:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Oh thanks for the correction

[fishwax]

11. I thought they were both amazing

I can definitely see why Reese won for best actress. She was pretty outstanding. Phoenix was incredible too, in a role that brought different challenges, since, for one thing, Cash is more of a known quantity than June Carter. I think the job he did was every bit as good as Reese, but overall I think it was a stronger year for nominees in the Actor category than the Actress--that was a pretty incredible field of nominees he was up against ...

[sandnsea]

12. Okay, I thought the whole thing sucked

I didn't like the screenplay because I thought it missed the purpose for Johnny Cash even writing the book in the first place. I don't think either one of them captured the spirit of John or June. And I thought Joaquin Phoenix's acting was little better than a brain-damaged Cash. It was one of the worse movies I've ever seen, nowhere near Crazy or Coal Miner's Daughter. A damned shame. I'll be waiting for somebody else to do the June Carter - Johnny Cash story cuz this wasn't it.

Whew. Been holding that in for a while now. :P

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. Well I agree that

Coal MIner's Daughter was a much better film.

[radwriter0555]

15. I didn't see what the fuss was all about. I found their lives to be

terribly mediocre... for the pivotal ending to be June simply agreeing to marry him was a disappointment.

I found nothing compelling about their stories, together or seperate. I just didn't GET what all the fuss is about, and I was honestly really looking forward to this movie! I had heard such great things about RW's performance, and JP's too, that I was expecting magic, a great story, a great love affair, and I didn't feel like I came away from this picture with anything.

I wish I could give it a thumbs up, but I was sorely disappointed.

[Frank Cannon]

18. For me, it was more about his "Forrest Gump"-like life

You know how Forrest Gump was always on the scene at pivotal moments in US history? Well, Cash was one of the original rock-and-rollers who toured with Roy Orbison, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins while people barely knew who they were. He popularized the music of Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson while people were still finding out who THEY were. He roomed with a young, relatively unknown Waylon Jennings (and I loved his son Shooter's brief performance, BTW). He was an innovator who was really neither a country singer nor a rock-and-roller. He was Johnny Cash, and he did have a pretty amazing life, despite the fact that his own struggles weren't a whole lot different from those of other big celebrities.

I'm a Cash fan and I loved the movie, mostly for the music and the performances, which I thought were phenomenal. Most of the people I know who didn't like the movie were either hoping for it to break new cinematic ground (which it didn't do), or they are SUCH Cash fans that they were expecting some fresh insight into Cash's life (which it didn't provide).

[Guava Jelly]

17. i guess i am the od man out

I thought reese was wonderful and joaquin was just ok.