Walk The Line

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Go see this film, very very very good.

That is all.

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[bONES]

YearsAlongTheSea just called me regarding this film.

we are going tonight

Varsity Theatre @ Bay/Bloor

i believe it starts just after 10pm

anyone care to join us?

[Birdy]

so i hear! i'm surprised chathams shitty movie theatre got it on its original release date..

i feel so culturally cut off moving back here.

[YearsAlongTheSea]

psyched.

very psyched.

[YearsAlongTheSea]

After a recent summit between my people and Cowboy's people, the decision has been made to move the viewing to an obscure location inside a vague scarborough mall.

Please contact either of our people for more details.

Thank you.

[YearsAlongTheSea]

And Birdy: has anyone told you what nice eyes you have?

[Birdy]

why no, years, noone has.. thank you.

i'm scared of vague scarborough malls. good luck.

[Jay Funk Dawg]

I caught this flick last night...

it's as good as "Ray," which I thought was great.

As with all Hollywood movies, it's hard to know what is factual and what is made up. His rise to fame happens pretty quickly, the story is mostly about his long time love affair with his side-woman. definitely worth checkin' out!

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I think it's pretty on point factually... Johnny and June were heavily involved in it before they died, and John Carter Cash was one of the executive producers (also had a cameo)

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Oh yeah - Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon did all the singing for their parts. Very VERY impressive for a couple of film actors, she sounded exactly like June in places.

Check it out on the soundtrack, if you wish. Although you'd be better off just listening to JC himself.

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[Jay Funk Dawg]

I found this info:

The movie implies, at least indirectly, that Cash went clean after marrying Carter. Not true; he struggled much of the rest of his life with addiction and its after-effects.

[bONES]

And Birdy: has anyone told you what nice eyes you have?

don't you mean eye

very good film

JP and Reese were both convincing

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I found this info:

The movie implies, at least indirectly, that Cash went clean after marrying Carter. Not true; he struggled much of the rest of his life with addiction and its after-effects.

I don't see how it could imply that; Spoiler Alert!

the movie ends after Johnny proposes to June, it shows nothing of their lives after marriage.

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[Jay Funk Dawg]

I guess this movie makes me even more interested in Johnny Cash, I've always been a relative fan of his music, I'd like to read his biographies...

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There is certainly a "and they lived happily ever after" type of ending..

[YearsAlongTheSea]

Fine, it's only one eye, but whatcha gonna do?

The movie was really well done, maybe a tad slow at points but the acting was great and the singing was for the most part right on point. I was impressed, Cash has a hard voice to replicate. They broke the mold when they made that one.

And I have no opinion on the overanalyzation of the ending. Except that it's Hollywood so, obviously, they lived happily ever after. I mean, what else would they do after an ending like that.

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just a thought guys... some people might not have seen the movie, maybe this out-in-the-open talk about the ending isn't really fair....

i dunno.

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[YearsAlongTheSea]

True, it is an accurate biography too. The ending isn't a secret, but I agree and will no longer discuss anything that happens over 67 minutes into the film.

[YearsAlongTheSea]

And AD;

That little hidden text link is cool as hell.

It's like a "click here" for "I told you so."

[Calamity Jane]

Dave and I have just come back from our day of playing "hookey", which involved a matinee of "Walk the Line" (among other less plesant tasks, like Xmas shopping, but nestled within the happiness of an Indian Buffet dinner)

anyway.......Wow!

I am soooooo impressed with the casting, not to mention the talent of Phoenix and Witherspoon!!! Gawd, Witherspoon is gorgeous and so wonderful to watch. (yummy!)

I do love the way the film focuses on JC's nearly insatiable (nearly unrequited) desire for 'his woman', and this as the implied reason for his addictions. {as an aside, I usually scorn upon the term 'soul mates', but Cash and Carter seem to fit this bill.}

Cash's first wife may be overly-vilified in the film, I really don't know...but the film doesn't give much insight (let alone responsibilty) into Cash's own part into the dissolution of the marriage.

What was really fun/interesting for me was hearing tunes I recognized hearing as a young kid (my parents are dyed in the wool Johnny Cash fans) and seeing what was going on in Cash's and Carter's lives at that time. Sort of an "aha" moment of understanding that the creation of art (or as Bobby says, "value-added information" --lol!) doesn't happen in a vacuum, and that the term "tortured artist" as been coined for a very good reason!

GO SEE AND ENJOY THIS FILM!!!

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

What she said, except that I thought it was his father who provided the impetus for his self-destruction and gave him all the things he had to work out. Robert Patrick, the ultimate Terminator (and the guy in the X-Files), was a great choice there.

[\/\/illy]

I thought the film was completely mediocre. In fact, as Cjamson pointed out, it was the same film as 'Ray'. Just replace the black guy with a white guy and the heroin with pills.

[Lazlo]

I thought the exact same thing about that porn Leanne made.

[\/\/illy]

That's because I wasn't starring in it.

[popo weenie]

what an ignorate statement

heartless bitch you are

you too lazlo

[CyberHippie]

I'd only give this movie 2.5 stars out of 5. And I really like Johnny Cash...

First of all where was all the music? I think any movie about Cash, should have had more songs! Then there was the casting... Reese as June, fine... But Pheonix as Cash? Nope not buying it at all

And like others have said, it was just a re-skinning of "Ray". True to the Hollywood Formula....

I did learn a few things, and it kept me entertained well enough, so it earned it's 2.5 stars... But overall I thought it was a bit weak.