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Walk the Line...

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...just saw it yesterday and it gets my vote for one of the best pictures of the year - in spite of the negative post below (from 11/28).
It had great music, a compelling love story and excellent performances. Jaoquin Phoenix channels Johnny Cash - the resemblence in some of the shots late in the film is uncanny. And he sounds a lot like Cash singing. A sure Academy Award nomination for him. And probably one for Reese Witherspoon as June Carter.
Highly recommended.

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Re: Walk the Line... - Hepcat 16:43:59 12/06/05 (0)
Yep. Check it out...
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maybe I wrote the negative post...minor spoilers - tunenut 13:36:18 12/05/05 (1)
there are just too many notes that ring false, that are done for obviously cinematic reasons. Example, the audition in the Sun studios, where Sam Phillips says play something of your own, where the sidemen protest "but we don't know that", and where the signature sound comes together over the course of the song. Example, the rock and roll show where he followed Jerry Lee Lewis and the audience was cool at the beginning, but standing and yelling at the end. Is there any music biopic that doesn't have the same scenes? Probably in fact I would have enjoyed a real documentary more. Fictionalized history rarely rings true. But then you've also got Capote, which is fictionalized biography, but which impressed me on every level. Walk the Line seemed quite superficial in comparison. Yes, you see the drug use, but do you ever really understand the drug use? Similar to the Elvis Presley miniseries that was on TV a few months ago. Well, the music was fine and the performances were very good, but I found this a little disappointing.
- I completely agree with your assessment, tunenut - Daryl Zero 17:48:55 12/05/05 (0)
  Exactly how I felt. I enjoyed the performances and the musical performances but the rest of it was really dull and quite meaningless. Seemed simplified movie of the week fare. Harpy wife, drug use for no apparent reason and girl loves him for no apparent reason.
  Why don't these biopics actually concentrate on the music and how it gets put together? These so-called heroes are really nothing without the music and yet the stories are about almost everything else.

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