Walk the Line

I had to pick the number one favorite movie based on which one I would grab off the shelf the most often to watch.....I think I like some of the tracks better than the original song.....It is real hard to pick one movie out of all the great one out there.... ... Full Review

But I don't feel quite satisfied that this film has given us the real Johnny Cash, and perhaps the biggest reason is that to me, Joaquin Phoenix is not Johnny Cash. But along the way, he had a troubled and ultimately broken marriage with Vivian (Ginnifer Goodwin), an almost deadly affair with booze and pills, and a long romance with fellow singer June Carter (Reese Witherspoon). ... Full Review

Lastly, the scene in which Joaquin auditions for Dallas Roberts playing Sam Phillips is an amazing and bold piece of acting....Reese Witherspoon is even better as June Carter.....love their first meeting at a diner early in the film....James Mangold skillfully chronicles the details of Johnny Cash's hard life..... ... Full Review

On the basis of its own merits, Walk the Line is a good film. Of the two, Ray was the better executed, while I enjoyed the music of Walk the Line more. ... Full Review

Good movie. ... Full Review

In retrospect, it seems obvious why Reese Witherspoon won the acting Oscar for Walk the Line , as she's really the one who props the film up. Recently I reviewed Pride of the Yankees , and despite standing on the legs of a sports biopic, the main story in that movie was the romance between Lou Gehrig and his wife, and so too is Walk the Line not really a story about a musician's rise to fame but instead is a drama of a great love affair. ... Full Review

The third issue is a technical one-a longer movie does not always make for a better movie. There is simply no generation that can profess to be numb to the desperate connotations of songs such as those. ... Full Review

There's a beautiful simplicity and power to Walk the Line that's a combination of Cash' own compelling life story and music, director James Mangold's insistence on keeping the film clean and uncluttered, and the sensational performances by the two lead actors. ... Full Review

To me, a great movie, a great concert or performance, a great painting-they're not on some sliding scale of what constitutes a fluid word like `art. Music and movies, they remain the great popular, universal conveyors of feeling, far more than contemporary art as practiced by gallery artists. ... Full Review

In Walk the Line , John R. Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) is revealed as a country boy with deep self-esteem problems:.... ... Full Review