Johnny Cash....

[sildil]

"Walk the Line" was incredible....

Absolutely brilliant....

http://www.walkthelinedvd.com/

If you haven't seen it, GO, if you missed it, too bad, get it on DVD

Comments

[alexcat.livejournal.com]

I thought so too... Joaquin was inspired as Johnny. And from vids I've seen of June as a young woman, Reese nailed her too and her accent was fairly authentic.

I especially loved how her family made him part of their family and defended and took care of him. As far as I know, that was pretty right on.

I used to watch his tv show when I was young and it was a wonderful show. He had great musical acts: James Taylor, Neil Young... and others. He had fabulous musicians and his family: June, her mother and sisters and I even remember when little John Carter was born.

Even if I had not been a fan, it was still a brilliant movie.

[sildil]

I loved it, I loved the fact that the Carter family looked after him. Both of them gave inspired performances, and the filming was a joy to watch too...and the music!

[larian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I grew up listening to Johnny and his cohorts. I'm sure my parents still have LPs of his. It was amazing the way Joaquin nailed him. And the music too. I figured they dubbed it but was told that Reese and J. really sang...

[sildil]

Yeah, they both sang, and apparently Reese learned to play the harp instrument....thing for the film (I'm woefully ignorant about it!) It was inspired :)

[blue-blue.livejournal.com]

I saw it some weeks ago and LOVED it! :-D

I have grown up with his music in the house, the recording from the prison was one of the LPs my parents played the most. My mother and her sister were eager fans and together, they collected quite a lot of his records and played it much.

I didn't know he had toured with Elvis and the Big Bopper and those others, so it was like watching music story in the making. Imagine, Cash entering the Sun studio just when Elvis recorded Milk Cow Blues Boogie which was his very first recording! Having been a huge Elvis fan as well, I was in heaven when I got these extra bonuses.

It was so awesome to hear all that music again, and I REALLY thought it was Cash himself singing... Joaquin has done an amazing job with his songs! June Carter was also spot on, from what I remember of her.

I'm definetely getting this one on DVD - its worth seeing - and especially hearing - many times over.

[sildil]

Yeah, agree 100% with all of that! Their singing WAS incredible, and we will be getting the DVD and the soundtrack, though middle son (huge Cash fan) has most of the original songs on CD already :D