what kind of maniacs do you think buy the "walk the line" soundtrack?

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discus.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

gimme some soundscan numbers

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I don't know, but after seeing the movie last night, I just wanted to buy a bunch of Johnny Cash records (not to mention Carter Family, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc.).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #24 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

An Original Copy, January 6, 2006
Reviewer: Mark Jones (Watkinsville, GA United States) - See all my reviews
It's a paradox.

It works, and there's no explaining it. I don't think you could replicate it in a million years. Things came together for this project that could not be engineered. Phoenix and Witherspoon become John and June. And they do so with the most profound respect and something clicks-and it cannot be bottled or subdued.

The soundtrack captures the very essence of the movie. Reece and Phoenix, both vocal novices (and Phoenix had never even held a guitar before) belt out tunes from Johnny and June that take you there...the music is as visceral, gutsy and raw as Cash. It's as effervescent and genuine as June.

John and June are smiling, let there be no doubt. If you ever loved them, this project will only cause you to drive them deeper into your heart.

I miss Johnny and June.

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― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

I don't think you could replicate it in a million years.

what a weird thing to say about an album of carbon-copy covers

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

accept no imitations! this is the REAL imitation!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Still...didn't the movie suck? Yes it did.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Well, the "La Bamba" soundtrack had Los Lobos pretending to be Richie Valens, Marshall Crenshaw pretending to be Buddy Holly, etc., and it was a good soundtrack. But I guess it's different when you have movie stars pretending to be musicians rather than musicians pretending to be other musicians.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I hate you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm still waiting my mail-ordered copy of The Cast of Everyone Loves Raymond sings Van Halen's OU812.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/TV2/archive/00148/Alle_elsker_Raymond_148749c.jpg
COME ON BABY, finish what you started!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I hate you.

really?

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

walk the line is your run of the mill movie-of-the-week crapola.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Biopics are all terrible. Give me documentaries of fiction.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

(meant to say "or" but documentaries of fiction would be better than biopics too)

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

It was a good movie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Exactly.

My feelings about this movie echo s1ocki's feelings about the soundtrack. WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO SEE A TOTALLY BLAH RE-RUN OF THE CASH/CARTER COURTIN'/FIGHTIN' YEARS, BUT WITH JOAQUIN AND REESE INSTEAD OF JOHNNY AND JUNE? WHY????

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

xp!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Because Johnny and June are both dead.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, BOOKS ON FILM, LITERALLY. NOTHING BUT PAGES TURNING SLOWLY.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

i like documentaries of fiction! and yeah, fuck a biopic.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Biopics aren't all terrible - Capote was good.
Because Johnny and June are both dead.

THEN LEAVE THEM IN PEACE

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't alive during the 1950s and '60s.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:16 (twenty years ago)

So write a song about it.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:16 (twenty years ago)

that is a crap reason to like a movie!

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I have a crush on Reese Witherspoon.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

That is the most heinous admission on this thread.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I mean, the girl is DEMENTED

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

capote isn't a straight biopic (ie there's no scene of him as a kid failing to prevent his brother's death)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I guss that could be it. Also it was actually, you know, a drama.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Reese has a weird chin, but she is cute. I want her to take care of me when I get angry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

When you get angry!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

When does that happen?

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

You'll know.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes when I've had too much to drink, I go on bitter harangues.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)

biopics aren't biopics when they just focus on a specific period in the person's life. or at least they have a much better chance of being good.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I agree that Capote was better.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I feel like Tim Ellison on this thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

bitter harangues!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

please, no!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

i would have liked to have seen this movie with a john carpenter soundtrack

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

[email protected]

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

i think she changed it to [email protected]

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I thought Walk the Line was okay, but THIS is the movie you all need to check out.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

[email protected]

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

amirite?

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

witherspoonclovetofu

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

John Carpenter's 'The Linewalkers'

― HAKKEBOFFER (eman), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

"Walk the Line" was a snooze, especially when it veered from musical history to just another guy getting over drugs with the help of the woman who loves him movie. It just kept going, and going, and going. "Ray" of course, did the same mediocre biopic thing, but for some reason I apreciated its averageness a little more. Maybe 'cause at the end of "Ray" (as opposed to the end of "Line") I actually got the feeling that more than a month had passed. Foxx did a much better job of conveying Ray Charles' inner demons and conflicts than sourpuss Phoenix.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 13 January 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

I don't get the hate/dislike for WALK THE LINE. Perhaps being a biopic is qualifier of quality but as they go it's pretty fucking good. And the performances are great. Yeah, it has some cheap psychologizing of Johnny's childhood and father/son relationship . And if CAPOTE wasn't supposed to be viewed as a biopic why in the hell would they have called it CAPOTE? (it may not have scenes from his childhood but it has him explaining his childhood - plus it engages in the same kind of cheap psychologizing (the film "explains" why he never published another novel/major work after In Cold Blood).

Now back to the topic - i don't get people buying the soundtrack at all.

― Jacobo Rock (jacobo rock), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:20 (twenty years ago)

because it's about a guy named capote.

where does the movie explain why he never published another novel?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

reese is pretty damn cute. I don't see how she's demented. she should be more demented. then I would proclaim her "BEAUTIFUL"

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:23 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) Um, the whole movie explains that. Text on the screen at the end informs you that he never published another novel, and you're supposed to infer that it's because the whole In Cold Blood experience scarred him so much.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

back to the thread title, though, I did hear this entire soundtrack in a record store a couple of weeks ago and it was funny. the vocals are pretty crap divorced from the film (adam shut up) but the music is spot on. except for one or two songs which were really wrong.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

For about the first half of the film, I thought Phoenix's vocals were really not that good, but as it continued, he became a "better" singer -- which actually seemed to be consistent with the character development. Cash isn't someone who had innate talent like Ray Charles did -- he kind of struggled along, finding his sound. That said, I wouldn't want to listen to those early Phoenix-as-Cash songs again.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

adam shut up
but

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Um, the whole movie explains that. Text on the screen at the end informs you that he never published another novel, and you're supposed to infer that it's because the whole In Cold Blood experience scarred him so much.

the movie definitely points to that--in a note that you see once the movie is over--but i wouldn't call the movie an "explanation" of that poignant fact. i would say that was overstating things. if you'd learned that at the beginning and it cast a shadow over the whole movie, maybe there'd be more of a case...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

this thread has ensured that I have Reese Witherspoon singing "tiiiiiiime's a-wastin'!" over and over and over again in my head

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

See, that's not such a bad thing, is it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

I've just cut the top of my head off

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Pleasant Plains, surely you meant this?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

x-post "Capote" is far surperior to "Walk to Line" because it actually shows its characters thinking rather than make literal the thought process. There's no "why do you dress in black?' biopic nonsense. You can see P.S. Hoffmann struggling with artistic/personal compromise without him ever coming outright and making it explicit. Now that's acting. Phoenix was pretty one-dimensional as Cash, or at least the script writes him as one-dimensional, right from the start with him and his brother. "Why are you so good and I'm so bad?"

Show, don't tell. That's why so many biopics fail as films.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 14 January 2006 00:56 (twenty years ago)

Not to get involved in a film argument here but if Phoenix's Cash is "one-dimensional," Hoffman's Capote is equally so. Capote is also pretty explicit: What about lines like: "Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong." or "It's as if Perry and I grew up in the same house. And one day he went out the back door and I went out the front." If that's not too on-the-nose exposition (tell with a "capital T") than I don't know what is."

Sure, I may like Capote better on a whole but I don't see how or why it's "far superior."

― Jacobo Rock (jacobo rock), Saturday, 14 January 2006 01:41 (twenty years ago)

the first line is a little more complex than just pure exposition; it's used to (possibly disingenuously) gain someone else's trust

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 January 2006 01:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, exactly. The first line was clearly manipulative, the second rationalization (for why Capote is so obsessed with the story, when in fact he's into it just because it will make a good story).

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 14 January 2006 04:33 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Phoenix's rendition is too rehearsed, too good, too exaggerated. It's like an episode of 'Stars in their Eyes' (karaoke cover singer show on UK telly). It's like an impression when he waggles his head in that Johnny Cash style.

Plus he looks more like Robbie Williams.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 5 February 2006 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Spooky.... The very second I clicked on this thread, Johnny's "Flesh and Blood" popped up randomly on my iTunes. Odds are 1 in 2518 and diminishing by the second as I rip

― novamax (novamax), Sunday, 5 February 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

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!!!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 5 February 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

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