At almost 2 and a half hours, Walk the Line manages to keep a steady intense pace much like Johnny Cash's music. It may be standard biopic format but it's always worth it to see Joaquin Phoenix dip into that dark place and go full maniac musician.

i’m currently trying to pay attention to this but 30 seconds after i started my best friend texted me “joaq the line” and now all i can think about is that pun
anyway long story short is the subject of this film should have been june

johnny cash at some point in his life probably: they always say yeehaw but never ask haw yee 😔

Inherent Vice put me in a Joaquin Phoenix sort of mood, and my friend Brooke recommended this film to me ages ago, and something about it just seemed fitting for an unofficial Galentine’s Day screening.

nothing was particularly inventive about this biopic. it’s more of a survey than an in-depth exploration of any one particular moment or song. but jesus, Phoenix and Witherspoon have so much goddamn chemistry. even if the people they were portraying felt like they were written a bit thinly, they embodied their roles so deeply that it was easy to just get lost in their shared and missss glances. i think more than anything, this consisted of Amanda and me screaming at the tv every time Cash was on screen, whether he was being a piece of shit or just looking so damn g o o d, but honestly...it was a perfect evening and my heart is full and that’s such a beautiful thing :,)

I usually don't like biopic movies, but this one is an exception. It flows well and it's never boring. Also the awkward moments in which you wonder yourself: "why is this happening? It's absolutely riddicoulous" are not present, something very strange in this kind of movies. Well, even more strange if you consider that the movie was made just two years after the death of Johnny Cash, so there was a very high risk that the script would be wrote on the flow of the feelings for the loss of a great contemporary man.

“You can't wear black. It looks like you're going to a funeral.”
“Maybe I am...”

I couldn’t help but think about how heartwrenching it must’ve been for Joaquin Phoenix to film that Thanksgiving scene about his dead older brother. The one “gone too son”, the one he’s always compared to, his best friend, his first ally. It was like a punch to the gut.

Phoenix shines in this film. We see him as the multifaceted superstar he truly is. His Johnny Cash is a scrappy, desperate, battle-hardened mess of a man. Phoenix’s portrayal of despair is so truthful it stains your skin hours after you’ve finished this film. What a powerful performance.

Joaquin Phoenix

Wow Johnny Cash invented the modern problematic rockstar

Brilliant gespieltes Biopic (Oscar-Nomination: Joaquin Phoenix, Oscar-Auszeichnung: Reese Witherspoon) über einen der grössten Musiker aller Zeiten. Ich bin Cash-Fan, denke allerdings, dass man den Film auch mag wenn man mit der Musik von Cash nicht vertraut ist. Seine Songs sind von zeitloser Schönheit und spiegeln seine jeweiligen Lebensphasen wider. WALK THE LINE ist ein einfühlsames, berührendes Porträt eines erfolgreichen und auch (gerade deshalb?) einsamen Mannes auf der Suche nach sich selbst und der grossen Liebe. Toll.

so y’all really gonna try and tell me that that boy whom CLEARLY had blue eyes is Elvis Presley when we ALL know that Elvis had sad puppy dog brown eyes ... get fuckin real Hollywood

"Ray" with white people and watered down. The story is the same, the drugs aren't as hard, the love story is weak (true story maybe, but the acting gives it little credibility), and Phoenix has very little charisma in my opinion. Just not a movie that did it for me, and I had to sit through it a few times because my wife really liked it.

I watched this years ago in music class and wanted to revisit is. I really like the music in this,, Johnny Cash and June Carter made music that is so much more than country. This has a biopic feel about it, but it's one of the better ones.

Phoenix and Witherspoon give amazing performances, they transform into Johnny and June.