Cant wait for this movie, probably be the Ray of 05' ( with a better script )

I agree. This looks very good and I'm quite a fan of the Late Johnny Cash and grew up listening to them or I guess I should say that I listened to my Dad listen to them so much, it was imbedded in my head when I got older..

I'm very interested in this movie. Love the cast!

I love Reese, so definitely seeing this one.

Classy poster.

Hopefully a hit for Reese

So .. Ray did good and now we have johnny cash. very creative.

Is there a God? I believe so, since they're finally doing a music biography for one of my hero's! Wow, I own three Cash CDs and one Carter Family Album. I am so excited, the minute I saw this title I just new it was going to be great. I hope it goes a bit into Sun Studios because that has to be my favorite record label ever...beating out all the Motown ones. Anyways, Cash is also an incredibly interesting person to do a biography on if they don't just make it about his drinking and drug problems (I know, I know, that was a cheap shot-below-the-waist). He was very political around Vietnam, Native Americans, and of course, Criminal rights and jails. He had his own tv show for years, and I love how he met June Carter. I'm not typically a romantic idiot, but this one gets to me.

They met when they were both on the same concert tour, she was older than him I believe, and was married at the time. He took one look at her and said he was going to marry her, they fell in love, she divorced her husband and they were together 'til death. He wrote Walk the Line for her (and about her of course) and I don't know if anyone heard the last song he wrote before he died. It was in the half year in between her death and his and it is a very intense song.

Anyways, enough fangrrlisms, now if they ever get around to doing Nina Simone's biography I'll die happy.

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine.
I keep my eyes wide open all the time.

I keep the ends out for the tie that binds,
because you're mine...I walk the line...

Jaquin Phoenix is very underappreciated and hopefully he will do a really good job with Johnny Cash

I fell into a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire, the ring of fire.


The taste of love is sweet
When hearts like ours meet
I fell for you like a child
Oh but the fire went wild.

Weee, this is fun. Ok, another great one written by Shel Silverstein no less!

And he said: "Son, this world is rough
And if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough
And I know I wouldn't be there to help ya along.
So I give ya that name and I said good-bye
I knew you'd have to get tough or die
And it's that name that helped to make you strong."

He said: 'Now you just fought one hell of a fight
And I know you hate me, and you got the right
To kill me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do.
But ya ought to thank me, before I die,
For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye
Cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you 'Sue'.'

Roide, I had a line from Folsom Prison Blues in my sig over at BOM for quite sometime.

When I was just a baby,
My Mama told me, "Son,
Always be a good boy,
Don't ever play with guns,"
But I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die...


Anyhow, and June and her extended family do excellent versions of Wildwood Flower and Worried Man Blues. In fact, I'm going to go listen to them right now.

This is his chance for gold and from early reviews i've read I think he'll be getting an oscar nod and as an early prediction I have him winning it.

Walk the Line is one of my most anticipated movies of the year. I was truly bummed when they bumped it from April until November, but I know that's only so it can receive proper Oscar consideration.

Yeah - but I dont know exactly why they decided to bump it to November though, I mean October would've been good aswell.

Well I wouldnt mind him getting nominated but the last thing the oscar needs is to have another biographical portrait of a singer win the gold when the musician recently just died. Its the only reason why Ray won because Ray Charles died and Johnny Cash has only been dead for less than 2 years

wow, this has Ray writing all over it!, now they need to Release a CD to sweep the Grammys

If he deserves it he'll get it.

Hmm.... Phoenix as Johnny Cash... interesting. He's my favorite actor in Hollywood right now because of his quiet personality which is lot like me.

You realize that it was in production before Ray even was released?

It really does look like a fantastic movie. Phoenix has always been a favorite of mine, hopefully this will be the movie that FINALLY gets him on the map.

They've done a surprisingly good job with the make-up too. If you squint, it really does look like Cash. I hope this is a smart movie.

I'd like to take this moment to announce how mad cute I think the rock-a-billy look is. Its probably what got me hooked on the music in the first place four years ago!

Joaquin Phoenix will NOT be getting an Oscar :razz:

..i'm not really interested in this at all. Don't know who Johnny Cash was, sure i've heard of him, but thats all.... And whats wrong wtih the web address at the bottom, looks like it was put on there by paintbrush :???:

He won't win it, but he might get a nod if he;s any good. Pushing back the date seems like producers and distributers are pegging on an oscar run.

I know you're not interested because you don't know him, but as soon as eagle is less busy I'm going to have him help me get some songs up for y'all to listen too. You'll find him an interesting character Al. Not for the same reasons I do, but he spent alot of time washed up, almost in and out of jails, and being pretty rough. Walk the Line is a song he wrote for june carter because ever since he met her he cleaned up his act.

Anyways, he was a big prisoner's rights advocate, very critical of vietnam, wrote alot of songs about agricultural labor and growing up in the dustbowl. Sun studios is the memphis studio that turned out all the rock-a-billy music, including Elvis, so its pretty interesting too.

Anyways, I'll let everyone know at a later date when I get the songs up.

Keep the news coming, I'm excited for this movie.

Galia...

Sun also released some of Roy Orbison's best stuff. Great record label.

I know. They're an interesting studio because of the whole arguement about white guys "robbing" black music. Anyways, they produced all the bug rock-a-billy names and some of the country ones too I bet. Any Jim Jarmusch fan should see Mystery Train, with the episodes of people travelling through memphis and the japanese couple that visit sun studios. later ashton i'm going to ask for your help with those mp3s again since i don't want to bug eagle, he;s so busy with the site and the virus, but i want to get these songs onto this thread eventually. check out my top 100 list in music, several of them are sun studio productions...alot of them actually.

In other words, hes a democrat like Willie Nelson. Very very rare for a country music singer