Walk the Line

Walk the Line - movie posterSo while I was blogging about musical movies (like Once) I thought I’d point out another great flick I saw recently… Walk the Line. This movie revolved around the life story of Johnny Cash and starred Joaquin Phoenix (nominated for the 2005 Academy Award as Best Actor) as Cash and Reese Witherspoon(nominated and won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Actress) as June Carter.

Now, I don’t put much faith in the so-called Academy Awards - mostly because the “Academy” is elitist Hollywood lack-of-intelligencia who feed on their own self-stimulation. For Walk the Line, I think the attention it got was deserved, and I wish I had seen it long before now. The story felt sincere and was well screen-played.

However, the biggest plus was that these famous actors did their own music! Witherspoon and Phoenix earned MAJOR street cred with me by putting their musical chops to the test. They performed wonderfully and several of their performances can be found on the movie soundtrack.

By the way, when buying music tracks I have been thoroughly pleased with Amazon’s newish MP3 service. It’s usually cheaper than iTunes… but most importantly, it’s DRM-free!

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  1. capo
    Posted March 10, 2008 at 10:51 am | Permalink

    re: Amazon vs. iTunes - competition is a good thing. So is cheaper and DRM free. Usually Apple is the underdog, but when it comes to iTunes/iPod they’re the 800 pound gorilla.

  2. Posted March 10, 2008 at 10:17 pm | Permalink

    @ capo :: I’m completely sold on Amazon.

  3. gladiator
    Posted March 12, 2008 at 11:29 am | Permalink

    my brother wold like this movie.
    P.s. idont read the articals…some thimes, so please corect me if im off topic.

  4. gladiator
    Posted March 19, 2008 at 8:39 am | Permalink

    corection: my brothe OWNS the movie.

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