Have you seen the Johnny Cash movie "I walk the line"?

[bontai Joe]

This movie made me cry...



Darned powerful shame to let that fine Oliver tractor roll backwards into the lake. I think I'm traumatized for life. :hide:

[horseman1]

No kidding.. Being a Cash (and June) fan, I loved the movie, except for the Oliver being drowned.

[jwor620]

No kidding.. Being a Cash (and June) fan, I loved the movie, except for the Oliver being drowned.
I have seen the movie. I did not notice the brand of tractor (or at least not remember), but it was sad to see how it was treated and then drowned. :omg: Like the movie though. Bought it for the family. :fing32:

[John Deere Addict]

Well I have been thinking about the table saw incident everytime I turn mine on.

[Mickey]

Come-on guys, think of it this way. It took a tuff tractor to be treated this way and come out of it OK. NO stand-in needed.

[Splicer]

My wife wants to see this movie. Is it worth buying or just renting. I only like movies that are worth watching more that once every few years.

[bontai Joe]

If you are a Johnny Cash fan, it's worth owning just for the music. Both Jaquine Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon did very well with their own singing. If you are not a fan of the music, then it's a watch once kind of movie, still an excellent movie, but probably not one you will watch more than once.

[bear]

i haven't seen the movie but read an article in i think it was antique power magazine about drowning the oliver it was hooked to a cable and was never in any real danger. i'll have to dig through the back issues and check it out

[viking]

It was a great movie. I dont normally buy movies for the DVD player, but I bought this one the day it came out.

[Dachshund]

I'm a Johnny Cash fan, but haven't seen the movie. From the promos I've seen, I haven't even WANTED to! The commercials make it look more like an Elvis movie! I know JC was no saint, but I prefer to remember him as he was in later life.

[John Deere Addict]

I'm a Johnny Cash fan, but haven't seen the movie. From the promos I've seen, I haven't even WANTED to! The commercials make it look more like an Elvis movie! I know JC was no saint, but I prefer to remember him as he was in later life.

Galen, I watched this movie and I'd definately watch it again. There aren't many movies I care to watch a second time ( Gladiator,Patriot,Remember the Titans to name a few ) but this is one of them I'd see again. I didn't get the feeling of it being anything like Elvis, but rather the struggles and triumphs in JC life. Rent it and see for yourself, maybe I'm wrong but at least you'll hear some pretty good music.

[Argee]

I just rented it last weekend....I thought it took a little long to set things up and the over and over drug problems clip got me edgy...I get it..let's move on...but other than that it was a great movie. I didn't realize he was such a ba$tard to his first wife.

[Steve (Magnolia, TX)]

I am a HUGE (let me say it again... HUGE) Johnny Cash fan. I've seen the movie (that's the last movie that I actually went to the theater to see) and really liked it.

I will buy it (at some point in time) and watch it again.

If there was one thing that I would complain about (regarding this movie) it'd be it's "emphasis" on his relationship with June... which, I know was a MAJOR part of his life, but... I would've, perhaps, preferred more about Johnny, his songs, influences, etc. instead of the "mushy" relationship 'stuff'.

John Carter Cash (Johnny and June's son) was a technical advisor for the movie and as I understand it, he was happy with the way that the movie turned out and believes that both of his parents would have been happy with the movie and the actors' portrails of them...

[Carm]

My wife made me leave the room after I did a 15 minute dissertation about how the movie was ruined and whoever decided to do that to a tractor should be dragged behind that same tractor. Anyhow it was a shame.

[buckatabon]

Saw the movie at the show house - it was great
Purchased the movie the first day released - still Great

I am a ture Johnny Cash fan

[Durwood]

I saw and it was ok, but i don't like movies based on peoples lives because they have to put stuff in it that didn't really happen to juice it up a bit. All those scenes where it was just Johnny and June, we have no idea what was really said because neither one was around when they were making the movie. They needed someone goofier and not so good looking to really play June(i'm being nice here)instead of Reece Witherspoon. Man was June goofy in real life, but she could really sing. My Dad was a huge Johnny Cash fan and he had the prison albums is how i was introduced to the man in black. But, i can't repeat here what he said about June. :omg:

Dur

[horseman1]

When I was a kid, my dad bought me a cheap guitar and the Folsom Prison album and one other older one. He told me to play and sing like Johnny Cash for him. I learned to play and sing every song on that album. Even the goofy ones like "Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog". I still sing a verse of that one to my egg suckin chicken muncher of a dawg every once in a while :). After that came an old warped Hank Williams record and Johnny Horton.... I still like to play those songs when no one else is around! When he comes out here to visit he usually wants me to play some Folsom Prison Blues for him and a version of I walk the line with a few of the words changed for entertainment value...

"I keep my pants held up with a piece of twine;
I keep my fly wide open all the time;
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds;
and if your mine......


You'll cut the twine!

[simple_john]

2 years afterthefact.... but i saw walk the line yesterday...


what a good movie... he was a just before my time so i really never knew all the songs he did... but i recognized them all in the movie....

it was great... reese witherspoon (whom after her legally blond movies, i could not take serious) was great in it too...


was it true to life? its neat to imagine elvis, jerry lee, buddy holly and johnny cash all touring together....:fing32:

[Steve (Magnolia, TX)]

was it true to life? its neat to imagine elvis, jerry lee, buddy holly and johnny cash all touring together....:fing32:

It was pretty close to true events (yeah, they allowed for some... "artistic license"). The "Golden Quartet" (Johnny Cash, Elvis, Jerry Lee and Carl Perkins) actually even recorded together (they were all discovered and recorded by Sam Phillips at Sun records).

BTW... I was CERTAIN that was Buddy Holly, in the movie, too, but.... when he walked off stage the emcee stated that it was Roy Orbison...

[drbailey]

It was pretty close to true events (yeah, they allowed for some... "artistic license"). The "Golden Quartet" (Johnny Cash, Elvis, Jerry Lee and Carl Perkins) actually even recorded together (they were all discovered and recorded by Sam Phillips at Sun records).

BTW... I was CERTAIN that was Buddy Holly, in the movie, too, but.... when he walked off stage the emcee stated that it was Roy Orbison...

, They probably had to work and travel together , I read a piece the other night ( it was very good ) Elvis , when he finally got on the Opry , he was paid $30.00 per night.

[jdkubotamurray]

Well, yea, looked terrible to me too, but I was assuming it really happened so they had to do again for the movie. Anyway, great movie, always liked him, certainly an example of celebrities who worked to get where they were and had and remembered their roots.

[Dachshund]

When I was a kid, my dad bought me a cheap guitar and the Folsom Prison album and one other older one. He told me to play and sing like Johnny Cash for him. I learned to play and sing every song on that album. Even the goofy ones like "Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog". I still sing a verse of that one to my egg suckin chicken muncher of a dawg every once in a while :). After that came an old warped Hank Williams record and Johnny Horton.... I still like to play those songs when no one else is around! When he comes out here to visit he usually wants me to play some Folsom Prison Blues for him and a version of I walk the line with a few of the words changed for entertainment value...

"I keep my pants held up with a piece of twine;
I keep my fly wide open all the time;
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds;
and if your mine......


You'll cut the twine!

ROF ROF ROF :biglaugh:

How about "The Bug Who Walked 'Round the World"?

[Hutch001b]

I rarely go to movies but did get coerced into this one and was glad I went.
I have a coworker whose wife is a personal secretary to George Jones' wife Nancy. They have become pretty good friends with George and Nancy over the years. They went with them to see "I Walk The Line" and Cliff said George fussed all the way through it how "that ain't the way it happened." But, after it was over he said he guessed it was fairly accurate. Hutch