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Author Topic: Walk the Line (2005) Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 11-25-2005 08:50 AM                        Both "Ray" and "Walk" told me more than I wanted to know about drugs.....Also felt cheated without the newer songs, especially the "Man in Black" song. "I wear the black for the downtrodden...." Louis  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 11-25-2005 01:19 PM                     Louis I too wish there had a been a few of the other songs in the movie, only problem was when they choose to "end" the film. The song had not been recorded, but the music it self was great.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 12-02-2005 12:22 AM                        CINEMA: Capitol City Stadium 12, Cheyenne, WY AUDITORIUM: 6 PRESENTATION: I'm guessing Analog PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: Delayed start time, improper masking (the dateline captions aligned to the right trailed INTO the masking), and slightly out of focus. RATING: Three stars (out of four) To get to the all new Capitol City Stadium 12, drive down Pershing and look for the marquee in front of the abandoned supermarket that was an Albertson's about thirty years ago. Look for the yellow and black sign attached to said abandoned supermarket that says "THEATER" with an arrow pointing to an alley between the abandoned supermarket and the medical plaza that opened thirty years ago as some department store. Drive through the alley to the theatre entrance. Who knows...Maybe they were given the lot for free. The auditorium has dimensions similar to Act III's "Stadium Riser" builds without the curved seat rows and with a bigger screen. Good for me...not so good for the second-row wheelchair access. 9 rows by 15 seats (most rows) wide. Nice seats with padded armrests. They even put can lights in the ceiling across the front of the screen with red bulbs. Tragically, they weren't actually ON until five seconds before the show started, but it's the thought that counts, I guess. Scheduled start time of movie: 6:45pm. Actual start time of movie: 6:55pm...and only after I went out to the snack bar and asked if anybody was going to start the movie. Ticket Seller Guy got on the radio to the booth. Booth Kid came running to the projector just after I was back in my seat. Oh MAN the audio sucked. I kind of got used to it during the feature, but the trailers sounded awful. About the only thing I heard out of the surrounds was a buzz. Actually, I'm not sure if that was coming from the sound system or the climate control. Reese Witherspoon made the movie. She is totally forgiven for "Just Like Heaven". Phoenix was pretty good too. The others playing famous musicians with the exception of maybe the Jerry Lee character were terrible as far as I was concerned. But I thought the music was well done, even if every song went "bing bada bong bada bing bada bong" with different lyrics. That's what country music was then. I won't comment on what passes for "country music" today.  |  IP: Logged Ryan Navaroli Film Handler Posts: 63 From: Athens, OH, USA Registered: Nov 2005 posted 12-04-2005 04:49 PM                        I saw this in the biggest auditorium of our new theatre which is a 40'+ screen with DTS and 200+ stadium seats. I sat in the back row and was FULLY imersed into the film and music. I was a mild Cash fan going into it and came out 5 times the fan afterwards. The seen of his brother and the saw just captured me and kept me into it the whole time. I agree, 10-15 minutes less of the drugged up downward spiral would have helped it out as I found myself going for more popcorn then. Over all I'd give it a 4 of 5 with a close 5. Joquin did a great job with the acting and singing. It seems cheap to use another persons voice when doing a movie about music, but he really pulled it off. For some reason I don't see Cash as country either, even though he is, I guess I just hate todays country sound.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-04-2005 09:11 PM                        I can take or leave Cash's music, but I enjoyed the film. I, too, was reminded of "Ray" (which I felt was an even better film). I was engaged throughout and was impressed with the acting. I can recommend it to pretty much anyone, regardless of opinion of the music. A big "you suck" award goes to Loews Boston Common for showing the same trailer twice and also for the crappy condition of their print. This lousy presentation wasn't helped by the new (?) video advertisements and the "changeover" to film which involved re-setting the common-width masking to scope, thus making the screen appear to get smaller at show start. Oh, and the screen itself was in poor condition, and there was a flat anti-cell-phone snipe being run in scope.  |  IP: Logged Olivia Coleman Film Handler Posts: 53 From: Bend, OR USA Registered: Jun 2005 posted 12-05-2005 01:50 PM                        I was able to get in at my theatre on the day after Thanksgiving to see this! Unfortuantely I have to bash my own theatre for poor line control in the lobby for the concession lines. They were trapping the ticket taker causing him to miss people coming in as they never saw him or him them. Plus the person who build the print (wasn't I nor the booth manager) did a bad splice after removing a lab splice and there was a lab splice still in a reel. One reel had scratches that distracted me. Other than those problems, the movie itself was about 4 out of 5 stars. I agree that it was acting but I felt it was pretty damn good. I have always like Reese and really like her now! And this wasn't considered country music then, it was just rock 'n roll!  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 12-06-2005 08:28 AM                     While Johnny did straddle the line between rock and country, I would say that he was always considered a country artist. He just had a rock attitude. Folson Prison Blues, Walk the Line, ect. have country style bass lines and guitar parts, and most of Johnny's lyrical themes were country style.  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-06-2005 10:39 AM                     He was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame as a singer!  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-06-2005 10:55 AM                        Cash never changed his tune, like so many artists do. Because country eventually catched up with what he was doing, he eventually became known as a country artist. THEY HIJACKED HIM!!! Growing up my mother had me listening to Cash, Elvis, the Beatles, all were considered rock at the time. Rock has undergone various odd transformations. To me, Cash will always be the king... SCREW ELVIS!!! I loved the movie. My feet were tapping the whole way through. I had a real great time, and I am going to take my mother to it. I think she will really have a good time as well. Ciao  |  IP: Logged Olivia Coleman Film Handler Posts: 53 From: Bend, OR USA Registered: Jun 2005 posted 12-07-2005 05:18 PM                        Thank you, Dave, much agreed here! I will also be taking my mother to it soon.  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-07-2005 10:40 PM                        Somehow I posted a response here that was SUPPOSED to go into my "falling down the stairs" area on Film Yak. OOPS... those silly happy pills Ciao [ 12-08-2005, 10:08 PM: Message edited by: Dave Williams ]  |  IP: Logged Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-07-2005 11:14 PM                     Who is this guitarist "Estaban"? Seems like he dresses and talks like Johnny Cash? K  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-08-2005 10:16 PM                        Esteban is Pittsburg native Stephen Paul, who studied classic spanish guitar with Andres Segovia from 1974 to 1978, who gave him the name. I have no idea what it means. In 1979 he was hit by a drunk driver and due to damage to his left arm and hand lost the ability to play. He spent the next decade working that arm and hand so he could play again. Since 1990, he has built up an empire of cudos and awards, and also builds and sells guitars at reasonable prices, so that young people everywhere can experience the same joy he had when he first started playing at the age of 8. That is his bio in a nutshell. Ciao  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 12-09-2005 12:07 AM                        Esteban=Stephen  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 12-09-2005 08:12 PM                        I've seen Esteban on TV while channel surfing. One time it was on QVC, another time it was some other infomercial type show. His musicianship and salesmanship are amazing. His guitars look and sound good, at least on TV, they're priced reasonably, and you get hours of lessons on DVD or VHS included. While I don't think it's as easy to learn guitar as he would have you believe, it's sort of inspiring to watch and listen to him, and damn if I don't have to fight the urge to pick up the phone and order one of his guitars when I see him.  |  IP: Logged

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