So I saw the trailer for Walk the Line, the new movie about Johnny Cash.

I'm really torn

I'm torn between my love of Johnny Cash. My love of rock and roll/music movies. My love of a good portrait of a real person by an actor...

and my complete and utter disappointment in recent biopics. There seems to be a template that these movies follow and it's starting to get old.

That's how I felt when I watched Ray... I mean, it was a decent flick and all, and the acting was top notch, but I couldn't help but feel like I'd seen it already quite a few times. It seems like no one is willing to do anything interesting with a biographical movie these days. I can only think of two movies about real people in recent years that are really worth mentioning. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Ed Wood

Otherwise they all seem to follow the same sort of 'shooting star' storyline and the same pacing. It's like "here's this guy. He's brilliant and had a bad childhood. No one believed in his talent until he got his big break by someone who took a chance on him. He got way famous, fought some sort of adversity, probably drugs, then either died or got better. The rest is history!"

I mean... I know they've only got the person's story to work with... but at least do SOMETHING different. Take all of the biographical movies that have come out in the last twenty years and try and tell me that 95% of them don't follow the exact same template. Ray, Ali, Man on the Moon, The Doors, The Aviator... hell, even Rock Star followed that formula, and it was a fictionalized story about Ripper Owens from Judas Priest. They could have done anything at all they wanted with that story, but they just followed the same old formula.

Walk The Line will probably do the same.

But I'm still excited. I'm excited because I'm excited to see Joaquin Phoenix doing something different. I'm excited because I know he sings and plays guitar himself in the movie, which impresses the hell out of me. In the trailer when he goes up to the mic and says "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" and he sounds just like The Man, I screamed and threw my panties at the monitor.

So, yeah, I'll definitely go see it. I'll probably be disappointed, but we'll see.

Oh, I thought of a couple other biographical type movies that actually broke the mold a little, but I don't count either of them because they focus on one small section of the person's life rather than their entire story. Wonderland and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Both rocking movies.

Anyway, I've been up here in Victoria since thursday evening. It's been good. Just got my computer sorted out after about five or six windows re installations before I got my spyware/adware protection figured out.

It's sure gotten worse just in the last four months! It seems like you can't turn on your computer without some kind of jerkoff program getting all up in your shit.

Livejournal sure has changed since I was last online too. A ton of new styles and features and shit. Awesome.

Anyway, I'm gonna go smoke and read some of the new Harry Potter. I'm not far into it, but it's good so far.

PS:
I thought Wedding Crashers kind of fucking sucked.