Walking the line

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So as you may have seen at my old URL, it was not easy to find the extended cut of Walk The Line. First stop: Target. Target didn’t have it. Gasp. Then B&N didn’t have it so I thought, “Maybe I read the date wrong” even though it instantly branded itself onto my brain. So I asked at B&N. The woman there looked it up. It said, “Release date: March 2008.” So I said to the woman, “It has to be today. It’s the last Tuesday in March.” And she looked at me blankly. Seriously, if you work in a store that does CD & DVD releases, surely you know that those come on Tuesdays. Surely you realize that you’re getting in shipments on Sundays and Monday and have to get the displays ready Monday night or Tuesday morning.

In any case, I was about foaming at the mouth when Hawk said, “Well let’s try Best Buy.” Meanwhile, I raved about how if I’d known no one in Altoona would have it, I would have ordered it from Amazon. And then I went into Best Buy and looked over the “new releases” stand-alone display and there was nothing. So I thought, “It’s got to be here somewhere and I’m not leaving without it. So I went to the shelves and there it was: row upon row of this:

Love is really only a burning thing until you get the medication.

So anyway…

I finally got to slide it in last night and I’m up to the part where he’s going on the Sun Records tour. So far there are extended bits w/ the death of his brother, a bit when he’s in the Air Force and a bit where he’s writing “Cry Cry Cry” in the basement and Viv thinks he hates her b/c she believes the song is about her. Then the last new bit I saw answered one of the questions I asked when I heard there was a new cut: “Does he take his shirt off?” Answer: Yes. But that’s not enough. He goes and gets baby Roseanne out of her crib, still shirtless mind you, and carries her around, bouncing her to his song on the radio. Viv had made him turn the volume down and he could still hear it and realized that someone else was hearing his song. He takes the baby out on the porch, cuddling her (and still shirtless) and says something like, “Do you hear Daddy on the wind?” Holding a baby. And half-naked. And that’s where I stopped viewing b/c I didn’t think I could take any more in a single sitting.

So is it worth the upgrade if you have WTL (as you know I do)? Hellz yes. Not just b/c it’s 17 minutes more of a Joaquin Phoenix movie but that what I’ve seen so far really adds to the depth of the film. And he’s half naked. Did I mention that?

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