Walk the Line

is a really good film too. I had only recently heard the comparisons between the main character roles in Walk The Line and Ray so I guess that was in my mind as I watched. And this is what I think.
While there are obvious similarities in the stories as they are presented - musicians, who both suffered a similar trauma in their childhood, who use/abuse drugs, who have 'relationship issues'...I think they are really very different films (perhaps because) Foxx and Phoenix play the parts in completely different ways. Ray seemed to me to be way more of a Biopic, and Foxx did a great imitation of Ray Charles. Walk the Line, though, was a looser story, and Phoenix more interpretive in his acting. And he was really really good (sexy too). Reese Witherspoon (who I have liked since Election) was great too and I really liked the way that the film described her career progression as well as the relationship she had with Cash. Her singing was fantastic too.
It's been a good week for me and the cinema.