Walk The Line and Brokeback Mountain

Walk The Line was...gah. The acting was okay and I think that R. Witherspoon is doing way better but, like, it didn't really have a story. Or rather it only had one story, and not multiple layers of it. And really, I'm not even asking for slashy subtext, all I'm asking for is subtext, fullstop. (ex. Ray)

Brokeback Mountain I saw (and paid for) and *that* had these nice layers that was missing in these other movies. It was also very well acted, though felt that Gyllenhaal did better though Ledger did have the harder job. However I thought it was inconsistently...hmm...toned? Like it had this absolutely lovely delicate-tracery of a story (it kinda reminds me of godofwine's work), but sometimes it became a "drama" and I wished that it'd gone a bit easier on those few parts to make it tonally consistent with the rest of it. And also, thank GOD it wasn't a love story. Oliver Stone tried to go that route with Alexander and see how THAT turned out. Honestly, Stone tried *so* hard to represent this True Love that Alexander and Hephestion shared and tried to use it as a brace for the story of Alexander's life. Which, come to think of it, was exactly what Walk The Line tried to do for Johnny Cash, and I don't know if it just me, but I thought it really failed as a movie (acting was decent, cinematography was good, sound mix was good, etc. but missing that *something*). Brokeback Mountain felt to me like a story about trust, not a story about love, and honestly god bless them for making it.