Hey, guys, anyone else like the movie?
I really did. It made me a little uncomfortable because of the gay overtones, but then I realized that it's just another part of life. Men will be men, right?! Haha!
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People who spend their time looking for gay overtones in straight movies are probably gay.
I enjoyed the film. I teared up when Lee Marvin sang "Wanderin' Star".
You mean like people who spend their time looking for crime where no crime has taken place are probably criminals, like the police.
Flawed as it, I am impressed by your logic.
Teared up over a rugged, middle-aged man signing in a baritone voice...hmmm, I see.
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"but that was a beautiful song, and that 'rugged, middle-aged man' had an awseome voice!"
Awe some thing else....
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I absolutely love it. Probably the only musical that I actually enjoy.
Science IS fiction.
i really like the movie. can't men ever have a connection with in movies without it being labeled "gay overtones"? there are some movies i'll admit have gay overtones but i don't think this is one of them. this movie is a lot of fun even if it doesn't really kick in into like an hour into it.
shareGay Overtones!?!?!?!?! i think some one has a problem with the closet door!!!!
just grease it up a bit love! ;O)
This is a fantastic film (im fem and straight btw) It's one of those old time classics.
I think it's really sad that people over analyze these films that are just good viewing.
I need special medicine to live...Vodka,JBeam,SouthernComfort,JD,Absinth,Rum...the list is endless!
I agree with MaliceLacedDreams......
Come on, its just a fun movie: it doesn't need explained or analyzed for this or that point of view.
Its ment to be enjoyed.
And yes, I really, REALLY like this movie, and I can usally take or leave musicals. This is just a bawdy, ruff-hewn movie that could never be made today.....too many people ready to scream, "Not Politically Correct! Not Politically Correct!"
Well, screw them: BRING ON THE FUN MOVIES!!!
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I am going to have to go out on a limb and say that whomever thinks this film is manifest in gay overtones really has no idea of how different the world was back in the 1800s, probably doesnt have any straight foreign friends who interact with each other and people of their same sex very differently even though they are not gay, or WANTS there to be gay overtones to this movie. Comradare, friendship, and companionship are not implicitly "gay". Lets kill the "gay issue" here. If you want gay overtones and want to discuss them, watch Interview With a Vampire, that has got to be the gayest vampire movie I have ever seen! Its good, but come on! Even the 'superheros' from SNL's 'ambiguously gay duo'would be all "holy cornholes! this movie is fricken gay!"
This movie is a classic! Not only does it try and stay true to the grittiness of frontier mining and its towns, touching on things such as alcoholism, depression, and isolation..greed, and ingenuity brought on by but it offers hilarious circumstances that can easily be imagined as not too far off base. Its what makes it so funny! Where else can you see Lee Marvin performing as well as he does in this? (totally different than any of his more serious characters). Nor do I think that this movie is trying to take a stab at any other social moores such as prostitution and poligamy. What it IS trying to do is take these things that had been around and use them for some just all out hilarious situations and dead pan comedy! This movie is an A+ in my mind!
it is a VERY fun movie to watch. lee marvin is such a treat in this film so unlike what you think of when you think of lee marvin. i saw it a few years ago on tv over a thanksgiving break i only put it on out of curiousity but when i got into it, i laughed so hard at parts of it. it's a good film that deserves to be remembered more then it is.
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I saw this movie for my 16th birthday and to this day it has remained one of my favorite films. Funny, great songs, and Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood what could be better?
It is the Thanksgiving movie I watch while preparing dinner. My sons also like it and while they all attempted to view West Side Story they soon were bored and making jokes, etc! But Paint Your Wagon is one they agree is pretty funny!
Like this movie?!?! How about LOVE this movie?!!! Lee Marvin gives one of the great comic acting performances of all time. Sure, the movie is flawed in numerous respects, but for the most part those flaws simply add to the fun. The singing may be horrible, but the lyrics are incredibly clever. "Born Under a Wandering Star" is a classic. If Merle Haggard had sung it, the song would be an American anthem.
I get it that people don't like it, but I feel sorry for them. This is riotous fun for those of us who love it.
I was 12 when I first saw this movie and had to buy it as soon as I found it on DVD.
'Nuff said.
Riotous fun is exactly the right description.
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I'd seen this film in theatrical release back in 1969, and even during the "Flower Power" era (when you'd expect to see a generous plenty of androgyny and other concessions to nonorthosexual concepts just to get a Kinsey-ish frisson into the flick), there warn't nothing of the sort up on the screen.
Box office draw or not, I held then (and continue to hold now) that Clint Eastwood simply didn't belong in Paint Your Wagon, but that's only because neither his acting style nor his voice were suited for this sort of light entertainment. Lee Marvin, on the other hand, was utterly perfect, and without him there wouldn't have been a hope in hell for this film. By turns eloquent and slapstick, dignified and debauched, deadly dangerous and hilariously ridiculous, his characterization in this movie was far more powerful than his award-winning turn in Cat Ballou.
But of "gay overtones" there was absolutely nothing.
"To you, I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."
-- Woody Allen
I'd say that Eastwood is more effective than Marvin, but I completely concur about the issue of 'gay overtones.' I don't see that factor at all.
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