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Summary: Don't be fooled
Review: Don't let the inexplicable raves fool you. The Hollywood musical knew it was dying, and this was its last-gasp effort. "Hey -- let's make another bloated Hollywood musical, but this time we'll cast it with big box office stars who can't sing or dance!" If Dirty Harry talking to the trees is a turn-on for you, by all means grab this one.
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Summary: A bad rap...UNDESERVEDLY...
Review: The DVD version of "Paint Your Wagon" is as good as it gets. The 2.35:1 LBX shows outdoor panoramas that are often breath-taking. Lee Marvin had recently won the Oscar, followed it with "The Dirty Dozen", and shows a confidence that carries this film to new heights. He's never been so good, or as good, since. The Lerner & Loewe score is wonderful. Marvin's "Wand'rin' Star" is actually quite touching, and Harve Presnell is here to give justice to the best song in the show, "They Call the Wind Maria". These songs are augmented with excellent support from the chorale of the legendary Roger Wagner. Additional musical ideas came from Andre Previn. What a great effort from the greatest musical icons of the period! Top this off with a screenplay by Paddy Chayevsky (very loosely adapted from the stage show), and it's a bawdy, irreverent and totally fun film. Clint Eastwood was much maligned for his attempt at singing (and NOT so terrible, considering these were macho guys...) This film has had a bad rap since it was released, and it's not that bad. It's quite silly, but, in this case, silly is good. There are some serious issues being dealt with. This film's greatness depends on your willingness to accept it as entertainment; if you are the least bit "prudish", forget it. To quote the preacher's teenage son: "If you don't drink or smoke, you're missing out on the 2nd and 3rd best thing in life". Don't judge; enjoy!
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Summary: Very odd!
Review: This film is one of the strangest I've ever seen. The storyline is interesting, and I became very absorbed in it... but then all of a sudden, out of nowhere would come a musical number! The songs didn't seem to fit into the rest of the movie at all, and made the whole experience rather jarring to me; the mixture of Wild West machismo and Hollywood musical is like mixing oil and water, as far as I'm concerned. This would have been a great movie without the songs!
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Summary: Macabre
Review: This film is -- macabre. It combines 1950's-style musical content with late1960's/early70's counterculture cynicism, attacking conventional notions of religion, relations between the sexes, and the desirability of civilization in general. Hopelessly romatic (by today's standards, corny) musical numbers are juxtaposed with themes too adult for the complete comfort of most of today's adult audiences. Strangely, they pull it off just fine. (For one thing, it is probably more historically accurate than not, the picture's look if not also certain of its plot elements evoking the spaghetti westerns.) If you buy it, keep it on the shelf next to your copy of Kelly's Heroes. Macabre, but definitely entertaining.
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Summary: My Husband's Favorite Movie
Review: The perfect movie to watch when it's a stormy day. Add popcorn and you have 100% entertainment.The romance of the Gold Rush days is captured here - the free living, the disdain of religious morals, the cameraderie, the filth (!!), the adventurous spirit, the longing for freedom from 'polite society', and, the loneliness. This Lerner and Lowe musical is hilarious fun. The characters are perfect. The music is beautiful (if you don't mind Clint Eastwood's singing). And now with DVD, you can skip to your favorite scenes for a quick fix every now and then (after all, it is a long movie).
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Summary: Love it or hate it....
Review: O.K.....I've been reading all of the reviews here so far, and it's obvious that you will either loooove this movie, or totally despise it. In my opinion, I think it's a fantastic movie. The cinematography is outstanding, and the soundtrack, (when heard in high-fidelity) was CLASSIC late 60's Nelson Riddle. Sure, Marvin and Eastwood were NOT singers, but the movie was MEANT to be rough, and it suceeds, while not failing to entertain. There are a few downfalls that some people will find as turn-off's (the "I'm married to two guys so screw you" attitude is one example), but otherwise it is a fairly enjoyable musical romp. Musicals were dying by 1969, but this was a watchable last gasp.
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Summary: Paint your wagon
Review: It is the favorite movie of both my husband and my father-in-law
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Summary: WONDERFUL SOUND AND PICTURE
Review: Please ignore the comment about the "missing credits" and couple of minutes of music - IT IS NOT A DEFECT!!! IT IS THE ORIGINAL EXIT MUSIC restored to the film! It did not originally have credits with it! The soundtrack is big and booming and very stereophonic - sounds the way I wish other musicals did on DVD - what a fun fun film.
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Summary: Not Disappointed in the DVD
Review: I have always enjoyed this film. The DVD release is excellent. The enhanced 16:9 format gives excellent vistas. The 5.1 sound track is magnificent. There is a quirk, however. After the picture concludes, the cast list comes on and then an acknowledgement. Then the screen goes black and the wonderful music of the film plays to a black screen instead of being the background to the credits that should be there. I thought I had a defective DVD and got a replacement. Same thing happens. I would have preferred watching the credits instead of a black screen while listening to the music.
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Summary: Laugh a minute and looking great
Review: This is one of my favorite movies, and probably one of my earliest memories; seeing this in the drive-in back in the early 70's. The widescreen anamorphic transfer looks beautiful (compare it with the trailer on the disc to see how much work has been done), the sound is excellent and the actual movie is fabulous. This is a movie for the whole family and the only downside is we could have got more extra's (but I don't think there was enough room on the disc as the movie itself is nearly three hours).
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