Poly-ish Movie Reviews By Joreth

Was Clint Eastwood in a poly movie?  Wait, Clint Eastwood sings?  Joreth reviews the classic film Paint Your Wagon with Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, and Jean Seaberg.   It's so much worse when they manage to get you to like a movie before they turn it to shit.I watched Paint Your Wagon, a cheesy movie made in the 1960s very loosely based on a musical written in the 1940s based on life in California in the 1840s. Although, the movie has almost nothing to do with the play, other than the names of a couple of characters and some of the songs force-fed into the script, I fully expected this movie to suck - after all, it's a musical staring Clint Eastwood, and it got terrible reviews even from people who like musicals. It was incredibly cheesy, even for a musical, but it managed to suck me into the story and make me care about the characters. It was surprisingly deep and progressive in places, in spite of the heavy-handed patriarchal values that make women into property. Ben Rumson is a drunken gold miner who loves