tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post320385836238106246..comments2021-05-15T22:56:15.579-07:00Comments on STEPHEN T. McCARTHY REVIEWS...: DEAD MEN RIDINGStephen T. McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-6755713134505509932017-01-16T21:02:51.814-08:002017-01-16T21:02:51.814-08:00My writing is "superb"? Gee, I was kind ...My writing is "superb"? Gee, I was kind of hoping you'd like it, but... I'll try harder.<br /><br /><i>[Thanks!!!]</i><br /><br />Yeah, $30 doesn't go too far anymore. If anyone wants to know whose fault that is, they should read THIS review: <br /><br />http://stephentmccarthyreviews.blogspot.com/2017/01/an-evil-of-monstrous-proportions.html<br /><br />I like Jason Robards a lot. I mean, I don't know anything about him personally, but as a performer, he had great natural charm. Did you ever see him as Mark Twain in the movie 'MARK TWAIN AND ME'? A little hard to imagine maybe, but he made the PERFECT screen Twain!<br /><br />~ D-FensDogGStephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-16323807275561069712017-01-16T14:36:39.667-08:002017-01-16T14:36:39.667-08:00Good movie, but it's been quite a while since ...Good movie, but it's been quite a while since I saw it. <br /><br />Your writing is superb, mon frere!<br /><br />COMMENTS NO ONE ASKS FOR, BUT YOU GET ANYWAY:<br />1) Lee Marvin looks exactly like my neighbor from my childhood home. He hired me as his housekeeper when I was a teenager and I thought I'd died and went to heaven. I was rich! Rich, I tell you! (If only I felt the same way about $30 now).<br />2) My Dad looked like Jason Robards.<br />3) With all that "star quality" floating around, you'd think some would have rubbed off on me. But...nope.Cherdohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00264612202714933480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-88129935544146272732017-01-11T20:34:24.635-08:002017-01-11T20:34:24.635-08:00Who dat? Who dat say "Slim Pickens" when...Who dat? Who dat say "Slim Pickens" when I say, "Who dat?"<br /><br />Your comment is marvelous! You need to be writin' reviews of yer own, pardner.<br /><br />FYI, I myself be a whore, therefore the word "whore" be perfectly OK on this pimpy blog. <br /><br />Now... let's see YOU ride an A-Bomb all the way down to Rooskie-ville. (Slim Pickens: greatest American in the whole United States of Georgia!)<br /><br />~ D-FensDogGStephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-56556989498829704432017-01-11T20:27:55.541-08:002017-01-11T20:27:55.541-08:00DEBBIE ~
Cool Cowboys! Then by all means, see it i...DEBBIE ~<br />Cool Cowboys! Then by all means, see it if you can. It's much more realistic than most Westerns. Well, like I said in the review, it's a character study that focuses on relationships between people and their environment. <br /><br />Not that very many people would care, but one could learn a lot about me personally by analyzing Monte's attitudes and considering them a representation of my own. More than a few times I've said that 'Monte Walsh' is the story of my life. Ha!<br /><br />~ D-FensDogGStephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-76353448417606086912017-01-11T19:22:00.465-08:002017-01-11T19:22:00.465-08:00Dude - I don't want to spur you to an even big...Dude - I don't want to spur you to an even bigger head, but you do wrangle up a herd of insight on this movie. You write purtier than a $2 wh***, as Slim Pickins would say. But I've gotta say adios for now: I'm saddled with duties elsewhere, Buckeroo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-82002504313851978812017-01-11T18:30:55.653-08:002017-01-11T18:30:55.653-08:00I do like Westerns and am a big fan of Lee Marvin;...I do like Westerns and am a big fan of Lee Marvin; Jack Palance, too. Total movie buff. ☺Debbie D. https://www.blogger.com/profile/13153118405565035071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-58706120155145001052017-01-11T07:47:25.705-08:002017-01-11T07:47:25.705-08:00GEM JULIE ~
All you gotta do now is remember where...GEM JULIE ~<br />All you gotta do now is remember where you left your lasso, eh? Ha!<br /><br />Hey, thanks so much for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the review. (There are plenty more where this came from.)<br /><br />I appreciate all the nice comments here. (Helping get me through some NOT-nice weather!)<br /><br />~ D-FensDogGStephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-15516841140217519252017-01-10T23:27:34.646-08:002017-01-10T23:27:34.646-08:00Stephen - You are a man of many talents! This beau...Stephen - You are a man of many talents! This beautifully written review is poetic. I've never seen Monte Walsh before, but after your brilliant review I hope to rope it in.<br /><br />JulieEmpty Nest Insiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10074223969046687064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-55590445607203841362017-01-10T17:54:13.835-08:002017-01-10T17:54:13.835-08:00DANG! DOUBLE-DANG! DEBBIE, thanks!!!
I hope you l...DANG! DOUBLE-DANG! DEBBIE, thanks!!!<br /><br />I hope you like Westerns. It's a Western though-and-through, but just a different kind of Western in a number of ways.<br /><br />~ D-FensDogGStephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-36324641897499107272017-01-10T16:23:55.536-08:002017-01-10T16:23:55.536-08:00Your use of literary symbolism just blows me away,...Your use of literary symbolism just blows me away, Stephen! This is such a fabulous review, I'm going to look for the movie online. Thanks!Debbie D. https://www.blogger.com/profile/13153118405565035071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-78851917915962379522017-01-10T12:13:47.453-08:002017-01-10T12:13:47.453-08:00As you can see, the comments were there waiting fo...As you can see, the comments were there waiting for publishing approval from the god o' de blog.<br /><br />Not sure why you don't get a message saying the comment was received and is in limbo. Other than that, it seems to be working fine now. And I've checked every single setting for this blog against the settings for my BOTB blog and they're identical.<br /><br />Maybe in the future just a quick text saying "comment submitted" to give me a heads-up to look for it.<br /><br />But you know I loved the "WHY, YOU... biff, pow!" Because I'm not JUST a cowboy but a cowboy-pirate (i.e., not just whiskey but rum, too!!:-)<br /><br />~ D-FensDogGStephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-40690050361590463432017-01-10T11:52:12.374-08:002017-01-10T11:52:12.374-08:00Oh, the Countess...
Well, her name was Kathleen, a...Oh, the Countess...<br />Well, her name was Kathleen, and I let her go away, just like Monte did. And for the same reason, too: I just couldn't see myself not being a cowboy anymore.<br /><br />There's a great scene in the movie 'Scrooge' (1970, Albert Finney) where Ebenezer in the present is standing next to Ebenezer in the past, and they're both watching the love of his life walk away.<br /><br />Past Ebenezer let her go away -- out of his life. He had the opportunity to stop it but he didn't. I guess Ebby was a cowboy, too.<br /><br />However, the Present Ebenezer says loudly, desperately, "Don't go! It's a mistake!"<br /><br />Great scene. Great movie. One of my Top Ten all time -- as is 'Monte Walsh'.<br /><br />Sometimes we don't get a second chance to correct a mistake. We make our decision and then have to live with it for the rest of our life.<br /><br />Planet Earth: School Of Hard Knocks. <br />(That's why God invented wine.)<br /><br />~ D'plorable Cowboy D-FensDogGStephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-72900879756471263272017-01-10T11:49:04.079-08:002017-01-10T11:49:04.079-08:00DAMN BLOGGER! It ALMOST makes me want to give up ...DAMN BLOGGER! It ALMOST makes me want to give up commenting on your blog!! So... do you not require approval of comments here before posting? Because it does not give me the usual message "your comments will appeal after approval," thus tricking me into trying it a bunch of times. ARG! WHY, YOU.... biff, powSBB6noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-9833909536146438072017-01-10T11:37:18.350-08:002017-01-10T11:37:18.350-08:00I'm sorry, but I didn't catch that. What d...I'm sorry, but I didn't catch that. What did you say?<br /><br />~ D-FensDogGStephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-26106437212844014062017-01-10T10:55:56.936-08:002017-01-10T10:55:56.936-08:00What are your thoughts about "The Countess?&q...What are your thoughts about "The Countess?"Sheboyganboy VInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-60643483549121137822017-01-10T10:52:34.373-08:002017-01-10T10:52:34.373-08:00What are your thoughts about "The Countess/&q...What are your thoughts about "The Countess/"Sheboyganboy VInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-61261704781926096762017-01-10T07:31:19.367-08:002017-01-10T07:31:19.367-08:00Ahh, thanks so much, NITRO. That was a tender roma...Ahh, thanks so much, NITRO. That was a tender romance that the Countess and the Cowboy had, wasn't it? Tender but sad and ill-fated. <br /><br />I have often said that the story of my life has already been filmed. I am Monte Walsh. (I'm shocked to see I didn't write that into the review. Gee, I've said it so many times how could I have failed to mention it when composing this piece?)<br /><br />~ D-FensDogG<br />'Loyal American Underground'Stephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056672385027660073.post-48966724100594307972017-01-09T21:13:43.114-08:002017-01-09T21:13:43.114-08:00I wholeheartedly agree that mere words will never ...I wholeheartedly agree that mere words will never be able to explain all the subtleties of this movie, but you sure did a beautiful job trying. This is a great review. It should be helpful to anyone looking for a few hours of use unadulterated feeling.farawayeyeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17578277501054242356noreply@blogger.com