Sentences with phrase «west oater»

Given the script for Shanghai Noon, they've come up with a middling Old West oater that falls flat at least as often as it finds the funny bone.

Not exact matches

One of the key Hollywood actors that specialized in playing western bad guys, Robert J. Wilke can be seen in dozens of oaters from High Noon to Man of the West, almost always as a heartless killer.

Yet his comeback «Dead Man's Shoes», with its combination of small - town retribution and the supernatural, is far more successful in importing the oater sensibilities of «High Plains Drifter» to the West Country, while bringing back from the dead the sort of hardman grittiness not seen since such seventies classics as «Get Carter», «Straw Dogs» and the «Death Wish» films.

With its sprawling desert vistas and violent frontier conflict, the Outback of old isn't so far removed from the Wild West of American legend — which is why, of course, there's a whole subgenre of Aussie oaters.

It's hardly «Heaven's Gate,» but there's a similar grandiosity of ambition — and a familiar sense of folly — to Scott Cooper's «Hostiles,» a $ 40 million, independently produced, sure - to - be-R-rated Western in a marketplace where even a more broadly appealing oater, like Seth MacFarlane's tongue - in - cheek «A Million Ways to Die in the West,» can barely earn that -LSB-...]

It's hardly «Heaven's Gate,» but there's a similar grandiosity of ambition — and a familiar sense of folly — to Scott Cooper's «Hostiles,» a $ 40 million, independently produced, sure - to - be-R-rated Western in a marketplace where even a more broadly appealing oater, like Seth MacFarlane's tongue - in - cheek «A Million Ways to Die in the West,» can barely earn that kind of money back.

In Sydney Pollack's backcountry oater, a jaded Mexican War veteran (Robert Redford) seeks solace in the American West, only to discover that life in the Rocky Mountain State — with its harsh weather, craggy terrain and aggressive inhabitants — is more turbulent than transcendental.