Sentences with phrase «many oaters»

At times more in line with «Blazing Saddles» than the grimly bawdy qualities that define many bonafide oaters, «Django Unchained» erupts with a conceptual brilliance from the outset that never fully meshes with its clumsy storyline.

Eventually a little pretentious - with Anjelica Huston's cameo the nadir - but if you love oaters, it's just worth the time.

Less a plot - driven Western oater, Monte Walsh is more a slow - moving but satisfying contemplation on the end days of the cowboy life.

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.

Based on the 1957 Glenn Ford / Van Heflin picture, Mangold embraces his subject matter with unabashed enthusiasm — along the way paying stylistic homage to oater icons John Ford and Sergio Leone — to deliver a movie that is as complex and character driven as it is packed with lead - spewing action.

If you can get pass or forget the «let me tell you something» tone of the piece, you've got a nicely done oater.

Young Ones has some interesting twists but falls short as a reworking of a classic Hollywood oater.

A lead villain in silent oaters starring lesser - known cowboys like Lester Cuneo, Bill Patton, and Al Hoxie, Meehan's florid acting style can be enjoyed today in such silents as Blazing Arrows (1922) and Red Blood (1926)-- the now veteran actor usually found himself demoted to that of anonymous henchman after the advent of sound.

This isn't your backyard childhood game of cowboys and Indians, nor is it a stereotypical oater in which the heroes fight off attacks from savages.

The limited series struggles to recover from an early peak; in the final 20 minutes of the premiere episode, all the pieces for an epic oater fall into place.

The quintessential B - movie lawman, granite - faced, mustachioed Jack Rockwell began turning up in low - budget oaters in the late 1920s and went on to amass an impressive array of film credits that included 225 Westerns and two dozen serials, working mostly for Republic Pictures and Columbia although he was never contracted by either.

More often than not unbilled, and only infrequently awarded speaking parts, Smith left films after the 1949 Jimmy Wakely oater Roaring Westward.

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.

A case in point is Peter Fonda's directorial debut The Hired Hand (1971), a sensitive, deliberately paced western which Universal attempted to sell as a combination of an Easy Rider sequel and an action - revenge oater.

As if on cue, a swell of new oaters has tumbled into view this year to prove as much, and each of them in their own way plays less like a period piece than it does a mirror.

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.

Forty Guns wasn't as thematically rich as Run of the Arrow, Samuel Fuller's other 1957 oater, but it was an important bridge between the traditional Fordian Western and the amoral, violent spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s.

Content to merely spend time with its characters as they chat, bicker and strategize, the film comes off as a lackadaisical throwback oater until it reaches its climax, at which point Bone Tomahawk veers suddenly, shockingly into outright horror, replete with what may be the most chilling, unforgettable death scene of the year.

But the conventions of the Western — even the ones that are very specific to a period — don't work like the conventions of horror; they aren't based on tone, which is actually why oaters hybridize so easily.

The Searchers is an entertaining Western by the quintessential oater duo of director John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance) and star John Wayne (The Quiet Man, Rio Bravo).

But «True Grit» is more of a return to Charles Portis» source novel than a reboot of the John Wayne oater.

, the latest from Joel and Ethan Coen, telling the story of a studio fixer (Josh Brolin) trying to keep his boss and all of his stars happy, even as one (George Clooney) is kidnapped by Communist screenwriters, another (Channing Tatum) may be in league with said writers, and another (Alden Ehrenreich) isn't able to make the transition from oater Westerns to high - toned dramas.

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.

Farr had a more significant role in 1956's «Jubal,» an oater take on «Othello» that was directed by Daves and also starred Ford.

(Not for nothing, The Wild Bunch was comfortably the highest - ranked oater on our list.)

Directed by «Pirates of the Caribbean's» Gore Verbinski, this over-the-top oater delivers all the energy and spectacle audiences have come to expect from a Jerry Bruckheimer production, but sucks out the fun in the process, ensuring sizable returns but denying the novelty value required to support an equivalent franchise.

Meek's Cuttoff is the very definition of a slowburn treat, a classical Oregon - set «oater» in which a wagon trail heading across vast, acrid prairies is placed in danger when its party decide to take heed of a short cut suggested by one Stephen Meek.

In a Valley of Violence begins like many oaters we've seen in the past and the archetypal characters that therein show all the hallmarks of cowboy picture platitudes; Paul (Ethan Hawke) is a self - effacing drifter who appears more like a peacenik than the dangerous army deserter we suspect him to be; Gilly (James Ransone) is a murderous intimidator; Mary - Anne (Tessa Farmiga) is a virginal ingenue; Marshal Clyde Martin (John Travolta) is the conflicted reprobate law man; and so on.

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.

12 Strong comes from real life — specifically a covert Green Berets operation that went down in Afghanistan shortly after the Twin Towers fell — but the movie plays like the squarest of John Wayne oaters, riding tall in the saddle with a minimum of casualties.

The Ballad Of Lefty Brown premiered at this year's SXSW, and early reviews promise a solid oater that pays off the promise of Moshe's shoestring - budget debut.

/ «Saps at Sea») directs this routine oater that's set right after the Civil War.

The film, directed by David Von Ancken and starring Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan, is a noble but overlong patchwork of elements and themes that were explored better in the 1960s - 70s oaters that clearly inspired it.

The filmmaker's fetishes here include Western trappings (from the plot inspired by TV oaters to the mostly - new Ennio Morricone score) and a «roadshow» size and shape (the Ultra Panavision 70 film format).

The original 3:10 to Yuma was ahead of its time, with its psychological underpinnings and more serious themes than most oaters of its era.

This old - fashioned oater miniseries pits the two fellers against one another in a rivalry that can only end with hot lead.

The story is completely ridiculous and wafer - thin: in his first of many oaters, Flynn is a morally grey buffalo herdsman who eventually stops turning a blind eye to Bruce Cabot's evil doings in Dodge, yet the film has so many show - stopping sequences, the plot becomes unimportant.