Word: oater
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...Asia, Django got no Stateside release that I know about. In fact, few spaghetti Westerns beyond the Leones were released here. Americans stuck with the Duke through True Grit and patronized the anti-Westerns of Sam Peckinpah (notably The Wild Bunch) and Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, another snowy oater). And then, bang, the genre was dead. The setting, the pace, the moral stakes all seemed so very 19th century. When the Western is periodically revived, it's not from popular demand but from the antique obsessions of powerful filmmakers...
...Have you stayed up past midnight to see High Noon ? Did you miss the bus to work because you caught Stagecoach at 3 a.m.? Well, suffer from horse-opera hangover no more! Now there's Silverado, the Cuisinart western! Silverado dices, splices, chops, co-opts, hones and clones every oater archetype in just 2 hr. 13 min.; that's less than 1% of the time it would take you to sit through the collected works of John Wayne! And if you act now, we'll throw in nine, yes, nine of the cinema's rising stars--Kevinklinescottglennrosannaarquettejohncleesekevincostnerbriandennehydannygloverjeffgoldblumandlindahunt--almost none...