Sam Elliot slams ‘The Power of the Dog’ as ‘piece of s---’ film: ‘Where’s the Western in this Western?’

Sam Elliot is none too pleased with the recognition “The Power of the Dog” is receiving ahead of the Oscars.

Elliot referenced a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times that featured a review blurb that described the film as "an evisceration of the American myth."

"I thought, what the f---?" Elliott said of the adaptation from the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage. "This is a guy who has done Westerns his entire life. ‘The evisceration of the American myth.’ It looked like — what are all those dancers, those guys in New York that wear bow ties and not much else? Remember them from back in the day?"