COWBOY SAM LASSOS CUMBERBATCH ‘POS’

It’s a rootin’ tootin’ Hollywood showdown! Rough and always ready, 1883 star SAM ELLIOTT, 77, is shooting bullets at The Power of the Dog, the Oscarnominated film about a sadistic rancher in 1925 Montana!

Sam’s barking the flick’s a load of horse crap! Literally calling the period piece starring Brit-born actor BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH a “piece of sh*t,” salty Sam took aim at the Oscar frontrunner, grousing its cowboys look more like Chippendales dancers wearing “bow ties and not much else.” Yikes. “That’s what all these f*cking cowboys in that movie looked like,” blasts the American actor, who stars alongside TIM McGRAW and FAITH HILL in Yellowstone’s hit prequel. “They’re running around in chaps and no shirt. Where’s the Western in this Western?” he barks. “I mean, Cumberbatch never got out of his f*cking chaps. He had two pairs of chaps — a woolly pair and a leather pair. And every f*cking time he would walk in from somewhere — he never was on a horse, maybe once — he’d walk into the f*cking house, storm up the f*cking stairs, go lay in his bed in his chaps and play his banjo. It’s like, what the f*ck?” WTF? As far as the movie’s New Zealand–born director, JANE CAMPION,

67, Sam scoffs: “What the f*ck does this woman from down there know about the American West? Why the f*ck did she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana? And say this is the way it was? That f*cking rubbed me the wrong way.”