10 Movie Crazes You Forgot Were A Thing

In terms of forgetting this was a thing, it's highly unlikely that you did. Westerns dominated the box office and made John Wayne, Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood household names for generations to come.

What we do forget is just how big this era was (almost 30 years of unbridled popularity) and how timeless the old films are. Storytelling was simple and compelling, well constructed heroes taking on dastardly villains in horseback action and showdowns aplenty. They also boasted incredible cinematography and the likes of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, are irreplaceable classics.

With time comes change and this has never been more prevelant with the dying of the Western genre, True Grit (2010) and Django Unchained (2012) aside, studios just won't finance the films to the same extent of the past as they know the box office returns won't justify the investment. Superheroes sell, old men with cowboy hats don't cut it, anymore. An audience that once made up the majority of the paying audience has sadly passed and, with that, millenials have filled the void with their own taste.

2019's Once Upon a time in Hollywood was determined to remind us all of the glory days of Western-ruled Hollywood but also that these cowboys had their day, as the Avengers of this world are having theirs now.