Whatever Happened to Westerns on Telly - ?

[Yellow Saddle]

There was a time (and still is maybe) when playing with mock guns and swords became 'not ok, frowned upon'. We all played cowboys as kids and perhaps as the above became frowned upon, the desire for the media to show westerns fell away...so the cycle was broken. Or perhaps we (people) just grew out of it and wanted something different.
It's the same with horror, the 70s and 80s were awash with proper horror films...mostly gone now, you rarely see them anymore.
Things come and go...

I also played Cowboys and Indians and in my "career" killed thousands of indians. Let them sue me if they want. I'm not apologising or guilt-washing those killings.

As for cheesy horror....now there's another under-rated genre. What's not to like about a bunch of handsome/pretty 20-somethings going for a dirty weekend in a cabin (with lots of eau naturel swimming) in the woods where a maniac with an axe lurks in the bushes?

I've spent many an insomniac night watching one or othere version of that theme.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Don't forget that the goodies wore white hats while the baddies wore black hats.

I never noticed that, but that's a delicious tidbit.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was set in the middle of the civil war. It is pretty intrinsic to the plot.

So was the Outlaw Josey Wales. Underrated and ahead of its time, that one.

I think you maybe meant that for @Dadam

 

[Vantage]

A Million Ways To Die In The West is a very accurate portrayal of just how harsh things were in ye olden days.
Quality stuff I kid you not.

 

[First Aspect]

I think you maybe meant that for @Dadam

Probably. Certainly makes no sense where it was.

 

[steveindenmark]

I still watch them on YouTube. They are my Sunday afternoon films