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Why do people talk like Westerns used to be the most dominant genre in cinema? (zerobytes.monster)
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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/DarlingLuna on 2023-08-28 10:26:17+00:00.

I always hear people, my father included, say that "superheroes are the biggest thing in Hollywood right now, just like the Western genre. Just like the Western genre, it will die out." This doesn't make any sense to me. Scrolling through the top 150 highest grossing movies worldwide, I don't see a single Western movie. How about the highest grossing movies of all time domestically? Looking through this list, I don't see a single Western. Sure, there have been some iconic Westerns, such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, but a few iconic Westerns doesn't mean the genre ever dominated cinema in the same way superhero movies dominated. Where does this notion come from?

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