Thats cool.
I didn't need the chart to know that what used to be westerns are now action/thriller/crime movies but it confirms what I always thought.

When we've had westerns made in my lifetime, say starting with The Outlaw Josey Wales in 1976, they've tended to be good to great movies. The Long Riders, Tom Horn, Pale Rider, Silverado, Lonesome Dove (miniseries but including it here anyway), Dances With Wolves, Unforgiven, Open Range, True Grit (remake), 3:10 to Yuma (remake) ... those are the ones I could come up with off the top of my head. I suppose one could count the Young Guns flicks and A Million Ways to Die in the West (one of the funniest movies I've seen in recent years).

But look at some other genres, and we see some definite western themes showing up.

Outland - science fiction movie with Sean Connery set on some Jupiter moon that was literally High Noon
Assault on Precint 13 - one could argue this is kind of like an Alamo or Fort Apache type movie

And The Mandalorian has felt like a western in space

cowboy movies were about outlaws, good vs evil, etc. That was the most popular delivery method for these plots/stories in the 50s and 60s. Then in the 70s came a movie called the godfather and suddenly the mob/mafia/organized crime became the modern setting for the stories that used to take place in the "old west". Then in the 80s came action flicks and buddy cop type movies as the vehicle for the plot type where the "ordinary man faces struggle against big powerful evil guy". They're all still good vs evil, and focus on one or two protagonists righting a wrong. The current MCU/comic book/super hero movies tell the same stories. None of this is original, but fortunately each era has had fun, new takes on these exact same human storylines.

Exactly. And predating the American Westerns thematically were the Japanese samurai flicks.

The crime, crime scene, detective, police, and whodunnit genre is, to me, the most bland, uninspiring, unoriginal, and most boring right now. It's all been done and it's all tiring.

What's the differentiator between thriller and horror? Those are one in the same to me.

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What's the differentiator between thriller and horror? Those are one in the same to me.

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To me a movie like knives out or maybe even parasite is a thriller, but a slasher movie would be horror. I generally enjoy thrillers and avoid horror, but agree that there can be a lot of mix btwn the two.
Or, specifically with Jordan Peele movies, I'd have "get out" as thriller and "us" as horror.

I'd argue the superhero movies are essentially westerns. White hat and black hat.

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What's the differentiator between thriller and horror? Those are one in the same to me.

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I'd say suspense (thriller) vs. scare (horror).

Did fantasy actually exist prior to something like the wizard of oz and when Tolkien/CS Lewis wrote their books. Seems like fantasy has been largely dead on the big screen until the HP/LOTR renaissance.

Only fantasy movies I remember watching growing up were Oz and Willow.

Conan, Sinbad, Clash of the Titans, Krull, Deathstalker, Ladyhawke. Excalibur. Beastmaster

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What's the differentiator between thriller and horror? Those are one in the same to me.

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generally i'd say

thriller = mystery, chase, crime, can be supernatural but usually just the psychological type
horror = some inevitable doom that must be stopped, usually involves supernatural, demonic or animal gone wild

both can involve gruesome elements

thriller = The Fugitive, Seven, Silence of the Lambs, Sixth Sense
horror = Halloween, Dracula, Frankenstein, Get Out, Cujo