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It's surprise success (it made $60m in 1969, worth around $250m+ these days) along with that of other late 60s films such as Bonnie & Clyde broke Hollywood out of its musicals-and-epics era, and into the era that brought us a whole new raft of young directors who spent the decade indulging their personal visions and popping out classic after classic from The Godfathers and Chinatown through Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter, the first true blockbusters like Jaws and Star Wars, and the last gasps of Apocalypse Now and Raging Bull, by which time the blockbuster action movie was on it's way to becoming king.

[QUOTE="Harbinger, post: 2106141, member: 65089"] It's surprise success (it made $60m in 1969, worth around $250m+ these days) along with that of other late 60s films such as Bonnie & Clyde broke Hollywood out of its musicals-and-epics era, and into the era that brought us a whole new raft of young directors who spent the decade indulging their personal visions and popping out classic after classic from The Godfathers and Chinatown through Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter, the first true blockbusters like Jaws and Star Wars, and the last gasps of Apocalypse Now and Raging Bull, by which time the blockbuster action movie was on it's way to becoming king. [/QUOTE]

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