Why so little interest/nostalgia in the Hippie era?

I was a 90s kid, and that was really the 60s/70s, hippie revival.

There are a lot of movies about the Hippie era. Just google "movies about the Hippie era".

I think the subject actually got quite covered during that time and into the 70s. Recall they made movies out of the concerts at Monterrey, Altamont and Woodstock so there was lots of coverage of the lifestyle and music from those alone. You can add musicals like " Hair' ,"Jesus Christ Superstar" and ' Godpsell' to that list too which were huge at the time.

' Easy Rider' was probably the largest chronicle of the hippie era IMO and became kind of their counter culture hit and anthem. The idea you could do what you want and live off the land albeit for the stars through criminal enterprise. That also produced a spate of motorcycle gang and other counter culture type movies. " The Trip', "Head' ."Psych Out', Hells angels on Wheels' , 'CC Rider ' etc. " or drug related themes like " Go ask Alice' . 'More American Graffiti" covered a lot of the culture as to some extend did " The Graduate' - the college scenes.

Then there was "Helter Skelter' which was shocking and massive in the mid 70s and there were a host other films and documentaries that covered the Manson Family.

Many Vietnam movies related more to the effects of the war on society featured hippie type characters like "Coming Home', "Born on the 4th of July"

Much of the long hair was a protest to the war so when it ended so did a lot of the anti war hippie type movements and following in culture.

It isn't like the hippies really accomplished much else aside from their protests during that period that was story worthy. They all eventually came to realize they couldn't live in some alternate idealist fantasy society and had to get jobs to support themselves or even their families and accept the realities of life.

Add to that all the Vietnam movies and really overall the 60s coverage in film became almost tiresome by the end of the 80s.

The hippies and ultra liberals overrated their popularity. The first shock was the re-election of President Nixon. In 1976 they may have gotten Carter elected but in 1980 the American public overwhelmingly backed Reagan for two terms with even the alleged liberal bastion of Massachusetts jumping on the right wing bandwagon, leaving the liberal demigods of yesteryear in a state of shock.

I was a teenager in "the hippie era" and my first-hand impression is that hippies were a bunch of lazy, self-righteous, self-absorbed, entitled, filthy, parasitical stoners with nothing interesting to add to culture. Pretty much nobody at that time liked them; they were regarded as a nuisance. Take away the murder, and the depiction of the hippie colony in the movie was pretty accurate. You wouldn't want those losers squatting in your neighborhood.