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[radioheadrule83]

Good that Gladiator is 100% accurate.

But in all seriousness interesting stuff, thanks for posting!

hah good point. There are many liberties taken with the real historical figures who appear in Gladiator too, but those individuals lived in AD 180 and the decades surrounding it - we only know so much, so there is no mistaking it is fantasy / fictional legend. The period of history in which Braveheart is supposedly set is a far more recent time - it has a storied and well-recorded history, which the film deliberately ignores.

It's hard for me to consider epic when I know it does so much wrong.

 

[AngmarsKing701]

LOTR

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[sflufan]

hah good point. There are many liberties taken with the real historical figures who appear in Gladiator too, but those individuals lived in AD 180 and the decades surrounding it - we only know so much, so there is no mistaking it is fantasy / fictional legend. The period of history in which Braveheart is supposedly set is a far more recent time - it has a storied and well-recorded history, which the film deliberately ignores.

Yeah, but we're pretty damned sure that the Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus wasn't killed in the Colosseum by a gladiator

 

[balddemon]

Mulan is a pretty good choice. Lion King as well.

 

[strafer]

So good.

 

[Ricky_R]

Among the ones I consider epic, I shall post one that hasn't been mentioned yet.

 

[Llyranor]

Without a doubt, Seven Samurai. Not a dull minute in the entire film.

Oh yeah. my favorite film.

 

[Pollux]

Without a doubt...Kingdom of Heaven:

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Avatar easily wins the most epic sci-fi in terms of scale.

 

[Sayer]

Came in expecting gone with the wind. Left disappointed!

 

[jett]

Here's another war epic

 

[Discotheque]

New World might be my favorite Malick film but I don't see how it is more epic than Thin Red Line.

Anyways LOTR for me. Particularly ROTK sense of scale was immense

 

[Enosh]

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

New World might be my favorite Malick film but I don't see how it is more epic than Thin Red Line.

Anyways LOTR for me. Particularly ROTK sense of scale was immense

The first time Gandalf and Pippen scale Minas Tirith made me say goddamn.

 

[Fritz]

This needs mention:

Its kind of shocking this movie is more than 80 years old.

His Nibelungen is prety epic too, alas not as watchable as Metropolis

 

[JB1981]

2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

Thank you.

You're welcome. I was alive to witness it. Nothing like it will happen again.

 

[SunhiLegend]

Suprised no one mentioned Spartacus.

 

[Edmond Dantès]

Suprised no one mentioned Spartacus.

Hasn't aged well at all and was never really in the same league as Ben-Hur.

 

[1138]

The first time Gandalf and Pippen scale Minas Tirith made me say goddamn.

The LOTR films have so many amazing moments like that. So many of the structures are beyond what I could have imagined myself, the scale and detail are outstanding. Due to the EE documentaries I now know that Alan Lee and John Howe are responsible for a vital aspect of what makes this series unique. I am really glad they are also a part of the Hobbit team.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Suprised no one mentioned Spartacus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STnKPNGrlK8&list=FLiEVOrtAUtyLFvEuZr2Yr-g&index=12&feature=plpp_video

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

Suprised no one mentioned Spartacus.

Do you think Kirk Douglas is uncut?

 

[Edmond Dantès]

The LOTR films have so many amazing moments like that. So many of the structures are beyond what I could have imagined myself, the scale and detail are outstanding. Due to the EE documentaries I now know that Alan Lee and John Howe are responsible for a vital aspect of what makes this series unique. I am really glad they are also a part of the Hobbit team.

Mustn't forget Ted Nasmith, who Peter and co owe a lot thanks to.

http://tednasmith.narod.ru/

A lot of the scenes in the trilogy are exact duplicates of his work.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

Do you think Kirk Douglas is uncut?

his chin is for sure.

 

[Wilbur]

My real answer

 

[jett]

Suprised no one mentioned Spartacus.

It has aged really badly.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

I mostly agree with what has been already posted, I just wanted to add that you can have Epic without open spaces. Like in Das Boot.

 

[Munin]

What's this? Can't stand when people don't post film titles, it's fucking condescending

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

It has aged really badly.

 

[jett]

 

[wolfmat]

What's this? Can't stand when people don't post film titles, it's fucking condescending

LOTR

 

[brianjones]

flat tops in ancient rome?

sculli's got his head up his ass

 

[Edmond Dantès]

What's this? Can't stand when people don't post film titles, it's fucking condescending

Fellowship of the Ring.

Argonath scene.

 

[Edmond Dantès]

I mostly agree with what has been already posted, I just wanted to add that you can have Epic without open spaces. Like in Das Boot.

Good end theme too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hez5JisYLQ

 

[MedHead]

LOTR

Now that's terrible--answering a request for more information with an acronym. Wolfmat means "The Lord of the Rings".

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

This is the most epic trailer ever released for a film. The producers didn't have the balls to go with rock music for it, I guess. The marketing wouldn't have been such a colossal failure had they used this outside the film festivals; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfq9U2tWWGo&feature=related


The DC is mesmerizing. How can there only be one good movie about the crusades? And this was just about *one* crusade. I mean all the shit that happened afterwards.. jeez.

 

[wolfmat]

Now that's terrible--answering a request for more information with an acronym. Wolfmat means "The Lord of the Rings".

I almost typed LOTRO, too. Not sure why.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

What's this? Can't stand when people don't post film titles, it's fucking condescending

It's Fellowship of the Ring. At the part were they leave the Elves and sail along a river through some ancient human monuments.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Now that's terrible--answering a request for more information with an acronym. Wolfmat means "The Lord of the Rings".

Come on, bro. At least tell him which of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies it is.

It is The Fellowship of the Ring.

 

[Stinkles]

Dune.

 

[wolfmat]

Dune.

Bullshit movie. HATE IT

 

[jett]

This is the most epic trailer ever released for a film. The producers didn't have the balls to go with rock music for it, I guess. The marketing wouldn't have been such a colossal failure had they used this outside the film festivals; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfq9U2tWWGo&feature=related


The DC is mesmerizing. How can there only be one good movie about the crusades? And this was just about *one* crusade. I mean all the shit that happened afterwards.. jeez.

The trailers for the theatrical release all had rock music and painted KoH as an action movie. They were bad. Can't say I like the music choice in the trailer you posted, to be honest.

Besides, the theatrical cut is no good anyway.

 

[Enron]

So good.

If by good you mean zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz then yes, good.

Somehow Malick found a way to make a war film BORING.

 

[Megadragon15]

Red Cliff.

 

[Zebra]

All of these

Spoiler

correct

Lawrence of the Arabia posts are getting me more excited for the theatrical rerelease. Have we gotten a date on that yet?

 

[Lulubop]

Space Jam, I don't the stakes have ever been higher.

 

[JoeBoy101]

Great suggestions in here, though this doesn't get enough love:

Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber George 'Babyface' Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find."

Probably not epic of all time, but largely missed when talking about epic films.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Avatar easily wins the most epic sci-fi in terms of scale.

How so? While certainly big, I'm not sure how it wins easily.

 

[jett]

Space Jam, I don't the stakes have ever been higher.

This thread needs more DMczaf.

 

[Edmond Dantès]

A recent contender into the pantheon of epics.

Trailer


Films dealing with the Fall of Constantinople are very rare and it's refreshing to see this period of history depicted for once.