Movie industry bombarding us with historic epics

[sprucemoose3311]

Which historic movie is worth watching when/if they make it to the big screen

[The Andy-Man]

non is worth the bother, i and i personally object violently to hollywood getting its filthy mits on stuff like the illiad, and even worse, the people starring in them!!

Stanley Kubrick's Homeric Illiad - WOuld love to see that

Fritz Lang's Oddessey - would kick arse

and i am sure orson wells would kick arse with alexander.

anyone alive coulndn't doit, exceptions would be european unkowns

[monolith94]

The Last Samurai

[Proteus_MST]

The one which gets the best Critics probably.

Aside from that I agree with Monolith.
I rather like Samurai epics, like the works from Akira Kurosawa and would see it in the Cinema, if it is able to recreate the atmosphere, which Kurosawa was able to create (thinking of Ran, Kagemusha or Heaven and Earth [the latter one isn´t from Kurosawa, but it is somehow comes near to the films Kurosawa made [although Kurosawas Films were usually more depressing and he was better in showing the Viewer, that the Battlefields where places of great Slaughter]])

[Ned]

wow, that's quite a list of epic pictures. I can't wait.

I think that both Hannibal and the Russel Crowe vehical will do quite well.

Why didn't you list the new Mel Gibson story of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ?

[monolith94]

And don't forget that Master & Commander is coming out as well, a naval historical epic. You have to add both that and the Last Samurai to the list bringing the total to... 6, not counting Gladiator 2 which I don't think will come out, and Hannibal which I doubt the existence of. That's ALOT.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I think AoG with Colin Farrel will be pretty good. Wonder how the Alex with Leo will do. You can bet that both, coming out in such proximity to each other, will NEVER escape being compared to the 'other Alexander'.

[DanS]

FYI, the AoG with Colin Farrel is being directed by Oliver Stone. The AoG with DeCaprio is being directed by Baz Luhrmann.

DeCaprio is an excellent actor, although there have been a lot of movies that he has been in that I haven't liked. I think that will have wider appeal, although it is being done later, IIRC. Apparently, both are going to feature the homosexual angle prominently.

[Al B. Sure!]

looks like we got a new generation of Charlton Hestons...

[The Mad Monk]

The Mel Gibson produced movie is said to be magnificent.

[monkspider]

Leo DiCaprio as Alexander will be great (pardon the pun), as will the Mel Gibson movie, and Hannibal sounds intruiging.

[Al B. Sure!]

what the hell is AoG?

and what is this nonsense about alexander being gay? he had several wives and had a son! i know the greeks were kind of homosexual in general but should that really warrant mentioning it in the movie and making alexander seem truly gay, as if different than most greeks? in other words, it would be a dis-service to history if people thought alexander was truly homosexual rather than the greek-style bisexuality.

[sprucemoose3311]

yaa,

I should have added the Jesus movie with mel gibson. It is highly controversial yet very few people have seen it. I will probably watch it out of curiosity.

I want to see a movie about THOR, I hear his son is somewhere around here.

[st_swithin]

"Lone Wolf and Cub," by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.

[Dis]

the Jews are protesting the Mel Gibson movie because it paints the jews in a bad light.

But they were responsible for Jesus being killed weren't they? Or were they just indirectly responsible?

I don't know **** about religion.