Favorite Epic films

[GePap]

So, why not have a thread about Epics?

Now, I leave it to people to make thier own judgement about what is Epic and what isn't. Also, any genre of film is available.

I really like The Last Emperor: the acting is good, it is geenrally accurate, and in general able to very efefctively and movingly tell the story of this one man and all the changes he lived through and on the way telling the sory of the first 60 years of China's 20th century hisotry.

[KrazyHorse]

Spartacus was pretty decent, even though Kubrick basically disowned it...

[Dinner]

Gone with the wind defines epic and it's even well written with first rate acting talent.

[Berzerker]

Patton, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, Lawrence of Arabia...

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Gone with the wind defines epic and it's even well written with first rate acting talent.

Oerdin, first time I totally agree with your opinion

Another epic that I find fascinating in spite of it's message is also about the "galant" South, Birth Of A Nation.

[Buck Birdseed]

All my favourite really long films (Barry Lyndon, Vertigo, Tarkovsky's Solaris) are not distinctly epic in nature. I'm having a hard time thinking of a massive-scale, well-arched film I really like, which is curious since I'm quite focused on artistic vision, set design, cinematography, etc. that should all work equally well in an epic setting.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Let's not forget the gangster epic: The Godfather Part II and Once upon a Time in America

[Ramo]

Kurosawa's Ran

[Sikander]

"The Man Who Would be King" is one of my faves.

[JohnT]

Bridge over the River Kwai

[alva]

" De witte van Zichem"
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"The great escape"

[Al B. Sure!]

JohnT:

is bridge over the river Kwai the one about the British pow's who the Japanese force to build a bridge? and the British commander oddly wants to build it perfectly instead of sabotaging it


thanks

[alva]

That's the one...

* starts whistleling(sp?)...*

[alva]

and the British commander oddly wants to build it perfectly instead of sabotaging it

What is interesting, is that he wanted to talk about what really happened in there, but he did leave tapes about it (interview) behind, when he died. (Needless to say, that his version is slightly different than that the movie told.. )

[Wraith]

Well, I have to make the obligatory anime nomination, and I'll bring up Jin-Roh. No idea what everyone else is defining as epic, but I think it fits.

Wraith
"Why?"
Fuse -- ("Jin-Roh")