Epic Movies?

[lime]

I’m not talking about epic, as a story, I’m talking about a visual epic.

What movies have the epic proportions for you?

For me we have the obvious ones

Star Wars movies
Lord of the Rings movies

Also as epic, I can rank Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and Avatar.

 

[BattleCat]

Matrix trilogy

 

[DACrowe]

Lawrence of Arabia...won't ever be more epic than that.

Others include:

Gone with the Wind
Ben-Hur
Gladiator
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
Saving Private Ryan
Star Wars Trilogy
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Atonement
The Dark Knight
Inglourious Basterds
Inception
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Patton
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Shawshank Redemption
Gangs of New York

There are plenty more, but those were off the top of my head in no particular order. Mos 'em were excellent I also think.

 

[Eggyman]

Blade Runner.

 

[CGHulk]

There's CGI epic then there's they actually built those sets and got that many extras epic!

 

[bullets]

some others :

Schindler's List
Titanic
Avatar

 

[Doctor Jones]

Lawrence of Arabia...won't ever be more epic than that.

Others include:

Gone with the Wind
Ben-Hur
Gladiator
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
Saving Private Ryan
Star Wars Trilogy
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Atonement
The Dark Knight
Inglourious Basterds
Inception
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Patton
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Shawshank Redemption
Gangs of New York

There are plenty more, but those were off the top of my head in no particular order. Mos 'em were excellent I also think.

You forgot Bridge on the River Kwai.

When I think of epic, I think of Lord of the Rings personally.

 

[C. Lee]

Zulu Dawn

 

[dude stannis]

DA Crowe took most of my choices!

King King 2005 (Sadly I've yet to to see the 1933 edition)
Watchmen
Once Upon a Time in the West
Black Hawk Down

 

[Figs]

The Ten Commandments

 

[Incrediblejeff]

Kill Bill as a whole.

 

[Ponyboy]

Visually epic?

The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Lord of the Rings
Lawrence of Arabia
Star Wars (original 3)
Schindler's List
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Amelie
Back To The Future
Pan's Labyrinth
Blade Runner
LA Confidential
Ed Wood

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Towards the end of (Ran) theres abit were there is a stalemate about getting permission to go into another guys land. And backup, as well as another warlord shows up. You see them standing on the horizon line and it feels in scale like a bunch of nations shouting over mountains. It's actually more alone the lines of "hundreds" of guys than "thousands" but because of the way it's set up and shot, it feels much larger in scale. When the battle starts, one armies gets mowed down by guns, while the warlord sitting watching goes to take a castle while they are busy fighting. Not a single computer Playstation dude in sight

In (Kagemusha) after the "stand in" clan leader has been revealed and removed the new leader makes an ill advised attack against the rival clans and like "Ran" guns mow them down. It doesn't actually show you the battle, it shows you the men being sent to charge with the "double" for the dead leader reacting to the sound effects of machine-gun like fire spurting off. After all the charged are done it goes to a shot of the dead former clan leaders brothers then reveals a big pile of corpses and horses rolling around in them. Again, this was before everything became a Playstation game.

 

[ironwez20]

IMO avatar, let me in, lord of the rings, spiderman 2 , black swan, star wars.

 

[lime]

A lot of you didn’t get the meaning of the thread. I’m talking for epic as a scale. Movies with epic proportions. Movies as LOTR, Avatar, Star Wars.

 

[Vengeance]

King Kong
Superman Returns
2012
Troy
The Day After Tomorrow

 

[Rez]

.. Who exactly didn't get it? Did you just want to say "most expensive largest blockbusters of all time?" because nearly all of the films on here are huge- there's only a handful of films that could be argued to be smaller, and even they are a part of lists that contain gigantic films.


Anyway, for me the clear choice is Kingdom of Heaven DC... gorgeous, huge, iconic imagery that spans entire nations and cultures.

Although another favorite of mine that I haven't seen mentioned is Independance Day.

 

[:eek:]

The most epic movie of them all:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799949/

Okay, maybe not...

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

This scene from Ran is also epic.
The ground is covered in concrete to create a dust effect when the soldiers are running on the surface, and light is reflected on there Armour with a method Akira Kurosawa invented to exaggerate the color. The buildings aren't CGI or miniatures. The shot at the end walking out had to be done in one take.

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[Sgt.Pepper]

That's what I like about Ran is that, like you wrote, he filmed the epic-scale battle scenes without the use of CGI. Ran is one of Kurosawa's masterpieces along with Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Ikiru. Though I didn't rank them as Kurosawa's masterpiece, I would count both Throne of Blood and High and Low as among his best.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

Sorry, double post.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

I think some parts of CGI like the Helms Deep battle at night can look pretty good.
Other times like Return Of The King with Legalas jumping around the elephants I think looked like a bad video game. The new starwars movies in general looked like crap. For a lot of people I think CGI just isn't all that impressive anymore. Even Avatar, it kinda just becomes "meh" after a while. The end fight seemed actually pretty boring by the point I got to it.

 

[Darkness Falls]

Thor

 

[Lord]

And this wasn't put here yet why?
Here's the definition of visual epic ( it may not contain good drama)
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[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

You could have Jesus pooping gold and Shia LaBoeuf would ruin it.