Which films are EPIC to you personally? (1 Viewer)

[John Kilduff]

-"The Doors"

-"Scarface"

-"New Jack City"

-"Back To The Future"

-"Terminator" and "Terminator 2"

-"Tommy"

Sincerely,

John "Sure plays a mean pinball" Kilduff

 

[Carl Johnson]

Heat, Scarface, American History X and Menace II Sociey are the only titles in my collection that I would call epic.

 

[Steve_Ch]

I've gone through all the posts on this thread so far (twice), and tell me I am blind, but not ONE person mention Gone with the Wind ???

Bernado Bertolucci's 1900 and Last Emperor.

Paul Verhoeven's Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange).

Hiroshi Inagaki's Chushingura (1962).

 

[Tiffany A]

In addition to the above excellent choices:
War and Peace (1956)
The Brother Karamazov (1958)
Nicholas and Alexandra
Dr Zhivago
The Postman
Once Upon a Time in America
The Robe
Ryan's Daughter
How the West Was Won
The Right Stuff
I could go on, but it is someone else's turn to add to the list!

 

[Steve_Ch]

I think in one of the earlier posts, somebody mentioned there's only ONE: Ben Hur, well there are two of them (Heston was a remake of the silent version), and I think they are both of EPIC proportion.
And a few more (ought to be popular) choices:
Doctor Zhivago
Passage to India
Gandhi
Fall of the Roman Empire
Wings (1927, first ever Best Picture Oscar)
Patton
and a real personal choice: Brazil.

 

[Brad_W]

", So I am wrong IT IS indeed Epic to you

Now how can you dis someone for their personal epics after you list Armageddon as one of yours?

 

[Geno]

tIFFANY - i TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT "THE RIGHT STUFF" I SAW THAT IN THE THEATER WHEN I WAS 6 OR SEVEN YEARS OLD. DEFINATELY EPIC!!!!

 

[Dalton]

Alot of the films already mentioned are on my list but i would like to add:
Excalibur
Lord of the Rings (I know it's not out yet but i have a good feeling about this one)

 

[Steve_Ch]

The fun thing about a list like this is I bet most of us will see something that we say, "How could I have forgotten that??". War and Peace is one of those for me .

 

[Rob Tomlin]

Lawrence of Arabia. (one of the best movies ever made)

Ben-Hur

The Bridge on The River Kwai

The Godfather Part 2

Once Upon A Time In America

Amadeus

Dr. Zhivago

Dances With Wolves

 

[Patrick McCart]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Actually, both Ben-Hur's (I wouldn't call the 1907 version an epic), any David Lean films after Kwai, Abel Gance's Napoleon, and Citizen Kane.
My term of epic is that the film's visuals, acting, and sound use is used to perfection (well, the sound part can't go for silents except for many of the excellent scores.) and the movie is fun to watch.
When I see Lawrence of Arabia (Which IMO is a perfect film.), I am totally taken in by the visuals, the great acting, and timing. The thing that makes an epic is the overwhelming and presentation.
I pick Kane mainly because it STILL has a daring visual look (A breath of relief after seeing generic cinematography in recent films) and great acting.
Films like CK and LoA pushed the limits of cinema that still haven't been pushed up farther...even films like Titanic and Pearl Harbor.

 

[ScottR]

Gone With The Wind

The Ten Commandments

Spartacus

Cleopatra

Lawrence of Arabia

The Godfather

Roots

Dances With Wolves

Schindler's List

Star Wars

Braveheart

Giant

Glory

Jesus of Nazareth

 

[Jon_B]

Dances With Wolves

Braveheart

Glory

 

[Sean Conklin]

Larry and Geno, I'm sorry I retract my statement, my thread clearly states "personally", So I am wrong IT IS indeed Epic to you. And thats all that matters!

I apologized, and admitted I was wrong!

 

[Steve_Ch]

>>Abel Gance's Napoleon

 

[MikeH1]

The Last of The Mohicans.

 

[David Lambert]

"Epics" should be defined, to me (not to mention the dictionary) as "really really big". "Sweeping".
Full of big stories, big casts, big places, and big ideas. Preferably more two or more of those.
Although sometimes a film can overcome that limit and become "epic" in it's own right. The Time Machine, for example, is a story about one man; hardly epic. But his journey and the concepts transcend the limit and turn this classic into an "epic". To me, at least. The Black Hole is another one like that (don't laugh).
On the other hand, Cocoon is more of an intimate film in many ways, and doesn't break through to epic status for me.
I'm frankly shocked that Star Wars doesn't seem to be mentioned yet, but maybe I missed it. Here are some others I'll elevate, trying hard to skip ones already named:

• Apollo 13
  Becket
  The Black Hole
  Bonnie and Clyde
  Braveheart
  Camelot
  Casablanca
  Chariots of Fire
  Citizen Kane
  Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
  Dante's Peak
  The Day the Earth Caught Fire
  From Here to Eternity
  Glory!
  In Harm's Way
  Jurassic Park
  Land of the Pharoahs
  Logan's Run
  Midway
  Planet of the Apes (1968)
  Rocky
  Saving Private Ryan
  Somewhere in Time
  The Time Machine
  Tora! Tora! Tora!
  Twister
  War of the Worlds
  When Worlds Collide

Feel free to debate amongst yourselves...

 

[Patrick McCart]

Napoleon has been on VHS for a long time via Universal.

Amazon.com has it (unless its OOP) and it's pretty good.

Stereo surround audio and the 3-panel finale is letterboxed (although cropped and compressed)

 

[Steve_Ch]

>>I'm frankly shocked that Star Wars doesn't seem to be mentioned yet,

 

[DanaA]

Lawrence of Arabia and Ben Hur.