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EtherealBandit

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Was looking to get some ideas of movies to buy/rent. I tend to like epic movies that are not "cheesy".

Some Movies i like in this genre would be:

Lord of the rings
Star wars
Matrix
Dune


I guess most epics are sci-fi/fantasy.... anyway, if you know of any obscure gems give me a heads up :>
 
Saving Private Ryan, though that may be stretching it.

Ghandi

Gladiator (?)

Alien trilogy--for your own good, don't count the fourth one. Really.
 
heh^

i was also going to suggest the charloton heston route with ones such as the ten commandments, ben hur and the like
also the odessey, the upcoming (05) beowulf
the movie just out, perhaps, the day after tommorow
 
Does Clash of the Titans count?

Haha Police Academy has nothing on Ski School 2. :D
 
Main Entry: epic
Function: noun
1 : a long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero <the Iliad and the Odyssey are epics>
2 : a work of art (as a novel or drama) that resembles or suggests an epic
3 : a series of events or body of legend or tradition thought to form the proper subject of an epic <the winning of the West was a great American epic>

i dont think godfather castawat or shawshank constitute epics.
 
no, seriously. I think you're conflating "movies that are 'big'" with a preexisting terminology.

The Godfather saga (heh, theres another word with preexisting meanings) on secodn though, might fit the bill for another greek archetype. Its like a family myth, like the house of Atriedes (Agamemnon, Atrius, Orestes, Epheginia)
 
Okay point taken. However I often describe films I love as epic & granted while it might not be in the literal form the one has taken on its own descriptive meaning. Especially in movie reviews.....Perhaps the word is taken too light..........but whatever I'm high %)
 
These days, definitions hardly matter, with the fast-and-loose way people use language, especially online. Yes, this is a postmodernist view.

That said, I almost put 2001, but didn't because it seems like more of a series of symbolic tableaus than a true epic--oh, and also because of the definition. I contradict myself. Sue me.

Mad props for bringing the movie up, though. :)
 
Originally posted by atlas
no, seriously. I think you're conflating "movies that are 'big'" with a preexisting terminology.


atlas is right; a film that can be called "epic" is not necessarily an epic - an epic is generally a large-scale film within an overt historical context.
 
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