Epic film recommendations please…

Love Exposure

Also, more recently Lincoln and Ali

Love Exposure +1
Amazing film

Red Cliff is superb!

heat
once were warriors
dead mans shoes

Lincoln I liked , bar that irritant sally field ruined it for me

There will be blood.

Django Unchained.

fin.

Once Upon a Time in America

unforgiven
heat
jean de flourette / manon des sources
once upon a time in the west
the good the bad and the ugly
das boot
gangs of new york
where the trail ends

Great call on the good the bad and the ugly, but have to disagree with you on there will be blood. Good god, I nearly wept with joy when it finished. Nearly as bad as AI!

The Good The Bad & The Ugly is a definite

There Will be Blood is good but not as good as No Country for Old Men!

the problem with Once Upon Time in The West is that the opening scene is soooo brilliant the rest of the film isnt quite as good

Zulu (man against man)

Jaws (man against animal – or fish if you prefer)

Take Shelter (man against himself)

You could add “One Flew Over….” to the latter.

Sorry, maybe too much port, and ownership of Fatty to boot.

Aguirre, Wrath of God is hugely epic. My favourite Herzog film. Fitzcarraldo too.

Once Upon A Time In The West and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly for Westerns.

Foreign language film but well worth persevering with
the subtitles; Life is Beautiful is the happiest sad film you will ever see

I’d add The Longest Day to that list, not as gritty as some of the others but a damn fine movie with a who’s who of the best actors around in 1962

Come on – no-one mentioned “Heaven’s Gate”?

Panned at the time just because it cost so much, but it is brilliant.
Kris Kristopherson is a wonderful actor.
Also Walken, Dourif, Bridges, Huppert – can’t go wrong.

I just watched No Country for Old Men again, a modern epic ?

lol @ The Last Samurai! :p

akira

Did you see it’s just been reissued on a bluray with subtitles, both English dubs and remastered video?

Hero
Inglorious Basterds
Downfall

but if you haven’s seen Lawrence of Arabia watch that instead, it really is “epic”

I would define ‘epic’ as stunning photography, awe inspiring vistas and shed loads of extras. Looks like that ‘Red Cliff’ has those in spades, I’m gonna track it down…

Ghandi

Wild Bunch

El Cid

Ben Hur

Von Ryans Express

1941

A lot of great films mentioned here, most of them I wouldn’t class as “epics” though. I agree with shermer’s definition above, plus I would say the story has to span many years and a 2.5 hour+ runtime doesn’t hurt!

Definitely the best I’ve seen has been Once Upon A Time in America. It’s pretty long already but the blu-ray cut is over 4 hours!

1941? The Spielberg comedy that was so bad it’s been effectively buried for the last 34 years?!

Aye it dreadful but it is big 😆

Badlands has epic vistas, great film, little short on extras.

Anyone mentioned this one?

Troy wasn’t that bad either.

Dances with Wolves (1990) (definitely an epic)

Open Range (2003) (epic cinematography)

Epic Movie (2007) (definitely not!!)

For other ideas see Best “Epic” Movies http://www.imdb.com/keyword/epic/?title_type=feature

Dances with Wolves, forgot about that! Excellent film, really enjoyed it despite not usually rating Costner.

Apocalypto

Superb! If that’s not epic, I don’t know what is

‘The English Patient’ is pretty good. Good story, well cast, great acting from even the supporting cast, beautifully cinematography and equally well edited (it’s easy to be heavy handed with stories that cross multiple “time” periods) and heart wrenchingly sad in places.

Also, ‘The Third Man’ an old film that stands up remarkably well to modern scrutiny, not necessarily “epic” in scope, but the atmosphere and setting in post war Vienna, combined with radical for the time camera work means it’s unforgettable.

Watched Prometheus recently. Not a massive Sci-Fi fan, but thought it was awesome. Sucked in from start to finish. Ridley Scott does it best.

Just thought of another couple – Last of the Mohicans and The Killing Fields

Bit of a number theme.
300 or Seven.

Christmas is coming so….

The Great Escape
Die Hard 1-3
Home Alone?
Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Epic or what? Well maybe not but enjoyable.

The Duellists
Zulu
Last of the Mohicans
The Longest Day
Dunkirk
Waterloo
Northwest Passage

Leon
The Warriors
Akira
The Blues Brothers

The Talented Mr Ripley
Raging Bull
JFK
The Last Emperor
The Matrix
Jason and the Argonauts

Das Boot!

Johan! …..

Alarm!,,

Zerstörer

Oh and …

Finding Nemo 🙂