I really like the feel of Gladiator and Braveheart and they're entertaining to watch. What else ranks highly as those tw
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Protozoid — 10 years ago(July 22, 2015 02:16 PM)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut, preferably)
The Last of the Mohicans
Alexander (great production value and quite entertaining for the hammy acting)
Michael Kohlhaas (known in the U.S. by the silly title Age of Uprising) is an excellent period film in the same vein as Roy Roy and Braveheart, albeit smaller in scale.
There are also lots of great classic period action films (The Duellists [1977]) and foreign ones of all ages (from Seven Samurai [1954] to 13 Assassins [2013]). -
Adler-99 — 10 years ago(January 12, 2016 05:32 PM)
I don't think it's helpful to discuss which suggested movies are good or bad The OP asked for epic films, and our tastes will differ.
So I'd agree on
Ben-Hur
, for the sea battle and chariot race scenes, if nothing else.
Also, you might enjoy some foreign films such as Kurosawa's
Ran
(a retelling of King Lear) and
Jodhaa Akbar
from India.
The War of the Arrows
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ronniehrubin — 9 years ago(November 04, 2016 01:43 PM)
It's evident I'm in the minority here and maybe I need to re-watch Gladiator again. But I've tried watching it on 2 different occasions and both times I'm unable to see what everyone else saw in this movie. In my opinion, it was not the best movie of the year it was released. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was much better. Crowe was certainly not the best actor that year (or any year for that matter). When will the movie industry, in my opinion, realize this man cannot act?? I guess the academy just didn't want Hanks to win for Cast Away, for whatever reason.
