Just finished watching Lawrence of Arabia for the first time (yes I'm a !zoomers). Absolute kino, modern film, especially modern British film, can't hold a candle to it. I've already seen Ben-Hur, thinking I might watch Zulu next. Any other Epic recommendations?
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You've gotta watch The Seven Samurai. It's truly an amazing film with epic proportion.
Since Ridley Scott had such a let down may I offer you Able Gance's Napoleon it is a silent film and it may be hard to find (it was considered a lost film for a long, long time) but it's a telling of Napoleon's beginnings that is really good. It also pioneered a lot of unconventional film techniques like putting the camera on a pendulum and swinging it through the battle, or using three screens in some sections.
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I literally have white hair and this guy started sucking before I was born. His brother was so much better. Deal with it. Crimson Tide is better than Alien.
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Gone with the Wind
Lawrence of Arabia is one of my favorite movies, even though I only watched it fully twice.
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Last of the Mohicans
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This is Cinerama.
More seriously, I haven't seen many epics so can't make personal recommendations, but things like Spartacus and The Ten Commandments come to mind, then things like Doctor Zhivago and Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra, whose quality is, let's say 'up for debate'. They're certainly a spectacle. Then there's things like Caligula and any version of Quo Vadis?, which from what I've heard would be more warnings instead.
But ones I've heard are good include Ran, which is Japanese King Lear from the 80s, and the 8 hour Russian version of War and Peace, though if you want to puss out there's a 3 1/2 hour version from the 50s as well.
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If you can hang with black and white, North by Northwest.
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Sounds interesting, b&w is fine with me.
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Watch another historically accurate film regarding Brits vs Browns like RRR
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The Baahubali movies are also great Indian kino.
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Watched Waterloo yesterday, very much in the same spirit though I did like it way less than Lawrence of Arabia or Zulu.
The actual battle looked really nice though. It almost made me feel bad for the fr*nch near the end
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Have you seen 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Stanley Kubrick isn't even my favorite director or anything but he doesn't have that many feature films. You can get through them over Christmas break easy enough.
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No, but I did really like Dr. Strangelove.
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2001 is awesome, super slow burn but it's all practical effects on film so it holds up amazingly.
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Barry Lyndon is good if you're watching Kubrick stuff.
It's free on youtube.
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If you like westerns, check out the Dollars Trilogy. The soundtracks alone are worth it.
The Bridge Over River Kwai, The Great Escape, Apocalypse Now, Patton are also great classic epics.
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Seen all 3 of the Dollars trilogy, but the other 3 sound kino.
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Edited in Apocalypse Now, too. It's a must watch for slow burn drama fans.
There are 3 cuts, I personally prefer the original theatrical cut. But there's also redux and final cut if you're interested.
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I haven't watched it yet but the clips I've seen of Waterloo look really cool. You should check out The Good, The Bad and The Ugly if you haven't already, as well as the other two movies in the dollars trilogy.
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I've seen the full trilogy!
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Nice. They're all classics, even if Fistful of Dollars is just a ripoff of a Kurosawa film. In their place I guess I'd recommend some of David Lean's other films since you liked Lawrence. Doctor Zhivago and Bridge on the River Kwai are worth watching.
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