Category talk:Epic films

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The list of epic movies is pathetic, missing many greats from this category and have such movies as, Marie Antoinet!!, the last legion, spartacus (2004) movie, 300 (good movie but not a epic, alomost an anti epic), chronicles of narnia, I mean common all those movies are b grade movie with b grade budgets and actors, a epic is a big budget, huge amount of cast and actuall good (not neccassarily great but good)..... non of these fit this description at all or are evn close.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epic_films

I would editted it myself but I have no idea how to

The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy is definetly not epic. The Last Samurai and the Lord of the Rings trilogy needs to be added as well.

At World's End is definitely an epic. Black Pearl and Dead Man's chest are debatable —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.190.225.72 (talk) 23:52, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

While I don't naturally agree with your opinion I have to agree that a definition what exactly makes a film epic would be benificial. I added Fanny & Alexander to this category - it's an opulent, long-running film which spans a time frame of serveral centuries. 83.221.78.9 10:09, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Pitch Black is an epic? I don't think so. Where is The Godfather ( at least Parts I and II )? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by HannahBana (talk • contribs) 23:52, August 20, 2007 (UTC).

A Knight's Tale? There is no possible way to justify calling that an epic. I am removing it. Kilrae (talk) 18:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

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In my opinion an Epic meets the following criterion:

• A grand vision must be presented, usually of a time and place, mythology, or idea
• The plot is broad, usually with many sub-plots interwoven
• The plot is event rather than character driven

The word Epic is sometimes used to describe things that are large, expensive, or breathtaking. However, I do not think that is what the aim of this list is about; there are other lists for those things. Pog (talk) 16:38, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion for improvement

Not very useful in its present form, except for following the links to the explanatory pages.

Maybe it would be better to give each movie one line in a table, so that some basic information could be included, e g year and country (these 2 facts reveal if it's b/w, silent, bollywood, and more) and if it's biblical. You may then just as well include war and stardust epics oin this table, and just note "war" and "stardust". This would also help moderately educated persons like me to identify what is "real" epics (i e movies which 95% of the world argee are epics). Even better if reasons for calling a movie "epic" was clarified and then each movie got some kind of "epicility-rank" based on this (such factors I think might be length, budget, number of characters, time that it covers, and if it's about a historical event or figure, even more so if this is a war)

Look at IMDB, movie "Young Winston", in the comments, for a pretty good list of "real" epics. All of these aren't included here!

And what the hec is "Tears of God"? No wiki page exists and I can't find it on IMDB. If someone would care to delete it, I wouldn't miss it.

--84.217.241.192 (talk) 03:21, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with the protocol here, but I was looking through the sparse list of Epic films and felt that The Swordsman, which is currently categorized as a Wuxia film (and correctly so) might belong on this list. I'm not sure if it could be somehow added to this list as well or what others think about it being being added. Personally, it's one of my favorite epic action/adventure films, so I just thought I'd make the suggestion.

--71.108.162.222 (talk) 23:38, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

So, Star Wars 1, 2, 4, 5 & 6 are epics, but 3 isn't? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.198.8.58 (talk) 13:12, 17 May 2009 (UTC)