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Tue Jan-20-04 01:49 PM
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Favorite "Epic" Movies? (3+ Hours) |
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What are your favorite "epic" movies? You know the ones--gorgeous panoramic shots that go on for five minutes, a running time of more than three hours, an intermission (!), etc . . . In general, I love these sweeping films. My favorites are Lawrence of Arabia, the Lord of the Ring movies, and West Side Story (although it does squeak in under the alloted time, but who's counting?).
How about you? :-)
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Tue Jan-20-04 01:50 PM
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for the long movies. Plus, sitting for that length of time wreaks havoc on my bad back.
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Tue Jan-20-04 01:50 PM
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:55 PM
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I have started watching this movie a couple of times, but just can't seem to finish it. I keep falling asleep.
+10 on the 'Zzzzzzzzz Meter.'
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Tue Jan-20-04 01:51 PM
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quite simply one of the best films ever made.
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Tue Jan-20-04 01:58 PM
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10. I actually preferred Godfather Part II |
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Regardless, the Godfather films (excluding Part III) are sheer genius. Two of the best films ever made.
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:11 PM
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13. The First two "Godfathers" would be on my list, as well. |
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Godfather III mega sucked though.
I also like Cecil B. DeMille's epics.
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Tue Jan-20-04 01:54 PM
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4. european dances with wolves |
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Tue Jan-20-04 01:56 PM
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8. Didn't "Sleep" run for 8 hours? |
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I thought I'd read that...
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Tue Jan-20-04 01:56 PM
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6. Andy Warhol's "The Chelsea Girls" |
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one of his actually WATCHABLE epics. I'm not even gonna mention EMPIRE or SLEEP.
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Tue Jan-20-04 01:56 PM
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What, no love for "Teeth?"
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:52 PM
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18. or his ultimate epic, "****" - the 24 hour movie. |
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Edited on Tue Jan-20-04 02:52 PM by thebigidea
They were reconstructing it at the Whitney, last I heard. It may yet contaminate our children.
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Tue Jan-20-04 03:49 PM
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23. Is Edie Sedgewich in that one?n/t |
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Tue Jan-20-04 05:30 PM
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Ms. Sedgwick played, curiously enough, "Edie."
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Tue Jan-20-04 01:58 PM
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What a great flick. Anyone seen it?
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Wed Jan-21-04 05:38 AM
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Edited on Wed Jan-21-04 05:50 AM by MSchreader
DeNiro and Depardieu. What a pairing.
"Olmo is a bastard!"
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:10 PM
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and, although they might run a little short, "Amadeus" and "Saving Private Ryan."
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:12 PM
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in the West (Bertolucci helped with the screenplay, by the way) Once Upon a Time in America. anything by Tarkovsky
Until the End of the World.
Not epic (in the sense that it all takes place in one or two rooms, but it is 3 and a half hours long & does have an intermission) is the Mother and the Whore, one of the great, relatively unknown films of the 70's - even though it did win Cannes. It outdoes Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris" in its depth regarding relationships without being at all graphic.
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:35 PM
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:39 PM
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16. "Lawrence of Arabia" -- the fastest 228 minutes one can spend... |
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watching a movie -- not including entrance, intermission and exit music.
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:48 PM
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17. yeah, but you get so damn thirsty |
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I drink like a gallon of water evrey time I watch that movie. and on the big screen it's even worse.
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Wed Jan-21-04 07:07 AM
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51. Lawrence, on being why he liked the desert so much: |
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"Because it's clean."
Next time, I'll have a couple of sports-bottles of H2O ready before I kick in the DVD!
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Tue Jan-20-04 02:58 PM
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20. Sand Pebbles and Dr. Zhivago.....n/t |
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Tue Jan-20-04 03:00 PM
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I don't know how long it is exactly, but I love that movie.
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Tue Jan-20-04 03:41 PM
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22. Nicholas and Alexandra |
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...sumptuous! I think I'm the only person alive who genuinely loves that film, LOL!
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Tue Jan-20-04 03:59 PM
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25. I think it's a wonderful film. |
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Beautiful cinematography (by David Lean's favorite cameraman, Freddie Young).
It's interesting too to see Jack Hawkins in a post-throat surgery role. He lost his voice to that surgery, and was usually overdubbed in films, but it sounds like he wasn't overdubbed in this film. He whispers his lines and it's very charming.
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Wed Jan-21-04 05:39 AM
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Too bad it falsified the political history, though.
Martin
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Tue Jan-20-04 03:56 PM
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24. Lawrence of Arabia, Napoleon. |
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LOA is my favorite, but I love the French Napoleon by Abel Gance as well. :)
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Tue Jan-20-04 04:12 PM
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26. does Apoclolypse Now redux come in at 3+? |
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truly hypnotic. whoever said Jeb Bush was soft on defense needs to watch this bio. of his secret CIA life in SE Asia. He was a freakin' killer!!
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Tue Jan-20-04 04:15 PM
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27. Jeb Bush??? Please explain. |
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Not sure what you are talking about.
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Tue Jan-20-04 04:19 PM
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Loved the LotR movies, but I'll have to ask my self the question in ten years so I know it's not the hype I'm buying into, but the substance. Beyond that...
Godfather I & II
Once Upon a Time in America (I like it more than GF, but that's a personal opinion)
Dances With Wolves
JFK
Band of Brothers (Does that count?)
Horatio Hornblower (Another recent mini-series, so I'm not sure if it too counts or not)
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Tue Jan-20-04 05:33 PM
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Magnolia. Paul Thomas Anderson is a genius.
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Tue Jan-20-04 07:51 PM
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..which you really haven't seen unless you've seen it in a theatre in 70mm. On TV they 'pan and scan' so that the awesomeosity of the chariot race is undercut. In the theatre in 70mm your always see all the heads of horses in every shot of the chariot race. The director of this '50s version was a second unit director on the chariot sequence in the '26 'silent' version; William Wyler. I was lucky enough to see it in 70mm in the early '90s at a theatre here in Portland. Whole families attended. At the intermission a 8 or 9 year old girl in the seat in front of my wife and I leaned over and asked me 'if I liked the movie'. I said yes. I think a memory was being made. Movies really can be 'magic'. That kid was astounded by what she'd seen.
I also like SPARTACUS, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and I'll always have a place in my heart for EL CID...
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Tue Jan-20-04 08:17 PM
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Or Braveheart. I could watch either over and over.
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Tue Jan-20-04 08:23 PM
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36. Lawrence or Ben Hur, man. (nt) |
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Tue Jan-20-04 08:24 PM
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37. Oh man, I knew I'd forget one... |
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Oh man, I knew I'd forget one...
Kenneth Brannagh's 1997 production of Hamlet. Every line, every scene and every character from the original in it's rightful place. (And who knew Billy Crystal could wear Shakespeare so well...?)
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Tue Jan-20-04 11:18 PM
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Whoda thunk it? I'll have to check it out . . .
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Wed Jan-21-04 09:21 AM
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52. And a cast of thousands..... |
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Billy Crystal played the wise cracking grave digger and played it well. One of the great things about Brannagh's Shakespeare movies is that he he gets a pretty good cross section on Hollywood to play a lot of the parts. Robin Williams, Gérard Depardieu, Julie Christie, Judie Dench, Jack Lemmon, Charleton Heston and John Gielgud also starred. So it's interesting if for no other reason than to watch contemporary actors getting their feet wet in Shakespeare's prose.
In Much Ado About Nothing, he cast Denzel Washington as his boss and Michael Keaton as the bumbling sheriff and both greatly exceeded my expectations (although he also cast Keanu Reeves as John the Bastard, which was horrible... "If you prick me, do I not blow chunks?", or close enough).
Love's Labors Lost was his most recent and a pretty wild ride. He set it in 1939 pre-war France and made it into a musical using the tunes of Cole Porter. I thought it would be a travesty, but it actually turned out to be almost as funny as Much Ado. Alicia Silverstone was cast in it and although she didn't do as well I wished, she was passable.
His Shakespeare interpretations really are good and even if you;ve never liked Shakespeare's works before, these movies are a great primer into it.
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Tue Jan-20-04 11:25 PM
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39. Doctor Zhivago and the seven samurai |
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got both on DVD for repeat viewings. :)
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Tue Jan-20-04 11:40 PM
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40. Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet" 1996 |
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Four and a half hours long, shot in 35mm. Saw it in the theater, and would have gotten right back in line to watch it again had it not been 12:30am when it ended.
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Tue Jan-20-04 11:57 PM
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41. "The Best of Hyapatia Lee: 4 Hours of Her Hottest Scenes!"... |
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Wed Jan-21-04 12:23 AM
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42. Well... umm... you certainly got my attention. |
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Wed Jan-21-04 01:36 AM
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44. In honor of tonight's release, I say OPEN RANGE |
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... been a long time since we had a great western
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Wed Jan-21-04 09:48 AM
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54. I thought you were going to say |
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"The Reagan Miniseries" on Showtime.
;-)
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but the best scene of the movie, the Defense of Little Round Top, was only marginally similar to the events of the afternoon of July 2, 1863.
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Wed Jan-21-04 05:42 AM
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49. Liked the Pickett's Charge scene, though |
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It's unfortunate they had to keep using the same footage from different angles, though.
Martin
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Wed Jan-21-04 05:49 AM
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50. "Reds" and "The Right Stuff" |
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Also:
1900 Spartacus (restored version) JFK (director's cut) Gettysburg Gods and Generals (yes, I liked it -- so sue me) Heaven's Gate When There Were Giants (about Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt) Lawrence of Arabia
Martin
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Wed Jan-21-04 09:30 AM
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53. REDS...and for the Limbaugh Institute flunky reading this |
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anxious to make "pinko" hay, I refer you to a Rolling Stone interview with Warren Beatty in which he described screening it for Reagan, who loved it and in fact suggested the name.
Great movie, great performances--Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill! Perfect, perfect movie. Never been released on DVD. Hmmm...
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Wed Jan-21-04 10:02 AM
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The English Patient Lord of the Rings (any installment) The Godfather (Parts I and II)
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