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Jan 26, 2007 · Epic Movie is a 2007 comedy film that parodies previous years' epic movies, TV series, music videos and celebrities. It follows four orphans who escape from a chocolate factory and enter a fantasy world called Gnarnia.
- Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
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- 14 sec
Epic Movie is a 2007 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer and produced by Paul Schiff. It stars Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jayma Mays, Jennifer Coolidge, Faune A. Chambers, Crispin Glover, Tony Cox, and Fred Willard. A parody of the epic film genre, the film mostly references The Chronicles of Narnia: The ...
- $20 million
- Edward Shearmur
- January 26, 2007
- Paul Schiff
- Jeremy Urquhart
- 2 min
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- 'War and Peace' (1966) Directed by Sergey Bondarchuk. The only way to properly adapt Leo Tolstoy's mammoth novel War and Peace is to make it as epic an epic movie as possible.
- 'Once Upon a Time in America' (1984) Directed by Sergio Leone. It's always difficult to rank the movies of Sergio Leone, even if there were only seven feature films he ended up directing during his regrettably short filmmaking career.
- 'Giant' (1956) Directed by George Stevens. Is there a better name for an epic movie than Giant? This classic from the 1950s certainly earns the right to be called such a thing, because Giant's undeniably huge when it comes to both its runtime and scope.
- 'Patton' (1970) Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. Even if the central performance from George C. Scott was the only part of Patton that was any good, it would still hold up as a biographical war movie worth watching, because he really is that magnetic in the title role.
A list of the greatest epics of all time, from The Thin Red Line to The Lord of the Rings, with ratings, summaries and cast information. Find out which movies made the cut and why they are considered epic.
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- 'There Will Be Blood' (2007) Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 epic drama There Will Be Blood is one of the best, most ambitious and rewarding pictures of the 21st century.
- 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) Quentin Tarantino's first detour into revisionist history remains one of his most original and rewarding pictures. Inglourious Basterds presents an alternative version of World War II and follows two stories: one concerning a group of US soldiers plotting to kill Adolf Hitler during a movie premiere, and the other following a young French woman seeking revenge against the Nazi regime and the colonel that killed her family.
- 'Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World' (2003) Russell Crowe might as well be the king of epic movies in the new millennium. Following Gladiator, Crowe starred in another large-scale historical epic, Peter Wier's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
- 'Munich' (2005) Munich is among Steven Spielberg's finest works from the 2000s. Eric Bana leads an ensemble cast including Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush in a fictionalized depiction of Operation Wrath of God, Israel's secret counter-attack against the Palestine Liberation Organization following the 1972 Munich massacre.
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Apr 30, 2023 · The American Film Institute (AFI) ranks the ten best epic movies across classic film genres, from historical blockbusters to sword-and-sandal films. See the list of AFI's top 10 epic movies, from The Ten Commandments to Schindler's List.
