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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.
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Box office. $86.9 million. 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.
- $20 million
- Edward Shearmur
- January 26, 2007
- Paul Schiff
- Jeremy Urquhart
- 2 min
- Feature Writer/Senior List Writer
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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.
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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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- 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962) The legendary Peter O'Toole stars in David Lean's historical epic Lawrence of Arabia. The film dramatizes T.E. Larence's experiences in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, especially his involvement with the Arab National Council.
- 'Ben-Hur' (1959) William Wyler directs Charlton Heston in the 1959 epic religious film Ben-Hur. The plot centers on the titular character, a Jewish aristocrat betrayed by a childhood friend.
- 'Schindler's List' (1993) Steven Spielberg's second entry into the AFI's Top 10 Epic ranking is Schindler's List, his harrowing portrayal of the Holocaust.
- 'Gone with the Wind' (1939) Victor Fleming's timeless masterpiece Gone with the Wind stars Vivien Leigh as the spirited and vain Scarlett O'Hara. Set in the last days of the Antebellum South, the film chronicles Scarlett's life, her affections for the dashing but married Ashley Wilkes, and her ultimate marriage to the roguish Rhett Butler, played by Clark Gable.
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1. Apocalypse Now. 1979 2h 27m R. 8.4 (712K) Rate. 94 Metascore. A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. Director Francis Ford Coppola Stars Martin Sheen Marlon Brando Robert Duvall. 2. Gone with the Wind. 1939 3h 58m G. 8.2 (335K) Rate. 97 Metascore.
