The main characters posing on the poster for Pearl Harbor
When an epic movie works, it’s unlike anything else the medium of film can offer. Epic movies are all about scale and scope, usually having long runtimes, large budgets, detailed sets, tons of extras, and stories that span a great deal of time and/or feature numerous characters. Think titles like Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Samurai, and Gladiator. There’s so much that goes into epic movies that even those that are flawed tend to have aspects that stand out or prove engaging.
The war in question is the American Civil War, and the setting for much of the film is decidedly Western in flavor. It looks okay and is technically decent, with a good cast that includes Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Eva Marie Saint, though it unfortunately ends up feeling like a bit of a snooze… a snooze that feels considerably longer than the 188 minutes Raintree County goes for.
7 'Ben-Hur' Director: Timur Bekmambetov Few people would dispute the notion that Ben-Hur is one of the greatest epic movies of all time, and similarly, one of the most epic movies of all time. It’s huge, you can see where all the money went on screen, and it has some iconic moments that are hard to forget, most notably the chariot race sequence. All things that can be said about Ben-Hur… the 1959 version, that is.
Caligula’s history is long and complicated, but the original version that had genuine pornographic content spliced in is hard to comprehend and appreciate in the traditional sense, especially because the inclusion of such things feels jarring. It might be worthwhile for some to check out the original infamous cut of this historical epic because of its notoriety, but otherwise, the Ultimate Cut is better.
In that sense, it’s a little like 1959’s Ben-Hur versus 2016’s Ben-Hur. 1956’s The Ten Commandments is huge in a way that still impresses, and a better take on the story than the 2014 version. Furthermore, the 1950s versions of Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments both starred Charlton Heston, and both also served as remakes/updates of silent films from the 1920s. Time really might be a flat circle.
Even if you were to somehow accept this casting decision, The Conqueror is still sluggish as a historical epic about someone whose life story was more than dramatic enough to warrant a proper film. Further, The Conqueror is also infamous for production, particularly because numerous people who worked on the film developed cancer, likely as a result of the movie being shot near a nuclear test site.
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