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Epic Movie is a 2007 American parody film that mocks several popular movies, such as The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, and Pirates of the Caribbean. The film follows four orphans who find a magical wardrobe and enter a fantasy land called Gnarnia, where they face the evil White Bitch.
Epic Movie: Directed by Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer. With Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Jayma Mays. A spoof on previous years' epic movies (The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) + 20 more), TV series, music videos and celebs. 4 orphans are on an epic adventure.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
- Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
- 2007-01-26
- Jeremy Urquhart
- Senior Author
- '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.
1. The Thin Red Line. 1998 2h 50m R. 7.6 (202K) Rate. 78 Metascore. Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War. Director Terrence Malick Stars Jim Caviezel Sean Penn Nick Nolte.
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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.
Jan 26, 2023 · So what better time to bring you the first part of our rundown of the 50 best epic movies ever made – aka some of the longest films in existence? Without further ado, here (in no particular order) is part one of our list – check out part two here.
Epic Movie. Four adult orphans (Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Faune Chambers, Jayma Mays) have an incredible adventure in a spoof of blockbuster and fantasy films. They visit a bizarre...
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- Comedy, Adventure
- PG-13
