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A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics looks at Hollywood’s biggest screen spectaculars from all sides, including the genre’s beginnings, literary adaptations, great epic directors and actors, the challenges of making big-budget movies, classic set-pieces and epic music scores. The special also looks at how the genre fell out of favor with audiences and filmmakers in the ‘70s and ‘80s, only to be reborn with more recent films like Gladiator, and Dances with Wolves trilogy. Throughout, the special is packed with classic scenes and behind-the-scenes images from such films as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), Samson & Delilah (1949), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), El Cid (1961), King of Kings (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).
| Release : | 2009 |
| Rating : | 7 |
| Studio : | Turner Classic Movies, DreamWorks Television, |
| Crew : | Director, Writer, |
| Cast : | Robert Osborne Steven Spielberg Kenneth Branagh Martin Landau Omar Sharif |
| Genre : | Documentary TV Movie |
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Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
