Glory.
Better than any Marvel movie ever made and it's finale eclipses anything in IW or Endgame,
Better than any Marvel movie ever made and it's finale eclipses anything in IW or Endgame,
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Best movie “large scale” battle scene of all time
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It's a really good opener, one of my favourites to a star wars movie. Lots of good action, nice comedic banter, and some of the few good examples of CGI and actually directing.
I still really need to watch this and RAN.
Pacing on this was perfect too. The space battle was intense.
I came into this thread just to mention helms deep. But thats cause it includes my favourite moments in the trilogy. The music, Legolas and Gimli having there banter throughout the battle, aragorns charge with the elves, the elves arriving, the claustrophobia of fighting on the wall.
And my personal favourite line 'Ride with me' and the final charge.
People shit in Kingdom of Heaven a lot, but its small skirmish scenes are excellent, and stuff like the Siege of Jerusalem still gives me chills. Its not top shelf, but pretty damn close to it.
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I think Pelennor trumps Helm's deep because it was larger scale. But it's very close. I love Helm's deep battle, it was so intense. I love the charge with Aragon leading the way so epic !!!
I struggle to be impressed by a load of CGI fighting another load of CGI.
So anything else that isn't that.
Yes.
So anything else that isn't that.
Yes.
Also, going really old school, there's a pretty swell battle sequence in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916):
You can't go wrong with any of the Bondarchuk ones. He really captured the sense of scale of a battle-event.
No mentioned yet, the ending battle of Red Cliff Part 1 is pretty cool.
For something a bit more kitsch, the final sequence of the Admiral is a funny excess.
No mentioned yet, the ending battle of Red Cliff Part 1 is pretty cool.
For something a bit more kitsch, the final sequence of the Admiral is a funny excess.
It's hard to like battle scenes in film if you have the remotest idea of what war is really like. This long sequence from The Battle of Britain doesn't dress things up too much, and the combination of music and photography is superb.
I'm aware that the Hobbit movies don't have the best reputation, and it was the very definition of a CGI fest, but Battle of the Five Armies had some very cool stuff going on -- especially in the Extended Edition.
But yes, LoTR's battles are far, far superior.
But yes, LoTR's battles are far, far superior.
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The one against the Urukai ? It's incredible with Boromir defending the the hobbits alone ? And Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas desperately trying to get to him ? Stunning !
Lords of the Rings is still my favorite movie of all time. But I have to give the edge to the battle of Pelennor when it comes to the best large scale battle.
The final battle in the hobbit, the Battle of the Five Armies s also great and underrated.
It's def Battle at Stirling in Braveheart.
Also, one of my favorite pre-battle build-up shots is in Kubrick's Spartacus where the camera is in this locked down position and it shows the Roman legion passing, and the number of men that pass the camera just keeps going and going almost in perpetuity. It was such a brilliant but simple way to show the might of the Roman army and how outnumbered Spartacus and his men were.
Also, one of my favorite pre-battle build-up shots is in Kubrick's Spartacus where the camera is in this locked down position and it shows the Roman legion passing, and the number of men that pass the camera just keeps going and going almost in perpetuity. It was such a brilliant but simple way to show the might of the Roman army and how outnumbered Spartacus and his men were.
Another vote for Bondarchuk
This too.
I do too
There's a lot of really good choices here so rather than repeat a few of them I'll go with one I know I'm probably in the vast minority on, the battle for Zion in The Matrix: Revolutions. It suffers the same problem as more recent big budget battles in that one side is a copy/paste job of blank slates, but unlike those other films the Sentinels don't exist in the film purely for the protagonists to do cool shit. They're creepy and determined and the way they move, swarm, split off from each other in groups... combined with how inhuman and horribly violent they are, they're just really unsettling.
It isn't one of my favorite films overall, but yeah, the opening twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan are as powerful and affecting as anything in the history of the medium to me.
Man, tell me about it. I just watched infinity war. I was so disappointed. People hyped this movie up and when Thor comes.
I just couldn't help but thinking this doesn't touch Helms Deep. Idk how people were hyped for infinity war lol.
I just couldn't help but thinking this doesn't touch Helms Deep. Idk how people were hyped for infinity war lol.
Battle at Helm's Deep
Great set piece. Way better than Pelennor Fields. The atmosphere, the desperation, the way we can follow the objectives and tactics on both sides etc
it sucks so much growing up and finding out that it's all pretty much mel gibson's william wallace fan fic.
Still a great movie, though
What brings pelenor fields down is not the use of CGI, but how stupidly the battle is fought. Its literally just lines of people running at each other until one side wins.
The other examples here, particularly Alexander, KOH, Waterloo, etc., show how the battle progressed. From starting formations, to attack strategy, adaptation, routing, etc.
The other examples here, particularly Alexander, KOH, Waterloo, etc., show how the battle progressed. From starting formations, to attack strategy, adaptation, routing, etc.
Black hawk down the whole movie. It may not be large scale in numbers, but it is definitely large scale. It had its issues given that Ridley Scott had to make concessions to the military to get access to actual Black Hawks (kinda necessary) but it puts you right in the heart of the action, and the sound mixing is amazing.
Helms Deep is my favorite battle scene ever. Theres a real sense of hopelessness and dread there. The battle in return of the king was great looking but the atmosphere in helms deep was second to none.
Helm's Deep in Two Towers is still my favorite, but Return of the King is probably more technically impressive.
Came for this. It's a 7 hour long epic, and its bloody fantastic. The battle scenes are indeed spectacular since the Red Army provided Bondarchuk (who bot5h directed and starred in it) tens of thousands of troops, but the whole film holds up brilliantly. Special mention to Ludmila Savelyeva who plays princess Rostova and out Aubrey Hepburns's Audrey Hepburn!
Anyway, I vote for either this or Lawrence of Arabia - you cant beat scenes filmed with tens of thousands of real people.
