Those old Hollywood epics...what are your favorites?

[Puller]

The Godfather.
Also, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. The music and the overall sense of the whole scene puts it in a class by itself for me. It doesn't have a cast of thousands, but it certainly is epic.

Classic, maybe. Epic, certainly not.

MOST of the movies listed in this thread are not epics even though they may be favorites or even classics.

Some of my favorites like True Grit, Saving Private Ryan, and the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly are not epics.

It's like calling a AR15 an assault rifle, which it is not, or calling an M1 carbine a main battlefield rifle, which it is not.

"Who cares" some may ask. Well, in my opinion, words have meaning. I think the dumbing down of our language has caused some of our ability to communicate effectively with one another in this country. Using a word incorrectly, any word, can in some cases have a detrimental impact.

Don't believe me? I'd like to see a country boy go to the inner city and walk up to a fellow on the street corner and ask to borrow a hoe and see how that turns out. Words have meaning.

 

[AJ]

"Who cares" some may ask. Well, in my opinion, words have meaning. I think the dumbing down of our language has caused some of our ability to communicate effectively with one another in this country. Using a word incorrectly, any word, can in some cases have a detrimental impact.

Don't believe me? I'd like to see a country boy go to the inner city and walk up to a fellow on the street corner and ask to borrow a hoe and see how that turns out. Words have meaning.

Concur completely! Many words are misused today.