"Big battles" are often the worst parts of movies. amirite?

Saving Private Ryan I would still say has the best opening beach invasion scene any movie has attempted.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's for bored little kids, apparently

by gabriellekirlin 1 week ago

To be fair, he said "often" instead of "always." To me it reads like it's occasionally a thing, but usually goes wrong. The Hobbit had some of the absolute worst battle scenes ever, imo. Took forever and was mostly totally meaningless timewasting if you understand that very little of it actually advanced the plot or even contributed meaningfully to how the battle was going.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Came to say this

by Impressive-Path 1 week ago

Sometimes it can be useful for characterization. In Troy, you learn a lot about Achilles by seeing how he disobeyed orders, acted wildly arrogantly, and was successful in what he set out to do.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Rohirrim who were at Helm's Deep and the Charge of Minas Tirith do not yield to this opinion.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

yes but for every one of these there is also the big battle in tenant that is as bad as OP describes and the army is fighting no one and shooting at empty buildings lol.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Exactly

by imuller 1 week ago

If we had kept the charge and lost the rest, would the movie have been better or worse off? What does seeing Eomer killing Oliphants really add? Or the trio just slicing down orcs? It could realistically have been cut for the msot part

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Send your foul opinions into the abyss!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It is fun to watch

by Odiecasper 1 week ago

Silence! Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You must be fun at party

by devinrippin 1 week ago

Have you seen lord of the rings ?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I love LOTR. The fellowship of the ring is my favourite movie of all time precisely because it does action well. The other two movies are great but realitically the massive battles add nothing at all.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

How do they add nothing? They add tons of enjoyment. More importantly they actually show the threat that is facing the world.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Without the big battles we wouldn't have any concept of what was truly at stake. We wouldn't understand how powerful the bad guys are and how willing they are to slaughter innocent people. You can't show the threat facing middle earth without showing the massed might of Sauron's army there just isn't another way.

by ProudConstruction 1 week ago

If you haven't seen the show Shogun on Hulu yet, this really great series kind of spotlights your opinion here in a good way. It's a show essentially about war but shows practically no battle or war scenes at all. And it's masterfully done.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I was really happy with how they closed the series out particularly that last couple of sequences

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Shows how true war was fought. A whole bunch of political/military maneuvering and all the while trying to hold your petty band of lords together. Makes me think of The Anarchy period in Medieval Britian

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I do generally agree with that. But some big battle scenes are great.

by Sea-Pudding-917 1 week ago

Lord of the rings: the two towers entered the chat.

by Arohan 1 week ago

Nah man. As a writer, I disagree. Action is just as good as dialogue. It's just how you use it. If you don't find them the same level of entertaining, that just a you thing.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The thing is, everyone understands that unnecessary dialogue that does nothing for the plot sucks. Not everyone understands that a pointless fight scene is pointless.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

No...no doubt. This sounds like a failure to connect. Certain types of action are harder to get invested in regardless of its importance to the story. Good Dialogue is a nothing phrase, you just don't care for action. It doesn't seem like it would matter how good the action is compared to the dialogue if...the story is bad.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I feel this but for the final exorcism in possession movies. They're almost always ridiculous af and the buildup before it all is much better than the actual exorcism.

by Big-Ganache3615 1 week ago

My problem with big battles is you can't have them without having the necessary inbetween shots of random people clashing, because not every moment can be important. So there's a bunch of filler, basically.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Dune

by mjones 1 week ago

I agree. I would add to that fight scenes and car chases as well

by Littlegabriel 1 week ago

Unless it's Shogun, there was no big battle. Anticlimactic

by Anonymous 1 week ago

There are so many examples of why this is so incredibly wrong.

by Murphytillman 1 week ago

Marvel fans getting called out.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah, definitely an unpopular opinion. And for a good reason. Big battle scenes are awesome.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

True.

by tiaraheidenreic 1 week ago