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"Big battles" are often the worst parts of movies. amirite?
by Anonymous9 months ago
Saving Private Ryan I would still say has the best opening beach invasion scene any movie has attempted.
by Anonymous9 months ago
It's for bored little kids, apparently
by gabriellekirlin9 months 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 Anonymous9 months ago
Came to say this
by Impressive-Path9 months 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 Anonymous9 months ago
Rohirrim who were at Helm's Deep and the Charge of Minas Tirith do not yield to this opinion.
by Anonymous9 months 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 Anonymous9 months ago
Exactly
by imuller9 months 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 Anonymous9 months ago
Send your foul opinions into the abyss!
by Anonymous9 months ago
It is fun to watch
by Odiecasper9 months ago
Silence! Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth.
by Anonymous9 months ago
You must be fun at party
by devinrippin9 months ago
Have you seen lord of the rings ?
by Anonymous9 months 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 Anonymous9 months ago
How do they add nothing? They add tons of enjoyment. More importantly they actually show the threat that is facing the world.
by Anonymous9 months 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 ProudConstruction9 months 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 Anonymous9 months ago
I was really happy with how they closed the series out particularly that last couple of sequences
by Anonymous9 months 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 Anonymous9 months ago
I do generally agree with that. But some big battle scenes are great.
by Sea-Pudding-9179 months ago
Lord of the rings: the two towers entered the chat.
by Arohan9 months 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 Anonymous9 months 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 Anonymous9 months 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 Anonymous9 months 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-Ganache36159 months 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 Anonymous9 months ago
Dune
by mjones9 months ago
I agree. I would add to that fight scenes and car chases as well
by Littlegabriel9 months ago
Unless it's Shogun, there was no big battle. Anticlimactic
by Anonymous9 months ago
There are so many examples of why this is so incredibly wrong.
by Murphytillman9 months ago
Marvel fans getting called out.
by Anonymous9 months ago
Yeah, definitely an unpopular opinion. And for a good reason. Big battle scenes are awesome.
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