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Gladiator was not that epic.
It was a personal revenge story, set in an "epic" (translate: older) time period.
Braveheart was a revenge of the dead woman story as well, however William Wallace was a real life Scottsman who led his people to a revolution against a tyrannical rule by an evil king.
Both kings in these films died, and in Gladiator Maximus even has the pleasure of doing it himself, but it seems to me that the legend of William Wallace is far more epic.
300 wasnt epic, it had a back story to leonidas but thats about as epic as it gets.
Though I like gladiator much more as a film, Braveheart is one of the finest executed epic films i have ever seen. You really get the sense of a great span in time and character development in that movie. To me Gladiator was epic in that a man was broken and was forced on a journey that led him back to finding himself. I diddnt really get the feel of spanning time or chaning characters. I think Gladiator had better acting though
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The Roman Empire covered almost all central europe, east asia and some parts of africa, and apparently you say it isn't as epic as the Scottish-English border?
Both are revenge stories; Wallace's story was vastly exaggerated from the source material however, whereas the real William Wallace was a part of the scottish gentry, not a commoner.
Edward was not an evil king, he was in fact, a typical king, and prone to the norms of monarchy. Wallace was a brute and a killer. You could say both are evil.
Haven't seen 300 yet, but it's just an action picture that doesn't seem to belong on this list.
If it's down to action, the scenes in Gladiator were filmed horribly bad. Too many tight shots...really shaky camera work...and some weird, ultra crisp film really wasted what had a lot of potential. The CG was lacking as well...
Lots there for the alpha male, but Braveheart is a more complete picture.
And apart from American Beauty, can't think of a more overrated oscar giant than Gladiator.
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