Greatest Battle Scenes In Cinema?

🙂 Yep. The Battle of Dagorlad at the beginning of FOTR is a short scene but is perfect.

or Pellenor Fields - ROTK

Saving Private Ryan: opening scene
Brave Heart: First Battle, at Sterling
The Patriot: Final Battle
Pearl Harbour: great showing of Areal(sp) Combat
ROTK: Pellenor Fields, needs no explaining
The Matrix Revolutions: Zion
Black Hawk Down: great close combat tactics
Master and Commander: great shwoing of Naval combat
Gladiator: Opening sequence

and a few others....

Any of the battles in Braveheart were pretty stunning, although short i'd also have to say the opening battle in Gladiator where Maximus mutterd that pretty cool line "On my signal unleash hell".
Also the battle between the Ewoks and Rebel Alliance against the Imperial forces in Star Wars : Return of the Jedi and finally the battle for Helms Deep in LotR: TTT.

opening sequence from gladiator or any battle scene from LOTR trilogy.

I agree with Kes...I think that was my fav scene throughout the movie...The axes were so cool

I know i've posted in this before but mine are all from the matrix

1) Lobby scene(The Matrix)
2) Zion scene(Revolutions)
3) Burly Brawl(Reloaded)
4) Super Brawl: Neo vs Smith(End of Revolutions)

113> Technically the Zion scene is the only battle scene. The rest are fights.
Right?!

bat·tle ( P ) Pronunciation Key (btl)
n.

An encounter between opposing forces: an important battle in the Pacific campaign.
Armed fighting; combat: wounded in battle.

fight ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ft)
v. fought, (fôt) fight·ing, fights
v. intr.

To attempt to harm or gain power over an adversary by blows or with weapons.

with the battle definition then maybe the revolutions ending scene could just be considered a fight...but the burly brawl and in the lobby scene are technically battles

Always considered battle...more of a group thing. Like one army against another.

Definately the helicopter attack in Apocalypse Now. I love it.

1. Braveheart (all battles: villiage fort, sterling castle, york, Falkirk, Bannokburn)
2. Saving Private Ryan (Beach Landings)
3. Enemy at the Gates (initial attack on Stalingrad)
4. Last Samurai (Last battle)
5. LOTR: ROTK (pellenor fields)
6. LOTR:TTT (Helms Deep)
7. LOTR:FOTR (prologue battle)
8. SW:AOTC (geonosis battle)
9. Zulu (Final charge)
10. Matrix:Revolutions (Zion attack)
11. Gladiator (First Battle)

Braveheart, Platoon, We Were Soldiers and definitly Saving Private Ryan.
Im going to get killed for this.
The Lord of the Rings battles were good. I thought there were intense and difficult to do through CGI and live actors. I feel though that Braveheart and titles above were alot better because there were real actors or people fighting, and not a CGI elephant. I would think it would be harder to coordinate real people portraying a real event with explosions and setting up all bullets and stuff.. But dont get me wrong, Lord of the rings battles were great and the only reason i would watch them again.

LOTR battles have thousands of extras co-ordenated with CGI. I'd say thats way more difficult.

Well i wouldnt know for sure.
Saving Private Ryan, have all these camera angles, making sure people didnt die from explosions and creating scenes that need to be historically accurate.
Its probably just a difference of opinion.
One questions is though, how do you distinguish what people were real or not. Cause from what i remember when i knew the characters were real, it was a close up shot. But i would have to watch it again to see if im wrong or not.

I see CGI has alot of you soooooooooo impressed but its really for lazy people! How about some battle scenes the goo old fashion way, they used real people and equipment.......

1) Spartacus!!
2)Tora Tora Tora
3)Battle of the Bulge
4)

And ...
-Lawerence of Arabia
-The Sands of Iwo Jima
-The Longest Day
-Hamburger Hill

Try those out!!

True Omegaman, those were ace. But look how many ppl they'd need to make LOTR, plus pretty much all in make-up. It would be way to expensive. And dont underestimate CGI, its hard work.
And the giant elephants and stuff needed to be CGI 😆

Originally posted by Samas-adian
Well i wouldnt know for sure.
Saving Private Ryan, have all these camera angles, making sure people didnt die from explosions and creating scenes that need to be historically accurate.
Its probably just a difference of opinion.
One questions is though, how do you distinguish what people were real or not. Cause from what i remember when i knew the characters were real, it was a close up shot. But i would have to watch it again to see if im wrong or not.

Ok. Well, were never going to agree. I like battles with real people. I just find alot more impressive and creates more tension knowing that this is what happenend to soldiers. If those battles were done in CGI, i would not like them, cause its fake. Why should i care about people dying if i know that its just a computer image.
On the other hand, i know that CGI is hard and it would probalby take alot of time and difficulty to do it. But hey, im an old fashioned guy who likes movies sometimes without CGI.

KILL BILL VOL. 1 I was smiling through out the whole scene