Greatest Battle Scenes In Cinema?

yeah thats all well and good, but i diddnt say a damn word about visual aids did i? Of course you can make a grand spectacular battle scene with make believe effects. It doesnt make it realistic. Bravehearts utter rawness of battle transformed it into an intense re creation of life in a set time.sure it had it's fair share of poetry and whatnot inbetween, but in fight sequences, you knew your heart was going to be ripped apart or driven to it's edge.

Yeah lord of the rings was beautifull. It was well thought out,carefully planned , meticulously shot and coordinated. However, lord of the rings was filmed as a peice of art, braveheart was filmed as peice of humanity and history. Lord of the rings more intense than braveheart...? No sir! We all knew what was going to happen in lord of the rings, whereas braveheart went on whim and an emotion, it rolled over into a war, an epic and then ended back on a wimb and an emotion.

lord of the rings doesnt have shit on bravhearts battle scenes...No sir!.

then again, these are two totally different genres here. whomever started this thread needs to be hit in the head with a spiked hammer for including lord of the rings in a poll rolled by historic period peices. i mean really, timmy are you 12 or somthin?

All but Alexander were good. Troy was excellent. LOTR was stunning. Gladiator was emotional, etc...

I agree

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
nothing about alexander was good.

Out of your list, braveheart captured the most realistic and intense battle scenes.

Gladiator definently holds ranks for owning some of the most emotional battle scenes in film history.

😂 i agree but the battle of Falkirk was on a bridge 😂

Gladiator had the most historically acurate ... even though it was never documented that they launched explosives by catapult 😛 But i loved the opening BATTLE 😱

But in my opinion the greatest battle scene ever was Helms Deep in LoTR ..... the raw emotion of the Orcs in rank and the fear.... and the poem from the book from Theoden.... i only wished they had the Aragorn and the orcs speaking to eachother from the book.... but in the movie they made the Uruki TOTAL BADASSES 😱 😄

i'll lean towards braveheart since the battle scenes didn't heavily rely CG and overlays like the others, it was all cast members

Gladiator has one battle scene , and yes it was good but short.

Braveheart was bloody and has no music over the battle of Stirling which was great. The score in the movie was too patriotic...it needs to be more pridish and violent and brutal.

Alexander battles were the best battles i've ever seen on the screen, and also the most historically accurate. The two main battles in Alexander were just breathtaking. They were really the best I have ever seen and the last was very intense and frightening in my opinion. The sound was awfully loud and when the elephants would make their noise you could hear it loud and clear which made it unsettling in parts which added to the movie and worked great.

Saving Private Ryan, the beginning and the end one. Both were brutal. cry

Helm's Deep, IMO. WETA/Massive is untouchable.

Right...3/4 of that is CGI and doesnt count IMHO. 😛

Alexander- defeating 250,000-strong Persian army with only 40,000 infantry and 7,000 cavalry.

Originally posted by lau_timmy
Gladiator has one battle scene , and yes it was good but short.

Braveheart was bloody and has no music over the battle of Stirling which was great. The score in the movie was too patriotic...it needs to be more pridish and violent and brutal.

Alexander battles were the best battles i've ever seen on the screen, and also the most historically accurate. The two main battles in Alexander were just breathtaking. They were really the best I have ever seen and the last was very intense and frightening in my opinion. The sound was awfully loud and when the elephants would make their noise you could hear it loud and clear which made it unsettling in parts which added to the movie and worked great.

See.. this people, is why we keep getting so many bad movies. Because people like timmy here do not understand movies. There has to be a distinction between film, art and portrayal. Alexander portrayed a vision of history and forgot the film and art. Troy did the exact same thing. How can you say that the musical composition of Braveheart lacked pride? The only pieces in the entire film were pride, love and vengeance. Which were only shown between humanity and fantasy.

I know you have your own opinion and perspective on film and all, but i am just trying to understand it. Gladiator may have had only one epic type battle scene, but everytime maximus fought in that film, it was an internal battle within himself for somthing much greater than rome.

either way, the grandest battle scene of film history of course is hands down "ben hur" no one can argue that. Just thought i would give credit to the king real quick.

Wow, I'm just talking about which battle is better not citicizing other movies. They are all good movies.

Brotherhood and Saving Private Ryan!!!But i can confirm tat Brotherhood Battle Scene is more powerful den saving private ryan...

Braveheart would have been if they were in any way accurate. No bridge, wrong tactics, the irish, the fire. Spine-tingling though they are history nags the back of my mind.

Helms Deep and Pelennor when the rohirrihm charge are truly awesome. Jackson is a genius

Originally posted by RaventheOnly
😂 i agree but the battle of Falkirk was on a bridge 😂

You fool!

The battle of Falirk was on slighty hilly ground with the Scots on a slight elevated defensive position with forest on a flank.

The battle of Stirling Bridge (NOT Sterling, that's English money), unsurprisingly, involved a bridge near Stirling castle. The Scots on the northern side on a steep hill, leaving enough room for the English to advance over the bridge from the south. Scots waited till about half the English were over the narrow wooden bridge then charged the unorganised invaders and burned the bridge. leaving those that had crossed trapped between the water and Scots. Carnage ensued.

And whoever said Braveheart was about portraying history and humanity.......

Braveheart most certainly did not portray history. Wallace was 6 ft 7 ish, mid twenties at Stirling Bridge, and well built. He wasn't a short arsed middle aged man. Bruce never fought for the English, certainly not at Falkirk. Wallace never had his end away with the French Princess either. I've already mentioned the fictional battles, then there's the fictional Irishman, the fictional early days......... endless.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse

"Lord of the rings more intense than braveheart...? No sir! We all knew what was going to happen in lord of the rings, whereas braveheart went on whim and an emotion, it rolled over into a war, an epic and then ended back on a wimb and an emotion."

I thought I knew what would happen in Braveheart, only for Gibson to disregard the history I learned by reading books and going on pilgramages to Bannockburn and Stirling. The only thing he did get right was the emotion, but this was belittled by the butchery of the lives of the two most important figures in my nation's history.

Braveheart is great when I'm in the mood to hate the English for a bit, but otherwise, I wanna tell Gibson what a horrible mess he made.

Sorry for going on and on and on, but it pisses me off.

Originally posted by MarkHobin
Lord of the Rings, the battle with the the tree's in it, that was awesome!!

the last march of the Ents

amazing that plus helms deep ... i wud say the one in ROTK but i didnt watch it all due to painc attaks...silly me

I'm looking forward for the battle scenes in the upcoming epics Kingdom of Heaven and Hannibal the Conqueror. After viewing the Kingdom of Heaven trailer, there is sure to have siege towers, enormous battles, catapults.

Easily the LOTR battle sequences.

Nice thread

hmmm hard to say wich is the best, I speicaly LOVE the opening battle in gladiator, I love all the major battleds in LOTR, Troy was also very nice, Spartacus also very impresive, I basicly love almust all battle scence in movies as long as the director knows what he is doing