Peace All,
In my opinion, as far as a pure epic battle movies go, Braveheart set the standard which is yet to be surpassed. I love Lord of the Rings for everything it offered. Same goes for Matrix.
I'm a little disappointed in the quality of mainstream movies. So, recently I've been trying to catch up on quality, less publicized films that I may have missed. The last one I've seen is "Pi", by Darren Aronofsky. It's a trippy, intense black and white flic about a genius mathematician who thinks there's some kind of mathemetical code to the universe:
Here's a snippet from Ebert:
"The movie is shot in rough, high-contrast black and white. Max, played by Sean Gullette, is balding, restless, paranoid and brilliant. He has debilitating headaches and nosebleeds. Symptoms of high blood pressure--or of the mental torment he's putting himself through. He's suspicious of everyone. The friendly Indian woman next door puts food by his door. He avoids her. He trusts only his old teacher, Sol (Mark Margolis). They play Go, a game deeper than chess, and Sol tells him to stop with the key to the universe business, already. He warns that he's spinning away from science and toward numerology.
Not everybody thinks so. His phone rings with the entreaties of Marcy (Pamela Hart), who works for a high-powered Wall Street analysis firm. They want to hire him as a consultant. They think he's onto something. He has predicted some prices correctly. At the deli, he runs into a Hasidic Jew named Lenny (Ben Shenkman), who seems casual and friendly but has a hidden mission: His group believes the Torah may be a code sent from God and may contain God's name."
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19980724%2FREVIEWS%2F807240303%2F1023&AID1=%2F19980724%2FREVIEWS%2F807240303%2F1023&AID2=Peace,
Tay
