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I'm not exactly sure how to define 'epic' these days. I used to think it had to do with the scale of the project, the number of people involved, etc. Films like Lawrence Of Arabia, Spartacus, and El Cid, come to mind. Nowadays, with the increased reliance on CGI (which in my mind is still so obvious it ruins almost any film), that definition doesn't hold up. It's so much easier to make a 'big' movie today.
I'm one of the few people on the planet who hated the LOR films. I loved Gladiator. Troy would have been better if they'd just cast it correctly. How about Dances With Wolves? Maybe epics are more defined as 'artistic visions' than anything else. Don't most of these films fall under the category of 'movies the directors have waited their whole lives to make?'
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