my 2nd favorite movie and in my opinion the greatest epic of all time

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2000)

*SPOILERS*
forget braveheart. forget ben-hur. and please please please forget titanic (every man woman and children needs to wipe that cinematic travesty from their memory banks). lawrence of arabia is what a great epic is all about. so many other epics i deem as lesser movies because they placed the period piece above what was really epic about the story: the person. Larry of Arabia isn't about the Arab revolt or WWI as much as it's about one insignificant man who became great and then became twisted by his own glory. i am reading his book Seven Pillars of Wisdom now and this guy was amazing. i'm not done yet so i don't know how accurate the film is but who cares. this is above all a deeply pentrating and complicated character study. i really don't want to say much more than that because my meager words will cheapen a great movie.