There’s something irresistibly fun and exciting about a good action movie.

Smaller-scale action movies are entertaining enough, sure, but there’s nothing quite like a massive action epic.

There are many films that fit that bill.

Cobb, in a mansion, holds a gun and looks at something off-camera in Inception

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They can be daunting watches, but they’re always fully worth the time commitment.

He thus finds himself caught in the middle of a war between the forest gods and a mining colony.

Rajamouliis nothing short of an icon.

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RRRproves thatnot all historical epics need to be based on a true story.

It’s an epic saga through and through, and it has something for pretty much everyone.Mind-blowing action scenes?

Check.A sudden song-and-dance number that no viewer will soon forget?

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This is about as fun as movies can ever hope to get.

In 1986, Michael Mann proved that they absolutely could.

He did so withHeat, one of the most acclaimed crime dramas ever made.

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In the case of today’s generation, that personification of epicness happens to be three films.

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Caesar (Andy Serkis) on a horse with an army of apes holding spears behind him in 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes

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Y-Wings flying through the Death Star in ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’

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Furiosa (Charlize Theron) falls to her knees and screams in rage and sadness in the desert in Fury Road

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Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer armed with assault rifles in Heat

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AT-AT walkers firing at the bunker on Hoth in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

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Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) leading an army in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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