"epic"...

ugh! I'm growing increasingly tired of EVERYTHING having to be "epic" in order to be exciting or cool. Things can be epic and be totally awesome. But it seems more and more popular now to
force "epic"ness out of anything and everything in an effort to make it more exciting than it really is. You want epic? Go watch Errol Flynn and his horde of men fighting a shipfull of angry sailors aboard two full scale sailing ships in
The Seahawk. Go watch
Lawrence of Arabia. is more epic than any of those clips could hope to be.
Plus it doesn't help that he did quite an effective job sucking the uniquely "Toho" flavor right out of those clips. Toho films have a distinct feel to them. Even as a kid, if i saw a clip or preview of a Toho fx movie I knew absolutely nothing about, I instantly knew it was Toho and that I wanted to see it. Making it more "Holllywood" destroys a huge piece of what makes these movies so enjoyable and enduring in the first place.