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!!Films — Animated
* ''Animation/BoBoiBoyTheMovie'': An elderly woman [[EarAche twisting the ear of a criminal who ran over her vegetables]], made awesome by it being [[CallingYourAttacks a called attack]] and the last to follow three of the hero's elemental attacks.
* ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''. Helped along by what has got to be one of the most dramatic orchestral scores ever composed, this movie manages to make little clay chickens into heroes and make their story of escape from a farm feel like an odyssey.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', a waiter arrives, bringing a covered dish, in which there's a ''smaller'' waiter with a smaller covered dish, and so on and so on, until the smallest opens his dish to reveal... a strawberry.
* According to director Brad Bird, ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'' was built to be a combination of "the mundane and the fantastic". It indeed did its job well.
* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': I'M PEEING! IN THE SHOWER!
* In ''[[ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier Justice League: The New Frontier]]'', after giving a bonafide rousing speech uniting superhumans and uniformed military for the first time since the Cold War started, Franchise/{{Superman}} finishes with this:
-->"I'm going to fly out now and recon [[GeniusLoci this thing]]. When I get back, we'll work out a strategy. ''Are you with me?''\\
''[Cue assembled multitudes of hard-bitten warriors, cheering loudly for the idea of sitting around for a while, and then figuring out what they're going to do later on that afternoon]''
* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'', Po's training is completed by Po and Shifu having an epic kung fu fight... over ''a dumpling.''
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', [[TheFool Emmet]]'s ultimate creation is... the double-decker couch! It's PlayedForLaughs, of course (and the couch is absolutely AwesomeButImpractical and cited as that by the characters themselves).
* Climbing up to Pride Rock in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''.
* [[WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons Meet the Robinsons]]: Uncle Art looks like a superhero, talks like a superhero, and even rides UFO-like vehicle, which he uses to… deliver pizzas.
* TheStinger of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' features the most epic coffee request ever.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress'' turns the simple act of distributing hot chocolate refreshments to train passengers into a show-stopping floorshow backed up by an infectiously catchy song. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uuw3JKLO1g&ab_channel=amyember "HOT HOT, YEAH, WE GOT IT!"]]
* The epic game of tag in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie''. Moments in WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls show proper include the professor swallowing a pea ("[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joLrldtZtRA Eat your pea, Professor!]]"), the townspeople saving the day by ripping open the packages of a collector, the girls eating broccoli, and Mojo [[BaguetteBeatdown breaking a loaf of bread over an alien invader's head]].
* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' movie, dramatic music is set to a montage of the goblins putting together snowmen.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}''. Never before has crossing a road been so dramatic.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'': "Wind the frog!"
* The opening sequence of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' is a remake of the opening sequence of the first film -- Andy playing with his toys -- but this time dramatized so we can see exactly what it looks like in his imagination, and it's ''spectacular''!
* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Jin's cooking is emphasized the first time we see it and it puts the cooking scenes in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' to shame.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'': Carl going slowly down the staircase in his machine. While "la Habanera" plays in the background.
* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' managed to make audiences applaud for [[spoiler:the act of ''a fat man standing up'']], accompanied by "Also Sprach Zarathustra".
* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': The super big and high-tech "beacon" is a glorified bugzapper.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' has Judy Hopps issuing 200 parking tickets in one morning as a SelfImposedChallenge. [[spoiler:Then the parking meter she's parked at goes over and she writes herself a ticket.]]

!!Films — Live-Action
* The earliest films, from the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, all depict everyday people doing everyday things like leaving a factory after work, waiting for a train to arrive at the station in the Film/LumiereFilms, because the concept of ''moving images'' blew so many people's minds. However, the fact alone that these are the earliest films in existence and a snapshot of what life was like in that time make them all incredibly fascinating to watch.
* Documentaries about [[ApocalypseHow apocalypse in 2012]] get into this. In one, the narrator is talking about the possibility of Earth's magnetic field shifting, causing technological breakdowns, spontaneous earthquakes, and other horrendous effects. Said narrator says all of this in suitably dramatic fashion...which is somewhat undermined by his giving exactly the same emphasis when he points out that "Your compass will not point in the same direction any more."
* Any work revolving around [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrinking]] or downright small people will indulge in this trope.
** ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' has a group discovering how dangerous life while inch-sized: a broomstick and a lawnmower are really scary devices, a sprinkler is akin to a deluge...
** Most scenes with Jedediah and Octavius in the ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' series show how epic the world seems when you're the size of miniature, and then the camera pulls back to human perspective. For instance, once they pierce a tire, it blows what to them is a huge wind gust, and then it's a miff hole deflating. Octavius also employs this while to reveal "I the most fearsome beast on Earth... the squirrel!".
** ''Film/AntMan1'' has straight and deconstructed examples: either it shows an ant-sized hero facing a normal-sized world (a building model being shot has nothing on many a SceneryGorn set-piece, a ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' playfield is a battlefield), or keeps the camera far away to not make it awesome (ants carrying the hero barely seems as anything from a human perspective!). An example that exudes dramatics is [[spoiler:when a flying ant is shot, and its wing is showing falling down in slow motion.]]
* The ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' opening will make you want to give planet Earth a standing ovation. This applies to nearly every other long sequence in the movie, especially being that with the monkeys in the first act.
* The climactic scene of ''Film/{{Amadeus}}'' features the highly dramatic activity of ... taking down music dictation. ("G sharp?" "Of course.")
* ''Film/AmericanPsycho'' and business cards. Extreme close-ups, slow motion reveals, tense narration - the main character even ''breaks down mentally and starts sweating and shaking'' when someone has a better business card than him. This is quite intentional, as the main character, as the title implies, is nuts.
* ''Film/AngelHeart'': Creator/RobertDeNiro, as LouisCypher, eats a hard-boiled egg. Then again, he's just compared that egg to the human soul.
* The destruction of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piscatory_ring Piscatory Ring]] shakes the Pillars of Heaven as the movie version of ''Film/AngelsAndDemons'' shows it. Then again, what ''isn't'' epic in UsefulNotes/VaticanCity?
* ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': "Lou, give me a milk!" (slams a nickel onto the counter) "Chocolate!" He grabs the glass without looking, takes one epic swig of it, and slams the glass back down on the counter. Lou made his own contribution to the awesomeness of this moment by sending George's glass on a full-length counter slide directly into his waiting hand. It's a beautiful play on the concept of the [[TheFifties swinging 50's.]]
* The ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' films, including ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', are notorious for this. Apparently Batman ''putting on his clothes'' is worthy of dramatic camera angles and epic Creator/DannyElfman[=/=]Elliot Goldenthal[=/=]Music/HansZimmer & Music/JamesNewtonHoward music. To wit:
** ''Batman''
** ''Batman Returns''
** ''Batman Forever'' (warning: Bat-crotch)
** ''Film/BatmanForever'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEllAO0qF40 had a karate laundry washing sequence.]]
** ''Batman and Robin'' (warning: Bat-butt)
** ''Batman Begins''
** In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6K1qNsE9v0 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm]]'' when Alfred freaks out at the sight of Bruce in cape and cowl for the first time.
* ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] ''and'' [[InvertedTrope inverted]]; Creator/JohnTravolta's character goes into a multi-minute monologue about how he's the best shot in the galaxy and will perform surgery using an energy pistol on anyone who tries to escape, playing up his own awesomeness. When the human translates ([[TranslationConvention though we hear it all in English]]) he boils it down to "If you run he'll shoot you." Travolta's visibly annoyed that his epic speech was condensed into (for him) a few grunts. He then seems to realize that blowing the leg off a stationary, placid cow isn't the mind-blowing feat of marksmanship he'd hoped it'd be, so he starts [[ImprobableAimingSkills trick shooting]]. Now, instead of watching a dreadlocked, 9 foot tall John Travolta shoot a cow, we are watching a dreadlocked, 9 foot tall John Travolta shooting a cow while pirouetting like a ballerina.
* ''Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives'' turns the act of writing a check into heroism. Given that the check writer is a double-amputee (played by [[CastTheExpert real life veteran Harold Russell]]) using his hooks, even though it's filmed without much flourish, it's enough to shame his banker friend into giving another veteran a loan with questionable assets.
* The opening credits sequence of ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' turns a bowling alley into god-damned Temple of Americana, all bright lights and shiny chrome like a vision of a future past.
* Part of the humor of ''Film/BladesOfGlory'' is how seriously the protagonists take such a "sissy" sport.
* ''Film/{{Bowfinger}}'' does it with the arrival of [=FedEx=]. The reason is that it represents success for struggling bottom-feeding movie producer Bowfinger: every day the [=FedEx=] truck goes by, delivering scripts to working producers. Seeing the courier walking to his door is a validating moment of ''huge importance''.
* In Creator/TerryGilliam's ''Film/{{Brazil}}'', Creator/RobertDeNiro manages to make life as an air-conditioning repairman look like the most badass career imaginable. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* In ''Film/{{Brooklyn}}'', as two young women stand waiting outside the bathroom of their boarding house, one expresses her desire to be remarried:
--> I want to be standing outside my own bathroom, yelling at some fool with hair growing out of ears to hurry up and come out, wishing I was back here with you.
* Parodied in the beginning of ''Film/BruceAlmighty'', using slo-mo as well as "cheesy inspirational music" to celebrate the creation of the world's biggest cookie. Later on, Bruce turns ''looking at a bowl of soup'' into an awesome moment. He splits it like the Red Sea. (Note: [[VisualPun tomato soup]].)
* ''Film/BubbleBoy''
** Jimmy reacts this way to pretty much everything he sees - which stands to reason, as he's spent 18 years in his house.
-->'''Jimmy''': Dog poop? This is ''awesome''!
** A classic example comes near the end, when [[spoiler:Jimmy's father gives him a mild RousingSpeech, then unlocks the car doors so Jimmy can continue his RaceForYourLove]].
* A scene near the climax of ''Film/{{Bullitt}}'' (a film which notably featured one of the most legitimately awesome [[ChaseScene car chases]] in the history of cinema, shot in a fashion that would seem almost minimalist by today's action movie standards) revolves around ''extreme document printing''.
* In the ''Film/CarryOn'' films:
** Sid Fiddler escapes on a go-kart while he's chased out of the town of Fircombe by an angry crowd at the end of ''Film/CarryOnGirls''.
** A war begins in ''Film/CarryOnUpTheKhyber'' because a ManInAKilt has his underwear stolen by an angry local.
* Stephen Chow plays with this in many films such as ''Film/GodOfCookery'', ''Film/ShaolinSoccer'' and ''Film/KungFuHustle'', dramatizing in slow motion and special effect hyperbole cooking, eating, and playing soccer, among other more mundane activities, which even manage to inspire [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment sudden musical numbers to break out]].
* One of the things that makes ''Film/AChristmasStory'' such a classic is how Creator/JeanShepherd's narration makes a series of fairly normal events sound as world shaking as the Normandy Invasion. Which of course, is how it would seem to a boy Ralphie's age.
* ''Film/{{Contact}}'': Creator/RobertZemeckis considers it a personal achievement that he was able to make a (pivotal but potentially dull) scene where Dr Arroway ''listens to a radio'' thrilling. Complete with high-speed driving.
* ''Film/{{Dhoom}} 2'' invokes this trope all the time. One of the most JustForFun/{{egregious}} examples also involves ProductPlacement. As Jai Dixit theorizes about the antagonist, we see Mr. A in his SupervillainLair. One of his inventions is a bracelet that can pull anything magnetic towards him. So naturally... he pulls a can of Coca-Cola towards him, and drinks it as the movie's theme song plays. Never mind that Coca-Cola cans are made of aluminum.
* ''Film/{{Drumline}}'' was a 2002 Nick Cannon vehicle that famously used elaborate editing, choreography and sound design--of the sort that you'd expect in a big-budget music video--for a story about an arrogant college kid joining a marching band. Many Millennials still remember it as "The film that made marching bands look ''awesome''."
* In ''Film/{{Elektra}}'', Elektra ''unpacks her toiletries'' to the accompaniment of the kind of disjointed editing and tense, thumping background music that usually accompanies things like billion-dollar heists and the assembly of homemade death-traps.
* In ''Film/FarAndAway'', Tom Cruise's character does his laundry with intensity.
* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' loves doing this with the [[DrivingStick gear shifting]]. Each shift is easily several orders of magnitude noisier than RealLife shifting as they add dull THUD or CHUNK noises to the shift, and it makes one worry how badly damaged the transmission is to make such loud noises. May count as a subversion, as high-performance driving is far from mundane. Taken to a new level in ''Film/FuriousSeven''. When Brian is introduced, we see him state intently, put his vehicle into gear...and move his minivan forward a few feet to let his son out.
* In ''Film/TheFly1986'', the climax of the intense Music/HowardShore cue "Plasma Pool" is used to score...a surly Creator/JeffGoldblum walking through Toronto's downtown after dark, seeking a new partner, unwrapping and eating a candy bar as he walks. During the editing process, executive producer Creator/MelBrooks told director-writer Creator/DavidCronenberg that the cue was too intense because "The guy's just walking down the street", but Cronenberg simply replied [[SlowTransformation "No, he's walking towards his destiny"]], and the cue was kept in -- to great effect.
* In ''Film/TheFP'', the sleepy mountain village of Frazier Park, California hosts intense gang battles that are settled by "[[VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution Beat Beat Revelation]]."
* This trope becomes part of the underpinning joke of the various films and media of the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' franchise. As it turns out, once the Ghostbusters come along and apply a bit of practical science to the world of the paranormal, dealing with ghosts, otherworldly demons and extradimensional Lovecraftian horrors essentially becomes a form of glorified pest control. For example, in the first film the scenes where the Ghostbusters battle their first ghost could, with only a few minor changes, easily be a bunch of pest control officers trying to clear an infestation of rats or cockroaches out of a fancy hotel without any of the guests realising what's going on.
* The 90s Creator/ChowYunFat movie ''Film/GodOfGamblers'' is widely regarded as the TropeCodifier for a good reason. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrm-EYdyvXg&t=6m42s Look on, ye lesser mortals, as Chow Yun Fat WALKS INTO A ROOM!]]
* When it comes down to it, the final MexicanStandoff - cum - ShowdownAtHighNoon in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' is about three men standing in a graveyard doing nothing for about five minutes while Music/EnnioMorricone's music blasts at full audio. It is often listed as one of the most intense and dramatic scenes in the history of cinema. Similarly, "The Ecstasy of Gold", the second best-known track after the {{Leitmotif}}, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubVc2MQwMkg is used to make a man running through a graveyard epic]].
* ''Film/TheGreenHornet'': As if sealing the deal on his [[LongList awesome credentials]], Kato makes opening bottles [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntg2li-DEzA&t=1m38s epic.]]
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Film/HighAnxiety''. At the beginning of the film, Mr. Brooks' character walks through an airport accompanied by strident orchestral music. When he finally reaches the exit, he proclaims, "What a dramatic airport!"
* ''Film/HotFuzz'' does a reverse, instead of epic music and slow-mo, routine paperwork is rushed through in short, intense montages.
* The commercial for "Brawndo" energy drink from the film ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' has an over-enthusiastic announcer who shouts every other set of words. It's got ''electrolytes!''
* In ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' does this with Shoshanna putting on her makeup, preparing herself to get glorious revenge on the Nazi party.
* At the beginning of ''Film/{{Innerspace}}'', a glass full of ice looks like something from outer space.
* The climactic rugby match in ''Film/{{Invictus}}'' ends with -- the Springboks already being in the lead -- the referee running out the clock, complete with slow-motion extreme close-ups of his watch as the seconds tick by with dramatic slamming sounds.
* The opening of ''Film/TheIpcressFile'' has the main character getting up, getting dressed, making and eating breakfast, all to the accompaniment of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCqP7R42K0 one of the most haunting movie themes ever composed]]. However, this is deliberate and emphasizes the [[SpyFiction unglamorous take on spies]] found throughout the movie. It also establishes Harry Palmer as a forward-looking man of his time, as Britain comes out of post-war austerity. A man who grinds his own beans to make real coffee is something unusual. Later, he seduces a woman by cooking an omelette.
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' had some very dramatic music playing during Film/JamesBond's drive from the airport to his hotel. The clincher was that he was driving in a Ford Mondeo, which is a far cry from 007's usual CoolCar.
** ''Film/DrNo'' and ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', being the first two Bond movies (not counting the original, unofficial ''Film/CasinoRoyale1954'' with Creator/BarryNelson), use the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Bond theme]] at every situation possible, even simple ones such as Bond's airplane arriving and 007 driving to the beach or Bond examining his hotel room.
* In ''Film/JoeVersusTheVolcano'', the luggage salesman's reveal of "our premier steamer trunk" is bathed in light and accompanied by wordless, ethereal singing.
* Music/JohnWilliams' bombastic score for ''Film/JurassicPark'' conveys majesty and danger in all the right places, such as the group seeing live dinosaurs for the first time and pretty much every scene of them in immediate peril. It also does this in quite a few of the wrong ones, too (like the breathtaking "ride to the Visitor's Center" sequence, or Sattler hurriedly running for the maintenance shed with nothing actually chasing her).
* ''Film/KingKong2005'' has Jack Driscoll typing the letters to spell out "Skull Island" onto his typewriter with odd camera effects.
* ''Film/{{Lighthouse}}'': the main character types the main villain's name on her typewriter in dramatic fashion.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'' has truly awesome footage of - nine guys walking. Add how [[SceneryPorn it's some truly gorgeous scenery]] under epic music\camera movements, and everyone says the movie is a great tourism ad for New Zealand.
* ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' does this when Eponine belts out "But he never saw there!" as she puts on her iconic page boy cap during the "One Day More" number.
* In ''Film/LaMoustache'': shaving. The film has a very strong and powerful classical soundtrack that plays when Marc shaves his moustache off at the start of the film. Another is when Angès calls Marc's parents to say they aren't coming to dinner.
* The Shoveler in the film ''Film/MysteryMen'' manages to make an epic badass RousingSpeech that galvanizes the heroes into action and gives them the confidence to succeed. It's all centered around... ''not eating an egg salad sandwich''.
-->This is egg salad. It's loaded with cholesterol. The wife won't even let me touch it. Hardly seems to matter now, 'cause chances are, we're already dead. Amazing is gone. There's no use waiting for the cavalry, because as of this moment, the cavalry is us. This is our fight, whether we like it or not. Just we few. We're not your classic superheroes. We're not the favorites. We're the other guys. We're the guys nobody ever bets on. But I'll tell you what I think. ... We're all in over our heads, and we know it. But if we take on this fight, those of us who survive it will forever after show our scars with pride, and say, 'That's right! I was there! I fought the good fight!' So whatdaya say? Do we all gather together, and go kick some Casanova butt? Or do I eat this sandwich?
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000: TheMovie'' calls out ''Film/ThisIslandEarth'' for doing this.
** Having shown the characters close up images of his devastated homeworld on the viewscreen, the alien character orders "Normal view" and we are treated to a static ten-second shot of our characters looking at a viewscreen now simply showing a planet, while the orchestra gives it the full dramatic PAH PAH PAAAAAAH!! PAH PAH PAAAAAAAA!! treatment.
-->'''Mike, Tom and Crow: '''"Nor-mal view! Nor-mal VIEW! NOR-MAL VIEW! NOOOR-MAAAL VIIIEEEW!!!"
** The interstitial sequences have awesome, inspiring musical cue underscoring the first transition into the theater -- although it's most likely done tongue-in-cheek.
** A recurring joke in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' was to punctuate scenes like this with comments along these line:
--->''(A teenager starts drink a coke as if he were in some kind of soft drink commercial)''\\
'''Tom Servo:''' (As the teenager) I'm gonna drink the ''hell'' out of this coke!
** Watching a lame spy flick:
--->'''Servo:''' '''HE CHECKS AN APPLIANCE!!!!''' ''(loudly hums the ''Film/JamesBond'' theme '''DAH-DUH-DAH-DAH!!!''')''
** '''Mike:''' Does this tepid little scene really warrant DUHNN!!! DUHNN-DUH-DUHNN!!!?
* The documentary ''The Nation State'' introduces all of the guest professors in the film by doing a black-and-white, slow-motion close-up as the professor turns his head toward the camera, with (in some cases) dramatic music playing in the background. [[{{Narm}} An anthropology class bursts into laughter.]]
* ''Film/TheNatural'' makes baseball seem like Ragnarok. Redford's character knocks the cover off of balls, wedges the ball into the net when he pitches, and at the end his homerun hit destroys the lighting fixtures, causing sparks and explosions to rain down on the field.
* ''Film/{{Nope}}'':
** Creator/MichaelWincott reciting the lyrics to "Purple People Eater" in a gruff, ominous tone of voice. To the point it's included in the soundtrack.
** The day is saved by [[spoiler:the Kid Sheriff mascot balloon from Jupiter's Claim, used as a [[FeedItABomb compressed-air bomb]].]]
* ''Film/OfficeSpace'': the sequence in which the three protagonists infect the company's computer with a virus: slow motion, hip-hop music, and a sound effect of a gunshot as one of them clicks a mouse to activate the virus. (Lampshaded at the end with the words "That was easy.") The same devices are used when the photocopier/fax machine meets its ultimate fate, although in that case it starts to cross over into mildly disturbing territory.
* ''Film/PGPsychoGoreman'':
** Mimi and Luke's game of [[CalvinBall Crazy Ball]] is rendered as an epic battle, with dynamic camera angles and driving music. This is lampshaded when the film suddenly drops all the embellishments and shows the game for what it is: two kids shouting rules while tossing balls in the air.
** Inverted when Psycho Goreman fights the Paladins of Sydion. The battle between intergalactic fiends is give a suitably epic depiction, but then the film suddenly removes all the embellishments, making the fight look like childish flailing.
* Some mundane scenes in Creator/DarioArgento's ''Film/{{Phenomena}}'' are coupled with sudden blasts of heavy metal music or the film's theme song.
* This short film by David Michalek (part of a series called "Portraits in Dramatic Time") is appropriately titled "Epic Tea Time with Alan Rickman": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob7V_WtAVg
* Creator/KevinCostner, aka ''Film/ThePostman'', awesomely delivers mail. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_sp8KbXgMM Behold!]]
* In ''[[Film/RoboCop1987 [=RoboCop=]]]'', the OnPatrolMontage after Alex Murphy comes BackFromTheDead and goes out to bust crime in future-dystopian Detroit, complete with ThemeMusicPowerUp. Driving a car at night has rarely been so cool.
* ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' turned running up the stairs into a cultural phenomenon!
* ''Film/{{The Room|2003}}'' has a particularly noticeable example. When Mark shaves his beard, they zoom in directly on his face and play dramatic music... for no good reason. Since the entire movie consists of loosely strung together scenes, what do we expect?
* ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'': Only Tony Manero (and the actor playing him, Creator/JohnTravolta) could make walking down the streets of Brooklyn with a paint can in one hand (and two slices of pizza in the other during a brief period), swaggering to and fro as he checks out women and the scenery, seem like an epic moment of pure, distilled awesome. The soundtrack helps.
* The typing of ''Film/SchindlersList''. Justified as this is Schindler's last hurrah, and every name that goes on the list is one more Jew that doesn't have to die.
* In the German movie ''Film/{{Schtonk}}!'' (the one about the faked Hitler diaries), the journalist when he reads the first entry. (He's a big fan of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler; the magazine in question in RealLife was rather on the left side, but for some strange reason still employed him.) What the (remember, fake) entry is about? "Hitler" writing how [[{{Gasshole}} he suffers from too much gas]], and Eva Braun saying he has halitosis.
* ''Film/ScotlandPA'' has a scene where Mac breaks up a food fight by kicking the two guys out of the restaurant. It happens in dramatic slo-mo, with an epic, orchestral score playing over it. Afterward, the entire restaurant applauds him.
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'' where after viewing a fairly standard holiday special promo for the network's upcoming live broadcast of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', Creator/BillMurray's Frank Cross shows a promo of his own making where it's implied that not watching the special will cause the destruction of the Earth by every means imaginable.
* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'': Apart from the epic battles with Ramona's various exes, lots of mundane things that Scott does are given epic portrayals using extreme close-ups, dramatic music, and special effects. This is most particularly noticeable when Scott manages to epically tie his shoelaces before his confrontation with Gideon.
* ''Film/SecondhandLions'' features a sleepwalking, nightshirt-clad Creator/RobertDuvall swordfighting with a toilet plunger, accompanied by clanging sound effects and an epic orchestral score. Its silliness is outweighed by just how awesome it is.
* ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' lets us watch as Nomi Malone ketchups the fuck out of a plate of fries.
* Indian action movie ''Film/{{Singham}}'': the love-child of this trope and SerialEscalation.
* SlasherMovie ''Film/Sledgehammer1983'' features an obscene amount of slow-motion and freeze frame for such mundane things as a couple walking across a field and a girl plugging something into a wall socket.
* ''Film/{{Snatch}}'': Cousin Avi's airplane flights to and from England use a Darren Aronofsky-style "hip-hop montage" for comedic effect. In two seconds of screen time, he's moved halfway across the world.
* ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' has one of the most exciting sequences involving computer programming in a movie. There are scenes of a sexy college party spliced in.
* ''Film/SpiderMan1'': Peter Parker designs his Superhero costume in a montage, complete with his notes ("Needs more color"), newspaper ads for the car of his dreams and the wrestling match, an image of a smiling Mary Jane, and Danny Elfman's themes; this scene segues into Peter's shooting his web in his room, with some more Elfman music.
* ''Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder'' gives us an in-universe example. One of the government broadcasts shows us the amazing new weapon of the Federation... the shovel.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Film/TheLastJedi'' made audiences stand up in their seats and ''cheer'' at the sight of Luke Skywalker [[ItMakesSenseInContext brushing some dust off his shoulder.]]
* Invoked by Creator/BillMurray's character in ''Film/{{Stripes}}'', who begins humming overly dramatic music as they sign their enlistment papers and join the army.
* The climax of ''Film/ThreeAmigos'' has the Amigos and the people of Santa Poco defeat El Guapo and his gang with their talent of... sewing, specifically replica Amigos costumes.
* ''Music/{{Tommy}}'' - Pinball: the new religion! [[Music/TheWho Pete Townshend]] wanted to keep the RockOpera from getting too "pretentious". He also wanted the concept to appeal to the president of his label, who he knew liked pinball. Townshend also wanted an element that was "slightly sleazy" and teenage. Keith Moon also suggested to place Tommy's "miracle cure" following in a British holiday camp. The goofy, sing-along quality of the theme for "Tommy's Holiday Camp".
* In ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', Simmons walks across a room, picks up a passport, and puts on a jacket. Pretty mundane stuff, except for the epic music and crazy angle/focus of the scene making it look like a spy movie.
* ''Film/TheTreeOfLife'' spends the whole movie in this mode. Especially prominent when immense music and frantic camera angles accompany scene after scene of kids running in a yard, kids sleeping in bed, kids snuggling with their mother, over and over and over again.
* ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill'': Don't let all those uniforms and marching formations fool you; the vast majority of Nazis you're seeing in this movie are ''civilians'', though some of them would be putting on their soldiers' uniforms and marching off to war soon enough.
* ''[[Film/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Eclipse]]''. The battle is won. The newborns are defeated. Now tremble as Jane... walks through a forest.
** There's also the fact that the Cullens have to wait until thunderstorms to play baseball, to cover the sound of their SuperStrength bat hits while they use SuperSpeed to catch the balls. All set to [[Music/{{Muse}} Muse's]] Supermassive Black Hole
* ''Film/{{UHF}}'' does this in a commercial for the fake film ''Conan the Librarian''. A man asks Conan where he can find a book on Astronomy. Conan responds by lifting him up by the collar so that the man is inches from his face, and says in a menacing voice "Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System!?"
* In ''Film/UnderworldAwakening'', few scenes are as epic as when Selene... puts on a coat.
* ''Film/UpInTheAir'' features epic "packing your bags", showing how quickly Ryan can do it.
* The opening narration of ''Film/WakingNedDevine'' makes ''the lottery'' sound epic.
* ''Film/{{Wanted}}'' has some of this -- though it's hard to see [[RuleOfCool mundane acts]] in that movie (Wesley and Fox's kiss probably counts).
* If ''Film/WarGames'' is anything to go by, library research is incredibly cool and exciting.
* ''Film/WarHorse'' has an epic field-plowing scene.
* A RunningGag in ''Film/WeirdTheAlYankovicStory'' is the idea that accordions are [[RuleOfCool sinfully cool]]. The door-to-door accordion salesman tells a young Al they're [[GirlsLikeMusicians really popular with girls,]] Al's dad violently reacts to them as [[MadeOfTemptation sinful temptations]], and other teens treat them as ForbiddenFruit. As an adult, Al believes being an accordion player makes him a shoo-in for bands.
-->'''Al:''' It's almost like nobody wants an accordion player in their band.\\
'''Jim:''' That just doesn't make any sense.\\
'''Steve:''' Yeah, accordions are cool.
* ''Film/TheWizard'', being a MerchandiseDriven commercial for Nintendo, loves to make Nintendo products look miracles of technology. For example, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AacoxHFYvZw&feature=related Power Glove]] is made to look like some high tech cybernetic enhancement, while the unveiling of ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' is treated as a landmark cultural event.
* Pretty much any film by Creator/EdgarWright is bound to have this in spades. It's mocked in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', taking the "[[LockAndLoadMontage tooling up]]" segments of horror movies (specifically the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' films), and making them things like getting ready for work. ''Film/HotFuzz'' includes dramatic paperwork (with DualWielding [[GunsAkimbo pens akimbo]]), dramatic murder-via-baked-beans, dramatic hitting-somebody-over-the-head-with-a-peace-lily, dramatic travelling-across-England, dramatic putting-change-on-a-counter, etc. ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' keeps up the tradition by using over-the-top shots of beer [[note]] and tap water [[/note]] getting dispensed from taps. It's somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

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