History MundaneMadeAwesome / Film

* The ''Film/{{Batman}}'' films, including ''TheDarkKnightSaga'', are '''notorious''' for this. Apparently Batman ''putting on his clothes'' is worthy of dramatic camera angles and epic DannyElfman/Elliot Goldenthal[=/=]HansZimmer & James Newton Howard music. To wit:

* The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The battle is won...the newborns are defeated. Now tremble as Jane...WALKS THROUGH THE FOREST.

* ''NoCountryForOldMen'' averts this trope. There is a distinct lack of background music (the entire movie features only 16 minutes of music altogether, and some of that is from the end credits), yet even the most mundane tasks in the movie are intense and terrifying.

** The hilarious results of Luis Carruther, present to watch the first business card battle, getting his own ''gold'' business card just to be a part of the group (and whose card is also revealed in slow-motion and overblown dramatic effect). The result? A straight-faced Patrick puts on a pair of gloves and follows him into the bathroom to ''strangle him''. [[MistakenForGay It doesn't exactly go as planned.]]
** Justified as part of the dramatic purpose of the work was to illustrate the hyper-competitive, narcissistic, facile, materialist nature of the 1980s, particularly among the business class.
*** And that, according to the DVD commentary, it's meant to have sexual overtones, like girls comparing breasts in the locker room.
**** Funny, we never did that in my locker room.

* All of MichaelBay's ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', of which critics [[http://www.agonybooth.com/armageddon/ complain it looks like a giant trailer]].

*** [[NeverLiveItDown Warning:]] [[JoelSchumacher Bat-nipples.]]

** Arming scenes are OlderThanFeudalism and very epic.

* A scene near the climax of ''{{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'''.
** Hey, they had a ''fax machine!'' How cool is that??!!
*** At some point, every last bit of technology now used on an everyday basis and taken for granted was top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art technology at one point. As TechnologyMarchesOn, we often conveniently forget just how exciting something like a fax machine could be in 1968. You know, when [[TheBeatles The White Album]] was a new release. We'll likely think that way about i Phones in a decade's time.
* In ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons'', [[LargeHam Jeremy Irons' acting]] was two notches above everyone else--and his eyebrows' acting was five notches over him. Those eyebrows deserve an award of some kind. He wasn't used to having so much green-screening done, and felt the need to compensate for the then-absent dragons, magic, and other factors by making everything as Damn Awesome as he could make it.
* ''Film/{{Elektra}}'' suffers intensely from this. At one point, Elektra, moving into a house, ''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.
** Apparently, Elektra was supposed to have a genuine Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, the relevance of which is mainly on the cutting room floor, so the odd "unpacking of the toiletries" scene would have been a plot point of some sort.

** It also made [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru6p5NLXxvY riding a pony]] awesome.
*** And driving ice cream trucks full of angry bees through petting zoos to become popular.
* The opening of ''The Ipcress File'' has the main character getting up, getting dressed, making and eating breakfast, all to the accompaniment of [[http://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.
** Hey, a man who can cook is ''sexy''!

* A notable scene in ''InglouriousBasterds'' shows the character Shoshanna in slow detail with a prominent soundtrack as she goes through the task of...putting on makeup. Granted, it was probably meant to be ironic.
** She was putting on her war paint before going out to face ''AdolfHitler''. Still counts as this trope, though.
** Christoph Waltz drank the shit out of a glass of milk and made strudel seem dangerous.

** Similar method is employed in ''Film/{{Lighthouse}}'' when the main character is typing the main villain's name on her typewriter.
* ''ThreeHundred'' used slow motion, camera effects and a voice-over to add [[{{HSQ}} AQ]] (Awesome Quotient) to many scenes. [[{{Narm}} Not all of them worked out]]. [[NarmCharm Or did they?]]
* In a parody of ''TheRightStuff'' (the commentary track shows the producers [[FleetingDemographicRule were amused by the fact that people kept thinking it was]] spoofing ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' instead), the various monsters of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' [[PowerWalk walking on to the factory floor.]] Done with slow motion, dramatic music, and a strong backlight as they heroically...begin their typical day at work. The [[HilariousOuttakes fake outtake]] from the end credits take it even further, having a character trip and start a chain reaction of the monsters falling, all without stopping the slow motion and music.

** The truant officer's equal parts mystified/horrified cry of "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" as the kids escape his clutches by boarding an elevator.
* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000: TheMovie'' calls out ''ThisIslandEarth'' for doing this at one point. 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.

*** There is an eerie similarity between this melody and the opening to Antonio Lotti's ''Crucifixus''.

*** '''Mike:''' Does this tepid little scene really warrant DUHNN!!! DUHNN-DUH-DUHNN!!!?
* Mocked in ''ShaunOfTheDead''. It takes the "[[LockAndLoadMontage tooling up]]" segments of horror movies (specifically the ''EvilDead'' films), and makes them things like getting ready for work. XTREME TOILET FLUSH!
** Also heavily used in the director's later parody/homage of cop movies, ''HotFuzz''. The concept is taken and beaten into the ground, with 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. It's somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
-->'''Petrol station assistant''': Is there anything else I can do for you, sir?
-->'''Angel''': No...[[ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself this is something I have to do myself]].
** Hitting a giant with a potted plant isn't just dramatic-- it's off the fuckin' ''[[BondOneLiner chain]]''!
*** It was probably more about the BondOneLiner and the irony of beating someone down with a '''peace''' lily.
* In the first two ''Franchise/StarTrek'' films, turning on the ''Enterprise's'' exterior floodlights (''especially'' the one lighting up the registry number), is given an ''EPIC'' treatment.
** Crosses the line into SceneryPorn. But they had to [[{{Padding}} fill the time up]] with ''[[LeaveTheCameraRunning something]]''.
** Arguably this was a case of Knowing Your Audience, considering that in many theaters the registry number reveal was ''applauded'' (not ironically, either). That whole scene was a love letter to the fans, who were only ever given sparse looks at the ''Enterprise'' during the series and loved the darn ship about as much as the characters taking their time inspecting it did.
** Also arguably StockFootage, since most, if not all, of the lighting sequence in ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Khan]]'' is recycled from ''[[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture TMP]]''.
** The second movie also subverts the grandeur of the fist movie's "tour" scene, with Kirk barely glancing at the Enterprise during the approach.

** Pretty sure that was intended to appeal to people who, as part of training for some sport or other, have run stairs. It's harder than it looks. Also, it happens at the end of the TrainingMontage, which ''always'' gets the slow-motion/dramatic music treatment.
** Living in Philadelphia it's not that uncommon to see somebody actually run up the 72 steps to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (where it was shot). Sure, they might just be in a hurry or exercising, but not when they turn around at the top with a jump, maybe shadowbox, and generally pump their fists in the air, Rocky style.

** ''Film/DrNo'' and ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', being the first two Bond movies (not counting the original, unofficial "''CasinoRoyale1967''"), use the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Bond theme]] at every situation possible, even simple ones such as Bond's airplane arriving and 007 driving to the beach.
*** But to be fair, at the time international travel and beach holidays weren't as common place as they are today.
* [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "We want... [dramatic chord] A SHRUBBERY!!"]]
** This one got a ShoutOut by accident in a [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] script. Someone wrote "shrubbery" in the margin where a ScareChord was called for, and it got typed up.

* For 3 men standing around in a graveyard and doing nothing [[LeaveTheCameraRunning for five whole minutes]], the [[ShowdownAtHighNoon final triello]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0BrdMi-oyc between the three protagonists]] of ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' is made awesome thanks to dramatic camera angles and [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome music]]. It ''is'' pretty awesome.
** Three men eying each other carefully, waiting to kill the other two, not wanting to make the first move because the other two will focus on him. What do you mean it's not Awesome?
** Also, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PwpOmjAu1M a man running in a graveyard]] turns into an epic scene thanks to "[[CrowningMusicOfAwesome The Ecstasy of Gold]]".

* ''[[{{Bollywood}} Dhoom 2]]'' invokes this trope all the time. One of the most {{egregious}} examples also involves ProductPlacement. As [[NotSoDifferent 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. [[CriticalResearchFailure never mind that Coca-Cola cans are made of aluminum]].

** Also, Doctor Cockroach's PhD...[[spoiler: IN DANCE!!!]] That one is justified, though, given the results.

* ''UpInTheAir'' features epic "packing your bags".
** Not intended to be epic, it's intended to show how quickly Ryan can do it.

* This is reversed, in a way, in ''{{Snatch}}'' in which Brick Top very calmly (or, as calmly as Brick Top can muster) explains why he feeds people to pigs, whilst sipping a cup of tea. However, when he stands up and asks, "[[BadassBoast Do you know what 'nemesis' means?]]" everybody shits their pants to the tune of some pretty dark score.
** The movie makes Cousin Avi's airplane flights to and from England seem more exciting than the fight scenes, with close-ups, quick cuts, and loud music. Drinking a shot has never looked so epic.

* ''Any'' time the "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" theme from ''KillBill'' by Tomoyasu Hotei is played in a film to accompany a sequence (see: Michael Bay's ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' for an example. Although, given the first use of the theme was in a QuentinTarantino film, it's entirely possible ''he was consciously invoking this trope.''

* Speaking of Travolta, in ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' he 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.
* An "unintentional" version occurs in ''ThisIsSpinalTap'' during the "Stonehenge" sequence. The set for a song about Stonehenge is constructed exactly as specified on a sketch [[spoiler:(drawn by someone who got the symbols for feet and inches mixed up)]], resulting in a Stonehenge set that's [[spoiler:a foot and a half tall instead of the intended 18 feet]]. It's brought in behind the lead singer during the song, so he doesn't realize this until after he's already been describing the awesome mystic power and majesty of Stonehenge for some time.

* When trying out Toothless' new tail ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon'' uses epic music and a touch of JitterCam to make a simple turn awesome.

** This particular brand of parody is a trademark of director EdgarWright, whose other films ''ShaunOfTheDead'' and ''HotFuzz'' are mentioned on this page, as well as his TV series ''{{Spaced}}''. EVERYTHING in an Edgar Wright film is EPIC. ''HotFuzz'' is mentioned further up the page, but still, following a traditionally cool gunfight with the resulting paperwork endeared the film to real cops, and with DualWielding pens, crash zooms and whip pans, it's MichaelBay paperwork.
** You could argue that the main idea behind ''{{Spaced}}'' is the parodying of this trope.

* The ''2001:ASpaceOdyssey'' 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.
* In ''PulpFiction'', [[SamuelLJackson Jules]] manages to turn the act of [[PokeThePoodle taking a bite out of someone's burger and then drinking ALL of his Sprite]] into one of the [[ScaryBlackMan most intimidating things ever.]]

* Arguably, the {{Vanity Plate}}s of many film companies count as this. All that epic fanfare and sometimes epic visuals to send the audience a very clear message: "YOU ARE ABOUT TO WATCH A MOVIE!"
** The THX logo takes it even further. "SAID MOVIE HAS DIGITALLY MASTERED AUDIO!!"
** Universal: "ALSO, AMERICA!"

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture:'' "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 ''right back down on the counter!'' This is probably the first, and hopefully the last, time you will ever see the term "epic swig."

* Kate Beckinsale's character in ''VanHelsing'' is introduced in slow motion with epic music as she...stands up and turns around. That's it. True, it segues into an action sequence, but since she's a FauxActionGirl anyway, the impact is lost.
* [[TeamAmericaWorldPolice AMERICA!]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI FUCK YEAH!]]

* {{Showgirls}} lets us watch as Nomi Malone ketchups the fuck out of a plate of fries.
* Rango. Never before has crossing a road been so dramatic.

* All of MichaelBay's ''{{Film/Armageddon}}'', of which critics [[http://www.agonybooth.com/armageddon/ complain it looks like a giant trailer]].
* The ''[[Film/{{Batman}} Batman]]'' films, including ''TheDarkKnightSaga'', are '''notorious''' for this. Apparently Batman ''putting on his clothes'' is worthy of dramatic camera angles and epic DannyElfman/Elliot Goldenthal[=/=]HansZimmer & James Newton Howard music. To wit:

* In a parody of ''TheRightStuff'' (the commentary track shows the producers [[FleetingDemographicRule were amused by the fact that people kept thinking it was]] spoofing ''{{Film/Armageddon}}'' instead), the various monsters of ''MonstersInc'' [[PowerWalk walking on to the factory floor.]] Done with slow motion, dramatic music, and a strong backlight as they heroically...begin their typical day at work. The [[HilariousOuttakes fake outtake]] from the end credits take it even further, having a character trip and start a chain reaction of the monsters falling, all without stopping the slow motion and music.

** Also heavily used in the director's later parody/homage of cop movies, ''HotFuzz''. The concept is taken and beaten into the ground, with dramatic paperwork (with {{dual wielding}} [[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. It's somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

* ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' combines this with {{Conservation of Ninjitsu}}. After the bad guys send down a bunch of small, flying robot drones that shoot darts, the heroes' encounter with dozens of them is treated like a standard mid-movie action scene. Their later battle against just five drones is given a far more epic treatment, including a Spaghetti Western style ''staredown'' with the drones before they draw their weapons.

* Part of the humor of ''{{Blades of Glory}}'' is how seriously the protagonists take such a "sissy" sport.

** This particular brand of parody is a trademark of director {{Edgar Wright}}, whose other films ''{{Shaun of the Dead}}'' and ''{{Hot Fuzz}}'' are mentioned on this page, as well as his TV series ''{{Spaced}}''. EVERYTHING in an Edgar Wright film is EPIC. ''HotFuzz'' is mentioned further up the page, but still, following a traditionally cool gunfight with the resulting paperwork endeared the film to real cops, and with DualWielding pens, crash zooms and whip pans, it's MichaelBay paperwork.

* As if sealing the deal on his CrazyAwesome credentials, [[{{Film/TheGreenHornet}} Kato]] makes opening bottles [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntg2li-DEzA&t=1m38s epic.]]

* SlasherFilm ''{{Film/Sledgehammer}}'' 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.

* Indian action movie [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp-XqCrCi6I Singham]]: the love-child of this trope and {{SerialEscalation}}.

*** Warning: Bat-nipples.

* In ''KungFuPanda'', Po's training is completed by Po and Shifu having an epic kung fu fight...over ''a dumpling.''

* ''AngelHeart'': RobertDeNiro, as LouisCypher, eats a hard-boiled egg. Then again, he's just compared that egg to the human soul.

* ''{{Inception}}'': Never has a van falling off a bridge been so ''epic''

* ''TheRoom'' 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 BLAM moments, what do we expect?

* ''BackToTheFuture:'' "Lou, give me a milk!" (slams a nickel onto the counter) "CHOCOLATE!"

* In ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Dark of the Moon]]'', 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.

* ''[[LordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' has truly awesome footage of - nine guys walking.

* Special notice must go to ''TheSocialNetwork'' for having one of the most exciting sequences involving computer programming in a movie. Of course, there are scenes of a sexy college party spliced in.

* ''AmericanPsycho'' and business cards. Extreme close-ups, slow motion reveals, tense narration - hell, 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.
** Not to mention the hilarious results of Luis Carruther, present to watch the first business card battle, getting his own ''gold'' business card just to be a part of the group (and whose card is also revealed in slow-motion and overblown dramatic effect). The result? A straight-faced Patrick puts on a pair of gloves and follows him into the bathroom to ''strangle him''. [[MistakenForGay It doesn't exactly go as planned.]]

* ''AngelHeart'': RobertDeNiro, as LouisCypher, eats the ''everloving hell'' out of a hard-boiled egg. Then again, he's just compared that egg to the human soul.
* Pretty much all of MichaelBay's ''{{Film/Armageddon}}'', of which critics [[http://www.agonybooth.com/armageddon/ complain it looks like a giant trailer]].

** Not to mention in ''[[http://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.

* The opening of ''The Ipcress File'' has the main character getting up, getting dressed, making and eating breakfast, all to the accompaniment of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCqP7R42K0 one of the most haunting movie themes ever composed]]. However, this is totally deliberate and emphasises the [[SpyFiction unglamorous take on spies]] found throughout the movie.

* ''Film/TheWizard'' loves to play mundane things as godlike artifacts. For example, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AacoxHFYvZw&feature=related Power Glove]] is made to look like some high tech cybernetic enhancement, which is about the opposite of what it really was. Ironically, that scene shows just how "bad" it is, with the footage of ''RadRacer'' being a mediocre at best performance (so much for his InformedAbility). And let's not forget SUPER! MARIO! BROTHERS! THREEEEEEEE! (Then again, that game ''is'' pretty awesome.)
** And let's not forget the truant officer's equal parts mystified/horrified cry of "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" as the kids escape his clutches by boarding an elevator.

* For three men standing around in a graveyard and doing nothing [[LeaveTheCameraRunning for five whole minutes]], the [[ShowdownAtHighNoon final triello]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0BrdMi-oyc between the three protagonists]] of ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' is made awesome thanks to dramatic camera angles and [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome music]]. Of course, it ''is'' pretty damn awesome.

* ''{{Tommy}}'' - Pinball: the new religion! [[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. Note the goofy, sing-along quality of the theme for "Tommy's Holiday Camp".
* 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}} And an entire anthropology class bursts into laughter.]]

* ''The entire opening sequence'' of ''[[ToyStory Toy Story 3.]]''

* Pretty much ''any'' time the "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" theme from ''KillBill'' by Tomoyasu Hotei is played in a film to accompany a sequence (see: Michael Bay's ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' for an example. Although, given the first use of the theme was in a QuentinTarantino film, it's entirely possible ''he was consciously invoking this trope.''

* At one point in ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', while he is preparing for the face-off against Jason Schwartzman's Gideon Graves, the last and most powerful of the Evil Exes, Michael Cera's Scott Pilgrim ties the every living '''''HELL''''' out of his sneakers.

** Not to mention that he ''grabs the glass without looking, takes one epic swig of it,'' and slams the glass ''right back down on the counter!''
*** This is probably the first, and hopefully the last, time you will ever see the term "epic swig."
* ''TheTreeOfLife'' pretty much 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.

* In TerryGilliam's ''Film/{{Brazil}}'', RobertDeNiro manages to make life as an air-conditioning repairman look like the most {{Badass}} career imaginable. ItMakesSenseInContext.

** ''Film/BatmanForever'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEllAO0qF40 had an epic laundry folding sequence.]]

** The second movie also subverts the grandeur of the fist movie's "tour" scene, with Kirk barely glancing at the Enterprise during the approach.

* Part of the humor of ''{{Blades of Glory}}'' is how seriously the protagonists take such a "sissy" sport.

** This particular brand of parody is a trademark of director {{Edgar Wright}}, whose other films ''{{Shaun of the Dead}}'' and ''{{Hot Fuzz}}'' are mentioned on this page, as well as his TV series ''{{Spaced}}''. EVERYTHING in an Edgar Wright film is EPIC. ''HotFuzz'' is mentioned further up the page, but still, following a traditionally cool gunfight with the resulting paperwork endeared the film to real cops, and with DualWielding pens, crash zooms and whip pans, it's MichaelBay paperwork.

* In {{Terry Gilliam}}'s ''{{Brazil}}'', RobertDeNiro manages to make life as an air-conditioning repairman look like the most {{Badass}} career imaginable. ItMakesSenseInContext.

** ''Film/BatmanForever'' had an epic laundry folding sequence.

* In the first two ''StarTrek'' films, turning on the ''Enterprise's'' exterior floodlights (''especially'' the one lighting up the registry number), is given an ''EPIC'' treatment.

** ''Film/DrNo'' and ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', being the first two Bond movies (not counting the original, unofficial "''CasinoRoyale''"), use the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Bond theme]] at every situation possible, even simple ones such as Bond's airplane arriving and 007 driving to the beach.

** Also arguably StockFootage, since most, if not all, of the lighting sequence in ''[[StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Khan]]'' is recycled from ''[[StarTrekTheMotionPicture TMP]]''.

* ''StarTrekInsurrection'' combines this with {{Conservation of Ninjitsu}}. After the bad guys send down a bunch of small, flying robot drones that shoot darts, the heroes' encounter with dozens of them is treated like a standard mid-movie action scene. Their later battle against just five drones is given a far more epic treatment, including a Spaghetti Western style ''staredown'' with the drones before they draw their weapons.

* [[BetterThanItSounds For three men standing around in a graveyard and doing nothing]] [[LeaveTheCameraRunning for five whole minutes]], the [[ShowdownAtHighNoon final triello]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0BrdMi-oyc between the three protagonists]] of ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' is made awesome thanks to dramatic camera angles and [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome music]]. Of course, it ''is'' pretty damn awesome.

* ''CasinoRoyale'' had some very dramatic music playing during 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.
** ''DrNo'' and ''FromRussiaWithLove'', being the first two Bond movies (not counting the original, unofficial "''CasinoRoyale''"), use the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Bond theme]] at every situation possible, even simple ones such as Bond's airplane arriving and 007 driving to the beach.

** ''BatmanForever'' had an epic laundry folding sequence.

* ''{{Rocky}}'' turned running up the stairs into a cultural phenomenon!

* The typing of ''SchindlersList''.

* [[LordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]] has truly awesome footage of - nine guys walking.

* ''{{Stardust}}'' has an odd habit of putting very dramatic music and sweeping wide shots in scenes of everyone travelling. Okay, fair enough when it's a flying pirate ship. Not so much when it's just people walking. It's SceneryPorn music.

** Pretty sure that was intended to appeal to people who, as part of training for some sport or other, have run stairs. It's harder than it looks. Also, it happens at the end of the GonnaFlyNowMontage, which ''always'' gets the slow-motion/dramatic music treatment.

* ''{{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!?"

* Indian action movie [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp-XqCrCi6I Singham]]: the love-child of this trope and {{Beyond The Impossible}}.