O.K., I decided to put this a little more seriously...
I have noticed that the so-called "Epic" style of current film music, found in trailers and in various action, fantasy, medieval, adventure, even contemporary films was absolutely UNKNOWN before a certain very original film and music useage appeared in the 1980s which has been imitated over and over again, and now has generalized and devolved into cliches nowadays. It always struck me that the minimalism of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff as used in "Excalibur" by John Boorman - with its repeated rhythmic motifs in strings, heavy brass, huge percussion punctuations, and staccato fortissimo choir - is being stolen by composers over and over today. I think that many of them don't even KNOW they are stealing from it, because it has been transmitted downwards from that lofty origin. Now you can hear it underscoring scenes of giant robots fighting. The fact that it was originally in a medieval film that had a huge impact and was extremely original for the time, is even more convincing to me. I still remember seeing this film when it first came out. There had been nothing like it before. Medieval warfare and fantasy had never been treated so vividly. Now it may seem just a normal film of the kind, but that is because of its influence upon later films - and film music. Here is a representative scene -