This is the battle of the heavyweights. Good matchup. Both epic movies on a scale never repeated since. Impossible to pick a winner for me.
Rainfaker, there's not a movie expert alive who DOESN'T consider Ben Hur and Spartacus to be among the greatest epics ever. You're the only idiot who thinks otherwise. Personally, I prefer El Cid to both, but that's a different topic.
Xplosive - he´s just trolling. Can´t you tell by his consistently and utterly non-sensical/contradictory threads? He makes zero sense with anything he posts - he either posts massive amounts of text that he has cut-and-pasted from other websites or he has nothing of any worth/interest to post, e.g. ´I think it´s a good movie. 8/10´. That´s his niche. You know every village/town has the one local idiot who is clearly mentally disturbed but people still tolerate him, year after year? That´s Rainmaker.
I prefer Spartacus......I like everything Spartacus...even the Starz series....I LOVE em..watch both multiple times over...