Criminally Overrated: Braveheart

I LOATHE this film.

Overrated? Who the fuck sits around talking about Braveheart?

What do you think you’re looking at, sugar tits?

The French and Saunders parody was pretty great, however.

Most Best Picture Oscar winners are overrated and if anything they are a must to avoid: Patton, The Sting, Titanic, Chariots of Fire, The English Patient, Out of Africa, 12 Years a Slave, Dances with Wolves, Rain Man, Kramer vs. Kramer, Annie Hall, Rocky, The Artist . . .

R5, You think Annie Hall is overrated?? It's the blue print for every modern rom-com that has come since. I say that as someone who finds it challenging to forget the awful things Woody Allen did to Mia and her family, but I still love Annie Hall. I also think The Sting is a fine comedy and KVK is an excellent drama.

I hate the film but to be fair I have always preferred the English over the horrid Scots. Perhaps that is making me impartial.

Foreigners love this movie.

You don't hang out with Irish American Gen X bros. They effing love this shit.

It's one of those movies straight guys love but aren't that good. But I'm so glad racist, anti-semitic, misogynistic, homophobic Mel Gibson got his comeuppance, brought down by a Russian whore.

You're one of them Hebes, ain't you, OP?

It's fine, but R2 is right, who even thinks about Braveheart?

The movie should have shown the execution of William Wallace the way it actually happened. Mel could have still got time to yell "FREEDOM" between getting castrated, disemboweled and quartered. At least, that would have added some historical accuracy to the movie.

Rob Roy > Braveheart

R6 Yes! It may have provided a blueprint but I saw it a couple of years ago on TCM and thought it was repetitive, over long and the central relationship tiresome and a running device of having people randomly commenting wore out its welcome though there is a number of funny things in the film and it's not terrible by any means and it's better than KVK which is like a more serious Three Men and a Baby. Hoffman seem liked he never spent a minute with his 8 year old son before the film started and KVK eventually turns into a court drama and Jane Alexander is boring and the film is flat and trite. The Sting is all about the score and for me a forgettable bore. Try Fellini's Il Bidone (1955) 'The Swindlers' with Richard Basehart and Broderick Crawford or 'Trick Baby' (1972) or 'The Grifters' (1990) for more interesting and character-driven films about con artists.

I remember my dad laughing when the King tossed his son's boyfriend out of the window.

On the lower rung of all best pic winners. Homophobic and historically inaccurate macho shitfest. I honestly don’t know how this won best pic over Sense and Sensibility and especially Apollo 13. (Babe and The Postman didn’t have a hope of winning, but even they were better than this suck ass film). Gibson was a poor choice for the directing Oscar, but the Academy has an affinity for actors who direct. The film underperformed each time it was released I recall. I remember Streep’s reaction in the audience, amazed the film won the top Oscar.

It was the Cimarron of the '90s.

I hated the film, & remember my last day of college, junior year, during move out, a few students were reenacting the fight scenes, complete with dialogue, costumes & props, in the quad.

Rob Roy was better.