re: Movie(s) most people loved, but you hated

I think gladiator is a good blockbuster flick. It's entertaining, but I just don't understand people trying to make it out to be an all time great. It's pretty quickly forgettable to me. There's much about the simplistic stupid presentation of the message in braveheart that bothers me. It tries really hard to be something that it isn't. Apart from my personal views I can see how the same thing could be said about it that I said about gladiator. At best I see both as entertaining but forgettable high budget blockbusters with very little substance. The patriot is just a stupid, bad movie that manages to be at best pretty entertaining for how over the top it is.

I agree that there are a lot of way better historical war movies out there. This last week I watched das boot, and I thought it blew the three previously mentioned movies out of the water. Just for a start.