re: I have heard that "The Patriot" is terribly inaccurate and offensive to the British

no one hates it because the british supposedly are bothered by it, which I doubt is even true. We hate it because it's hysterically overwrought, overacted tripe that tries to be high drama but falls comically short. Any worthwhile action scenes are outweighed by the laughable and manipulative "drama" of the story. The scenes dealing with slavery could have been written by a third grader for a school play. The dialogue as a whole should be an insult to anyone watching but I guess they knew their target audience.