This is obnoxious drivel. What didn't you like about it? You didn't think the villain was well done? You had no feeling at all when a man had to watch his son die? You just don't like the entire genre of movies? That's like complaining that diehard sucks because there was too much bullshite terrorism and action sequences.

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It might be the most disappointed I ever was walking out of a movie.

Honest question, do you ever go to the a movies? If The Patriot is the most disappointed you've ever been in a movie I have to assume you've barely seen any movies and you've been lucky with the ones you've seen.

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It was presented as a serious effort

Well acted
Well scripted
Well shot

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Posted by REG861

Ocelot, Iowa

Member since Oct 2011

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Posted on 7/31/17 at 6:03 pm to Breesus

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It was presented as a serious effort

Well acted
Well scripted
Well shot

Did you tear up at the end when the one token slave character fought with them and the mean colonist extra said he was honored? It doesnt get worse than that.

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You had no feeling at all when a man had to watch his son die?

Yes, I had the awful feeling i was being manipulated

I agree with whoever brought up Independence Day. The Patriot is unwatchable because it takes itself so seriously but the dramatic material is beyond awful. If it was more tongue in cheek and self aware it could be ok, like Independence Day was self conscious of its limitations and managed to be entertaining. Instead it tries to be Braveheart but with one of the most shallow, cliched scripts imaginable and absurd overacting.

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Posted by Big Scrub TX

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Posted on 8/1/17 at 11:54 am to Breesus

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You didn't think the villain was well done?

Who, Bono? No, he was a cardboard cutout.

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You just don't like the entire genre of movies?

I suppose not. And I would argue the genre was somewhat misrepresented in the marketing. I thought it would be a semi-serious period piece. Instead, it was lowest-common-denominator silliness.

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That's like complaining that diehard sucks because there was too much bullshite terrorism and action sequences.

Diehard has never pretended to be anything other than Diehard.

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Honest question, do you ever go to the a movies? If The Patriot is the most disappointed you've ever been in a movie I have to assume you've barely seen any movies and you've been lucky with the ones you've seen.

Since then, not much. It takes a lot in the era of modern home theater to get me out. Notably, I saw Dunkirk last week - probably the first one since Interstellar.