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Originally Posted by Playfair
We just don't get the movies like we used to, the epic, well acted, directed stories.
Schindler's List
Life is Beautiful
Gone With the Wind
Forest Gump
Braveheart
Bridge Over the River Kwai
I don't know, just to name a few. I realize it is all subjective. But the point I am making is you don't get the performance of a Tom Hanks, or a story telling of Life is Beautiful in most movies these days. Times change I guess, so do our tastes.
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Braveheart does not belong on that list.
I rewatched Braveheart. Now that I'm not teen who gets riled up by all the violence, the movie is trash. It's non-sensical.
The movie starts out with a middle aged Mel Gibson playing a romantic lead to a far younger lady played by an actress in her early 20s, and it's revenge porn from that point on. It's basically just Mel Gibson stroking his ego for hours. It's also horribly homophobic and misogynistic. All of the villains are mustache twirling caricatures of bad people and Gibson, despite being constantly unnecessarily violent, is depicted as always righteous.
It's a dumb movie.